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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8c018dc5fa&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple reports Q2 revenue up 5% YoY to $95.4B, vs. $94.6B est., China sales down 2% YoY to $16B, vs. $16.83B est., and authorizes a $100B share buyback program</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=218a89dbac&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Apple: No tariff impact in March quarter, can't precisely estimate for June quarter (current), but estimates $900 million in cost increases in the period.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b801041044&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">CNBC reports that Tim Cook said half of the iPhones sold in the U.S. were made in India. That's a big surprise—I had expected the figure to be closer to 25%. The spike in India-made iPhones reaching the U.S. appears to be driven by a combination of redirected supply and ramped-up production capacity.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d799797fb9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">This is going to please the Street. Also a good reminder that Apple is shifting production to India for devices coming to the US not the entire production. This means it is about reallocating resources more so than expanding production.</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=34bca9a352&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple Q2: iPhone up 2% YoY to $46.84B, vs. $45.84B est., Mac up 7% to $7.95B, iPad up 15% to $6.4B, and Wearables, Home, and Accessories down 5% to $7.52B</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=366d24feea&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple reports Q2 revenue from Services, which includes the App Store, Apple TV+, and Apple Music, up 12% YoY to $26.65B, a new record but below $26.7B est.</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=699b62eb3b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Tim Cook says Apple estimates tariffs will add $900M in costs for the June quarter, assuming the current tariff policy remains in place</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=30b85f712a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple expects that a majority of iPhones sold in the US in the June quarter will come from India and a majority of its other devices will come from Vietnam</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a837fbea41&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Jassy says US retail hasn't seen demand attenuation or meaningful demand pull forward. Says Chinese sellers sell direct on $AMZN unlike other retailers who buy through 3rd parties & who will face higher hits from tariffs. No major price rises yet. But admits its early.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c2334fa487&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">$AMZN shares bounced (Now down 1.7%) on comment that they're bringing AWS to capacity as fast as possible. As fast as capacity is online, it's being used. More capacity is coming in the next few months. Good news for AWS growth in June and September.</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c6aba7ad52&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Amazon reports Q1 ad revenue up 18% YoY to $13.92B, vs. $13.74B est., and subscription services revenue up 9% YoY to $11.72B</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=75fac739c4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Zac Hall / </span><span class="pub_name">9to5Mac</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0f40c7e319&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Zac Hall / </span><span class="pub_name">9to5Mac</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=93514e04bc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Epic Games says it will take a 0% store fee from developers on their first $1M in revenue per app per year, and plans to let developers open their own webshops</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Zac Hall / </span><span class="pub_name">9to5Mac</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=91dd3fdac6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Spotify says it submitted an iOS app update letting US customers use other payment options beyond Apple's; Patreon earlier said it would do the same</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jay Peters / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=22cc37cd6b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=bda8795faf&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Alex Isenstadt / </span><span class="pub_name">Axios</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0e9a20895d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kristina Partsinevelos / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6145dbdd99&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: the US weighs potentially easing restrictions on Nvidia chip sales to the UAE, as President Trump plans a bilateral deal during a visit to the country</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ae32c8d050&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ben Thompson / </span><span class="pub_name">Stratechery</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0745588995&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Alex Heath / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3203f7258e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google says “a small percentage” of Search users in the US will start seeing an AI Mode chatbot tab “in the coming weeks”; AI Mode uses Google's search index</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jess Weatherbed / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=40efb26423&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Julia Love / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=33257f18a5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ivan Mehta / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=31069dad37&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Chris Welch / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=82baf7e350&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sam Tobin / </span><span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f977304967&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Polygon staff, including co-founder and EIC Chris Plante, say the video games publication has laid them off, after Vox Media sold Polygon to publisher Valnet</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ethan Gach / </span><span class="pub_name">Kotaku</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7c2cd09aab&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kyle Wiggers / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c186e5824d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Paul Thurrott / </span><span class="pub_name">Thurrott</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e7f1a9118e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Carl Franzen / </span><span class="pub_name">VentureBeat</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0c51690d08&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google launches Little Language Lessons, three experimental tools that use Gemini to help users learn vocabulary, phrases, grammar, and slang in a new language</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Aisha Malik / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=88143e2fa8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Maxwell Zeff / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ec4150c006&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Anthropic launches Integrations to connect apps to Claude, and expanded deep research tool Advanced Research, in beta for Claude Max, Team, and Enterprise users</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kyle Wiggers / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f2e5aa1c9c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Abner Li / </span><span class="pub_name">9to5Google</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1c7298d827&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jess