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Niket Nishant / Reuters:
Coinbase says hackers accessed a “small subset” of users' data, but not credentials, expects to incur $180M to $400M in costs, and refuses to pay a $20M ransom  —  Coinbase (COIN.O) forecast a hit between $180 million and $400 million from a cyber attack that breached account data of a …
Bloomberg:
President Trump says he told Tim Cook that “I don't want you building in India”, “India can take care of themselves”, and Apple will be “upping” US production  —  President Donald Trump said India has made an offer to drop tariffs on US goods …
Issie Lapowsky / Vanity Fair:
Q&A with the FT's Patrick McGee on his new book, Apple in China, which examines Apple's role in enabling China's rise; Apple says it is “full of inaccuracies”
Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:
Apple rolls out CarPlay Ultra, the next generation of CarPlay, in new and existing Aston Martins in North America after months of delays, before a wider rollout  —  After months of delays, Apple today officially announced the launch of next-gen CarPlay, now with a new brand name of ‘CarPlay Ultra’.
Zach Vallese / CNBC:
YouTube unveils Peak Points, a pilot Gemini feature for targeting ads after viewers are most engaged with a video, aiming for more impressions and a higher CTR  —  YouTube on Wednesday announced a new tool that will allow advertisers to use Google's Gemini AI model to target ads to viewers when they are most engaged with a video.
Johnny Ryan / Irish Council for Civil Liberties:
The Belgian Court of Appeal rules that the Transparency & Consent Framework, used by Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X, and the ad industry, is illegal across Europe  —  Landmark court decision against “TCF” consent pop ups on 80% of the internet  —  Google, Microsoft, Amazon, X …
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Apple adds red exclamation mark warnings on EU App Store listings for apps using third-party payment systems, not Apple's “private and secure payment system”  —  Apple suggests that users are putting themselves at risk by using third-party alternatives.
ProPublica:
How the US conducted a monthslong campaign to push The Gambia and at least four other developing nations to license Starlink; diplomats call the events alarming  —  The State Department has intervened on behalf of Musk's satellite internet company in five developing nations.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Threads now lets users add up to five links to their profile bios and rolls out analytics tools to track clicks on profile links and links shared in posts  —  Instagram Threads is taking on Linktree and other “link-in-bio” solutions by introducing a way for creators to use their Threads profile …
New York Times:
Sources: under the Trump administration, the SEC continues investigating whether Coinbase misstated its user numbers by reporting 100M+ “verified users” in 2021  —  The inquiry continued even after the commission dropped a lawsuit accusing Coinbase of illegally marketing digital currencies to the public.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI launches the “Safety evaluations hub”, a webpage showing how its models score on tests for harmful content generation, jailbreaks, and hallucinations  —  OpenAI is moving to publish the results of its internal AI model safety evaluations more regularly in what the outfit …
More: CNBC, OpenAI, Tech in Asia, and Tom's Guide
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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
OpenAI releases GPT-4.1 in ChatGPT for Plus, Pro, and Team subscribers “by popular request”, and replaces GPT-4o mini with GPT-4.1 mini for all ChatGPT users
Joe Tidy / BBC:
Hacking group DragonForce says it stole UK retailer Co-op's customer data but couldn't deploy ransomware because Co-op quickly shut down its systems, unlike M&S  —  Co-op narrowly averted being locked out of its computer systems during the cyber attack that saw customer data stolen …
Bloomberg:
Docs: Microsoft's recent layoffs of 6,000 workers hit software engineers the hardest, making up 40%+ of the ~2,000 positions cut in its home state of Washington  —  In Microsoft's home state of Washington, software engineering was by far the largest single job category to receive layoff notices …
Reuters:
CoreWeave plans to spend $20B to $23B in 2025 on AI infrastructure and data center capacity to meet demand, such as from Microsoft, expecting revenue above est.
Barbara Moens / Financial Times:
The EU provisionally finds that TikTok breached the DSA by failing to offer a publicly searchable ad library, and could fine it up to 6% of its global revenue  —  Ad transparency investigation is one of several ongoing European cases against social media platform
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Pinterest apologizes for a recent wave of mass account bans, saying “an internal error led to over-enforcement”  —  Pinterest has now publicly apologized for the wave of moderation issues that have swept across the social network over the past few weeks, leading to account bans …
More: The Verge
Madeline Renbarger / Newcomer:
Akido Labs, which makes AI assistants for doctors to improve patient treatment efficiency, raised a $60M Series B led by Oak HC/FT  —  Oak HC/FT is leading the Series B round … Prashant Samant, Jared Goodner, Sanjit Mahanti, and Hugh Gordon began their healthcare collaborations at USC over a decade ago …

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Axios:
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr tells a Senate committee the FCC “is not an independent agency”; the agency removed “independent agency” from its site as he testified

John Rogers / Associated Press:
Peter Arnett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who covered the Vietnam War for the AP and the first Gulf War for CNN, has died at 91

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube says it will no longer give data to US Billboard charts after January 16, saying Billboard's ranking formula doesn't count ad-supported streams fairly

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Bloomberg:
Alibaba reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY to ~$32.8B, below $33B est., and net income up 279% to ~$1.7B, partly due to its equity investment gains; BABA drops 5%+

Earlier Picks

Steve Lohr / New York Times:
How the Mayo Clinic uses AI to boost efficiency and amplify human abilities in its radiology department, which has an AI team of 40 people and 400+ radiologists
Newley Purnell / Bloomberg:
Meta promotes Benjamin Joe, its longtime VP for Southeast Asia, to VP of Asia Pacific and expands India VP Sandhya Devanathan's role to include Southeast Asia
Andy Greenberg / Wired:
Huione Guarantee, a Telegram-based black market for crypto scammers and money launderers that enabled $27B+ in transactions, shuts down after mass account bans
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch:
Lidar manufacturer Luminar says that founder and CEO Austin Russell resigned following an ethics inquiry and appoints former Nuance CEO Paul Ricci as its CEO
Jeremy Kahn / Fortune:
Samaya AI, which is building AI models that assist financial analysts, raised a $43.5M Series A led by NEA; Eric Schmidt, Yann LeCun, and others also invested
Paresh Dave / Wired:
Microsoft plans to shut down its Bing Search APIs on August 11; a source says the largest customers will retain access, and DuckDuckGo says it won't be affected
Juli Clover / MacRumors:
Epic submits a new version of Fortnite to the US App Store after pulling the one it submitted on May 9, citing the need to make a weekly update with new content
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