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| Josh Sisco / Bloomberg: |
A US judge rules that Apple violated a 2021 court order to open the App Store to third-party payment options, and refers the case for a criminal investigation — Gonzalez Rogers also referred the case to federal prosecutors to investigate whether Apple committed criminal contempt of court for flouting her 2021 ruling.
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Threads: @timothybucksf and @eric_seufert
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Forums: r/wallstreetbets, r/technology, r/applesucks, r/technews, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Sweeney says Epic plans to submit Fortnite to the US iOS App Store next week and “puts forth a peace proposal” to end all litigation over App Store policies — Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney has announced that the company will submit Fortnite to the iOS App Store in the U.S. next week.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
More: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, The Verge, MacRumors, Business Insider, Silicon UK, iPhone in Canada Blog, Silicon Republic, Ghacks, Yahoo Finance, Benzinga, Pixel Envy, Mashable, Anadolu Ajansı …, The Register, PhoneArena, and Verdict
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| Meta: |
Meta reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $42.3B, vs. $41.4B est., net income up 35% to $16.6B, family daily active people up 6% to 3.43B on average for March 2025 — Meta Platforms, Inc. (Nasdaq: META) today reported financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2025.
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on LlamaCon, Llama API, Meta's AI opportunity, social networking 2.0, Ray-Bans, Apple, the Meta AI app, tariffs, Reality Labs, and more — An interview with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about Llama and the AI opportunity, the evolution of social medial, and what it means to connect.
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: about a month ago, Tesla's board opened a search for a CEO to succeed Elon Musk; the succession planning status is unknown, but Tesla denied the report — With profits and stock price sinking, board members told Musk he needed to spend more time at company
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft releases three Phi-4 reasoning models on Hugging Face, expanding its Phi “small model” family, which it launched in May 2024 for AI app developers — Microsoft launched several new “open” AI models on Wednesday, the most capable of which is competitive with OpenAI's o3-mini on at least one benchmark.
More: Microsoft Azure, VentureBeat, Hugging Face, arXiv.org, AIN, Tom's Guide, Maginative, WinBuzzer, Neowin, The Decoder, MarkTechPost, and Tech in Asia
| Microsoft: |
Microsoft Q3: revenue up 13% YoY to $70.1B, vs. $68.42B est., Microsoft 365 Commercial products and cloud services up 11%, and Q4 revenue forecast above est. — Microsoft Cloud and AI Strength Drives Third Quarter Results — REDMOND, Wash. — April 30, 2025 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
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| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
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| The Verge: |
US v. Google: Sundar Pichai said Google expects to strike a Gemini deal with Apple by mid-2025 and Tim Cook told him Apple plans to add more AI models this year — Google CEO Sundar Pichai suggested that the company plans to roll out its Gemini integration by the end of this year.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Meta updated Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses' privacy policy on April 29 to enable the Hey Meta voice command by default, store voice recordings for a year, and more — The company has removed the option to disable your voice recordings from being stored, among other changes.
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Forums: r/augmentedreality, r/technology, and MacRumors Forums
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
A study from Cohere, Stanford, and others accuses LMArena of helping Meta, OpenAI, Google, and Amazon game its popular crowdsourced AI benchmark Chatbot Arena — A new paper from AI lab Cohere, Stanford, MIT, and Ai2 accuses LM Arena, the organization behind the popular crowdsourced AI …
More: Simon Willison's Weblog, arXiv.org, 404 Media, and WinBuzzer
Bluesky: @drmehmetismail, @sarahooker, @davidgerard.co.uk, and @rich.harang.org
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Forums: Hacker News, Lobsters, and Slashdot
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Little Language Lessons, three experimental AI tools to help users learn specific phrases in a new language, sound less formal, and more — Google on Tuesday is releasing three new AI experiments aimed at helping people learn to speak a new language in a more personalized way.
More: Google Labs, The Keyword, Google Developers Blog, Inc, Mashable, Tech in Asia, Lifehacker, ZDNET, CNET, MakeUseOf, Tom's Guide, PCMag, Android Authority, The Decoder, and WinBuzzer. Forums: r/languagelearning
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google is rolling out AI image editing in the Gemini app, letting users edit uploaded images and those generated by the app using natural language text prompts — After developer testing last month, Google is beginning to roll out native AI image editing to the Gemini app.
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
World's WLD launches in most of the US, including on Coinbase, starting this week, as Tools for Humanity debuts a portable “orb mini” device for iris scanning — After scanning millions of eyes around the world, Tools for Humanity is bringing Worldcoin to the United States.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
JetBrains makes Mellum, its 4B-parameter code-generating AI model released in 2024, openly available on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license — JetBrains, the company behind a range of popular app development tools, has released its first “open” AI model for coding.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft raises the prices of its Xbox Series S and X consoles, Xbox controllers, and some new Xbox games globally; the Xbox Series S is up $80 to $380 — New first-party Xbox games are moving from $69.99 to $79.99 later this year, but there are no Xbox Game Pass increases.
More: Windows Central, IGN, Engadget, The Game Business, and Eurogamer.net. Bluesky: @tomwarren.co.uk
| Julia Love / Bloomberg: |
Google AdSense begins showing ads in conversations with AI chatbots; sources: Google tested the ads with some startups, including AI search apps iAsk and Liner — Google's ad network has begun showing advertising within the flow of conversations with chatbots — part of Alphabet Inc.'s efforts … | Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo: |
Marc Andreessen says VC may be one of the last fields safe from AI after it replaces most workers, as it requires “intangible” skills like psychological insight — In the future, AI will apparently be able to do everybody's job—except Marc's. — Egg-headed venture capitalist …
More: Fortune. Bluesky: @martinsfp, @manruss, @quinnypig.com, @nzkoz, @caseynewton, @normal-form, @alajon, @ryanparker.xyz, @jwmckenzie, @artison, @oldbk, @keblaster, @illuminatus, @davidarch, @wilkos, @doctor-multiverse.com, @jedgeco, @noupside, @jakeekiss, and @balbrecht. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to
X: @transjesster, @texas_libtard, @kevinroose, @summeroffilm, @dylanmatt, @secretcfo, @object_zero_, @lib_crusher, @bigblackjacobin, @ns123abc, @biedersam, @vcbrags, @drmistercody, @gao_ag, @chaykak, @loganbartlett, @robinsonmeyer, @vitrupo, @bennpeifert, @nikhil_palsingh, @mikeisaac, @jolyonklebold, and @thegpatty. Forums: r/technology
| Financial Times: |
Kadrey v. Meta, centered on the use of LibGen to train Llama AI models, begins Thursday and marks the first big test in the ongoing battle over AI and copyright — Tech giant faces lawsuit from US authors over use of material from shadow library LibGen — Meta will fight a group of US authors …
More: TechRadar, Patently Apple, Chat GPT Is Eating the World, and Bloomberg Law
| Canalys: |
Global smartphone shipments rose 0.2% to 296.9M in Q1 2025; Samsung shipped 60.5M units for a 20% market share and Apple shipped 55M units for a 19% share — According to the latest Canalys (now part of Omdia) research, in Q1 2025, the global smartphone market recorded a slight growth of 0.2% …
More: AppleInsider, MacRumors, SamMobile, SammyGuru, and Sam Lover
Forums: r/Android and MacRumors Forums
| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-Omni-3B, a scaled-down 3B-parameter variant of its flagship 7B-parameter multimodal model, designed to run on consumer PCs and laptops — Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba isn't taking the pressure off other AI model providers in the U.S. and abroad.
More: Qwen on Hugging Face and MarkTechPost
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