• Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

• Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: Alphabet closes above a $2T market cap for the first time, reaching a valuation of $2.15T after rising 10% on April 26, its biggest one-day jump since July 2015

• Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: Investors cheer Microsoft and Alphabet's huge AI spending plans as shares of both firms rallied but not Meta's, which saw its worst trading day in 18 months

• Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: Filing: FTC says Jeff Bezos, Andy Jassy, and other Amazon execs used Signal's disappearing messages to conceal evidence in FTC's antitrust case against Amazon

• Andy Edser / PC Gamer: Microsoft partners with IBM to release the MS-DOS 4.0 source code under the MIT license on GitHub   —  Fond memories of beige machines.  —  Ah, the PC in the spare room.

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• Yuvraj Malik / Reuters: Google plans to invest $2B to set up a data center in Indiana and $1B to expand three Virginia sites, and announces a $75M fund to train Americans on AI skills

• Kate Kelly / New York Times: Congress considers legislation to block DJI drones from running on US communication networks, effectively killing the Chinese company's US commercial business

• Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: A number of Apple users say they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on April 26 and forced to reset their password before logging back in

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• Nikkei Asia: Google opens its second hardware office in New Taipei City, as VP of Engineering Elmer Peng says “Taiwan is Google's largest hardware R&D hub outside of the US”

• Jonathan Ford / Financial Times: A review of Dana Mattioli's The Everything War, which covers Lina Khan's antitrust battle against Amazon and makes a case that no company should be so powerful

• The Baltimore Banner: Baltimore Police arrest a high school teacher for allegedly framing his principal by using AI to create an audio file of the principal making racist comments

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• Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: Sam Altman, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Jensen Huang, and others join a board for advising the DHS on deploying AI safely within US critical infrastructure

• Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: A US appeals court reverses a 2021 ruling that prevented New York from enforcing a law requiring ISPs to offer low-cost broadband plans to low-income consumers

• 1½ hours ago Jonathan Ford / Financial Times: A review of Dana Mattioli's The Everything War, which covers Lina Khan's antitrust battle against Amazon and makes a case that no company should be so powerful

• 1½ hours ago Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: Investors cheer Microsoft and Alphabet's huge AI spending plans as shares of both firms rallied but not Meta's, which saw its worst trading day in 18 months

• 3½ hours ago Yuvraj Malik / Reuters: Google plans to invest $2B to set up a data center in Indiana and $1B to expand three Virginia sites, and announces a $75M fund to train Americans on AI skills

• 4 hours ago Nikkei Asia: Google opens its second hardware office in New Taipei City, as VP of Engineering Elmer Peng says “Taiwan is Google's largest hardware R&D hub outside of the US”

• 4½ hours ago Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: A number of Apple users say they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on April 26 and forced to reset their password before logging back in

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• 7 hours ago Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: A US appeals court reverses a 2021 ruling that prevented New York from enforcing a law requiring ISPs to offer low-cost broadband plans to low-income consumers

• 7 hours ago Andy Edser / PC Gamer: Microsoft partners with IBM to release the MS-DOS 4.0 source code under the MIT license on GitHub   —  Fond memories of beige machines.  —  Ah, the PC in the spare room.

• 8 hours ago Mathieu Dion / Bloomberg: IBM plans to expand its semiconductor packaging and testing plant in Bromont, Quebec, with more than CA$1B in investments over the next five years

• 9 hours ago Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: Filing: FTC says Jeff Bezos, Andy Jassy, and other Amazon execs used Signal's disappearing messages to conceal evidence in FTC's antitrust case against Amazon

• 10 hours ago Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing

• 10 hours ago Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: Alphabet closes above a $2T market cap for the first time, reaching a valuation of $2.15T after rising 10% on April 26, its biggest one-day jump since July 2015

• 11 hours ago Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google is testing “Speaking practice” in Search, which uses a conversational AI bot to let Search Labs users in some countries improve their English skills

• 12 hours ago The Baltimore Banner: Baltimore Police arrest a high school teacher for allegedly framing his principal by using AI to create an audio file of the principal making racist comments

• 13 hours ago Kif Leswing / CNBC: As Intel reports disappointing earnings and guidance, and becomes S&P 500's worst performing stock in 2024, a look at the long history of company's missteps

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• 14 hours ago Kate Kelly / New York Times: Congress considers legislation to block DJI drones from running on US communication networks, effectively killing the Chinese company's US commercial business

• 15 hours ago Joseph Cox / 404 Media: Discord bans Spy Pet-affiliated accounts, which were scraping 12K+ Discord servers to archive and sell user data, and says it is considering legal action

• 15 hours ago Nikkei Asia: Apple's latest supplier list shows the challenges the company is facing in diversifying its supply chain, as its Chinese suppliers grew from 48 to 52 in 2023

• 17 hours ago Wall Street Journal: Sources: China's muted response to TikTok bill reflects the view that TikTok is of less strategic value than Huawei; China prefers TikTok US closure to sale