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The US DOJ sues Apple, alleging the company blocked its competitors from accessing iPhone features, made switching to non-Apple devices more difficult, and more — Justice Department says iPhone maker leveraged its dominance to block software and limit functionality of competing devices
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Mastodon: @siracusa@mastodon.social, @film_girl@mastodon.social, @paul@tapbots.social, @sdw@mastodon.social, @johnvoorhees@mastodon …, @elkmovie@mastodon.social, and @viticci@mastodon …
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| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
A look at DOJ's case against Apple, which has some strong points but also includes some silly arguments like Apple affecting “the flow of speech” via Apple TV+ — The U.S. Department of Justice, 15 states, and the District of Columbia sued Apple on Thursday.
More: TechCrunch, Ars Technica, PCWorld, iMore, Salon, Spyglass, Daring Fireball, The Verge, Associated Press, Neowin, and How-To Geek
Threads: @agraham999, @benedictevans, @benedictevans, and @eric_seufert
X: @connorjewiss, @stevesi, @mgsiegler, @_mrjasonw, @jonfortt, @snazzylabs, @om, and @lexnfx
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple says the US DOJ winning its lawsuit “would set a dangerous precedent, empowering government to take a heavy hand in designing people's technology” — The U.S. Department of Justice today filed an antitrust lawsuit against Apple, accusing the company of operating …
More: 9to5Mac, 9to5Mac, The Verge, TechCrunch, XDA Developers, Payments Dive, Silicon Republic, Android Authority, London Evening Standard, and The Register
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Matt Rosoff / TechCrunch: |
The DOJ's Apple suit has a lot of parallels to its Microsoft suit in the 1990s, but Apple's monopoly position is not nearly as clear-cut as Microsoft's was — The U.S. Department of Justice plus attorneys general from 16 states and the District of Columbia sued Apple for antitrust this morning in federal court.
More: Finextra, The Register, TechRadar, Washington Times, New York Post, Reuters, TechSpot, Supercharged, 9to5Google, and City A.M.
| Bloomberg: |
Reddit closes up 48%, at $50.44 per share, in its New York Stock Exchange debut, valuing the company at about $9.5B on a fully diluted basis — - Social media company, holders raised $748 Million in IPO … The San Francisco-based company's stock closed at $50.44 each on Thursday in New York …
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X: @mikeisaac, @tidefallcapital, @altcap, @alexisohanian, @borrowed_ideas, @ghadjia, @alexisohanian, @yuris, @coryweinberg, @sorayadarabi, @mwseibel, @edwinarbus, @snowmaker, @nyse, @mikeisaac, @amberillig, @alexisohanian, @katie_roof, @tranhelen, @alexisohanian, @tomaxwell, @teroterotero, @alexia, @mwseibel, @serenawilliams, @lexnfx, @akhenosiris, @lethain, @can, and @teroterotero
| Paul Graham / Y Combinator: |
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the EU plans to announce investigations into Apple's and Google's DMA compliance in the coming days; Meta's subscriptions could also face scrutiny — - Meta also expected to face scrutiny in EU's Big Tech clampdown — Digital Markets Act investigations could pave way for fines
More: The Verge, Reuters, CoinGape, Ad Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Channel NewsAsia, MSPoweruser, and MarTech
| The Information: |
Source: Microsoft agreed to pay Inflection ~$650M when hiring its staff, mostly via a licensing deal that makes Inflection's models available for sale on Azure — Microsoft doesn't want its plan to hire two of Inflection AI's co-founders and most of its 70-person staff to be seen as an acquisition.
More: Bloomberg, Reuters, and The Decoder
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out Threads fediverse integration beta in the US, Canada, and Japan, letting users cross-post and view likes from federated platforms like Mastodon — Threads is rolling out a beta of its fediverse integration in the US, Canada, and Japan. In a post on Thursday …
More: TechCrunch, Engineering at Meta, Engadget, PhoneArena, and Social Media Today
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X: @metanewsroom and @fb_engineering
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils the Surface Laptop 6 and Surface Pro 10 for enterprises, adding a Copilot key, a Neural Processing Unit for Windows 11's AI features, and more — Microsoft is gearing up for its “year of the AI PC” with two new Surface devices that won't be sold directly to consumers.
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X: @satyanadella, @tomwarren, @markhachman, @tomwarren, and @tomwarren
LinkedIn: Yusuf Mehdi and Matt Botelho
| Alexandra Alper / Reuters: |
The UN unanimously adopts the first global resolution on AI to encourage protecting personal data, monitoring AI for risks, and safeguarding human rights — The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday unanimously adopted the first global resolution on artificial intelligence …
More: Ars Technica, Associated Press, Axios, Washington Post, The Hill, UN News, The White House, VentureBeat, UPI, Voice of America, Foreign Policy, Al Jazeera, BankInfoSecurity.com, Le Monde.fr, United States Department …, Roll Call, France 24, Fast Company, Bloomberg, Forbes, Nextgov/FCW, and FedScoop
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Forums: Slashdot and Ars OpenForum
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
The Browser Company, which makes the Arc browser, raised $50M led by Pace Capital at a $550M valuation, bringing its total funding to $128M — The Browser Company, which makes the Arc browser, has raised $50 million in a round led by Pace Capital at a $550 million valuation, TechCrunch has learned exclusively.
