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May 3, 2025, 1:45 AM

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Annie Palmer / CNBC:
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.
Hayden Field / CNBC:
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‑ …
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 …
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  —  Powerbeats Pro 2 Review: Best Workout Earbuds Still Lag on Audio Quality  —  Beats' newest exercise headphones are improved, but they face stiffer competition than ever.
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.
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 …
Umar Shakir / The Verge:
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 …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Eric Schmidt-backed nonprofit FutureHouse, which aims to build an “AI scientist”, launches a platform and API with four AI-based tools to assist scientific work  —  FutureHouse, an Eric Schmidt-backed nonprofit that aims to build an “AI scientist” within the next decade …
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Apple Inc.:
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.
Jay Peters / The Verge:

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