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| Molly White / Citation Needed: |
NFT marketplace Magic Eden and the TRUMP memecoin team announce the “Official $TRUMP Wallet” and open a waitlist; Trump's sons deny any involvement or knowledge — Trump to launch branded crypto trading application — Listen to me read this post here (not an AI-generated voice! …
More: $TRUMP Wallet, Decrypt, CoinDesk, CNBC, Blockworks, The Block, Cryptopolitan, Coinpedia Fintech News, NFTgators, Benzinga, Fortune, Crypto Briefing, CoinGape, Protos, crypto.news, The Crypto Times, and CryptoSlate
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Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Kaiko: the USD1 stablecoin launched by Trump's World Liberty Financial is off to a sluggish start, with muted inflows and little organic demand — President Donald Trump's new dollar-pegged stablecoin is off to a sluggish start, with muted inflows and little organic demand, new data shows.
More: CryptoSlate
| Bloomberg: |
Meta agrees to buy power from Constellation Energy's Illinois nuclear plant, signing a 20-year deal that starts in mid-2027 when a 10-year state subsidy expires — Constellation Energy Corp. agreed to sell power from an operating Illinois nuclear plant to Meta Platforms Inc. …
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| Miriam Gottfried / Wall Street Journal: |
Thoma Bravo raised $34.4B across three funds, including $24.3B for its main software company buyout fund and $8.1B for its midsize software company-focused fund — Many firms are struggling to return cash to investors and raise money — A reckoning in the private-equity industry is sharpening …
More: PitchBook, Thoma Bravo, The Information, Chicago Business Journal, and Chicago Business. LinkedIn: Daniel French
| Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: |
CrowdStrike reports Q1 revenue up 20% YoY to $1.1B, in line with est., forecasts Q2 revenue below est., approves a $1B share buyback; CRWD drops 6%+ after hours — CrowdStrike (CRWD.O) forecast second-quarter revenue below estimates, signaling soft enterprise spending on cybersecurity products … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google's NotebookLM now lets users share notebooks and AI podcasts publicly; viewers can interact with AI audio overviews, ask questions, and read FAQs — Viewers can't edit the notebook, but they can interact with AI audio overviews, ask questions, and read FAQs.
More: Android Police, The Keyword, ZDNET, Tom's Guide, XDA Developers, 9to5Google, Android Authority, Android Central, and Maginative
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| Théophane Hartmann / Euractiv: |
TikTok has banned the hashtag #SkinnyTok globally, saying it is “linked to unhealthy weight loss content”, following pressure from the French government — The decision raises questions over the European Commission's credibility as a tech enforcer.
More: New York Times, ChannelX, Tubefilter, Politico, and Public Citizen
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Forums: r/technology, r/worldnews, and r/europe
| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
HPE reports Q2 revenue up 6% YoY to $7.63B, vs. $7.46B est., Server revenue up 6% YoY to $4.1B, and says it expects a reduced impact from tariffs this year — Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. reported quarterly revenue that topped estimates and said it expects a reduced impact from tariffs on its business this year.| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
TSMC CEO C.C. Wei says TSMC expects a record profit in 2025 despite geopolitical, tariff, and FX risks, and confirms it is not building a fab in the Middle East — HSINCHU, Taiwan — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. on Tuesday said it expects to log a record profit … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Some researchers say it looks like DeepSeek may have used Google Gemini to help train its R1-0528 reasoning model — Last week, Chinese lab DeepSeek released an updated version of its R1 reasoning AI model that performs well on a number of math and coding benchmarks.
