| 10:40 PM • | Bhavya Dilipkumar / Moneycontrol: Chennai-based CRM software maker Freshworks redesignates CEO Girish Mathrubootham as the executive chairman and names Dennis Woodside as his replacement |
| 10:10 PM • | Vittoria Elliott / Wired: Ethan Zuckerman sues to stop Meta from blocking his planned Unfollow Everything 2.0 extension that would let Facebook users tune or even turn off their Feed |
| 9:05 PM • | Mengqi Sun / Wall Street Journal: The US CFTC appoints Ted Kaouk as its first chief AI officer; Kaouk currently serves as the regulator's chief data officer and director of its data division |
| 8:45 PM • | Annie Palmer / CNBC: An NLRB judge finds Amazon CEO Andy Jassy violated US labor law with his comments in 2022 suggesting workers would be “less empowered” if they voted in a union |
| 7:30 PM • | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: Testimony: UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty says the Change Healthcare hack impacted “maybe” 30% of US citizens; UnitedHealth will notify users in “several months” |
| 7:20 PM • | Umar Shakir / The Verge: Snap announces Snapchat users can edit messages within five minutes of sending them, “coming soon” to Snapchat+ subscribers “first”, map reactions, and more |
| 6:45 PM • | Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: US v. Google: Google paid Apple $20B in 2022 to be the default search engine in Safari; in 2020, Google's payments constituted 17.5% of Apple's operating income |
| 6:10 PM • | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: Unity names ex-Zynga COO Matthew Bromberg as its new CEO, president, and board member; ex-CEO John Riccitiello resigned in October 2023 after a pricing fiasco |
| 5:30 PM • | Tom Warren / The Verge: Nvidia updates its experimental ChatRTX chatbot, formerly “Chat with RTX”, to support voice queries and AI models Google's Gemma, ChatGLM3, and OpenAI's CLIP |
| 4:30 PM • | Yuvraj Malik / Reuters: eBay reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to $2.56B, vs. $2.53B est., GMV up 1% to $18.6B, net income down 23% to $439M, and forecasts Q2 revenue below estimates |
| 4:20 PM • | Reuters: DoorDash reports Q1 revenue up 23% YoY to $2.51B, vs. $2.45B est., total orders up 21% YoY, and forecasts Q2 core profit below est.; DASH drops 9%+ |
| 4:15 PM • | Kif Leswing / CNBC: Qualcomm reports Q2 revenue up 1% YoY to $9.39B, vs. $9.34B est., handset sales up 1% YoY to $6.18B, and forecasts Q3 revenue above estimates |
| 3:50 PM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Substack now lets writers paywall their Chat discussion spaces and says active Chat participants are 12% more likely to retain their subscriptions |
| 3:15 PM • | Orlando Mayorquín / New York Times: Airbnb launches Icons, a new category of experiences that lets users meet celebrities and stay in outlandish venues, like a replica of the house from Pixar's Up |
| 2:35 PM • | Ashley Capoot / CNBC: US Senate hearing: UnitedHealth's CEO says the company paid a $22M ransom to the hackers who accessed a Change Healthcare server that wasn't protected by MFA |
| 1:50 PM • | Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Sources: Google laid off 200+ employees from its Core teams, including IT and its Python developer team, and plans to move some roles to India and Mexico |
| 12:40 PM • | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: Atlassian debuts Rovo, an AI product giving businesses contextual search, insights, and the ability to add custom agents to handle tasks and “complete projects” |
| 12:00 PM • | Steven Levy / Wired: Q&A with White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Director Arati Prabhakar on her role, working at DARPA, AI, showing ChatGPT to Biden, and more |
| 11:40 AM • | Gretchen Morgenson / NBC News: Sources: US federal prosecutors are digging into internal practices at Block, discussing with an ex-employee alleged widespread and yearslong compliance lapses |
| 11:30 AM • | Wes Davis / The Verge: LastPass separates from GoTo, which announced the spinoff in December 2021, six years after acquiring LastPass; the service suffered high-profile hacks in 2022 |
| 11:06 AM • | Hayden Field / CNBC: Anthropic launches a free iOS app and Team, its first enterprise plan, which offers access to its Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku models for $30/user/month |
