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| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: OpenAI missed an internal goal of reaching 1B weekly active ChatGPT users by 2025's end, and missed multiple monthly revenue targets earlier in 2026 — The company's CFO and board have questioned the wisdom of massive data-center spending in the face of slowing growth
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Forums: r/technology, r/wallstreetbets, r/Economics, r/StockMarket, and r/BetterOffline
| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
More: Microsoft, Reuters, The Verge, Bloomberg, iClarified, TechCrunch, New York Times, Simon Willison's Weblog, Axios, Simbian AI, Morningstar, Fortune India, The Hans India, The Rundown AI, The Mac Observer, StrictlyVC, Sources, Tech in Asia, The Daily Upside, Computerworld, Wall Street Journal, Gizchina, DigiTimes, The Next Platform, The Decoder, Ars Technica, The Deep View, Blockchain.News, CNBC, Financial Times, Neowin, and Constellation Research
| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Source: Google signed a deal allowing the US DOD to use Google's AI for “any lawful government purpose”; Google says the agreement amends an existing contract — Google and the Department of Defense signed a deal allowing the Pentagon to use Google's AI models on classified work …
More: The Verge, 9to5Google, The Next Web, Reuters, WinBuzzer, Türkiye Today, The Decoder, Coinpaper, Blockonomi, The Sun Malaysia, crypto.news, TRT World, COINOTAG, SiliconANGLE, and Washington Post
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Google launches Ask YouTube, a conversational AI search “experiment” that generates pages with videos and text summaries, for Premium users in the US aged 18+ — ‘Ask YouTube’ is a new way to search that generates an AI Mode-like page of information.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta is preparing to have to unwind its $2.5B Manus acquisition after China banned the transaction; Manus investors have already received their returns — The ban sends a message that China is intent on keeping its AI knowledge within the country — Meta Platforms is preparing …
More: Implicator.ai, WinBuzzer, Bloomberg Law, Silicon Republic, The Decoder, Reuters, The Information, Global Times, Financial Times, Livemint, Fortune India, The Business Times, Nikkei Asia, CNBC, The Next Web, DigiTimes, Financial Times, Bloomberg, and New York Times
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Forums: r/China_irl and r/China
| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
A US judge seated a nine-person jury in the Musk v. Altman trial at a federal courthouse in Oakland, California; Sam Altman and Greg Brockman were in attendance — The nine-person jury was seated on Monday in the high-stakes legal battle between longtime friends turned rivals Elon Musk …
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| Wired: |
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| Matthew Gault / 404 Media: |
An analysis of Internet Archive data: by mid-2025, ~35% of newly published websites since ChatGPT's launch in November 2022 were AI-generated or AI-assisted — Researchers found the internet is becoming aggressively positive as AI-generated text floods the web.| talkie: |
AI researchers launch talkie, a 13B vintage language model trained on historical texts and with a 1930 cutoff, to see if it can replicate scientific discoveries — Why vintage language models? — Have you ever daydreamed about talking to someone from the past?
More: talkie, talkie on GitHub, talkie on Hugging Face, MarkTechPost, talkie on Hugging Face, talkie on Hugging Face, and Simon Willison's Weblog
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Bluesky: @jdp.extropian.net, @nomads, @emollick, and @tedunderwood.com
Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Sources and memos: Tencent employees used Claude Code to assist them with evaluating and fine-tuning the company's new Hy3 model to improve its performance — Chinese tech giant Tencent's latest AI model has generated positive reviews from developers. But the company probably owes some of that success to Anthropic.
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| Vlad Fedorov / The GitHub Blog: |
GitHub addresses two recent incidents and says it aims to improve reliability amid AI growth, focusing on “availability first, then capacity, then new features” — Here's what we've done—and what we're still doing—to improve our availability and reliability.
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Forums: Hacker News, r/programming, and Lobsters
| Mario Rodriguez / The GitHub Blog: |
More: InfoWorld, Game Developer, WinBuzzer, The GitHub Blog, Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At, ITPro, Hello China Tech, The Register, GitHub, and TestingCatalog
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Snap launches AI Sponsored Snaps, a conversational ad format in Snapchat's Chat tab that lets users talk to brand-specific AI agents for product recommendations — Snapchat announced on Tuesday that it's rolling out “AI Sponsored Snaps,” which will allow users to interact directly with brands' AI agents.