More: VICE, WinBuzzer, Reclaim The Net, and Tom's Guide
| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a nonprofit focused on safer AI; LawZero has raised nearly $30M from donors including Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn — Turing Award winner launches LawZero not-profit for safer AI, while warning recent models display dangerous characteristics
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Epic Games launches MetaHuman, its game developer tool to quickly create realistic digital human characters, now embedded as part of Unreal Engine 5.6 — The MetaHuman creator is now built right into Unreal Engine. … Epic Games' hyperrealistic MetaHuman characters are seriously impressive … | Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Researchers detail a technique Meta uses to glean some of its logged-in users' browsing histories from Chromium-based browsers on Android via web identifiers — Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories. — Tracking code that Meta …
More: localmess.github.io, Android Police, DataBreachToday.com, TechRadar, MakeUseOf, Tech Xplore, Android Authority, El País, and Pixel Envy
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
TikTok expands Manage Topics, a feature that lets users customize how often specific topics appear in the For You feed, and adds AI-powered keyword filtering — The ‘Manage Topics’ settings let you control how often you see TikTok videos related to sports, travel, humor, dance, and other categories.
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| Catherine Perloff / The Information: |
How AppLovin, which lets advertisers use IP addresses to track users, began eroding Google's ad market share and pushed Google to loosen its privacy stance — In 2023, Google ad executives noticed something alarming about one aspect of their business. Once-red hot revenue growth … | Blockworks: |
Sources: Pump.fun plans to raise $1B via a token sale at a $4B valuation; Pump.fun has generated over $700M in cumulative revenue since its launch in early 2024 — Pump.fun's own token is coming soon, sources tell Blockworks — Pump.fun plans to raise $1 billion via a token sale …
More: The Block, CoinDesk, and Blockchain.News
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
OpenAI updates its coding agent Codex with internet access, turned off by default, and expands availability to ChatGPT Plus users — This is the Codex “cloud-based software engineering agent”, not the Codex CLI tool or older 2021 Codex LLM. Codex just started rolling out to ChatGPT Plus …
More: Neowin and Maginative
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Adobe launches Photoshop for Android in beta for devices running Android 11 or later with 6GB+ of RAM, offering tools like layers, masks, and Generative Fill — Android users can now download Photoshop for mobile. Adobe announced on Tuesday that it's releasing the beta version …
More: The Adobe Blog, Android Authority, PCMag, iPhone in Canada, WinBuzzer, Thurrott, PetaPixel, PhoneArena, Android Police, and Lifewire. Forums: r/Android
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Xiaomi is among the Chinese companies most affected by new US chip design tool export rules, including its new 3nm mobile chip made by TSMC in Taiwan — Companies may struggle to manufacture silicon in Taiwan with export controls preventing updates to design tools| Politico: |
Pornhub's parent company plans to stop serving adult content in France as soon as June 4, in protest of government measures forcing it to verify visitors' ages — Porn industry giant protests Paris' measures to verify the age of users. — This article is also available in: French| Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: |
Nintendo says it didn't send any Switch 2 review units to outlets as “important features and updates” will only be available via an update on its June 5 launch — NINTENDO'S DECISION NOT TO FACILITATE PRE-LAUNCH SWITCH 2 REVIEWS IS DISAPPOINTING NEWS FOR EVERYONE
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Broadcom begins shipping its Tomahawk 6 data center switch chips, which it says can perform the work of six previous-gen chips, to improve GPU utilization rates — China's Startups Race to Dominate the Coming AI Robot Boom — Elon Musk worries the country will eventually lead in the field of humanoids
More: CRN, Broadcom Inc., SiliconANGLE, Investor's Business Daily, Reuters, and Benzinga
| Sifted: |
TechCrunch has shut down its operations in Europe; one former staffer says new owner Regent thought “international startup coverage wasn't essential” — The flagship media brand has quietly retreated from the region, leaving long-serving staff unemployed
More: BusinessCloud, Silicon Canals, and Talking Biz News
LinkedIn: Conor Tiernan, Martin Coulter, Jules Lavin, and Amy Lewin
| Kate Park / TechCrunch: |
Tel Aviv-based Speedata, which is designing analytics processing units for big data workloads, raised a $44M Series B and aims to showcase its first APU in June — Speedata, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing an analytics processing unit (APU) designed to accelerate big data analytic and AI workloads …
More: SiliconANGLE and CTech
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