| 10:51 AM • | Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: New Jersey-based CoreWeave, which offers GPUs in the cloud, raised $1.1B led by Coatue at a $19B valuation, up from $7B after raising $642M in December 2023 |
| 10:25 AM • | Reuters: Reuters/Ipsos poll: ~58% agree with the statement that the Chinese government uses TikTok to “influence American public opinion”, and 50% support banning TikTok |
| 10:10 AM • | Ash Parrish / The Verge: Meta unveils Batman: Arkham Shadow, a VR game and the next entry in the iconic Batman: Arkham game series, launching exclusively on the Quest 3 later in 2024 |
| 9:40 AM • | Karissa Bell / Engadget: LinkedIn debuts three Wordle-style puzzle games: theme-based guessing game Pinpoint, Sudoku- and Minesweeper-style crossover Queens, and trivia game Crossclimb |
| 9:30 AM • | Emilia David / The Verge: In a letter to the US Labor Department, Google says the US could lose out on valuable AI and tech talent if some of its immigration policies are not modernized |
| 9:20 AM • | Andy Greenberg / Wired: Elliptic, MIT, and IBM release an AI detection model and its 200M-transaction training dataset to help identify money laundering on Bitcoin's blockchain |
| 9:10 AM • | Washington Post: How an informal supper club became a US tech lobbying force, helping draft the TikTok bill; sources: the group plans an EO for Trump to reverse Biden's AI rules |
| 8:25 AM • | Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: Changpeng Zhao's short sentence suggests he had some leverage, and the hearing referred to sealed documents and “cooperation”, perhaps over Binance user details |
| 8:10 AM • | Eva Dou / Washington Post: US NTIA head Alan Davidson says Starlink is an option in extremely remote areas where running fiber is pricey, as part of the $42B high speed internet program |
| 7:32 AM • | Yadarisa Shabong / Reuters: Ofcom opens an investigation into OnlyFans over its measures to stop children from accessing porn, after reviewing its “response to formal information requests” |
| 7:15 AM • | Bloomberg: A look at GM's risky bet to replace Apple's CarPlay with its own infotainment system, gambling on its software group, as carmakers worry over Apple's power |
| 6:35 AM • | Bloomberg: US v. Google: Microsoft invested in OpenAI over fears of falling behind Google; Kevin Scott said he was “very, very worried” in a 2019 email to Satya Nadella |
| 6:10 AM • | Reuters: Sources: Huawei moves Yu Chengdong, the high-profile chief of its consumer business who has held the job since 2012, to a new role as chair of the unit |
| 5:45 AM • | Allison Johnson / The Verge: Rabbit releases the R1's first software update, with “up to 5x” improved idle battery performance, a better music playback UI, more reliable Bluetooth, and more |
| 5:15 AM • | Yukio Tajima / Nikkei Asia: China implements a revised State Secrets Law, requiring Tencent, Weibo, and other internet companies to delete leaked information and comply with investigations |
| 4:55 AM • | Politico: How all the bills under consideration in US states meant to address AI bias contain loopholes that would make it too easy for companies to avoid accountability |
| 4:25 AM • | Nikkei Asia: A Chinese seller details how he ships civilian electronics, which could be repurposed for military uses, to Russia via distributors and Russian e-commerce sites |
| 4:00 AM • | David Gilbert / Wired: Experts say Spamouflage Dragon, China's yearslong disinformation campaign targeting the US, has largely failed due to China missing cultural context and more |
| 2:45 AM • | Justine Calma / The Verge: Walmart discontinues its telehealth service Health Virtual Care, citing “escalating operating costs”; Walmart acquired telehealth provider MeMD in May 2021 |
| 2:25 AM • | Antonio Olivo / Washington Post: A backlash against data centers has triggered laws in Arizona, Georgia, and other parts of the US to restrain the rapidly growing, energy-intensive industry |
| 2:05 AM • | Financial Times: In tests run by executives in advertising, animation, and real estate, OpenAI's Sora generated people with more realistic facial features than Runway or Pika |
| 1:00 AM • | Kelly Le / South China Morning Post: Taiwan's KYEC, one of the largest chip testing and packaging services firms, divests its entire stake in a Suzhou, China-based subsidiary citing US restrictions |
