Netflix unveils a new homepage design for TVs, its first major update since 2013, featuring fewer titles but more video and animation, rolling out next week
The implications for the industry could be significant, given that most other streaming services have copied Netflix's design.
A US jury awards Meta nearly $168M in damages from Israeli spyware maker NSO Group in connection with the 2019 spyware attack on 1,400+ WhatsApp users' phones
Although NSO Group will likely appeal, the jury's award represents a significant win for privacy advocates and critics of the notorious spyware vendor.
FCC listings show two new Asus ROG Ally 2 handhelds with an Xbox button, AMD chips, 64GB of RAM, larger grips, and two USB-C ports, likely set for Computex 2025
ROG Ally 2 leaks: new design, larger screen and Xbox version — ASUS is about to announce a new generation of gaming handhelds …
Amazon unveils Vulcan, a sorting robot with a sense of touch that will be able to grab ~75% of its warehouse items, rolling out globally in the next few years
Vulcan device ‘capable of grabbing three-quarters of items in warehouses’ fuels fears of mass job losses
How ChatGPT and other AI tools enable systemic cheating in college, unravelling the entire academic project; one student says “the ceiling has been blown off”
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project. — Chungin “Roy” Lee stepped onto Columbia University's campus …
Netflix says it plans to start testing a TikTok-like feed of vertical videos in its mobile app “in the coming weeks” to help users find more content to watch
The streaming service has experimented with vertical video feeds before. … Netflix is going to start testing …
Analysis: the majority of the top 220 holders of President Trump's memecoin likely reside outside the US, ahead of a May 22 dinner; Justin Sun likely holds $18M
The majority of top holders of Donald Trump's memecoin have used foreign exchanges that say they ban US users, suggesting many purchasers are based abroad
US v. Google: Eddy Cue testifies that Apple is “actively looking at” reshaping Safari to focus on AI search and, in a first, Safari searches dropped in April
Apple Inc. is “actively looking at” reshaping the Safari web browser on its devices to focus on AI-powered search engines …
Uber reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $11.5B, Gross Bookings up 14% YoY to $42.8B, below $43.1B est., trips up 18% YoY to 3B, and $1.8B in net income
Uber Technologies Inc. reported weaker-than-expected quarterly gross bookings, citing lower US inbound travel that's led to slower gains in its rideshare business.
Chainalysis: ~2M wallets have bought President Trump's $TRUMP memecoin, of which ~764K have lost money and 58 have made $10M+ each, totaling ~$1.1B in gains
While 764,000 Lost Money: Report Nidhi Kolhapur / Coinpedia Fintech News : Only 58 Wallets Profit From $TRUMP, 762K Others Record Losses Richard Blumenthal : Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations O...
OpenAI unveils OpenAI for Countries, an initiative to help build out AI infrastructure and customize OpenAI's products for specific languages and local needs
OpenAI plans to invest in efforts outside of the US to develop the infrastructure necessary to run artificial intelligence systems …
Analysis: TM SGNL, TeleMessage's modified version of Signal used by senior Trump officials, sends decrypted, plaintext chat logs to TeleMessage's archive server
Despite their misleading marketing, TeleMessage, the company that makes a modified version of Signal used by senior Trump officials …
Leaked audio and memos: at a heated all-hands, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi defended upping required in-office days to three per week, saying “it is what it is”
In response to irate employees, Uber's CEO said “If you're here for a sabbatical and this change causes you to change your mind, it is what it is” Lora Kolodny / @lorak : Uber employees and leaders cl...
In 2024, Apple Watch sales fell 19%, the second consecutive year of decline, mainly driven by a drop in North America; no new Watch SE models weighed on sales
- The lack of a new SE model weighed most on shipment growth. — Fewer upgrades to the latest Watch Series 10, more competition …
Q&A with Amazon Zoox co-founder Jesse Levinson on Zoox's robotaxi design, rider comfort, San Francisco testing, Waymo, developing bespoke vehicles, and more
The autonomous ride service co-founder reflects on the bumpy road for self-driving vehicles and the company's attempt to achieve scale and maintain safety
Amazon's Zoox says it paused all driverless vehicles, updated 270 robotaxis via a software recall, and resumed operations after a crash in Las Vegas on April 8
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Mistral releases Medium 3, which it says focuses on efficiency without compromising performance, for $0.40 per 1M input tokens, and launches Le Chat Enterprise
French AI startup Mistral is releasing a new AI model, Mistral Medium 3, that's focused on efficiency without compromising performance.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says that China's AI market will likely reach ~$50B in the next two to three years, and missing out on it would be a “tremendous loss”
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Tuesday that China's artificial intelligence market will likely reach about $50 billion …
Memo: CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz says the company will cut ~500 jobs, or 5% of its global workforce, and expects to incur $36M to $56M in severance charges
Cybersecurity company will continuing to hire customer-facing and product-engineering roles — CrowdStrike said it will cut about 500 jobs …
New Hampshire becomes the first US state to pass a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve bill, permitting public fund investment in bitcoin, either directly or via an ETF
- New Hampshire has become the first state to pass a “Strategic Bitcoin Reserve” bill, according to Satoshi Action Fund founder Dennis Porter.