More: Thurrott. Mastodon: @andyn@social.lol. X: @browsercompany, @_shankarganesh, @jackrandalll, @joekndy, and @vanlancker. Forums: r/ArcBrowser
| Allie Garfinkle / Fortune: |
Foundry, a cloud computing service provider focused on AI workloads, comes out of stealth after raising $80M across a seed and a Series A at a $350M valuation — Jared Quincy Davis was inspired by AlphaGo. You know, the AI program that plays Go, the 2,500-year old Chinese strategy game?| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
The Mozilla Foundation and 90+ research and advocacy groups urge Meta to support CrowdTangle through January 2025 to track election misinformation globally — The letter, also signed by CrowdTangle's former CEO, claims shutting it down is a “direct threat” to researchers' work| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
In a letter to Judge Kaplan, FTX CEO John Ray says SBF's claims of “zero” harm to users are “demonstrably false” and FTX had only 105 bitcoin when Ray took over — - Ray called the claims ‘callously’ and ‘demonstrably’ false — SBF had claimed customers on the exchange suffered no harm
More: Ars Technica, Blockworks, HealthcareInfoSecurity.com, and Protos
X: @niubi, @leomschwartz, @patio11, @patio11, @timccopeland, @ariozick, and @trengriffin
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
DoorDash partners with Alphabet's Wing to test drone delivery in the US, starting in Christiansburg, VA, after launching a pilot program in Australia in 2022 — DoorDash is expanding its partnership with Alphabet's Wing to bring its drone delivery pilot to the U.S., the company announced on Thursday.
More: DoorDash, ZDNet, Wing Blog, Business Insider, New York Post, PYMNTS.com, Engadget, and The Verge
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
YouTube TV gets multiview support on iOS and iPadOS, letting users watch up to four TV channels at once; Android support is set to arrive “in the coming months” — Google has confirmed that YouTube TV is now rolling out support for Multiview on the iPhone and iPad, but the feature won't arrive on Android for a while.
More: Chrome Unboxed, Tubefilter, Tom's Guide, The Streamable, ZDNet, and iClarified. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Financial Times: |
Chinese state media: Tim Cook said “there's no supply chain in the world that's more critical to us than China” and praised “modernization in Chinese factories” — Apple chief Tim Cook has said China is “critical” to its business in comments made during a visit to the country …
More: CNN, Apple, CHINAdaily, The Korea Times, Benzinga, Pandaily, and 9to5Mac
| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Spotify's TikTok-like redesign reveals the follower numbers for top podcasters: The Joe Rogan Experience has 14.5M, followed by TED Talks Daily with 5M — A new TikTok-like redesign from the streaming giant unveils actual audience data for top podcasters — Welcome back to Soundbite.
Threads: @edmundlee, @technicallymims, and @jamesn1
| Brady Dale / Axios: |
Succinct, which is building zero-knowledge proof tech for blockchain apps, raised $55M led by Paradigm across a seed and a Series A — - That's all well and good. … - It might, for example, take a ton of work for a blockchain to verify all its transactions, but then applications that use … | Adam Chitwood / The Wrap: |
WBD plans to launch Max in Europe starting on May 21 in the Nordics, Iberia, and Central and Eastern Europe, in time for the Olympics, included in all plans — The rollout is also timed to the second season of “House of the Dragon” — Max will begin its launch in Europe on May 21 … | Yossi Matias / The Keyword: |
In a research paper, Google Research details how AI helped to provide more accurate flood forecasting in 80+ countries up to seven days in advance of the flood — A paper published in Nature today shows how Google Research uses AI to accurately predict riverine flooding and help protect livelihoods …
More: Google AI Blog, Nature, Tech Brew, Livemint, Android Headlines, ZDNet, ZME Science, and Google Research on YouTube
LinkedIn: Robert Emberson, Debbie W., Kate Brandt, Juliet Rothenberg, and Adam Elman
| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
After a classified briefing on TikTok, Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell says that “the next steps might be something more public, like a hearing” — - But Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has not committed to putting the bill on the floor anytime soon.
More: The Information, Tubefilter, KEYE, Foreign Policy, Slate, The Daily Dot, Cybernews.com, Lookout, Inc., GZERO, Washington Post, and CMU
X: @ashleyrgold, @nathanleamerdc, and @ashleyrgold
| Zephyr Teachout / The Atlantic: |
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