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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
Google rolls out AI Mode to all Google Search users in the US, and announces Deep Search, agentic capabilities, chart generation, and more coming to Labs users — Google has begun rolling out AI Mode to every Search user in the US. The company announced the expansion during its I/O 2025 conference.
More: Financial Times, The Keyword, Benzinga, Fast Company, WebProNews, TipRanks Financial, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Gizchina.com, GSMArena.com, The Straits Times, Gizmodo, Washington Post, Search Engine Land, Mashable, Engadget, Wired, The Verge, The Verge, and 9to5Google
Threads: @that.map.guy.craig and @wongmjane
| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Google's I/O keynote was both scary and chill, a fever dream of sizzle reels seeking to reassure that AI is for everyday utility, a coworker, and a superpower — At its annual developer conference, the company seeks to reassure everyone that AI is for everyday utility — but the great disruption to the web continues
More: ZDNET, The Daily Upside, Wired, The Rundown AI, Laptop Mag, Android Headlines, TipRanks Financial, Mashable, and CNET
Bluesky: @caseynewton.mastodon …. X: @deedydas, @poojauniyall, @rowancheung, @diesol, @kevinroose, and @ehuanglu
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
More: The Keyword, MIT Technology Review, Tech Advisor, The Verge, Laptop Mag, Business Standard, Analytics India Magazine, Digit, Android Police, Neowin, and TechRadar
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X: @munster_gene, @maxwinebach, @vijayshekhar, @kimmonismus, @parkerortolani, @googledeepmind, and @googledeepmind. Forums: r/Android
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Epic Games says Fortnite for iPadOS and iOS is back on the US App Store, and on the Epic Games Store and AltStore in the EU; Apple kicked it off in August 2020 — After a nearly five-year hiatus, Fortnite is back on the App Store for iPhone and iPad users in the United States.
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Mastodon: @johnvoorhees@mastodon …. X: @fortnite, @timsweeneyepic, @timsweeneyepic, @donaldmustard, @aaronp613, @timsweeneyepic, @aaronp613, @drbarnard, @openwebadvocacy, @jason_kint, @rjonesy, @matthewstoller, @zollotech, @zaidjilani, @nickeh30, @shiinabr, @mgsiegler, @markgurman, @loudmouthjulia, @hydrakles, and @markgurman. LinkedIn: Adam Smith
Forums: Hacker News, r/apple, r/FORTnITE, r/FortNiteBR, and r/FortNiteBR
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft files an amicus brief supporting Epic Games' App Store fight and blames Apple for delaying the Xbox mobile gaming store, first announced in May 2024 — Microsoft has filed support for Epic Games' fight with Apple, as it wants to launch new Xbox mobile improvements.
More: 9to5Mac, Game Developer, Eurogamer.net, Pure Xbox, Metro.co.uk, XboxEra, and iDownloadBlog.com. X: @tomwarren
| Michael L Hicks / Android Central: |
Google's Android XR Gemini-powered prototype glasses hands-on: they are light and comfortable to wear, and the single display in the right lens works well — Google's Android XR glasses prototype worked surprisingly well in my quick press demo. — I got hands-on time with Google's prototype AR glasses at Google I/O 2025.| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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Threads: @michaelbtech. X: @scobleizer, @heaney555, @markgurman, @parkerortolani, @heaney555, @mikeisaac, @arian_ghashghai, @heaney555, @scobleizer, and @xreal_global. Forums: r/Android
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
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| Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times: |
Jensen Huang calls US AI chip export controls a “failure” that sped up China's efforts, cutting Nvidia's market share in China from 95% to 50% in four years — World's top AI semiconductor maker says export controls have accelerated Chinese rivals' advances
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| Reuters: |
Distributed Denial of Secrets: the TeleMessage hacker stole messages from 60+ US government users covering about one day ending May 4, including travel plans — A hacker who breached the communications service used by former Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz earlier …
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| CNBC: |
Google announces new video and image generation models Veo 3 and Imagen 4, new AI filmmaking tool Flow, and expanded access to music generation model Lyria 2 — Google on Tuesday announced Veo 3, an AI video generator that can also create and incorporate audio.
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| Taryn Plumb / VentureBeat: |
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| Emilia David / VentureBeat: |
| MIT Technology Review: |
Analysis: AI energy consumption is exploding, with data centers doubling electricity use between 2017 and 2023, accounting for 4.4% of all US energy consumption — The emissions from individual AI text, image, and video queries seem small—until you add up what the industry isn't tracking and consider where it's heading next.
