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Tripp Mickle / New York Times:
Sources: Tim Cook approved doubling Apple's AI chips budget in 2023 after John Giannandrea sought more GPUs, but CFO Luca Maestri cut the increase to under half  —  Even before President Trump's tariffs threatened to upend Apple's manufacturing business in China, the company's struggle …
Erin Woo / The Information:
Source: Google cuts hundreds of employees in its platforms and devices unit, which works on Android, Pixel, and Chrome, after offering buyouts in January 2025  —  Google on Thursday laid off hundreds of employees in its platforms and devices unit, which works on Android software …
Financial Times:
The EC's president says the EU won't revisit its “untouchable” rules, like the DMA, and could tax digital ad revenue, hitting Meta and Google, if US talks fail  —  European Commission president tells FT she wants ‘balanced’ deal but could hit US services in retaliation
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Microsoft rolls out Recall AI in preview to Copilot+ PCs, after delaying the feature twice, from June 2024 and October 2024, over security and privacy concerns  —  The long-delayed feature will begin gradually rolling out to Windows Insiders. … This new rollout could indicate that Microsoft …
Charles Rollet / TechCrunch:
The DOJ charges AI shopping app Nate's ex-CEO, Albert Saniger, with fraud, alleging the app relies heavily on workers in the Philippines; Nate had raised $50M+  —  Albert Saniger, the founder and former CEO of Nate, an AI shopping app that promised a “universal” checkout experience …
Business Insider:
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cuts $5.1B in IT and consulting contracts, such as with Accenture, Deloitte, and Booz Allen, calling them “wasteful spending”  —  - US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered cuts at the Pentagon including some consulting contracts.
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times:
Sources: OpenAI recently gave staff and third-party groups just days, vs. several months previously, to evaluate the risks and performance of its latest models  —  Testers have raised concerns that its technology is being rushed out without sufficient safeguards
Reuters:
The cybersecurity industry is quiet after Trump canceled SentinelOne's security clearances on April 9 for hiring Chris Krebs; SentinelOne says it will cooperate  —  The cybersecurity industry has gone mostly quiet after President Donald Trump took action against one of its prominent members.
Catherine McGrath / Fortune:
Bermuda-based Meanwhile, which offers life insurance to US citizens with BTC holdings, raised a $40M Series A led by Framework and Fulgur at a $190M valuation  —  Zac Townsend, co-founder and CEO of crypto insurance company Meanwhile, believes there is a pool of crypto enthusiasts who want to pay …
Ellen O'Regan / Politico:
Ireland's DPC opens an investigation into how personal data in public X posts was used to train xAI's Grok, which could stoke tensions between the EU and the US  —  The investigation threatens to stoke further tensions between the EU and U.S. over tech rules.

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Jeremy Barr / The Guardian:
President Trump says Fox News “bears responsibility” for the GOP's losses after “constantly and consistently putting on the Dumocrat opposition, and worse”

Katie Robertson / New York Times:
NYT adds 420K net digital-only subscribers in Q3, boosting total paid subscribers to 13.8M, keeping it on pace to meet a goal of 15M subscribers by 2027's end

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
As Democrats take the House and the Senate, David Ellison and other media executives are likely to face inquiries and hearings over their deals and Trump ties

More News

Caroline O'Donovan / Washington Post:
American small-business owners who source goods from overseas, especially from China, and sell them online, face acute uncertainty about the US tariffs' impact
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple is unlikely to move iPhone production to the US anytime soon due to a lack of facilities, skilled labor, and established supply chains like Asia's
Hadlee Simons / Android Authority:
Oppo launches the Find X8 Ultra in China, with a 6.82" OLED, a Snapdragon 8 Elite, a 6,100mAh battery, four rear cameras, and 100W charging, starting at ~$890
Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk:
Trump signs a bill repealing IRS rules that treat DeFi platforms as brokers and require them to report user data, the first pro-crypto effort to clear Congress

Earlier Picks

Andrew Liszewski / The Verge:
Razer launches Razer PC Remote Play, which streams PC games to mobile devices running Windows 11, iOS 18, iPadOS 18, or Android 14+ at their native resolutions
Sharon Goldman / Fortune:
Some Meta insiders fear FAIR is “dying a slow death” as Joelle Pineau exits in May; Yann LeCun says it's “a new beginning” for “Advanced Machine Intelligence”
Vikki Blake / GamesIndustry.biz:
The UK's home secretary criticizes Steam for hosting No Mercy, a game with sexual violence, rape, and incest; Steam removed it in the UK, Australia, and Canada
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI rolls out a ChatGPT memory feature that references past chats for answers, starting with ChatGPT Pro and Plus subscribers, but not in the UK and the EEA
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
SentinelLabs: AkiraBot spammers used OpenAI's API to generate unique messages, allowing them to bypass filters and flood 80K+ sites with SEO spam in four months
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