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Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Epic Games says Fortnite for iPadOS and iOS is back on the US App Store, and on the Epic Games Store and AltStore in the EU; Apple kicked it off in August 2020  —  After a nearly five-year hiatus, Fortnite is back on the App Store for iPhone and iPad users in the United States.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft files an amicus brief supporting Epic Games' App Store fight and blames Apple for delaying the Xbox mobile gaming store, first announced in May 2024  —  Microsoft has filed support for Epic Games' fight with Apple, as it wants to launch new Xbox mobile improvements.
Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times:
Jensen Huang calls US AI chip export controls “a failure” that spurred Chinese rivals, cutting Nvidia's market share in China from 95% to 50% over four years  —  World's top AI semiconductor maker says export controls have accelerated Chinese rivals' advances
Reuters:
Distributed Denial of Secrets: the TeleMessage hacker stole messages from 60+ US government users covering about one day ending on May 4, including travel plans  —  A hacker who breached the communications service used by former Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz earlier …
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Google's I/O keynote was both scary and chill, a fever dream of sizzle reels selling how AI changes everything, even search, and can give users superpowers  —  At its annual developer conference, the company seeks to reassure everyone that AI is for everyday utility — but the great disruption to the web continues
Michael L Hicks / Android Central:
Google's Android XR Gemini-powered prototype glasses hands-on: light, comfortable to wear, the single display in the right lens works well, and Maps is seamless
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Xreal unveils Project Aura, expected to be the first Android XR glasses, powered by a separate puck with the main Qualcomm chip, slated to launch by early 2026
Samantha Subin / CNBC:
Google commits up to $150M, including $75M for product development and commercialization, as part of its partnership with Warby Parker to make smart glasses
Victoria Song / The Verge:
Google says it is partnering with Samsung, Gentle Monster, Xreal, and Warby Parker to create Android XR smart glasses, and emphasizes AI assistance via Gemini
MIT Technology Review:
Analysis: AI's energy consumption is exploding, with data centers' electricity use doubling from 2017 to 2023, accounting for 4.4% of all US energy consumption  —  The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn't tracking and consider where it's heading next.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
After a protest at Build 2025, Microsoft's head of security for AI, Neta Haiby, accidentally revealed confidential messages about Walmart's planned AI tools use  —  Internal messages were displayed after two former Microsoft employees disrupted a Build session.
William Langley / Financial Times:
Inside China's “stolen iPhone building”: electronics traders in Shenzhen describe how even remotely locked stolen iPhones can be stripped and sold for a profit  —  We track the roaring trade of mobiles grabbed in London and New York, then sold on a single district in Shenzhen
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Volvo expands its Google partnership to integrate Gemini across its model lineup, the first automaker to do so, hoping to ease its drivers' “cognitive load”  —  Gemini can ease a driver's “cognitive load” so they can keep their eyes on the road, the automaker says.
CoinDesk:
The US SEC sues Unicoin and its executives, alleging they broke securities laws by raising $100M+ for crypto tokens falsely claimed to be backed by real estate  —  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued crypto company Unicoin and three executives on Tuesday night on fraud charges …
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Maine AG filing: Coinbase says its recent data breach impacted 69,461 individuals; stolen data included government IDs, account info, and personal identifiers  —  Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange with over 100 million customers, revealed that a recent data breach in which cybercriminals stole customer …
Kevin Collier / NBC News:
Matthew Lane, a 19-year-old from Massachusetts, pleads guilty to hacking two US companies and extorting them for ransoms; a source says one firm is PowerSchool  —  The Massachusetts man agreed to plead guilty to obtaining information from a protected computer and aggravated identity theft.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Mistral partners with All Hands AI to release Devstral, a model to help with coding, in “research preview” under Apache 2.0, and says it outperforms Gemma 3 27B  —  AI startup Mistral on Wednesday announced a new AI model focused on coding: Devstral.
CNBC:
Google announces new video and image generation models Veo 3 and Imagen 4, new AI filmmaking tool Flow, and expanded access to music generation model Lyria 2  —  Google on Tuesday announced Veo 3, an AI video generator that can also create and incorporate audio.
Emilia David / VentureBeat:
Google rolls out Jules, its asynchronous coding agent unveiled in December 2024, in public beta for free with usage limits and will share pricing after the beta
Laura Onita / Financial Times:
UK retailer M&S says it expects a £300M operating profit hit from an April cyberattack and disruption to continue until July 2025; its market cap is down ~£750M  —  UK retailer discloses that breach came via supplier and warns online operations will be disrupted until July
Keach Hagey / Wired:
Book excerpt: a profile of AI-obsessed autodidact Eliezer Yudkowsky, who introduced the DeepMind founders to Peter Thiel and inspired DeepMind's Shane Legg  —  The AI doomer and the AI boomer both created each other's monsters. … Like Sam Altman, Peter Thiel had long been obsessed …
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Bloomberg:
AI model ranking project LMArena spins off from UC Berkeley and raises a $100M seed led by a16z and UC Investments, sources say at a $600M valuation  —  An effort that began at UC Berkeley as a way to rank AI models has raised $100 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz.
Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE:
Filed, which uses AI to automate tax professionals' low-value tasks, raised $17.2M across seed and preseed led by Northzone, Day One Ventures, and others  —  Tax software startup Filed Inc. said today it has raised $17.2 million in funding to try and fix what it says is the accounting …
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The Guardian:
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands exit Eurovision after Israel received an all-clear to compete; the BBC and Germany's SWR plan to participate

James Faris / Business Insider:
Kalshi strikes a deal with CNBC that will integrate Kalshi's prediction data into CNBC's channel, site, and app starting in 2026, days after striking a CNN deal

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Colin Lecher / The Markup:
New York City's AI tool, launched in 2018 to score families at risk for child abuse using factors like their neighborhood, is raising racial bias concerns
Tobias Mann / The Register:
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CNBC:
Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana says Waymo has reached 10M paid trips, doubling in the past five months, and that the company is not yet profitable
Charles Szumski / Euractiv:
Sweden passes a law criminalizing the purchase of live online sexual performances, including cam shows and sex chats; buying pre-recorded content remains legal
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
Google rolls out AI Mode to all Google Search users in the US, and announces Deep Search, agentic capabilities, chart generation, and more coming to Labs users
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