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Matt Simons / Courthouse News Service:
A US jury awards Meta nearly $168M in damages from Israeli spyware maker NSO Group in connection with the 2019 spyware attack on 1,400+ WhatsApp users' phones  —  Although NSO Group will likely appeal, the jury's award represents a significant win for privacy advocates and critics of the notorious spyware vendor.
VideoCardz.com:
FCC listings show two new Asus ROG Ally 2 handhelds with an Xbox button, AMD chips, 64GB of RAM, larger grips, and two USB-C ports, likely set for Computex 2025  —  ROG Ally 2 leaks: new design, larger screen and Xbox version  —  ASUS is about to announce a new generation of gaming handhelds …
Andrew Liszewski / The Verge:
Amazon updates Kindle for iOS to add a prominent orange “Get book” button, enabling purchases via a mobile browser, after the Epic v. Apple ruling on April 30  —  Amazon has updated its Kindle iOS app to take advantage of recent changes to Apple's App Store rules.
Micah Lee / micahflee:
Analysis: TM SGNL, TeleMessage's modified version of Signal used by senior Trump officials, sends decrypted, plaintext chat logs to TeleMessage's archive server  —  Despite their misleading marketing, TeleMessage, the company that makes a modified version of Signal used by senior Trump officials …
Sam Becker / Fast Company:
Cisco says it built a prototype entanglement source chip that could cut the timeline for practical quantum computing by up to a decade, and opens a quantum lab  —  The networking company is the latest to announce a breakthrough as the race heats up to bring the transformative technology to the masses.
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says that China's AI market will likely reach ~$50B in the next two to three years, and missing out on it would be a “tremendous loss”  —  Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Tuesday that China's artificial intelligence market will likely reach about $50 billion …
Daniel Kuhn / The Block:
New Hampshire becomes the first US state to pass a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve bill, permitting public fund investment in bitcoin, either directly or via an ETF  —  - New Hampshire has become the first state to pass a “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve” bill, according to Satoshi Action Fund founder Dennis Porter.
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
Chainalysis: ~2M wallets have bought the $TRUMP memecoin, of which ~764,000 wallets have lost money and 58 have made over $10M each, totaling ~$1.1B in profits  —  WATCH NOW  —  About 764,000 wallets that purchased President Donald Trump's $TRUMP meme coin have lost money on the investment …
Hannah Ritchie / Sustainability:
A look at the impact of ChatGPT use on energy consumption, as analysis suggests AI usage is still a rounding error on a person's total electricity footprint  —  Very small compared to most of the other stuff you do.  —  A couple of months ago I wrote an article looking at the energy use of artificial intelligence.
John Koblin / New York Times:
Netflix unveils a new home page design for TVs, its first update since 2013, featuring fewer titles but more video and animation, rolling out from next week  —  The implications for the industry could be significant, given that most other streaming services have copied Netflix's design.
Ian King / Bloomberg:
AMD reports Q1 revenue up 36% YoY to $7.4B, vs. $7.12B est., Data Center revenue up 57% to $3.7B, vs. $3.66B est., and forecasts Q2 sales above estimates  —  The guidance stems from an export restriction imposed in April that targeted AMD's MI308 chips, the company said during an earnings call on Tuesday.
Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg:
OpenAI unveils OpenAI for Countries, an initiative to help build out AI infrastructure and customize OpenAI's products for specific languages and local needs  —  OpenAI plans to invest in efforts outside of the US to develop the infrastructure necessary to run artificial intelligence systems …
Logan Kilpatrick / Google Developers Blog:
Google unveils Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview I/O Edition with “significantly” improved capabilities for coding and building interactive web apps, before I/O on May 20  —  We've seen developers doing amazing things with Gemini 2.5 Pro, so we decided to release an updated version a couple …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Ox Security, which scans for vulnerabilities in both AI- and human-generated code, raised a $60M Series B led by DTCP and says it scans 100M+ lines per day  —  As “vibe coding” gains in popularity and tech companies push devs in their employ to embrace generative AI tools …
Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
Leaked audio and memos: Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi defended increasing the RTO to three days per week at a heated all-hands meeting, saying “it is what it is”  —  Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi last week told employees “it is what it is” at a heated all-hands meeting after the company announced …
Bloomberg:
US credit and debit card data: Shein's US sales dropped 23% during the week of April 25 to May 1 compared to the prior seven days, while Temu's sales fell 17%  —  Shein posted a 23% drop in observed US sales during the week of April 25 to May 1, compared to the prior seven days …
Axios:
Sources: Senate Democrats are in talks with Republicans about an eleventh-hour effort to try to save the bipartisan GENIUS Act on stablecoin regulation  —  Senate Democrats are in discussions with relevant Republicans about an eleventh-hour meeting to try to save the bipartisan GENIUS Act, according to people familiar with the matter.

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Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi have agreed to part ways following new allegations about her affair with RFK Jr. and her behavior while reporting on him

Alexandra Steigrad / New York Post:
Sources: Forbes has cut ties with dozens of contributing writers; one exec said Forbes needs to ensure the contributor model is “financially sound”

Liam Scott / Columbia Journalism Review:
A look at the First Amendment Watch's SLAPP Back Initiative, a US SLAPP tracker; in 2024, 69 of 500 cases involved the media, of which 46 were dismissed

More News

Sarah O'Connor / Financial Times:
The AI arms race between employers and jobseekers isn't going well for anyone, as applicants turn to GenAI to speed up a process that already feels dehumanized
Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal:
Jeff Bezos and Michael Dell's family offices have committed $1B in total to Coatue's new investment fund targeting high-growth public and private tech companies
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Uber and Chinese company Pony.ai partner to deploy Pony.ai's robotaxis on Uber's platform, starting with a launch in “a key market in the Middle East” in 2025
Samantha Subin / CNBC:
EA reports Q4 net bookings up 8% YoY to $1.8B, above $1.56B est., and forecasts FY 2026 bookings above estimates at $7.6B to $8B; EA jumps 5%+

Earlier Picks

Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon's Zoox says it temporarily paused all driverless vehicle operations after a crash in Las Vegas on April 8 and issued a software recall for 270 robotaxis
Larry Dignan / Constellation Research:
ServiceNow launches ServiceNow CRM to take on Salesforce and automate many common workflow steps and “human middleware” with AI
Kendra Barnett / Adweek:
Google unveils AI Max for Search ad campaigns, a suite of AI-powered targeting and creative enhancements, rolling out to advertisers in beta later this month
Ariel Wittenberg / Politico:
Environmental groups: xAI's Memphis plant now has ~35 gas turbines, and xAI has no Clean Air Act permits; Elon Musk said turbines were necessary to train Grok 3
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