| 12:25 AM • | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google Phone's beta app gets “Audio Emoji”, letting callers select an emoji to play animations with sound: clapping, laughing, party, crying, poop, and sting |
| 12:05 AM • | Entrackr: Filing: API Holdings, the parent company of Indian online pharmacy PharmEasy, raises $216M at a $710M valuation, down ~90% from its $5.6B peak valuation in 2021 |
| 11:20 PM • | Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo: A look at gpt2-chatbot, a mysterious AI chatbot that became available on LLM benchmarking site LMSYS Org and is believed to have similar capabilities to GPT-4 |
| 11:05 PM • | FinSMEs: Elisity, which is developing AI tools for companies to anticipate and pre-empt cyber threats, raised a $37M Series B from Insight Partners and others |
| 10:10 PM • | Kwan Wei Kevin Tan / Business Insider: Esther Crawford joins Meta's Messenger team as director of product; Crawford was Twitter's director of product management before being laid off in February 2023 |
| 9:15 PM • | Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: US House Financial Services Committee Chair Patrick McHenry accuses Gary Gensler of misleading Congress on the SEC's position on whether ether is a security |
| 8:35 PM • | Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: Over 50 ex-Google employees, fired in connection with a sit-in protest against Google's business ties to Israel, file an NLRB complaint for unlawful retaliation |
| 8:00 PM • | Ian King / Bloomberg: AMD projects its MI300 lineup to generate ~$4B in revenue in 2024, up $500M from an earlier forecast, but short of expectations; AMD drops 6%+ |
| 7:50 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Sam's Club has deployed its exit tech, which uses computer vision to check members' purchases against their receipts, at 120+ locations, or 20% of its stores |
| 7:25 PM • | Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: An APK review suggests Rabbit's R1 runs Android, and its entire UI is powered by a single Android app; founder Jesse Lyu says “rabbit r1 is not an Android app” |
| 7:10 PM • | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Twitch rolls out its TikTok-like discovery feed, launching as a tab within the Twitch iOS and Android apps, showing live streams and clips |
| 6:50 PM • | Madlin Mekelburg / Bloomberg: IBM wins a US court decision overturning $1.6B in damages to pay to BMC in 2022 for swapping in its own software while servicing AT&T, a mutual client |
| 6:10 PM • | Derek Andersen / Cointelegraph: Coinbase adds support for the Bitcoin Lightning Network via payments startup Lightspark, letting customers transfer bitcoin faster and at a lower cost |
| 4:55 PM • | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Screenshots seem to show TikTok circumventing Apple's App Store fees by showing some users a link to a site for buying digital coins, instead of using IAPs |
| 4:50 PM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: Amazon reports Q1 ad revenue up 24% YoY to $11.8B, vs. $11.7B est., driven by the growth of its Stores and Prime Video businesses |
| 4:40 PM • | Jordan Novet / CNBC: Amazon reports Q1 AWS revenue up 17% YoY to $25.04B, vs. $24.49B est., and AWS operating income of $9.42B, vs. $7.52B est., up from $5.12B YoY |
| 4:35 PM • | Kif Leswing / CNBC: AMD reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to $5.47B, vs. $5.46B est., Data Center revenue up 80% YoY to $2.3B, and a $123M net income, up from a $139M net loss YoY |
| 4:24 PM • | Aisha Counts / Bloomberg: Pinterest reports Q1 revenue up 23% YoY to $740M, vs. $700.3M est., MAUs up 12% YoY to 518M, and Q2 revenue forecast above est.; PINS jumps 15%+ |
| 4:14 PM • | Amazon: Amazon reports Q1 revenue up 13% YoY to $143.3B, a $10.4B net income, vs. $3.2B YoY, $15.3B operating income, vs. $4.8B YoY, subscription sales up 11% to $10.7B |
| 4:05 PM • | Kashmir Hill / New York Times: Letter from US senators: only five of 14 automakers require police to have a warrant before requesting user data, and only Tesla tells users about such requests |
| 3:25 PM • | Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: The US DOJ charges Roger Ver, a well-known figure from the early days of Bitcoin, with filing false tax returns and more to evade paying nearly $50M |
| 3:02 PM • | Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: A US judge sentences Binance founder Changpeng Zhao to four months in prison; Zhao pled guilty in November 2023 |