More: Snap Newsroom and Adweek
| Financial Times: |
Many US rural communities oppose adding AI infrastructure; Pew says 67% of planned data centers are rural, while 87% of existing data centers are in urban areas — Many rural communities are viscerally opposed to AI infrastructure, putting them at odds with the White House In Tazewell County … | Joel Khalili / Wired: |
Q&A with Bloomberg CTO Shawn Edwards, who says Bloomberg is overhauling the Terminal with chatbot-style interface ASKB, currently open to ~125K users in beta — WIRED spoke with Bloomberg's chief technology officer about the big, chatbot-style changes coming to the iconic platform for traders.| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple says iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, and visionOS developers can offer monthly subscriptions with a 12-month commitment from May, except in the US and Singapore — Apple today announced the launch of a new subscription option for App Store developers: monthly subscriptions with a 12-month commitment.| Jason Meisner / Chicago Tribune: |
US prosecutors allege Peter Stokes, a 19-year-old dual US-Estonian citizen known as Bouquet, is a Scattered Spider member; he was arrested in a Helsinki airport — The high-tech cyber hacker who goes by the online moniker “Bouquet” jetted around the world, from Dubai to Thailand to New York …
Mastodon: @campuscodi@mastodon.social
| Wall Street Journal: |
Layoffs.fyi: companies announced layoffs affecting 45,800 tech employees in March, making it the worst month for reported tech job cuts in at least two years — Layoffs might lift some efficiency measures, but there are other considerations — Tech companies are rushing to trade their people for more chips.| Scott Younker / Tom's Guide: |
FTC: Americans reported losing $2.1B to social media scams in 2025, with $794M originating on Facebook; WhatsApp and Instagram were a “distant” second and third — Love, investments, and shopping scams were the most common — Social media scams caused Americans to lose $2.1 billion in 2025 …
More: Federal Trade Commission, Metacurity, CNET, BleepingComputer, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Tech Times, Baller Alert, The Next Web, and PYMNTS.com. X: @ftc
| OpenAI: |
OpenAI releases Symphony, an open-source spec for agent orchestration that turns a project-management board like Linear into a control plane for coding agents — Six months ago, while working on an internal productivity tool, our team made a controversial (at the time) decision: we'd build our repo with no human-written code.
More: GitHub, InfoWorld, Gizmodo, Digit, and Help Net Security
Bluesky: @maggieappleton.com and @lizthegrey.com
| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 8% YoY to €4.53B, MAUs up 12% YoY to 761M, above 759M est., and forecasts Q2 operating income below est.; SPOT drops 10%+ — Spotify Technology SA shares plunged the most in more than four years after the music streaming leader gave a forecast for operating income … | Josh Gerben / Gerben IP: |
Taylor Swift's TAS Rights Management files applications to trademark the singer's image and “sound marks”, aiming to protect her against threats posed by AI — Taylor Swift has filed new trademark applications to protect her voice and image. — The filings, made on April 24 …
More: Reuters, Moneycontrol, Creative Bloq, Variety, DNYUZ, Music Ally, Daily Star, TechRadar, CNN, Music Business Worldwide, Los Angeles Times, FemaleFirst, IGN, Digit, Mashable, BMI, Washington Times, Benzinga, CNET, The Guardian, NBC News, Mediaweek, Vulture, The Verge, The Hollywood Reporter, Rolling Stone, BBC, and The Wrap
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: at least two China-based funds that back leading AI companies have used parallel fund structures to fundraise from US investors in recent months — Chinese early stage funds are increasingly offering a fundraising structure that appeals to US investors wary of American compliance restrictions … | New York Times: |
As Russia throttles popular apps and intermittently cuts off internet access, ordinary citizens, politicians, TV stars, and others criticize the restrictions — From beauty influencers to the token political opposition, Russians are openly questioning President Vladimir V. Putin's moves to hamstring access.| Alexander Maxham / Android Headlines: |
Leaked renders based on photos of Samsung's codenamed Jinju smart glasses, expected to launch in 2026, show a design that looks like the Ray-Ban Meta glasses — Add Android Headlines as a preferred source on Google — Samsung's next Android XR product is reportedly a pair of smart glasses codenamed …
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X: @onleaks, @parkerortolani, @sondesix, @sondesix, @yabhishekhd, and @idesigner3d
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