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Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal:
Meta and Anduril partner to build EagleEye, a line of XR products like helmets that enhance soldiers' hearing and vision and enable control of AI weapon systems  —  The Facebook and Instagram parent is partnering with Anduril Industries to develop combat VR headsets for the Army
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
A federal appeals court grants the Trump administration's request to temporarily pause a lower court ruling that struck down most of President Trump's tariffs  —  - CNBC Councils  — Supply Chain Values  — CNBC on Peacock  — Join the CNBC Panel  — Ad Choices  — News Tips
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Filing: the US SEC voluntarily dismissed its 2023 lawsuit against Binance and CZ that accused them of diverting customer funds, misleading investors, and more  —  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit against Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, a Thursday court filing shows.
Jez Corden / Windows Central:
Sources: Microsoft has sidelined its native Xbox handheld to focus on improving Windows 11 gaming performance for devices like the Asus model debuting in 2025  —  Xbox's handheld ambitions continue unabated, but the focus is shifting towards improving Windows 11 for third-party handhelds — for now.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Black Forest Labs releases Flux.1 Kontext, a suite of AI models that let users generate and edit images using both text and images as inputs  —  Black Forest Labs, the AI startup whose models once powered the image generation features of X's Grok chatbot, on Thursday released a new suite …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Perplexity launches Perplexity Labs, letting users craft reports, spreadsheets, dashboards, and more, available on the web, iOS, and Android for its Pro users  —  Perplexity, the AI-powered search engine gunning for Google, on Thursday released Perplexity Labs, a tool for subscribers …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Like its predecessor, DeepSeek-R1-0528 has an MIT License and model weights are on Hugging Face; DeepSeek API users will get to use the model at no extra cost  —  The whale has returned.  —  After rocking the global AI and business community early this year with the January 20 initial release …
Luz Ding / Bloomberg:
DeepSeek says its R1 update can perform mathematics, programming, and general logic better than the previous version, and comes close to o3 and Gemini 2.5 Pro
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Dell reports Q1 revenue up 5% YoY to $23.38B, vs. $23.14B est., forecasts Q2 revenue above est., and raises its FY 2026 profit forecast on demand for AI systems  —  Shares of Dell Technologies rose on Thursday in extended trading after the company raised its full-year earnings forecast …
New York Times:
The New York Times agrees to license editorial content to Amazon for use in its AI platforms, marking NYT's first licensing deal with a focus on generative AI  —  In 2023, The Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement.  Now its editorial content will appear across Amazon platforms.
Krystal Hu / Reuters:
Grammarly raised $1B in non-dilutive funding from General Catalyst to expand its AI tools; 2005-founded Grammarly has $700M+ in annual revenue and is profitable  —  Grammarly has raised $1 billion in non-dilutive financing from General Catalyst to expand its artificial intelligence (AI) …
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Job postings: Amazon has a new ZeroOne team focused on inventing “breakthrough” consumer products, and led by former Microsoft executive J Allard  —  Amazon's devices unit has a new team tasked with inventing “breakthrough” consumer products that's being led by a former Microsoft executive who helped create the Xbox.
More: PYMNTS.com, Engadget, GeekWire, and The Verge
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Andrew Orr / AppleInsider:
An Apple-funded study says the US App Store drove $406B in 2024 billings and sales, up from $142B in 2019, with developers paying no commission on 90% of sales  —  Perhaps to fight off the ire of legislators worldwide about App Store fees, Apple says that it has grown the global economy …
Mia Sato / The Verge:
Two rival Amazon influencers seek to dismiss their 2024 copyright case, where one accused the other of posting similar promotional content for the same products  —  A high-profile lawsuit between two rival lifestyle and shopping influencers would have rewritten copyright law and changed the creator industry.
Axios:
Sources: the Trump administration is looking to change the AI Safety Institute's name to the Center for AI Safety and Leadership in the coming days  —  The Trump administration is looking to change the AI Safety Institute's name to the Center for AI Safety and Leadership in the coming days, per two sources familiar with the matter.
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:
Bloomberg:
ClickHouse, which offers an OLAP database management system, raised $350M led by Khosla, a source says at a $6.35B valuation; it is nearing an ARR of $100M  —  The would-be Snowflake competitor has raised $350 million from investors. … Khosla Ventures led the $350 million financing, ClickHouse plans to announce Thursday.
Jennifer Young / Windows Central:
Nvidia debuts a native GeForce NOW app for Steam Deck, supporting games in up to 4K at 60 FPS; in testing, the app extended Steam Deck battery life by up to 50%  —  You can download GeForce NOW on Valve's Steam Deck today and play PC titles outside of the handheld's capabilities over the cloud.
Sahil Lavingia:
Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia discusses working as a DOGE software engineer for the VA and says he was let go after his Fast Company interview was published  —  In August 2014, President Obama and Congress created the United States Digital Service (USDS).  —  In January 2025 …
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.
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 …

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Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Arkansas PBS severs ties with the PBS network, the first state public TV system to do so since Congress cut CPB funds, citing the annual $2M+ membership cost

Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Disney's Zootopia 2 surpasses $1B at the global box office, the fastest PG-rated film to do so after just 17 days in release

Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Arthur L. Carter, who started a Connecticut newspaper in 1981, bought and sold The Nation, and founded the New York Observer in 1987, has died at 93

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Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Victoria's Secret replaces its website with a message saying “we identified and are taking steps to address a security incident”, and closes some store services
Bloomberg:
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says Chinese AI rivals are filling the void left by US companies leaving China and Huawei has become “quite formidable”

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Wes Davis / The Verge:
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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
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