| 2:45 PM • | Shira Ovide / Washington Post: Game emulator Delta has been the top US iOS app for weeks, after Apple lifted its ban on such apps, likely due to regulatory pressure and alt stores in the EU |
| 1:55 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: SafeBase, which helps companies automate software security reviews using AI, raised a $33M Series B led by Touring Capital, bringing its total funding to $50M+ |
| 1:10 PM • | Lawrence Hurley / NBC News: SCOTUS declines to block a Texas online porn restriction law, after critics said an age-verification mandate violates 1A by forcing viewers to submit their info |
| 12:53 PM • | Bloomberg: Satellite telco SES has agreed to buy Starlink-rival Intelsat for $3.1B in cash |
| 12:52 PM • | Evan Schuman / CSO: Marriott quietly admits to not encrypting some user data impacted by a 2018 breach, after arguing in court for the case's dismissal because it used encryption |
| 12:25 PM • | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: The Browser Company debuts Arc on Windows, after testing began in December 2023, and says the Windows app has 150K+ users; the macOS app shipped in July 2023 |
| 12:05 PM • | Katie Roof / Bloomberg: Network security startup Corelight raised a $150M Series E led by Accel, in a deal valuing it at $900M, says it is on track to hit $100M in ARR within months |
| 11:40 AM • | Sahil Patel / The Information: Sources: Google has agreed to pay News Corp $5M to $6M annually to develop new AI-related content and products, as part of its Google News Initiative |
| 11:20 AM • | Marko Zivkovic / AppleInsider: Source: Apple is testing Safari 18 features, including more advanced content blocking and an AI-powered Intelligent Search tool, expected to debut later in 2024 |
| 11:11 AM • | Katie Robertson / New York Times: Eight daily newspapers owned by Alden, the second-largest US newspaper operator, sue OpenAI and Microsoft for allegedly using copyrighted articles to train AI |
| 10:50 AM • | Todd Bishop / GeekWire: Amazon makes its AI assistant Amazon Q generally available and adds an “app creator” in preview to let employees build generative AI apps based on company data |
| 10:29 AM • | Chris Welch / The Verge: Beats announces $200 Solo 4 on-ear wireless headphones, with up to 50 hours of battery life, and $80 wireless Solo Buds shipping in June 2024, both without ANC |
| 9:35 AM • | Alex Barinka / Bloomberg: In its first TikTok Shop Safety Report, TikTok reports 500K+ sellers in the US and 15M+ sellers worldwide in December 2023, adding 6M+ in H2 2023 |
| 9:20 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: NYC-based newsletter platform beehiiv raised a $33M Series B led by NEA, taking its total raised to $46.5M, and says the service has ~20K active newsletters |
| 9:11 AM • | Mia Sato / The Verge: Instagram updates its recommendation algorithms to demote aggregator accounts, hoping to promote original content and increase distribution to smaller accounts |
| 9:00 AM • | BBC: A Finnish court sentences hacker Julius Kivimäki to six years and three months, after he breached a healthcare database and tried to blackmail 33,000 people |
| 8:50 AM • | Valeriya Safronova / New York Times: Bumble redesigns its app and adds Opening Moves, to let women ask a question men can answer, a major shift that ends the requirement that women message first |
| 8:00 AM • | Katie Roof / Bloomberg: Enterprise browser startup Island raised $175M led by Sequoia and Coatue at a $3B valuation, up from $1.5B in October 2023, taking its total funding to $487M |
| 7:50 AM • | Paige Smith / Bloomberg: PayPal reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to $7.7B, payment volume up 14% YoY to $404B, and transaction margin dollars up 4% YoY to $3.5B; PYPL rises 5%+ |
| 7:25 AM • | Zeba Siddiqui / Reuters: UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty plans to say before a US House panel on May 1 that hackers exploited a Citrix vulnerability to breach UnitedHealth on February 12 |
| 7:10 AM • | New York Times: Since pleading guilty in November 2023, Changpeng Zhao has networked across the US to set up his next act; sources say CZ and Sam Altman exchanged text messages |
| 6:50 AM • | Bloomberg: Huawei reports Q1 revenue up 37% YoY to ~$24.7B and net profit up 564% YoY to ~$2.7B, rising for the fourth consecutive quarter, buoyed by smartphone sales |
