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| Josh Sisco / Bloomberg: |
A US judge rules that Apple violated a 2021 court order to open the App Store to third-party payment options, and refers the case for a criminal investigation — Gonzalez Rogers also referred the case to federal prosecutors to investigate whether Apple committed criminal contempt of court for flouting her 2021 ruling.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Tim Sweeney says Epic plans to submit Fortnite to the US iOS App Store next week and “puts forth a peace proposal” to end all litigation over App Store policies — Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney has announced that the company will submit Fortnite to the iOS App Store in the U.S. next week.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
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| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on LlamaCon, Llama API, Meta's AI opportunity, social networking 2.0, Ray-Bans, Apple, the Meta AI app, tariffs, Reality Labs, and more — An interview with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about Llama and the AI opportunity, the evolution of social medial, and what it means to connect.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft raises the prices of its Xbox Series S and X consoles, Xbox controllers, and some new Xbox games globally; the consoles are priced $80 to $100 more — New first-party Xbox games are moving from $69.99 to $79.99 later this year, but there are no Xbox Game Pass increases.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: about a month ago, Tesla's board opened a search for a CEO to succeed Elon Musk; the succession planning status is unknown, but Tesla denied the report — With profits and stock price sinking, board members told Musk he needed to spend more time at company
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| Alex Isenstadt / Axios: |
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| Kristina Partsinevelos / CNBC: |
Nvidia says Anthropic is telling “tall tales” after the startup argued for tighter export controls by saying China is smuggling chips in “prosthetic baby bumps” — Nvidia blasted Anthropic Thursday in a rare public clash over artificial intelligence policy with U.S. chip export restrictions set to take effect.
More: Anthropic, Forbes, and TipRanks Financial
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Meta updated Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses' privacy policy on April 29 to enable the Hey Meta voice command by default, store voice recordings for a year, and more — The company has removed the option to disable your voice recordings from being stored, among other changes.
More: TechCrunch, The Decoder, PetaPixel, Gizmodo, TechRadar, and MacRumors
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Forums: r/augmentedreality, r/technology, Slashdot, and MacRumors Forums
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft releases three Phi-4 reasoning models on Hugging Face, expanding its Phi “small model” family, which it launched in May 2024 for AI app developers — Microsoft launched several new “open” AI models on Wednesday, the most capable of which is competitive with OpenAI's o3-mini on at least one benchmark.
More: Microsoft Azure, Hugging Face, SiliconANGLE, Windows Central, VentureBeat, arXiv.org, Neowin, AIN, Tom's Guide, The Decoder, WinBuzzer, and MarkTechPost. LinkedIn: Nadeem Mohammad
| Ethan Gach / Kotaku: |
Polygon staffers, including co-founder and EIC Chris Plante, say the video games website has laid them off, after Vox Media sold Polygon to publisher Valnet — One of the biggest gaming sites around was just blown up — The video game website Polygon has been sold to Valnet and much of its staff …
More: The Verge, Business Wire, Axios, and Video Games Chronicle
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Forums: r/TwoBestFriendsPlay, r/TheBesties, r/pcgaming, r/PS5, r/giantbomb, and r/Games
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
A study from Cohere, Stanford, MIT, and Ai2 accuses LMArena of helping Meta, OpenAI, Google, and Amazon game its popular crowdsourced AI benchmark Chatbot Arena — A new paper from AI lab Cohere, Stanford, MIT, and Ai2 accuses LM Arena, the organization behind the popular crowdsourced AI …
More: 404 Media, Simon Willison's Weblog, arXiv.org, and The Decoder
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| Julia Love / Bloomberg: |
Google begins showing AdSense ads in conversations with AI chatbots; sources say Google tested the ads in 2024 with startups, like AI search apps iAsk and Liner — Google's ad network has begun showing advertising within the flow of conversations with chatbots — part of Alphabet Inc.'s efforts …
More: Android Police, Yahoo Finance, TechRadar, Search Engine Roundtable, Tech in Asia, and TechIssuesToday.com. Bluesky: @quinnypig.com
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Little Language Lessons, three experimental AI tools to help users learn phrases in a new language, expressions and slang, and vocabulary tips — Google on Tuesday is releasing three new AI experiments aimed at helping people learn to speak a new language in a more personalized way.
