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| Amazon.com, Inc.: |
Amazon reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to $155.7B, operating income of $18.4B, up from $15.3B in Q1 2024, and net income of $17.1B, up from $10.4B in Q1 2024 — - Net sales increased 9% to $155.7 billion in the first quarter, compared with $143.3 billion in first quarter 2024.
X: @finchat_io, @sjosephburns, @finchat_io, and @economyapp
| 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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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Epic Games says it will take a 0% store fee from developers on their first $1M in revenue per app per year, and plans to let developers open their own webshops — Less than 24 hours after Apple's legal defeat over its App Store model, Epic Games is wasting no time.| 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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Forums: r/fuckepic, r/iosgaming, r/Games, and r/technology
| 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 consoles are priced $80 to $100 more — New first-party Xbox games are moving from $69.99 to $79.99 later this year, but there are no Xbox Game Pass increases.
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X: @zhugeex, @tomwarren, @ballmatthew, and @0xgaut
| Kristina Partsinevelos / CNBC: |
Nvidia says Anthropic is telling “tall tales” after the startup argued for tighter export controls by saying China is smuggling chips in “prosthetic baby bumps” — Nvidia blasted Anthropic Thursday in a rare public clash over artificial intelligence policy with U.S. chip export restrictions set to take effect.
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
On Meta's Q1 call, Mark Zuckerberg says WhatsApp now has 3B+ MAUs, up from 2B in February 2020 and 1.5B in January 2018; Facebook passed 3B MAUs in July 2023 — WhatsApp now has more than 3 billion people using it every month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg noted during the company's Q1 results conference call on Wednesday.| 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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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Google says “a small percentage” of Search users in the US will start seeing an AI Mode chatbot tab “in the coming weeks”; AI Mode uses Google's search index — An AI Mode tab will soon start appearing in Search for a handful of US users.
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| Julia Love / Bloomberg: |
| 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.
More: Livemint, TechCrunch, The Decoder, PetaPixel, TechRadar, MacRumors, and UploadVR
Bluesky: @dell, @loreandordure.com, @hypervisible, and @jamesoloughlin. Mastodon: @neurovagrant@masto.deoan.org. Threads: @shwetak.ai
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| Lindsay Clark / The Register: |
Redis, which makes the Redis value-key database, returns its main system to open-source license AGPL, after criticism in 2024 for moving to a dual-license model — New plan may remain too restrictive for some developers — Redis, the company behind the popular value-key database of the same name …
More: antirez.com, Redis, and Simon Willison's Weblog
Forums: r/programming, r/linux, and r/opensource
| Apple Inc.: |
Apple reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to $95.4B, vs. $94.66B est., net income up 5% to $24.78B, China net sales down 2% to $16B — Services revenue reaches new all-time high — EPS sets March quarter record … The Company posted quarterly revenue of $95.4 billion, up 5 percent year over year …
| 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, Hugging Face, arXiv.org, SiliconANGLE, Neowin, Tom's Guide, WinBuzzer, and Tech in Asia. LinkedIn: Nadeem Mohammad
| Ethan Gach / Kotaku: |
Polygon staff, including co-founder and EIC Chris Plante, say the video games publication has laid them off, after Vox Media sold Polygon to publisher Valnet — One of the biggest gaming sites around was just blown up — The video game website Polygon has been sold to Valnet and much of its staff …
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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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| Alex Isenstadt / Axios: |
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| Noam Scheiber / New York Times: |
In a case related to its Activision acquisition, Microsoft dropped a law firm that settled with Trump in favor of a firm that is fighting a Trump EO — The tech giant instead engaged a firm that is fighting the president's executive orders, Jenner & Block, in a sign that those firms can still attract clients.
More: Above the Law. Bluesky: @brunojnavarro, @evetoronaldo, and @markzaidesq
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic launches Integrations to connect apps to Claude, and expanded deep research tool Advanced Research, in beta for Claude Max, Team, and Enterprise users — Anthropic on Thursday launched a new way to connect apps and tools to its AI chatbot Claude, as well as an expanded “deep research” … | Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Little Language Lessons, three experimental tools that use Gemini to help users learn vocabulary, phrases, grammar, and slang in a new language — Google on Tuesday is releasing three new AI experiments aimed at helping people learn to speak a new language in a more personalized way.
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
A study from Cohere, Stanford, MIT, and Ai2 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: 404 Media, Simon Willison's Weblog, arXiv.org, The Information, and The Decoder
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Forums: Hacker News, Lobsters, and Slashdot
| Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: |
Sources: AWS is developing an AI-assisted coding service that offers features similar to Cursor and goes beyond its current coding assistant Amazon Q Developer — Artificial intelligence-assisted coding firms are some of the hottest startups in Silicon Valley right now, drawing attention from OpenAI, among others.| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Pinterest rolls out an “AI modified” label globally to indicate AI-generated or AI-edited images, identified via metadata analysis and its own AI classifiers — AI labels are coming to a platform that sorely needed them. … Pinterest is making it easier for users to identify and avoid AI-generated slop on its platform.| John Pavlus / Quanta Magazine: |
An oral history from 19 current and former natural language processing researchers of the past five years, including how LLMs and ChatGPT disrupted their fields — Researchers in “natural language processing” tried to tame human language. Then came the transformer. sking scientists …
Bluesky: @rtommccoy, @markriedl, @emilymbender, @coocho, @melaniemitchell, and @quantamagazine. Mastodon: @davidschlangen@scholar.social. X: @johnpavlus
LinkedIn: Margaret Mitchell and Kobi Leins
Forums: Hacker News and r/slatestarcodex
| Sam Tobin / Reuters: |
London's Court of Appeal rules Apple must pay Optis $502M as a lump sum for using Optis' 4G patents from 2013 to 2027, overturning a 2023 High Court decision — Apple (AAPL.O) must pay a U.S. patent holder $502 million for the use of 4G patents in devices including iPhones and iPads …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Tools for Humanity launches Worldcoin in most of the US, including via crypto exchanges like Coinbase, and 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.
More: World, Financial Times, Entrepreneur, Wired, CoinDesk, CNBC, The Block, Blockworks, TechCrunch, Engadget, Cointelegraph, CryptoPotato, Biometric Update, BroBible, Protos, The Crypto Basic, WinBuzzer, crypto.news, The Block, and Axios
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Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and r/technology
| RT Watson / The Block: |
Tether says its “total exposure” to US Treasurys had neared $120B at the end of March, and reports $1B+ in Q1 operating profit from traditional investments — - Tether said its “total exposure” to U.S. Treasurys had neared $120 billion at the end of March.
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