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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple aims to begin mass production of a chip for its smart glasses, with greater power efficiency and multi-camera control, by end of 2026 or in 2027 — The company has made progress on the chip that it's developing for smart glasses, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
More: The Verge, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Reuters, Tom's Guide, Thurrott, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, iThinkDifferent, Patently Apple, PhoneArena, Digital Trends, Cult of Mac, and iClarified
X: @benbajarin, @cherthedev, and @markgurman
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| OpenAI: |
OpenAI hires Instacart CEO Fidji Simo as CEO of Applications, reporting to Sam Altman, who says he will remain CEO and focus on research, compute, and safety — Sam shared this message with the company earlier today: — Hi everyone - I have some exciting news to share.
More: The Verge, Thurrott, SiliconANGLE, The Register, Ars Technica, Business Insider, Neowin, Fast Company, Tomasz Tunguz, PYMNTS.com, Adweek, VentureBeat, The Information, Fortune, UPI, Entrepreneur, Decrypt, and Axios
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| Fidji Simo / Instacart Corporate Blog: |
More: The Information, Chain Store Age, CNBC, and Reuters
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
| Fortune: |
Sources: Meta is in discussions with crypto firms to introduce stablecoins as a means to manage payouts, and has hired a VP of product with crypto experience — Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, speaks at a conference in September. — In 2019, Meta announced an audacious project …
More: Stripe, The Block, CoinDesk, Cointelegraph, WinBuzzer, Crypto Briefing, The Crypto Times, and Blockworks
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out AI-powered defenses to help combat scams on Chrome, including the use of Gemini Nano, its on-device LLM, in Enhanced Protection mode on desktop — Google announced on Thursday that it's rolling out new AI-powered defenses to help combat scams on Chrome.
More: The Keyword, Chromium Blog, Google Online Security Blog, MacRumors, How-To Geek, WebProNews, Neowin, WinBuzzer, CNET, Engadget, Android Police, CNN, 9to5Google, Android Authority, MediaPost, Search Engine Journal, and Droid Life. LinkedIn: Kent Walker
| David Wallace-Wells / New York Times: |
Q&A with Bill Gates on closing the Gates Foundation on December 31, 2045, donating ~$200B, President Trump, Elon Musk, AI drug discovery, AI advances, and more — Today the Gates Foundation celebrates its 25th anniversary by announcing its plans to close up shop.
More: Financial Times, Reuters, The Verge, CNBC, Axios, Quartz, Gates Foundation, PC Gamer, Times of India, Observer, Business Insider, TESLARATI, Profit, Barron's Online, WinBuzzer, and Semafor
Bluesky: @debipenny24, @kencaldeira.com, @tonytassell, @brittanyepage, @mikebaker, @andy.wrestlejoy.com, @robertscotthorton, @bellinimom, @kradke, @tdpattillo, @melissaryan, @marypcbuk, and @stephenkb
Mastodon: @charlesmok@mastodon.online and @petergleick@fediscience.org
X: @billgates, @billgates, @akshatrathi, @dwallacewells, @dwallacewells, @gersonborrero, @jerusalemdemsas, @mikhailalexa, and @stefanfschubert
LinkedIn: Janine Firpo, Carl Björkman, Glen Galaich, Rafael Flor, Geoffrey Jones, Ashley Kasprzak, and Lars Hasselblad Torres
| Paul Sandle / Reuters: |
The UK says the Digital Services Tax remains unchanged under the trade deal agreed between the US and the UK, both of which will work on a “digital trade deal” — Britain's digital services tax, imposed on U.S. companies like Amazon (AMZN.O), Google (GOOGL.O) and Meta (META.O) …
More: Wall Street Journal, Verdict, ComputerWeekly.com, CoinDesk, and Deutsche Welle
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| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
Bitcoin jumps above $100,000 for first time since February 2025, after President Trump announced a US-UK trade agreement; ether, dogecoin, and solana rose 9%+ — Bitcoin on Thursday hit its highest level since February and climbing back above the key $100,000 level.
