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May 7, 2025, 12:55 PM
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Bloomberg:
US v. Google: Eddy Cue says Apple is actively looking at reshaping Safari to focus on AI search and, in a first, Safari searches dropped in April; GOOG down 8%+  —  Apple Inc. is “actively looking at” reshaping the Safari web browser on its devices to focus on AI-powered search engines …
John Koblin / New York Times:
Netflix unveils a new homepage design for TVs, its first major update since 2013, featuring fewer titles but more video and animation, rolling out next week  —  The implications for the industry could be significant, given that most other streaming services have copied Netflix's design.
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Netflix says it plans to start testing a TikTok-like feed of vertical videos in its mobile app “in the coming weeks” to help users find more content to watch  —  The streaming service has experimented with vertical video feeds before. … Netflix is going to start testing …
James D. Walsh / New York Magazine:
How ChatGPT and other AI tools enable systemic cheating in college, unravelling the entire academic project; one student says “the ceiling has been blown off”  —  ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.  —  Chungin “Roy” Lee stepped onto Columbia University's campus …
Sarah Butler / The Guardian:
Amazon unveils Vulcan, a sorting robot with a sense of touch that will be able to grab ~75% of its warehouse items, rolling out globally in the next few years  —  Vulcan device ‘capable of grabbing three-quarters of items in warehouses’ fuels fears of mass job losses
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:
Uber reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $11.5B, Gross Bookings up 14% YoY to $42.8B, below $43.1B est., trips up 18% YoY to 3B, and $1.8B in net income  —  Uber Technologies Inc. reported weaker-than-expected quarterly gross bookings, citing lower US inbound travel that's led to slower gains in its rideshare business.
Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
Leaked audio and memos: at a heated all-hands, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi defended upping required in-office days to three per week, saying “it is what it is”
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 …
Bloomberg:
Analysis: the majority of the top 220 holders of President Trump's memecoin likely reside outside the US, ahead of a May 22 dinner; Justin Sun likely holds $18M  —  The majority of top holders of Donald Trump's memecoin have used foreign exchanges that say they ban US users, suggesting many purchasers are based abroad
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
Chainalysis: ~2M wallets have bought President Trump's $TRUMP memecoin, of which ~764K have lost money and 58 have made $10M+ each, totaling ~$1.1B in gains
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 …
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.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Mistral releases Medium 3, which it says focuses on efficiency without compromising performance, for $0.40 per 1M input tokens, and launches Le Chat Enterprise  —  French AI startup Mistral is releasing a new AI model, Mistral Medium 3, that's focused on efficiency without compromising performance.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft says it will support Google's Agent2Agent spec, known as A2A, in Azure AI Foundry and Copilot Studio and will join A2A's working group on GitHub  —  Microsoft says that it's embracing Google's recently launched open protocol for allowing AI “agents” to communicate with each other.
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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 …
Mike Scarcella / Reuters:
A US court rejects a legal challenge by the FTC to Microsoft's $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition, upholding a lower court ruling that denied an injunction  —  A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected a legal challenge by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to Microsoft's (MSFT.O) …
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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.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Tel Aviv-based Sett, which builds AI agents to create and run mobile game marketing content, emerges from stealth and raised $27M, including a $15M Series A  —  Games drove the creation of GPU processors back in the 1990s, so it's only fitting that artificial intelligence …
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CNN:
Source: UFC CEO Dana White has declined Trump's offer to become press secretary

Washington Post:
Sources: Trump ally Laura Loomer was paid, including via wire transfers worth ~$60K, for political social media posts without publicly disclosing the payments

Ethan Gach / Kotaku:
Valnet agrees to a $2M settlement to end a 2023 suit accusing it of misclassifying some workers as contractors rather than full-time employees to deny them pay

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 felt dehumanized
Hannah Ritchie / Sustainability:
A look at the energy consumption impact of daily ChatGPT use, as an analysis finds LLM usage is still a rounding error on a person's total electricity footprint
Angel Au-Yeung / Wall Street Journal:
Jeff Bezos' and Michael Dell's family offices commit $1B in total to Coatue's newly launched fund for investing in high-growth public and private tech companies

Earlier Picks

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
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
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
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%+
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
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