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The US FTC sues Uber, claiming the company charged for Uber One without consent, made it difficult to cancel, and failed to deliver promised savings — - CNBC Councils — CNBC on Peacock — Join the CNBC Panel — Supply Chain Values — Select Shopping — Ad Choices
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| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Meta is testing using AI tools in the US to detect teen Instagram users, even if they've lied about their birthday, and place them under Teen Account settings — On Instagram, AI tools will detect underage users and automatically change their account settings.
More: Meta, Instagram, Engadget, Washington Examiner, Social Media Today, Fast Company, TechCrunch, SheKnows, CNET, Associated Press, The Hill, Mashable, WinBuzzer, ZDNET, Neowin, Digital Trends, PCMag, Entrepreneur, Thurrott, Android Headlines, Moneycontrol, Quartz, and Ukrainian National News. X: @metanewsroom
| Julian Mark / Washington Post: |
The US v. Google remedies trial opens with the DOJ arguing that Google should be forced to divest Chrome, and Google calling the proposed remedies “extreme” — The remedies trial opens in Washington with the government pushing to break up the company through measures that Google lawyers deem “extreme.”
More: The Keyword, Bloomberg, New York Times, The Information, The Verge, NPR, Associated Press, XDA Developers, PYMNTS.com, American Prospect, WAtoday, Axios, Business Insider, Quartz, Search Engine Land, Agence France-Presse, Thurrott, US Department of Justice, Breitbart, Wall Street Journal, Mercury News, Washington Examiner, CBS News, Bloomberg, Ars Technica, Yahoo Finance, Adweek, PYMNTS.com, New York Post, WinBuzzer, Ukrainian National News, Watcher Guru, WebProNews, MediaPost, Android Headlines, and BetaNews
| Kate Knibbs / Wired: |
Bluesky starts rolling out blue check verification, initially limiting verification to select organizations and its moderation team — Bluesky's new verification process launches today. It mixes the old-school, Twitter-style blue check bestowed by the platform with a more decentralized option for trusted organizations.
More: Bluesky, GitHub, PCMag, Forbes, Social Media Today, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, Neowin, Thurrott, MediaPost, TechRadar, The Verge, Engadget, WinBuzzer, The Desk, and TechCrunch
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Forums: r/BlueskySocial and Lobsters
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Report: over a thousand international students have had US immigration statuses terminated in 2025; a Caltech ML professor says it's harming the talent pipeline — An AI doctoral student in California had their SEVIS record — the digital proof of their valid student visa — terminated, putting their immigration status at risk.
More: Just Security, Mission Local, Trak.in, and CNN
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
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Forums: r/ThePeoplesPress, r/WallStreetbetsELITE, r/AnythingGoesNews, and r/Conservative
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Airbnb now shows the full cost of a stay, excluding taxes, in search results by default; a Biden-era FTC rule on “junk fees” is set to go into effect on May 12 — Customers in the US and 200-plus other markets that didn't previously have price-display regulations will now see the total cost …
More: Airbnb Newsroom, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, The Verge, Entrepreneur, CNN, Skift, PCMag, PYMNTS.com, and Sherwood News
| Reuters: |
Sources: Huawei plans mass shipments of its 910C chip, which combines two 910B chips and is comparable to Nvidia's H100, to Chinese customers as early as May — Huawei Technologies (HWT.UL) plans to begin mass shipments of its advanced 910C artificial intelligence chip to Chinese customers … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Circle, BitGo, and other firms plan to apply for bank charters or licenses, as the Trump administration pushes to bring crypto into mainstream finance — Circle, BitGo and other crypto firms plan to apply for bank charters or licenses — Crypto is pushing deeper into the banking system.| Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg: |
Brand aggregator Upexi says it is raising $100M to accumulate Solana, causing its shares to surge over 400%, part of a trend of companies investing in crypto — Upexi Inc. is raising $100 million as part of a pivot that will see the company start to accumulate the cryptocurrency Solana, according to a Monday statement.
More: Upexi, Inc., Decrypt, Chainwire, Cointelegraph, Yahoo Finance, CryptoSlate, The Crypto Times, PYMNTS.com, NFTgators, ZyCrypto, crypto.news, CoinDesk, and The Block. Bluesky: @caseynewton
| Charles Rollet / TechCrunch: |
A Columbia student suspended over a tool to cheat on job interviews says he's raised a $5.3M seed for Cluely, which offers an AI tool to “cheat on everything” — On Sunday, 21-year-old Chungin ‘Roy’ Lee announced he's raised $5.3 million in seed funding from Abstract Ventures …
More: Cluely and Stove Top
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| Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: |
Models like o3 and Gemini 2.5 Pro feel like “Jagged AGI”: unreliable, even at some mundane tasks, but still offering superhuman capabilities in many areas — Amid today's AI boom, it's disconcerting that we still don't know how to measure how smart, creative, or empathetic these systems are.
More: Unite.AI. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @rizzn. LinkedIn: Claudia Jaramillo and Ethan Mollick
Forums: Hacker News and r/artificial
| Emily Mason / Bloomberg: |
Circle unveils a network designed to link financial institutions and enable real-time settlement of cross-border payments, starting with USDC and EURC in May — Circle Internet Group Inc. is launching a payments network designed to allow financial institutions and technology firms to settle cross-border transactions in stablecoins.
More: PYMNTS.com, CoinDesk, and Coinpedia Fintech News
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| Kevin Beaumont / DoublePulsar: |
Microsoft has improved Recall, but biometrics are only required for setup and users can open it with just a PIN, and sensitive data filtering is unreliable — Last year, Microsoft announced Recall, a feature which screenshots your PC every few seconds, OCRs the screenshots and produces … Sponsor Posts
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