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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.
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| 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.
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| Fidji Simo / Instacart Corporate Blog: |
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| 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 …
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| Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
Coinbase agrees to acquire Dubai-based Deribit, the world's biggest trading platform for BTC and ETH options, for ~$2.9B, split as $700M in cash and 11M shares — Deribit is the world's biggest trading platform for bitcoin options — Coinbase Global has agreed to acquire Deribit …
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| 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.
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| 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 …
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| Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
Memo: the US CFPB discontinues its order designating the supervision of Google Payment, saying the Biden-era decision is an “unwarranted use” of CFPB's powers — The supervision of Google Payment would be “an unwarranted use of the Bureau's powers and resources,” … | 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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 7%+ after hours — Lyft (LYFT.O) increased its stock buyback program to $750 million and posted a 14% rise in first-quarter revenue on Thursday … | Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Pinterest reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $855M, vs. $847M est., MAUs up 10% to 570M, and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates; PINS jumps 15%+ after hours — Pinterest shares rose 15% in extended trading Thursday after the company reported first-quarter earnings and provided better-than-expected guidance.
More: The Information, Investor's Business Daily, Reuters, Pinterest, and Benzinga. Forums: r/wallstreetbets
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Affirm reports Q3 revenue up 36% YoY to $783M, vs. $783M est., GMV up 36% to $8.6B, above est., and forecasts Q4 revenue below est.; AFRM drops 8%+ after hours — WATCH NOW — Affirm, the provider of buy now, pay later loans, gave a revenue forecast for the current quarter …
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| Washington Post: |
Senate hearing: Sam Altman says that requiring government approval to release AI would be “disastrous” for the US' lead in AI, a reversal from his 2023 comments — Congressional testimony Thursday from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman illustrated a shift in the tech industry's attitude to the potential risks of AI.
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| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
| 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.
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| 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) …
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| 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, Reclaim The Net, City A.M., Engadget, and The Guardian
| 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.| 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, Motley Fool, Fortune, and TechCrunch
| 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.| 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.
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Threads: @simonmwhitcombe and @crumbler
| Reinhardt Krause / Investor's Business Daily: |
Cloudflare reports Q1 revenue up 27% YoY to $479.1M, vs. $469.3M est., and forecasts Q2 revenue of $500M to $501M, vs. $500.4M est.; NET jumps 8%+ after hours — Cloudflare (NET) stock climbed Thursday after the company reported first-quarter earnings that met views while revenue topped Wall Street targets.| 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.| 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 …
More: Engadget, GamesIndustry.biz, and VentureBeat
| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
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| 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 … | 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 … | Danny Park / The Block: |
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