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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Meta reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $42.3B, vs. $41.4B est., net income up 35% to $16.6B, family daily active people up 6% to 3.43B on average for March 2025
and why simply isolating Chinese advertising spend was misguided... X: Roman Helmet Guy / @romanhelmetguy : Zuckerberg explaining how Meta is creating personalized AI friends to supplement your real o...
Epic v. Apple: a judge says Phil Schiller wanted Apple to comply with the court order, but Tim Cook ignored him, and its finance VP “outright lied under oath”
Tim Cook ‘Chose Poorly’ Bluesky: Emil Protalinski / @emilprotalinski : A company executive lied under oath? And the US will do nothing? Say it ain't so! [embedded post] Erin Casali / @folletto : Whi...
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.
Apple says it disagrees with the US court's injunction in its legal battle with Epic Games and plans to appeal, but will comply with the order in the meantime
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac :
In an hour-long Q&A with reporters, Elon Musk talked DOGE, including acknowledging its shortcomings, leaving the US government, working with Trump, and more
though not always as much as he'd like — and said he still Shelby Talcott / @shelbytalcott : “DOGE is a way of life, like Buddhism,” Elon Musk said at one point. He's shifting his focus back to his co...
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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.
Microsoft Q3: revenue up 13% YoY to $70.1B, vs. $68.42B est., Microsoft 365 Commercial products and cloud services up 11%, and Q4 revenue forecast above est.
Microsoft Cloud and AI Strength Drives Third Quarter Results — REDMOND, Wash. — April 30, 2025 — Microsoft Corp. today announced …
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.
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.
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 …
Polygon staffers, including co-founder and EIC Chris Plante, say the video games website has laid them off; sources say Vox Media sold Polygon to 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 has been laid off, Kotaku as learned.
On Meta's Q1 call, Mark Zuckerberg says WhatsApp now has 3B+ MAUs, up from 2B in February 2020 and 1.5B in January 2018; Facebook passed 3B MAUs in July 2023
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
Sources: the US is weighing a potential easing of restrictions on Nvidia chip sales to the UAE as Trump plans a visit to the country; NVDA jumps 4%+
Bloomberg :
Microsoft says GitHub Copilot has 15M+ users, up 4x YoY; GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke says its code review agent, launched in April, has handled 8M+ pull requests
Paul Thurrott / Thurrott :
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 @...
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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.
Marc Andreessen says VC may be one of the last fields safe from AI after it replaces most workers, as it requires “intangible” skills like psychological insight
gizmodo.com/marc-andrees... Corey Quinn / @quinnypig.com : “ChatGPT, you were at Netscape in the 90s and won the lottery. Give me advice on how I too can win the lottery of a bygone era.” [embedded ...
Kadrey v. Meta, centered on the use of LibGen to train Llama AI models, kicks off, marking the first big legal test in the ongoing battle over AI and copyright
Tech giant faces lawsuit from US authors over use of material from shadow library LibGen — Meta will fight a group of US authors …
Global smartphone shipments rose 0.2% to 296.9M in Q1 2025; Samsung's units grew 1% to 60.5M for a 20% market share and Apple's grew 13% to 55M for a 19% share
Roblox reports Q1 revenue up 29% YoY to ~$1B, Bookings up 31% YoY to ~$1.21B, above $1.11B est., and DAUs up 26% YoY to 97.8M, above 93.3M est.; RBLX jumps ~4%
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg :
Sources: CVC and Blackstone invest $2B+ in equity and debt to take a minority stake in Istanbul-based Dream Games, which makes Royal Match, valuing it at ~$5B
Financial Times :
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 …
Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-Omni-3B, a scaled-down 3B-parameter variant of its flagship 7B-parameter multimodal model, designed to run on consumer PCs and laptops
Qwen2.5-Omni — Qwen2.5-Omni is an end-to-end multimodal model designed … Asif Razzaq / MarkTechPost : Multimodal AI on Developer GPUs: Alibaba Releases Qwen2.5-Omni-3B with 50% Lower VRAM Usage and ...
AWS launches Nova Premier, which can process text, images, and videos, and costs $2.50 per 1M input tokens and $12.50 per 1M output tokens, available in Bedrock
but how you say it Bluesky: @cyberfuturist : Uh... That's pretty expensive for a model... [embedded post]
Sources: Adani Group pauses talks with Israel's Tower Semiconductor about a $10B chip project in Maharashtra, India, due to uncertainty around potential demand
True Anomaly, which designs hardware and software for military and intelligence space reconnaissance, raised a $260M Series C led by Accel
Sandra Erwin / SpaceNews :
As Trump closes the de minimis exemption on May 2, small online sellers on platforms like Etsy and eBay scramble; DHL and FedEx shipments face ~145% tariffs
Danielle Kaye / New York Times :
Plenful, which makes AI-powered healthcare workflow automation tools, raised a $50M Series B co-led by Arena Holdings and billionaire Mitchell Rales
Shimite Obialo / Forbes :
Uber launches a simpler UI for older adults, offering larger text, easier-to-find saved destinations, and fewer homescreen buttons; Lyft plans a similar update
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg :
Experts say China's hacking breakthroughs have become more secretive since laws began requiring researchers to report vulnerabilities to the government first
Jamie Tarabay / Bloomberg :
AI tools from Google, LinkedIn, Salesforce, and others are helping job seekers sell their skills, tailor their résumés to other fields, and find unnoticed roles
WSJ's Lindsay Ellis is such a smart, thoughtful reporter. … Lindsay Ellis : Artificial-intelligence tools created by companies including Salesforce, Google and LinkedIn are helping workers sell their ...
Gruve.ai, which aims to change the traditional IT consultancy model by using AI agents to improve enterprise margins, raised a $20M Series A led by Mayfield
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch :
Norway's $1.8T oil fund expects to save $400M from its $2B in annual trading costs by using AI to trade more efficiently, and it has already saved nearly $100M
Financial Times :
Document: a US Army report from April ranks Palantir's new $178M mobile battlefield intelligence-gathering vehicle and trailer among its top-performing programs
Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg :
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