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Epic's new motion asks a US district judge to order Apple to approve Fortnite on the US App Store, calling Apple's continued refusal contempt of court — As reported by Mark Gurman, Epic's petition reads: … In the document, Epic also makes a point to mention Tim Cook's testimony at trial, in which he said:
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| Wen-Yee Lee / Reuters: |
Jensen Huang says Nvidia's next chip for China will not be from the Hopper series following US restrictions on Hopper H20 chip sales to China — Nvidia is evaluating how to address the China market after the U.S. government placed limits on sales of its Hopper H20 chip there but will not put … | Alana Yzola / Wired: |
A look at EA's attempts to shut down “anti-DEI” mods for The Sims 4, including one that changes LGBT and Black NPCs to straight and white — The download automatically changed Black NPCs to white, trans NPCs to cis-gendered, and gay NPCs to straight. And it's just the beginning.| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
Sources: White House and lawmakers are scrutinizing Apple's plan to use Alibaba's AI on iPhones in China, over concerns about data sharing, censorship, and more — The Trump administration and congressional officials have raised concerns about a deal to put a Chinese company's artificial intelligence on iPhones.
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| Logan Plant / IGN: |
Q&A with Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser on Switch 2 pricing backlash, physical games' importance to its business despite Game-Key cards, and more — We also asked Bowser about Switch 2 Game-Key Cards, if Nintendo can meet demand in the U.S., and a lot more.
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| Justin Lahart / Wall Street Journal: |
MIT says it no longer stands behind a widely circulated research paper by its student that claimed an AI tool boosted discoveries in a materials science lab — The university says it has no confidence in a widely circulated paper by an economics graduate student
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| Bloomberg: |
How rapid advances in AI are helping Harvard's Galileo Project and other UFO research efforts process huge amounts of data in real time from multiple sources — Harvard's Galileo Project has brought high-end academic research to a once-fringe pursuit, and the Pentagon is watching.| Kinling Lo / Rest of World: |
Chinese startups are highlighting their roots instead of downplaying them as they grow overseas, fueled by the success of Chinese social media apps and DeepSeek — Following DeepSeek's rise, more Chinese companies are highlighting their roots as they expand overseas.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
What to expect at Google I/O 2025: an updated Gemini Ultra model, updates for Android 16, Project Astra AI assistant, and Project Mariner AI agents, and more — Google I/O, Google's biggest developer conference of the year, is nearly upon us. — Scheduled for May 20 to 21 …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
London-based Granola, which provides an AI-based notetaking app, raised a $43M Series B led by NFDG at a $250M valuation, taking its total funding to $67M — AI-powered notetaking tool Granola has been on a roll. The startup's seen a steep uptick in usage since it launched a year ago …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Carta: VC deals are stalling at seed, with the Series A deal count falling by 79% between Q1 2022 and Q1 2025; 46% of seed deals were bridge rounds in Q1 2025 — Top of the Morning — Venture capital's series progression is stalling at seed, according to new data released this morning by Carta.| Nikkei Asia: |
Analysis: China imported a record $30.9B in chipmaking equipment in 2024, including $9.63B from Japan, $9.53B from the Netherlands, and $4.86B from Singapore — TAIPEI/SEOUL — China bought a record amount of foreign chipmaking equipment in 2024 as part of efforts to massively expand domestic chip production …
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| Bloomberg: |
Deep dive on the evolution of Microsoft's relationship with OpenAI, from its $1B investment in 2019 through Copilot rollouts and ChatGPT's launch to present day — Nervous customers and a volatile partnership with OpenAI are complicating things for Satya Nadella and the world's most valuable company.
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| Brian Merchant / Blood in the Machine: |
A look at AI companies' lobbying push, as well as the GOP's pitch, for the amendment to ban state-level AI regulation, added to the budget reconciliation bill — Inside the effort to de-democratize AI — Today, we dive deep into the GOP's radical campaign to ban US states from passing any laws that govern AI.
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