| 6:40 AM • | Maciej Pocwierz: How an empty, private AWS S3 bucket had ~100M PUT requests in a day, racking up a $1,300+ bill, due to a popular open-source tool using the same bucket name |
| 6:30 AM • | Pieter Haeck / Politico: EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says a TikTok ban is “not excluded” and “we know exactly the danger of TikTok”, during a 2024 election debate |
| 6:20 AM • | Bloomberg: The EU opens a DSA investigation into Meta over deceptive Facebook and Instagram ad and political content; sources say the probe is about a pro-Kremlin campaign |
| 6:00 AM • | Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Internal Oracle documents: ~6,900 workers are assigned to California offices, compared to 2,500 in Texas, despite Oracle moving its HQ to Texas three years ago |
| 5:30 AM • | Zosia Wanat / Sifted: Lithuanian second hand marketplace Vinted reports 2023 revenue up 61% YoY to €596.3M and a €17.8M net profit, up from a €20.4M loss in 2022 |
| 4:30 AM • | Reuters: Tesla's FSD is set to face tough competition in China, after at least 10 automakers and suppliers announced driver-assistance systems over the past two years |
| 4:00 AM • | Timothy B. Lee / Asterisk: Tech journalism is often characterized by scandals, sensationalism, and shoddy research; publishers hesitate to invest in nuanced reporting without a clear ROI |
| 2:25 AM • | Bloomberg: A look at the contrast between CZ/Binance and SBF/FTX, as Binance claims the crypto exchange's global users increased 30% YoY to 170M in 2023 |
| 12:45 AM • | Bloomberg: Microsoft announces plans to invest $1.7B in cloud and AI infrastructure in Indonesia over four years and train 840,000 people with AI skills in the country |
| 12:15 AM • | Michael Acton / Financial Times: Analysis: Apple has poached at least 36 AI experts from Google since 2018 and has a secretive European laboratory in Zurich to develop AI models and products |
| 11:35 PM • | Raymond Wong / Inverse: A profile of, and interview with, Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu, on the origins of the R1, taking “10 minutes to design” the device, the AI gadget competition, and more |
| 10:45 PM • | Marques Brownlee / Marques Brownlee on YouTube: Rabbit R1 review: $199 is reasonable but emblematic of a trend of selling unfinished products at full price while vowing to fix the issues later to win a “race” |
| 9:55 PM • | Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE: Blaize, which designs AI chips for edge devices and data centers, raised $106M; the company announced in December 2023 plans to go public via a SPAC merger |
| 8:55 PM • | Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: Multiple US House aides say ByteDance's video editing app CapCut could also be subject to the same divest-or-ban requirement as TikTok |
| 8:35 PM • | Sheila Chiang / CNBC: Samsung reports Q1 revenue up 12.81% YoY to ~$52.3B, vs. ~$51.6B est., operating profit up 932.8% YoY to ~$4.8B, vs. ~$4.3B est., as memory chip prices rebound |
| 8:00 PM • | Todd Spangler / Variety: NBCUniversal plans to raise the prices of Peacock Premium by $2 to $7.99/month and Premium Plus by $2 to $13.99/month from July 18, its second hike in a year |
| 7:30 PM • | Monica Anderson / Pew Research Center: A survey of 10,133 US adults: 78% say social media companies have too much political power; 51% say Big Tech should be regulated more than the companies are now |
| 6:15 PM • | Dominic-Madori Davis / TechCrunch: Sources detail Techstars under CEO Mäelle Gavet, facing departures of senior executives and corporate sponsors at times, and a $7.2M loss on operations in 2023 |
| 5:45 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: NIST launches a new program to assess generative AI technologies, with plans to release benchmarks, help create “content authenticity” detection tech, and more |
| 4:45 PM • | Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: Google rejected 2.28M “policy-violating” Android apps and blocked ~333K developer accounts from Google Play in 2023, up from 1.5M apps and 173K accounts in 2022 |
| 4:11 PM • | Lauren Feiner / The Verge: The FCC fines T-Mobile $80M, AT&T $57M, and Verizon $47M for allegedly illegally sharing customers' location data with aggregators “without customer consent” |
| 2:35 PM • | Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: OpenAI rolls out an optional feature called Memory, letting ChatGPT Plus users tell ChatGPT things they want the chatbot to remember across chats |