More: PV Tech, Financial Times, and Simon Willison's Weblog
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| Kevin Collier / NBC News: |
Matthew Lane, a 19-year-old from Massachusetts, pleads guilty to hacking two US companies and extorting them for ransoms; a source says one firm is PowerSchool — The Massachusetts man agreed to plead guilty to obtaining information from a protected computer and aggravated identity theft.| CoinDesk: |
The US SEC sues Unicoin and its executives, alleging they broke securities laws by raising $100M+ for tokens falsely claimed to be backed by real estate — The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued crypto company Unicoin and three executives on Tuesday night on fraud charges … | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google says weather apps have “graduated from beta” on Android Auto and Cars with Google built-in, and Android Auto will “soon” get browser and video apps — Google has revealed that Android Auto is about to get more apps, including wider access to weather apps …
More: Android Developers Blog, Moneycontrol, TechRadar, SammyGuru, and Android Police
| William Langley / Financial Times: |
Inside China's “stolen iPhone building”: electronics traders in Shenzhen describe how even remotely locked stolen iPhones can be stripped and sold at a profit — We track the roaring trade of mobiles grabbed in London and New York, then sold on a single district in Shenzhen
More: MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and PhoneArena
| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Maine AG filing: Coinbase says its recent data breach impacted 69,461 individuals; stolen data included government IDs, account info, and personal identifiers — Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange with over 100 million customers, revealed that a recent data breach in which cybercriminals stole customer …
More: The Block, Cryptoforensic Investigators, and CyberInsider
| Laura Onita / Financial Times: |
UK retailer M&S says it expects a £300M profit hit from an April cyberattack and disruption to continue until July 2025; M&S' market cap has falled by ~£750M — UK retailer discloses that breach came via supplier and warns online operations will be disrupted until July
More: BBC, The Record, BleepingComputer, The Register, Reuters, Associated Press, Bloomberg, Infosecurity, The Grocer, CNBC, The Independent, ITPro, Fortune, and Insurance Journal
| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Amazon issues refunds for purchases as far back as 2018; CFO Brian Olsavsky said on May 1 that Amazon took a ~$1B charge over “some historical customer returns” — Amazon.com Inc. customers are suddenly getting refunds for products they purchased and returned as far back as 2018 … | Nicole Nguyen / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Meet's AI translator hands-on: emulates voice and tone, translating with a few seconds of lag, similar to watching an overdubbed foreign-language speaker — New AI speech translation in Google Meet video chats can mimic the speaker's voice, tone and emotion.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
After a protest disrupted a Build talk, Microsoft's head of security for AI Neta Haiby accidentally revealed confidential messages about Walmart's AI usage — Internal messages were displayed after two former Microsoft employees disrupted a Build session.
More: PC Gamer
| Keach Hagey / Wired: |
Book excerpt: a profile of AI-obsessed autodidact Eliezer Yudkowsky, who introduced the DeepMind founders to Peter Thiel and inspired DeepMind's Shane Legg — The AI doomer and the AI boomer both created each other's monsters. … Like Sam Altman, Peter Thiel had long been obsessed …
Forums: r/artificial
| Tobias Mann / The Register: |
AMD unveils Zen 5-based Threadripper 9000 CPUs with up to 96 cores, and an RDNA 4-based Radeon AI Pro R9700 workstation GPU, both slated to launch in July 2025 — COMPUTEX AMD aims to extend its lead over Intel in the high-end desktop (HEDT) and workstation arenas with its 9000-series …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Volvo expands its Google partnership to integrate Gemini across its model lineup, the first automaker to do so, hoping to ease a driver's “cognitive load” — Gemini can ease a driver's “cognitive load” so they can keep their eyes on the road, the automaker says.
More: Engadget, T3, Volvo, Android Headlines, and Semafor
| Barbara Moens / Financial Times: |
Google expands its sovereign cloud options in the EU, including a new “data shield” that provides additional cyber security protections to European clients — Tech giant offers additional data security protections in EU as local customers express concern over reliance on US tech| Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
Kalshi withdrew announcements about a collaboration with xAI just hours after CEO Tarek Mansour said the deal would “further take prediction markets mainstream” — Kalshi had announced on Tuesday morning that xAI would provide tailored information to offer guidance for bets made by the site's users.
More: Bloomberg
| CNBC: |
Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana says Waymo has reached 10M paid trips, doubling in the past five months, and that the company is not yet profitable — Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana told CNBC on Tuesday that the Alphabet-owned ride-hailing company has reached 10 million trips, doubling in the past five months.| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
AI startup Crusoe secures $11.6B in debt and equity to expand a Texas data center it is building for OpenAI, set to open in 2026 and host up to 400K Nvidia GPUs — The eight-building Texas project is a central piece of OpenAI's efforts to reduce its reliance on Microsoft for computing power
More: Benzinga, Bloomberg, Reuters, and Wall Street Pit
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