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May 29, 2025, 5:20 AM

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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia reports Q1 revenue up 69% YoY to $44.06B, above $43.31B est., Data Center revenue up 73% to $39.1B, and net income up 26% to $18.78B; NVDA jumps 5%+  —  - CNBC Councils  — Supply Chain Values  — CNBC on Peacock  — Join the CNBC Panel  — Ad Choices  — News Tips
Zachary Basu / Axios:
Elon Musk departs the Trump administration as a “special government employee”, defending DOGE's mission to reduce wasteful government spending  —  Elon Musk pivoted to damage control in his final days as a “special government employee,” publicly recommitting to Mars …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Elon Musk tried to derail OpenAI's Abu Dhabi deal, telling G42 officials that there was no chance of Trump signing off on it unless xAI was included  —  Musk warned that Trump wouldn't bless OpenAI data-center project unless his xAI company was added
New York Times:
Lindsay Whitehurst / Associated Press:
The US Court of International Trade blocks Trump from imposing sweeping import tariffs under an emergency-powers law, finding Trump exceeded his authority  —  A federal trade court on Wednesday blocked President Donald Trump from imposing sweeping tariffs on imports under an emergency-powers law.
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple's next operating systems will be called iOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26, and more, as it plans a rebrand with numbers based on the upcoming year  —  Apple Inc. is planning the most sweeping change yet to its operating system names, part of a software overhaul that extends to all its devices.
Financial Times:
The Czech Republic says that the state-sponsored Chinese hacking group APT31 has targeted its foreign ministry's unclassified communications network since 2022  —  ‘Malicious’ assault blamed on group known as APT31 that has been linked with Chinese state security ministry
Reuters:
Marco Rubio says the US will impose visa bans on foreign nationals “who censor Americans” and calls arrest warrants for social media posts “unacceptable”  —  The U.S. will impose visa bans on foreign nationals it deems to be censoring Americans, Secretary of State Marco Rubio …
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
Samsung releases the first One UI 8 beta for Galaxy S25, S25+, and S25 Ultra, with an updated Quick Share and more, in South Korea, the US, and other regions  —  Samsung just released its very first One UI 8 update in beta, and while it's not as big of an update as One UI 7 was …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Financial Times:
Sources: the US Commerce Department tells electronic chip design automation groups, which include Cadence and Synopsys, to stop supplying their tech to China  —  Move by Washington is latest effort to stymie geopolitical rival's technological advance  —  Demetri Sevastopulo in Washington …
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
GreyNoise researchers detail a novel botnet infecting 9K+ routers from Asus and others with a persistent SSH backdoor, enabling access after reboots and updates  —  Over 9,000 ASUS routers are compromised by a novel botnet dubbed “AyySSHush” that was also observed targeting SOHO routers from Cisco, D-Link, and Linksys.
Axios:
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI may wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and spike US unemployment to 10%-20% in the next one to five years  —  Dario Amodei — CEO of Anthropic, one of the world's most powerful creators of artificial intelligence — has a blunt, scary warning for the U.S. government and all of us:
Wall Street Journal:
Making a short AI film with tools from Google, Runway, ElevenLabs, and Midjourney shows the tech has improved but it takes tedious work to get scene consistency  —  We tried to direct an AI film with Veo and Runway.  The tools are magic.  The process is madness.  —  Click for Sound
Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg:
Source: Tesla is poised to begin its long-awaited robotaxi service in Austin on June 12  —  The previously unreported date was discussed internally and could still change, said the person, asking not to be identified because the information is private.  Musk has previously said the service would begin by the end of June.

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