Amazon updates its iOS Kindle app to add a prominent orange “Get book” button, enabling purchases via the mobile browser, after the recent Epic v. Apple ruling
Amazon has updated its Kindle iOS app to take advantage of recent changes to Apple's App Store rules.
Microsoft announces new features for Windows 11 and Copilot+ PCs, including an AI agent in Settings and updates to Start menu, Photos, Paint, and Snipping Tool
Copilot+ PCs and Windows 11 are about to get a ton of new features. … While the brand-new Surface hardware headlined today's announcements …
Apple files an appeal with the US Ninth Circuit, challenging last week's ruling to stop it from charging developers fees on purchases made outside the App Store
but it's also being sued over it The Macalope / Macworld : Give up the App Store purchase fight, Apple, it's just not worth it Joe Sparrow / Music Ally : Apple approves Spotify app update - and appeal...
Sources: Microsoft remains the biggest holdout among investors in OpenAI's restructuring, seeking assurance that the changes will protect its $13.75B investment
After months of public pressure, OpenAI walked back part of its effort to create a more conventional for-profit company …
Microsoft unveils the $799+ Surface Pro 12, a fan-less, ARM tablet with a 90Hz display, two USB-C 3.2 ports, and a revamped $150 keyboard, shipping from May 20
Discussion 💬 Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica : Microsoft's 12-inch Surface Pro is cheaper but unfixes a decade-old design problem Tom Warren / The Verge : Microsoft's new Surface devices ditch magnet...
OpenAI backtracks and says its nonprofit will remain in control of its business operations, after a “constructive dialogue” with civic leaders and DE and CA AGs
so it's making a change Aaron McDade / Yahoo Finance : OpenAI Scraps For-Profit Plans New York Times : The Stakes for OpenAI's Plan B The Irish Times : OpenAI ditches plan to convert to for-profit bus...
DoorDash agrees to acquire UK food delivery company Deliveroo for £2.9B in cash; Deliveroo has struggled since its London IPO at a £7.6B valuation in March 2021
Takeover comes after UK company has struggled since going public four years ago — DoorDash has agreed …
TeleMessage parent company Smarsh says it is “investigating a potential security incident” and has suspended all its services “out of an abundance of caution”
The messaging app that President Donald Trump's former national security advisor was seen using during …
Q&A with Tim Sweeney on the recent Epic v. Apple ruling, bringing Fortnite back to iOS via Epic's Swedish developer account, and spending $100M+ on legal fees
- Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney — the guy behind Fortnite — has been fighting Apple over its App Store rules for five years.
Microsoft debuts the $899+ Surface Laptop 13, with a smaller 13" screen, an 8-core Snapdragon X Plus, 16GB of RAM, and 256GB/512GB options, shipping from May 20
The new Surface Laptop 13-inch ditches the Surface Connect port and Windows Hello camera for a smaller footprint.
Google unveils Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview I/O Edition with “significantly” improved capabilities for coding and building interactive web apps, before I/O on May 20
We've seen developers doing amazing things with Gemini 2.5 Pro, so we decided to release an updated version a couple …
Sources: OpenAI reaches an agreement to acquire Windsurf, an AI coding tool formerly known as Codeium, for ~$3B; Windsurf was valued at $1.25B in August 2024
OpenAI has agreed to buy Windsurf, an artificial intelligence-assisted coding tool formerly known as Codeium, for about $3 billion …
The US Treasury Department sanctions the Myanmar-linked Karen National Army over helping organized crime groups operate multibillion-dollar “scam compounds”
The US sanctioned a militia in Myanmar linked to the ruling junta for supporting and profiting from cyber scams …
Elon Musk's attorney says OpenAI's nonprofit reversal is “a transparent dodge that fails to address the core issues” and “the founding mission remains betrayed”
Rachel Metz / Bloomberg :
DoorDash reports Q1 revenue up 21% YoY to $3.03B, below $3.09B est., total orders up 18% YoY to 732M, and a $193M net income, up from a $23M net loss in Q1 2024
Chris Eudaily / CNBC :
DoorDash plans to acquire NYC-based hospitality tech company SevenRooms for $1.2B in cash, set to close in H2 2025; SevenRooms works with 13K+ restaurant groups
Bloomberg :
Analysis: 24 crypto wallets earned $99.6M by buying the $MELANIA memecoin in the two and a half minutes before Melania Trump posted about the coin on January 19
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Samsung updates Samsung Wallet to add a “Tap to Transfer” feature that lets US users quickly exchange money between themselves, rolling out “later this month”
Samsung Wallet is adding a clever new “Tap to Transfer” feature that lets you quickly exchange money between friends …
US data center operators warn President Trump's renewable energy attack could hurt the US in the AI race; data centers are set to add 83.7GW of demand by 2030
Industry needs renewables to meet surging power demand from artificial intelligence — The US data centre industry has warned …
Microsoft shut down Skype on May 5, capping a remarkable 21-year run for software that for many embodied the open internet and had 300M+ users in its heyday
you were right about almost everything WPXI-TV : End of an era: Skype is officially shut down Ronil Thakkar / KnowTechie : It's the end of the road for Skype Hassam Nasir / Tom's Hardware : Microsoft ...