More: CNBC, Decrypt, Decrypt, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, Disrupt Africa, Motley Fool, NBC News, Crypto Briefing, Cryptopolitan, The Block, and Inside Bitcoins. Forums: Hacker News
| Steven T. Dennis / Bloomberg: |
Senate Democrats block the Genius Act after Republicans rebuffed a provision to bar Trump and others from profiting off of crypto ventures while in office — Senate Democrats blocked stablecoin legislation backed by the digital assets industry amid a furor over President Donald Trump's extensive …
More: Decrypt, Gizmodo, Axios, CoinDesk, The Hill, Ledger Insights, crypto.news, CNN, U.S. Senator Mark R. Warner, and The Daily Wire
| Helene Braun / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase reports Q1 revenue up 24% YoY to $2B, vs. $2.1B est., trading volume up 26% YoY to $393B, and earnings per share of $0.24, vs. $1.93 est. — Shares of Coinbase (COIN) fell nearly 3% in post-market trading after it reported a significant drop in revenue in the first quarter of the year … | Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
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LinkedIn: Phillip Lord and John Turner
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
The LockBit ransomware gang has suffered a data breach, with 59,975 BTC addresses and 4,442 negotiation messages leaked, and posted on its dark web site — The LockBit ransomware gang has suffered a data breach after its dark web affiliate panels were defaced and replaced with a message linking to a MySQL database dump.| Chris Vallance / BBC: |
The Wikimedia Foundation says it is taking legal action to challenge the UK's Online Safety Act, saying it could threaten the safety of its volunteer editors — Wikipedia is taking legal action against new Online Safety Act regulations it says could threaten the safety of its volunteer editors …
More: Wikimedia Foundation Policy, Diff, The Verge, Engadget, Reclaim The Net, City A.M., Silicon UK, and The Guardian
| Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: |
Match says it will cut 13% of its staff and reports Q1 revenue down 3% YoY to $831M, above est., and paying users down 5% to 14.2M, below est.; MTCH drops 9.6% — Match Group Inc. is cutting one in five managers as part of a 13% workforce reduction, the latest effort by its new chief executive officer …
More: Reuters, Match Group, Proactive, Fortune, and TechCrunch
| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Prepared testimony: Microsoft and other AI leaders urge US senators to streamline federal AI energy permits and open more government datasets for AI training — Microsoft (MSFT.O) and other AI leaders on Thursday will urge U.S. lawmakers to streamline federal permitting … | Gaby Del Valle / The Verge: |
A federal judge in Florida dismisses most claims against celebrities who endorsed FTX, ruling that they were “uninformed” and “reckless” but not fraudulent — The famous people who endorsed FTX were ‘uninformed’ and ‘reckless’ but not fraudulent, the judge ruled.| Victoria Kennedy / Eurogamer.net: |
Palworld developer Pocketpair says a 2024 update was due to “ongoing litigation” and a new update is “yet another compromise”, as it disputes Nintendo's claims — “We... assert the invalidity of the patents in question.” — Palworld developer Pocketpair has released …
More: Video Games Chronicle, Pocketpair, Engadget, HotHardware, PC Gamer, Comic Book, TechRaptor, Game Rant, Forbes, Massively Overpowered, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Windows Central, and The Verge
X: @palworld_en, @amagicmonkfish, @morphboxsr, and @vamplosion
Forums: r/pcgaming, r/gaming, and r/TwoBestFriendsPlay
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
SEC filing: Sterling Anderson, CPO and co-founder of self-driving truck startup Aurora, is resigning effective June 1, and will leave the board on August 31 — Sterling Anderson, a veteran of the nascent autonomous vehicle sector and co-founder of Aurora, is resigning just a week …
More: US Securities …
| Akash Sriram / Reuters: |
Lyft reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.45B, vs. $1.47B est., increases its share buyback program to $750M after activist pressure; LYFT jumps 6%+ after hours — Lyft (LYFT.O) increased its stock buyback program to $750 million and posted a 14% rise in first-quarter revenue on Thursday …
More: MarketWatch, Bloomberg, CNBC, Benzinga, and Lyft
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta says it will start testing video ads on Threads with a “small number” of advertisers, and “Reels trending ads”, which will be shown next to trending Reels — Instagram Threads will begin testing video ads, Meta announced on Thursday.
More: Engadget, Engadget, Adweek, Tubefilter, Neowin, TVNewsCheck, MediaPost, and Deadline
Threads: @simonmwhitcombe and @crumbler
| Riley Griffin / Bloomberg: |
Robert Fergus, who co-founded FAIR with Yann LeCun in 2014, will lead Meta's Fundamental AI Research lab, succeeding Joelle Pineau — Fergus co-founded the Facebook AI Research lab, known as FAIR, in 2014 with Yann LeCun, who currently serves as the chief AI scientist at Meta.| Chris Dolmetsch / Bloomberg: |
Celsius Network founder and former CEO Alex Mashinsky is sentenced to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to commodities fraud and misleading investors — Whoop Launches Slimmer Fitness Bands With Blood Pressure, ECG Features — Review: The Whoop 5.0 and MG — short for medical grade … | Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
Palantir's valuation rises to $281B after its shares close up 7.85%, surpassing Salesforce and joining the top 10 largest US tech companies by market cap — There's a new member in the list of the top 10 U.S. technology companies by market cap. — Data analytics software vendor Palantir jumped …
Forums: r/StockMarket
| Yuri Kageyama / Associated Press: |
Nintendo reports FY 2024-25 revenue down 30% YoY to ~$8B, profit down 43% YoY to ~$1.9B, and says the Switch has 128M+ players globally eight years after launch — Japanese video-game maker Nintendo on Thursday reported a 43% decline in profit for the fiscal year through March … | Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
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Google says it is continuing to see “overall query growth in Search”, including “an increase in total queries coming from Apple's devices and platforms” — We continue to see overall query growth in Search. That includes an increase in total queries coming from Apple's devices and platforms.
More: Ars Technica, Ars Technica, MacRumors, Times of India, MacStories, TechSpot, Business Insider, GeekWire, Barron's Online, Spyglass, iPhone in Canada Blog, Fortune, Barron's Online, Yahoo Finance, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, Quartz, Ghacks, iClarified, 9to5Mac, Search Engine Roundtable, and Philip Elmer‑DeWitt
Forums: Slashdot, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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