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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
A US judge seated a nine-person jury in the Musk v. Altman trial at a federal courthouse in 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 and Sam Altman …
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| Wired: |
Some jurors selected in the Musk v. Altman trial expressed negative feelings about Elon Musk and AI, but assured the court they would put these concerns aside — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and president Greg Brockman were spotted in the security line inside the courthouse this morning, but Elon Musk was nowhere to be found.
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| Wired: |
Elon Musk boosts an X post by Ronan Farrow promoting his New Yorker article on Sam Altman's alleged deceptions, as Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI heads to trial — The move comes as the trial for Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI kicks off in federal court in Oakland.
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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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| Financial Times: |
Many US rural communities oppose AI data center buildout; Pew says 67% of planned data centers are in rural areas, while 87% of existing ones are in urban areas — Many rural communities are viscerally opposed to AI infrastructure, putting them at odds with the White House In Tazewell County … | 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 …
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| Gerrit De Vynck / Washington Post: |
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple plans to let developers offer monthly subscriptions with a 12-month commitment starting in 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.| 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 …
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| 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.| Matthew Gault / 404 Media: |
An analysis of Internet Archive data: by mid-2025, ~35% of new websites published 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.
More: AI on the Internet and Wired
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| Alexander Maxham / Android Headlines: |
Leaked renders based on photos of Samsung's upcoming smart glasses, expected to launch later in 2026, show a design nearly identical to 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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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Xiaomi open sources MiMo-V2.5 and MiMo-V2.5-Pro under the MIT License, saying both models are among the most efficient available for agentic “claw” tasks — Xiaomi, the Chinese firm best known for its smartphones and electric vehicles, has lately been shipping some incredibly affordable … | Mario Rodriguez / The GitHub Blog: |
GitHub says all Copilot plans will move to usage-based billing on June 1, replacing premium requests with monthly GitHub AI Credits — Starting June 1, your Copilot usage will consume GitHub AI Credits. — TL;DR: Today, we are announcing that all GitHub Copilot plans will transition to usage-based billing on June 1, 2026.
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| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to €4.5B, MAUs up 12% YoY to 761M, above 759M est., Premium subscribers up 9% YoY to 293M, and a €715M operating income — Spotify Technology SA, the music streaming leader, reported results that underwhelmed Wall Street …
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| Josh Gerben / Gerben IP: |
Taylor Swift's TAS Rights Management files applications to trademark the singer's image and “sound marks”, aiming to protect against threats posed by AI — Taylor Swift has filed new trademark applications to protect her voice and image. — The filings, made on April 24 …
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| Scott Younker / Tom's Guide: |
FTC: Americans reported losing $2.1B to social media scams in 2025, including $794M to scams that started on Facebook, more than on any other platform — Love, investments, and shopping scams were the most common — Social media scams caused Americans to lose $2.1 billion in 2025 …
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| 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.| 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.
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| Lenny Rachitsky / Lenny's Newsletter: |
Q&A with Evan Spiegel on why distribution is the most important moat in consumer tech, investing in Specs, 2026 as a “crucible” moment for Snap, and more — Snap's co-founder on why only two consumer apps broke through in 15 years, how every major Snapchat feature was cloned … | The Guardian: |
Australia unveils a draft News Bargaining Incentive scheme that imposes a 2.25% levy on local revenues for platforms; Meta says the government is “simply wrong” — Google also rejects need for reform after Albanese government reveals draft news bargaining incentive scheme
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| Politico: |
Senate Democrats seek an ethics provision in a landmark crypto bill to crack down on the Trump family's crypto businesses, setting up a clash with Republicans — The debate over the bill is giving Democrats a powerful point of leverage over one of the president's marquee financial policy priorities.| Samantha Kelly / Bloomberg: |
Match Group invests $100M in Seattle-based Sniffies, a web-only platform for queer men with ~3M MAUs worldwide, paving the way for a possible acquisition — Match Group Inc., whose dating-app portfolio includes brands like Hinge, Tinder and Match.com, is investing $100 million in Sniffies …
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| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Microsoft and OpenAI remove a clause that would have given Microsoft IP rights until OpenAI achieved “AGI”; Microsoft retains use of OpenAI's models until 2032 — Microsoft and OpenAI amended the terms of their arrangement, allowing OpenAI to sell its models on competing cloud providers, the companies said on Monday.
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