Weatherbed / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d74d07f662&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: AWS is developing an AI-assisted coding service that offers features like Cursor and goes further than its current coding assistant, Amazon Q Developer</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kevin McLaughlin / </span><span class="pub_name">The Information</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9dfa082b92&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kyle Wiggers / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1af60bc044&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kyle Wiggers / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c5280890f1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">John Pavlus / </span><span class="pub_name">Quanta Magazine</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4fad76a9dd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=13ecd5a3a6&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Lindsay Ellis / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=766a08349f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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earnings
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0e6437002f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Block reports Q1 revenue down 3% YoY to $5.77B, vs. $6.2B est., gross profit up 9% to $2.3B, below est., issues weak profit guidance; XYZ drops 18%+ after hours</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">MacKenzie Sigalos / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c830da671d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Reddit reports Q1 revenue up 61% YoY to $392M, vs. $370M est., global daily active uniques up 31% to 108.1M, Q2 guidance above est.; RDDT jumps 5%+ after hours</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jonathan Vanian / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=8f293e516a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Instacart reports Q1 revenue up 9% YoY to $897M, gross transaction volume up 10% to $9.1B, forecasts Q2 adjusted EBITDA above est.; CART jumps 4%+ after hours</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Natalie Lung / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=96723161cb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Airbnb reports Q1 revenue up 6% YoY to $2.27B, vs. $2.26B est., Gross Booking Value up 7% to $24.5B, forecasts Q2 revenue below est.; ABNB drops 5%+ after hours</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Samantha Subin / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3ceb0b7544&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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.</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Cecilia D'Anastasio / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e952cdb957&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">RT Watson / </span><span class="pub_name">The Block</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c50de5115d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Roku reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to $1.02B vs. $1.01B est., a net loss of $27.4M, compared to $50.9M a year ago; ROKU drops 5%+ after hours</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Todd Spangler / </span><span class="pub_name">Variety</span>)</span>
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autonomous vehicles
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7a993d2307&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Uber and autonomous vehicle operator May Mobility partner to deploy “thousands” of robotaxis across the US, starting in Arlington, Texas, by the end of 2025</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Andrew J. Hawkins / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f9f7af40c1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Aurora launches its commercial driverless trucking service, making deliveries between Dallas and Houston, and plans to expand to El Paso and Phoenix this year</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Andrew J. Hawkins / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9edac8a5fe&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dan Goodin / </span><span class="pub_name">Ars Technica</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=913b603000&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Experts say China's hacking breakthroughs have become more secretive since laws began requiring researchers to report vulnerabilities to the government first</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jamie Tarabay / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=758b8a72ba&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Data integration company Fivetran acquires Census, which helps companies move data out of databases and into operational tools and was valued at $630M in 2022</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Rebecca Szkutak / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f7d5aa28f4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3feca6a540&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Colorado-based True Anomaly, which designs hardware and software for military and intelligence space reconnaissance, raised a $260M Series C led by Accel</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sandra Erwin / </span><span class="pub_name">SpaceNews</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=eaa1c1d407&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Plenful, which makes AI-powered health care workflow automation tools, raised a $50M Series B co-led by Arena Holdings and billionaire Mitchell Rales</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Shimite Obialo / </span><span class="pub_name">Forbes</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0d40f688be&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Dub, which lets users trade the same stocks as celebrities and politicians, like Nancy Pelosi, raised a $30M Series A co-led by Notable Capital and Neo</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Catherine McGrath / </span><span class="pub_name">Fortune</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=51321de785&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Marina Temkin / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5861d4ae89&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Redis, which makes the Redis value-key database, returns its main system to open-source license AGPL, after criticism in 2024 for moving to a dual-license model</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Lindsay Clark / </span><span class="pub_name">The Register</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f44a6b27ca&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">In a case related to its Activision acquisition, Microsoft dropped a law firm that settled with President Trump in favor of a firm that is fighting a Trump EO</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Noam Scheiber / </span><span class="pub_name">New York Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b527cbc199&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Game developer Scopely says Monopoly Go! crossed $5B in gross bookings in just 24 months, significantly ahead of a previous mobile title's record of 40 months</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=59d16e773a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=252f5852fb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Adani Group pauses talks with Israel's Tower Semiconductor about a $10B chip project in Maharashtra, India, due to uncertainty around potential demand</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Reuters</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2aadc24aca&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Uber launches a simpler UI for older adults, offering larger text, fewer homescreen buttons, and more; Lyft unveils a similar feature called Lyft Silver</a></span>
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