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Temu stops shipping products from China directly to US shoppers and lists only products shipped from US warehouses, as Trump closes the de minimis exemption — Bargain Chinese retailer Temu changed its business model in the U.S. as the Trump administration's new rules on low-value shipments took effect on Friday.
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Forums: r/China, r/ProfessorFinance, and r/NoShitSherlock
| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Ireland's DPC fines TikTok €530M for illegally sending European user data to China and orders it to bring such transfers into compliance within six months — Irish privacy watchdog says app failed to protect user data sent to China — Ireland's data-privacy watchdog fined TikTok …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working with Anthropic for a new version of Xcode that will use Claude Sonnet to write, edit, and test code, with plans to roll out internally — Apple Inc. is teaming up with startup Anthropic PBC on a new “vibe-coding” software platform that will use artificial intelligence to write …
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| Financial Times: |
The US DOJ tells a judge it will seek to force Google to divest its ad exchange and publisher ad server units and share real-time ad bidding data with rivals — Justice department asks judge to force Alphabet to sell its ad exchange and publisher server tech after trial victory| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
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| David McCabe / New York Times: |
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI shares details on how an update to GPT-4o inadvertently increased the model's sycophancy, why OpenAI failed to catch it, and the changes it is planning — A deeper dive on our findings, what went wrong, and future changes we're making. — On April 25th, we rolled out an update to GPT‑ …
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| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Microsoft says new accounts will be “passwordless by default”, asking people to use more secure methods like passkeys, push notifications, and security keys — The company is trying to get everyone to get rid of passwords, eventually.
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| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
A hacking group called DragonForce takes credit for ransomware attacks targeting British retailers M&S, Harrods, and Co-Op over the past two weeks — - Cybercrime spree targeted Marks & Spencer, Co-Op, Harrods — Hacking gang takes credit for attacks on the retailers
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Uber partners with Chinese self-driving startup Momenta to launch robotaxi services outside the US and China, starting with Europe in early 2026 — Uber said on Friday that it's partnering with Chinese self-driving startup Momenta to launch robotaxi services outside of the U.S. and China.| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Google plans to roll out Gemini next week for children under 13 whose parents use Family Link and says it will not use the under-13 users' data to train its AI — The tech giant said it would make its Gemini chatbot available to children next week, and warned families in an email about the changes.
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| Martin Arnold / Financial Times: |
The UK FCA plans to ban retail investors from borrowing money to buy cryptocurrencies, as it aims to bring much of the crypto market under its regulatory remit — UK financial regulator sets out proposals to regulate much of the digital asset market — The UK financial watchdog plans … | Selam Gebrekidan / New York Times: |
The US designates Cambodia's Huione Group as a money-laundering operation, saying it laundered $4B+ since August 2021 for criminals such as North Korean hackers — The Treasury Department said Huione Group and its affiliates had laundered more than $4 billion.
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| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Filing: Amazon restructured part of its $8B Anthropic investment from convertible notes into stock in Q1, creating a $3.3B pre-tax gain that boosted its profits — A portion of Amazon's investment in AI startup Anthropic converted from notes into stock in the first quarter …
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: eToro is considering launching its US IPO as soon as next week, after pausing its plans in April amid tariff-related stock volatility — The Israel-based company made the decision to delay its offering in early April, Bloomberg News reported. It had filed for an IPO with the US Securities … | Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple updates its App Store Guidelines to comply with a US judge's April 30 Epic injunction, letting app developers link to external payment methods in the US — Apple has officially updated the App Store Guidelines to comply with yesterday's injunction handed down in its legal case with Epic Games.
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
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| Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information: |
Source: Anthropic offers to buy back shares from current and former employees, the first transaction of its kind for Anthropic, valuing the startup at $61.5B — Anthropic is offering to buy back shares from hundreds of current and former employees, the first transaction of its kind for the four-year-old company.| Laura Holliday / Wired: |
An investigation finds 70+ content-farm YouTube channels using AI to produce cartoon content featuring gore and child abuse, featuring characters like minions — A WIRED investigation found that dozens of YouTube channels are using generative AI to depict cartoon cats and minions being beaten …
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| Bloomberg: |
Apple plans to source 19B+ chips from the US in 2025, including from TSMC's expanding Arizona operations, part of its shift to lessen its reliance on China — He also affirmed expectations that Apple will in future make the vast majority of its US-bound iPhones in India …
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