More: Google Labs, The Keyword, Inc, Google Developers Blog, DevX, Tech in Asia, Mashable, Lifehacker, ZDNET, CNET, MakeUseOf, Tom's Guide, PCMag, Android Authority, The Decoder, and WinBuzzer
| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Pinterest rolls out an “AI modified” label globally to indicate AI-generated or AI-edited images, identified via metadata analysis and its own AI classifiers — AI labels are coming to a platform that sorely needed them. … Pinterest is making it easier for users to identify and avoid AI-generated slop on its platform.
More: Pinterest
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google rolls out native AI image editing in the Gemini app, letting users edit uploaded images and those the app generates using natural language text prompts — After developer testing last month, Google is beginning to roll out native AI image editing to the Gemini app.
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Tools for Humanity launches Worldcoin in most of the US, including via crypto exchanges like Coinbase, and debuts a portable “orb mini” device for iris scanning — After scanning millions of eyes around the world, Tools for Humanity is bringing Worldcoin to the United States.
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| The Verge: |
US v. Google: Sundar Pichai said Google expects to strike a Gemini deal with Apple by mid-2025 and Tim Cook told him Apple plans to add more AI models in 2025 — Google CEO Sundar Pichai suggested that the company plans to roll out its Gemini integration by the end of this year.
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Forums: r/apple and r/technews
| Sam Tobin / Reuters: |
London's Court of Appeal rules Apple must pay Optis $502M as a lump sum for using Optis' 4G patents from 2013 to 2027, overturning a 2023 High Court decision — Apple (AAPL.O) must pay a U.S. patent holder $502 million for the use of 4G patents in devices including iPhones and iPads …
More: MacRumors, Engadget, Moneycontrol, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, ip fray, iam-media.com, Patently Apple, MacDailyNews, and Proactive. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| John Pavlus / Quanta Magazine: |
An oral history from 19 current and former natural language processing researchers of the past five years, including how LLMs and ChatGPT disrupted their fields — There was one about using BERT to unredact the Mueller report, which is a terrible idea. It seemed like there was just a never-ending supply …
Bluesky: @markriedl, @coocho, @melaniemitchell, and @quantamagazine. Mastodon: @davidschlangen@scholar.social. X: @johnpavlus
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
JetBrains launches Mellum, its 4B-parameter code-generating “open” AI model trained on 4T+ tokens and released in October 2024, on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0 — JetBrains, the company behind a range of popular app development tools, has released its first “open” AI model for coding.| RT Watson / The Block: |
Tether says its “total exposure” to US Treasurys had neared $120B at the end of March, and reports $1B+ in Q1 operating profit from traditional investments — - Tether said its “total exposure” to U.S. Treasurys had neared $120 billion at the end of March.| Catherine McGrath / Fortune: |
Dub, which lets users trade the same stock as celebrities and politicians like Nancy Pelosi, raised a $30M Series A co-led by Notable Capital and Neo — 23-year-old Steven Wang founded Dub in 2021. — Courtesy of Dub — Dub, an investing platform founded in 2021, is trying to turn politicians …
More: Business Insider
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
A researcher says Windows RDP lets users log in using passwords that have been revoked or changed; Microsoft says it has no plans to change the login protocol — From the department of head scratches comes this counterintuitive news: Microsoft says it has no plans to change a remote login protocol …
More: Forbes, XDA Developers, and WinBuzzer
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| Shimite Obialo / Forbes: |
Plenful, which makes AI-powered healthcare workflow automation tools, raised a $50M Series B co-led by Arena Holdings and billionaire Mitchell Rales — I'm an advisor and attorney experienced in structuring PE & VC deals — Healthcare may be slow to modernize, but AI-powered startups …
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