| 1:00 PM • | Nick Bonyhady / Australian Financial Review: PsiQuantum, which aims to build a commercial quantum computer, raises $940M from Australia and Queensland governments, via share purchases, grants, and loans |
| 12:33 PM • | Sander Lutz / Decrypt: Unredacted parts in Consensys' lawsuit vs. the SEC say the SEC on April 13, 2023 approved an internal order, which called ETH a security, to probe Ethereum 2.0 |
| 12:30 PM • | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: GitHub unveils Copilot Workspace, a developer environment using “Copilot-powered agents” to help brainstorm, plan, build, test, and run code in natural language |
| 11:10 AM • | Philip Lagerkranser / Bloomberg: Tether says it invested $200M in brain-computer interface company Blackrock Neurotech, via its newly established VC arm Tether Evo |
| 10:30 AM • | Greg Stohr / Bloomberg: SCOTUS rejects Elon Musk's appeal to overturn an SEC agreement from 2018 to have an in-house lawyer pre-approve his X posts about Tesla, without giving a reason |
| 10:15 AM • | Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: The NHTSA is investigating Ford's driver assistance system BlueCruise, which was active during two crashes that killed multiple people in Texas and Pennsylvania |
| 9:55 AM • | New York Times: A look at the rise of Mustafa Suleyman and Demis Hassabis, two of the most powerful AI executives, who grew up in London and met at Queen Elizabeth's School |
| 9:40 AM • | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Getir plans to close its quick grocery delivery operations in the US, the UK, and Europe to focus on its home market of Turkey, impacting 6,000+ jobs |
| 9:30 AM • | Alexander Martin / The Record: The UK bans default guessable usernames and passwords for some IoT devices, to help avoid a situation like the 2016 Mirai botnet, the first country to do so |
| 8:50 AM • | Konrad Krasuski / Bloomberg: Manor Lords, a new medieval city building game from Polish indie developer Grzegorz Styczen, sells 1M+ copies and hits 170K+ concurrent players on Steam |
| 6:40 AM • | New York Times: PitchBook: investors have poured $330B into ~26,000 AI and ML startups over the past three years, up 66% on funding to 20,350 AI companies from 2018 to 2020 |
| 6:20 AM • | Naomi Nix / Washington Post: Meta's Oversight Board says it is preparing for layoffs, likely adding to its challenges after criticism for moving too slowly and cautiously |
| 6:00 AM • | Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: The European Commission designates iPadOS under the DMA, giving Apple six months to comply, after designating iOS, the App Store, and Safari in September 2023 |
| 5:45 AM • | Bloomberg: France makes a non-binding offer to buy some of Atos' operations, including its supercomputer and cyber products, for €700M to €1B, as Atos seeks to raise €1.7B |
| 4:25 AM • | Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: The Financial Times signs a deal with OpenAI to train AI models on the publisher's archived content and to let ChatGPT reply with short summaries of FT articles |
| 3:55 AM • | Financial Times: An interview with Grindr CEO George Arison on online safety, a mass data protection lawsuit against the app in the UK, plans for increasing ad revenue, and more |
| 2:25 AM • | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Privacy nonprofit noyb files a GDPR complaint against OpenAI in Austria on behalf of an unnamed public figure, who found ChatGPT gave them a wrong birth date |
| 2:09 AM • | Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: Sources: Chinese officials told Tesla that Beijing has tentatively approved the company's plan to launch its Full Self-Driving software feature in the country |
| 1:40 AM • | Martin Coulter / Reuters: The second AI summit, a primarily virtual event in Seoul on May 21 and May 22, faces challenges, as sources say far few leaders and ministers are set to attend |
| 1:10 AM • | Evelyn Cheng / CNBC: China removes restrictions on Tesla cars after its China-made vehicles passed the country's data security requirements; five other local brands also got cleared |
| 12:30 AM • | Bloomberg: Sources: Tesla partners with Baidu for mapping and navigation functions to clear a key hurdle to launch Full Self-Driving in China, after Elon Musk's visit |
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