The US CFPB says it will stop enforcing a Biden-era rule that treats BNPL firms like credit card lenders; Affirm and other BNPL firms had opposed to the rule
For the third time under President Donald Trump, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has pulled back from enforcing a key rule …
US credit and debit card data: Shein's US sales dropped 23% during the week of April 25 to May 1 compared to the prior seven days, while Temu's sales fell 17%
Shein posted a 23% drop in observed US sales during the week of April 25 to May 1, compared to the prior seven days …
At a Manhattan event, TikTok executives tried to reassure ad clients, saying that “we are absolutely confident” in TikTok and “in the future of this platform”
The company's executives tried to reassure potential advertisers about the app's future …
A look at the energy consumption impact of daily ChatGPT use, as an analysis finds LLM usage is still a rounding error on a person's total electricity footprint
Very small compared to most of the other stuff you do. — A couple of months ago I wrote an article looking at the energy use of artificial intelligence.
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says the company used AI agents to replace the work of 200+ HR employees and, as a result, hired more programmers and salespeople
The tech company promises higher total employment as it reinvests resources toward roles like software development
A look at the hype and reality surrounding AI agents, currently used primarily by companies to boost efficiency and cut costs, rather than drive top-line growth
An in-depth look at the hype and reality around “agentic AI” — the use of AI agents that perform tasks autonomously.
AWS says it will invest $4B to build its first data centers and cloud infrastructure in Chile, set to open in H2 2026, and try to use water just 4% of the year
Amazon's cloud computing division will invest $4 billion to build its first data centers and other cloud infrastructure in Chile …
AWS survey of 3,739 senior IT decision-makers across nine countries: 45% say generative AI is their top spending priority in 2025, 30% security, and 13% compute
Generative AI will surpass cybersecurity in many corporate tech budgets this year — with 45% of global IT leaders naming …
EA reports Q4 net bookings up 8% YoY to $1.8B, above $1.56B est., and forecasts FY 2026 bookings above estimates at $7.6B to $8B; EA jumps 5%+
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AMD reports Q1 revenue up 36% YoY to $7.4B, vs. $7.12B est., Data Center revenue up 57% to $3.7B, vs. $3.66B est., and forecasts Q2 sales above estimates
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Microsoft removes Minecraft's VR and MR support, after announcing its plans to sunset support in October 2024; the Vivecraft mod works on Oculus and Windows MR
Mark Hachman / PCWorld :
Jeff Bezos' and Michael Dell's family offices commit $1B in total to Coatue's newly launched fund for investing in high-growth public and private tech companies
She Had Him at 17, Took Him to Night School, Then Invested Her $245K Savings In Amazon Coatue : Expanding Access to Innovation: Introducing CTEK X: Chamath Palihapitiya / @chamath : This is pretty dis...
Cisco says it built a prototype entanglement source chip that could cut the timeline for practical quantum computing by up to a decade, and opens a quantum lab
Sam Becker / Fast Company :
Sources: Senate Democrats and Republicans are set for an eleventh-hour meeting to save the bipartisan GENIUS Act on stablecoin regulation before a May 8 vote
and it could take down a crypto deal
Patreon rolls out an updated iOS app that lets users subscribe to a creator's membership plan via the web in addition to Apple's in-app purchases system
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Amsterdam-based neobank Finom raised €92.7M from General Catalyst and says it serves 100K+ SMBs across Germany, France, Spain, the Netherlands, and Italy
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch :
The CFTC moves to drop its appeal of a US federal judge's ruling that had let Kalshi take bets on the outcome of US political elections
The AI arms race between employers and jobseekers isn't going well for anyone, as applicants turn to GenAI to speed up a process that already felt dehumanized
www.ft.com/content/43cd... Colm Murphy / @colmpm : Some interesting parallels in this @sarahoconnorft.ft.com piece on hiring with some of the dilemmas we face in higher education. For example, the ad...
Melbourne-based Blinq, which lets users create custom digital business cards and sync contacts with CRM systems, raised a $25M Series A led by Touring Capital
Today, Blinq powers over 2.5 million …
DoorDash's planned Deliveroo acquisition renews questions about the UK's ability to attract and retain large tech listings in the face of New York's dominance
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A profile of Christian Garrett, co-founder of the Hill and Valley Forum and partner at 137 Ventures, who has become Silicon Valley's diplomat to Washington, DC
Margaux MacColl / The San Francisco Standard : X: @wolfejosh , @cgarrett_15 , @cgarrett_15 , @hkanji , and @seanhenryatl X: Josh Wolfe / @wolfejosh : He @CGarrett_15 is the man. A smart savvy class a...
Tel Aviv-based Sett, which builds AI agents to create and run mobile game marketing content, emerges from stealth and raised $27M, including a $15M Series A
Games drove the creation of GPU processors back in the 1990s, so it's only fitting that artificial intelligence …
Ox Security, which scans for vulnerabilities in both AI- and human-generated code, raised a $60M Series B led by DTCP and says it scans 100M+ lines per day
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
Uber and Chinese company Pony.ai partner to deploy Pony.ai's robotaxis on Uber's platform, starting with a launch in “a key market in the Middle East” in 2025
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch :
Sources: Periodic Labs, which is building a “ChatGPT for material science”, is seeking to raise $100M+ at a $1B+ valuation, just two months after its founding
Natasha Mascarenhas / The Information :
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