Spotify debuts a “plays” metric for podcasts that shows users and creators how many times people have actively listened to or watched an audio or video episode
YouTube continues to dominate the podcasting space, but Spotify is actively working to close the gap.
DeFi company IntoTheBlock and financial services company Trident Digital announce they are merging to form Sentora and have raised a $25M Series A
- IntoTheBlock and Trident Digital have announced a merger to form a new institutional DeFi platform called Sentora.
US v. Google: the DOJ says in a May 5 filing that Google should sell its AdX business and DFP ad platform; Google says divestiture isn't warranted or feasible
Wall Street Journal :
Munich-based Quantum Systems raised €160M, sources say at a €1B+ valuation, and Lisbon-based Tekever hit a £1B+ valuation, as VCs back European drone startups
Quantum Systems and Tekever each valued at more than €1bn in latest fundraisings, as new investors flock to ‘dual use’ tech companies
Wonder, which runs Grubhub and Blue Apron, raised $600M led by NEA, a source says at a $7B+ valuation, and CEO Marc Lore says it has $2B+ in revenue
Marc Lore's food hall startup is raising $600 million from investors including NEA, Accel and GV. — Wonder, the food hall company …
Filing: Uber acquires an 85% stake in Turkish food delivery platform Trendyol GO for ~$700M cash, set to close in H2 2025; Trendyol GO had 200M+ orders in 2024
Annie Palmer / CNBC :
Palantir reports Q1 revenue up 39% YoY to $884M, below $863M est., US commercial sales up 71% to $255M, and raises 2025 sales guidance to ~$3.9B; PLTR falls 5%+
Our interest in arming the United States of America, in ensuring that its defense … Proactive : Palantir shares drop sharply after results fail to justify lofty valuation Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters : Pa...
Instacart launches Fizz, a Gen-Z focused app for group orders of drinks and party snacks with a flat $5 fee and a rewards program for brands to offer discounts
Natalie Lung / Bloomberg :
Statsig, which offers a cloud tool for companies to streamline A/B testing of apps and websites, raised a $100M Series C led by Iconiq at a $1.1B valuation
We have a new unicorn. — Four years after it was founded by a former Facebook engineering leader, Statsig has raised $100 million …
Nvidia launches open-source transcription model Parakeet-TDT-0.6B-V2, topping the Hugging Face Open ASR Leaderboard with a word error rate of 6.05%
High accuracy and optimized performance for transcription in 25 languages Asif Razzaq / MarkTechPost : NVIDIA Open Sources Parakeet TDT 0.6B: Achieving a New Standard for Automatic Speech Recognition ...
Sources: Databricks is in advanced talks to acquire startup Neon, which makes a serverless open-source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres, for ~$1B
Alex Konrad / Upstarts Media :
Uber and WeRide plan to expand their robotaxi service to 15 more cities over the next five years, including in Europe, after a December 2024 launch in Abu Dhabi
Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch :
Sensor Tower: Shein's ad spend rose 35% MoM in France and the UK in April, while Temu's jumped 40% MoM and 20% MoM, respectively, amid Trump's de minimis ban
Arriana McLymore / Reuters :
Germany- and US-based Parloa, which uses AI to automate customer service and call center operations, raised $120M at a $1B valuation, after raising $66M in 2024
Katie Roof / Bloomberg :
Unblocked, an AI-powered tool that helps devs understand codebases by answering contextual questions, raised a $20M Series A from B Capital and Radical Ventures
Every developer has their own unique style of writing code. Despite companies establishing best practices and drawing up documentation …
Solana Foundation: enough validators were able to quietly patch a 0-day bug last month that could have allowed unlimited “Token-22” minting and account draining
Logan Hitchcock / Decrypt :
Hasan Sukkar, the founder of AI startup 11x, which has raised $70m+ to date, steps down as CEO; CTO Prabhav Jain has been named the new CEO
TechCrunch :
Orca AI, which offers an autonomous shipping navigation service based on a dataset of 80M+ nautical miles, raised a $72.5M Series B, after raising $23M in 2024
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch :
An interview with Ford Chief EV, Digital, and Design Officer Doug Field on canceling the FNV4 vehicle networking project and using a domain-style system instead
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge :
Recraft, whose image model Recraft V3 beat OpenAI's DALL-E and Midjourney on the Artificial Analysis benchmark last year, raised a $30M Series B led by Accel
they empower creativity, enable brand storytelling, and give designers precision and control. …
A look at the challenges for mobile telecom operators in the UK, as Revolut, UK holding company Octopus, and others plan new MVNO offerings
Financial Times :
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