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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4a3328d435&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Nvidia and Humain partner to build data centers in Saudi Arabia over the next five years, with the first phase involving 18,000 GB300 Grace Blackwell chips</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a98e937bcb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Trump is lavishing praise on Jensen Huang of NVIDIA and then makes this pointed comment: “Tim Cook isn't here — but you are.”</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=33504f164e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Amazon says it will work with Humain to invest $5B+ in a strategic partnership to help build an “AI Zone” in Saudi Arabia</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=fb5317aa5d&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">AMD and Humain partner to invest up to $10B on AI infrastructure over the next five years, including in data centers stretching from Saudi Arabia to the US</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=5eef5fbfe8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund-backed AI company Humain picked US-based chipmaker Groq for inference; Groq plans to expand its Dammam data center</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=7f2b193815&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Trump's admin mulls a deal to let UAE import 500K of the most advanced AI chips each year until 2027; one-fifth would go to G42, the others to US firms</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f819463241&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google announces its Material 3 Expressive design, which it will roll out to Android and Wear OS, nearly four years after introducing Material You</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f6797da290&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Some big updates at The Android Show (I/O edition) today: a redesign for Android and Wear OS, Gemini coming to your Android ⌚ and 🚗, plus upgraded features to keep you + your devices safe.</a>
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<a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4dec7d51f7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@raywongy:</a>
<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2e8abcc782&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Android 16's Material 3 Expressive is really... funky. But is it gonna be more usable? I think it looks most at home for Wear OS tho. Bubblier, rounder, and the UI looks less like a square design shoved into mostly round smartwatches My write-up on @gizmodo: [image]</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=59f889d7a5&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">I see this, then I see the Material Expressive stuff and think what the hell went wrong in that lab in Cupertino [image]</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=f42ab0705c&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google will add Gemini to Wear OS 6, Android Auto, Google TV, and Android XR later this year</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=6dc8680edb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Google plans to showcase an AI “software development lifecycle agent” for developers and a Pinterest-like feature for consumers at Google I/O on May 20</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=3862d2d220&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google rebrands Find My Device to Find Hub, which recently added a People tab to track contacts, and adds UWB support to the app for more precise tracking</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=28ba9c6587&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google says that over one billion RCS messages are sent each day in the US</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=677cd98a81&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Microsoft says it will lay off 6,000 staff in a bid to cut management layers, including at LinkedIn; Microsoft had 228K staff in June 2024 and cut 10K in 2023</a></span>
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<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=5e8fc3993a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Galaxy S25 Edge hands-on: sturdy, the thin design is a breath of fresh air, and similar specs to the S25, but the 3,900 mAh battery is below the S25's 4,000 mAh</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Abrar Al-Heeti / </span><span class="pub_name">CNET</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=b54bf799ca&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple unveils iOS and macOS accessibility features: App Store Accessibility Nutrition Labels, Magnifier for Mac, Accessibility Reader, Braille Access, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Chance Miller / </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=c98c6ad4c2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Apple has worked with brain-computer interface startup Synchron to explore letting iPhone users control the device using brain signals via a stent-like implant</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Rolfe Winkler / </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=1fd36c92fd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">House Republicans introduced language to the Budget Reconciliation bill that would ban US states from enforcing any AI regulation for 10 years</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Emanuel Maiberg / </span><span class="pub_name">404 Media</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=76b863a799&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">US SEC Chair Paul Atkins says blockchains could enable novel use cases for securities and “policymaking will no longer result from ad hoc enforcement actions”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Christopher Tepedino / </span><span class="pub_name">Cointelegraph</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=6f1a43edb1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Airbnb revamps its app with a Services section featuring personal chefs, trainers, hair stylists, and more; bookings can be made without vacation reservations</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Clare Duffy / </span><span class="pub_name">CNN</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=f2182b62aa&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">A look at Brian Chesky's efforts to turn Airbnb into a storefront for real-world services, after struggling with previous experiments to expand beyond vacations</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Steven Levy / </span><span class="pub_name">Wired</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=4527b442cb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Chime files for a Nasdaq IPO under the symbol CHYM, reporting 8.6M active members at the end of March, up 23% YoY, and average revenue per active member of $251</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<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=1b3c348fe8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Chinese drone company DJI unveils the €2,099 Mavic 4 Pro with a 360° rotating gimbal, and says it won't be available in the US at launch, a first for its drones</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sean Hollister / </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=fc19222ab1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">eToro prices its shares at $52 for its IPO, above its expected range of $46 to $50, raising nearly $310M and valuing the company at about $4.2B</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=71e2538595&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">UK retailer M&S says hackers stole customer data during a cyberattack reported on April 22; UK retailers Harrods and Co-op also reported hacks in recent weeks</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Nina Kienle / </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=8126c84747&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google announces Android 16 security features like expanded fraud detection in Messages, prevention of some actions while on calls, like side loading apps, more</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=46e6f0dd83&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google says Android 16 adds device-level security features for its Advanced Protection Program, including intrusion logging for threat analysis</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Il-Sung Lee / </span><span class="pub_name">Google Online Security Blog</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=10c2ac1861&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">WhatsApp v. NSO Group: NSO kept targeting WhatsApp users even after Meta sued, it spent $59M on R&D in 2024, and its customers pay ~$3M-$30M to use Pegasus</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / </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=80f00bb171&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The US Commerce Department formally rescinds the Biden-era AI Diffusion Rule, which would have limited US AI chip exports and taken effect on May 13</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=06ccd2bab4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The UK House of Lords again rebuffs the government's AI plans by adding an amendment to a bill to require AI firms list copyrighted content used to train models</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">The Guardian</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=90d0703267&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Spotify updates its AI DJ to let Premium subscribers use English voice commands to personalize what music it plays, like taking artist, genre, and mood requests</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=047b6264e8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Intel says it certified Shell's lubricant-based method for cooling AI data center servers more efficiently after a two-year trial, in a bid to use less energy</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mitchell Ferman / </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=025518e9ab&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google says it is testing an “AI Mode” button on the Search homepage with Labs users, replacing the “I'm Feeling Lucky” button</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Jennifer Elias / </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=45c9665fbd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Trump's acting replacements for the Copyright Office are known to be unfriendly to the tech industry and not the kind of people that AI proponents would support</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tina Nguyen / </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=f76abb304a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Audible partners with US publishers to convert print books and e-books into audiobooks narrated by 100+ AI voices across English, Spanish, French, and Italian</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ashley Carman / </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=fcf2008d23&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: TikTok has been working on a new feature that will allow US users to share photos over DMs inside the app and also plans to introduce voice messaging</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<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=4485a12240&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">TikTok launches TikTok AI Alive, which lets users turn static photos into videos in TikTok Stories using Story Camera</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=f632347816&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Unlike most mainstream social networks, Instagram hasn't scrubbed Kanye's pro-Nazi song “Heil Hitler”, with several posts featuring the song garnering 1M+ views</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Matthew Gault / </span><span class="pub_name">404 Media</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=712fac5c77&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">FTC v. Meta: the US case may come down to whether Judge James Boasberg believes blockchain social platform MeWe is a closer competitor to Instagram than TikTok</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Lauren Feiner / </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=bf14ca85fa&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">SoftBank reports Q4 net profit up 124% YoY to ~$3.5B, a surprise profit and above a ~$182M loss est., due to improving valuations of Alibaba, T-Mobile, and more</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">David Keohane / </span><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=c0c06420f1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">JD.com reports Q1 revenue up 16% YoY to ~$41.8B and net income up 53% YoY to ~$1.5B, driven by Chinese government stimulus measures to counter the US' trade war</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=de5491b91e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Elliptic: Colorado-registered Xinbi Guarantee runs a Telegram black market for Chinese crypto scammers that has facilitated $8.4B in transactions since 2022</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Andy Greenberg / </span><span class="pub_name">Wired</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=80339cace7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Robinhood acquires Toronto-based WonderFi, which owns Bitbuy, Coinsquare, and other crypto exchanges, for CA$250M, or CA$0.36 per share, set to close in H2 2025</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Josh Scott / </span><span class="pub_name">BetaKit</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=37b9d2dfa2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Dallas-based Bestow, which offers software and services to life insurance companies, raised a $120M Series D led by Goldman Sachs and Smith Point Capital</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mary Ann Azevedo / </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=df5ccf85dd&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Restaurant tech startup Owner.com, which offers AI website building, marketing, and other tools, raised $120M co-led by Meritech and Headline at a $1B valuation</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Katie Roof / </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=c5e7dedd5f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Glass Imaging, which develops AI-powered software to improve digital image quality, raised a $20M Series A led by Insight Partners</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dean Takahashi / </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=f6f7ddb109&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Dealroom.co: content licensing and data marketplace startups like Pip Labs and ProRata have raised $215M since 2022 to help artists sell content for AI training</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Melissa Heikkilä / </span><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=1d09e4f0af&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Theom, which helps businesses safeguard and track sensitive data, raised a $20M Series A led by Wing VC, after an oversubscribed $16.4M seed in September 2022</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Angus Loten / </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=7cfef3c7ca&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The FCC will investigate EchoStar's compliance with requirements to build a nationwide 5G network and EchoStar's use of spectrum, sought by SpaceX and others</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Drew FitzGerald / </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=b2d554e5f9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: investors in US chipmaker Wolfspeed offered ~$600M to refinance a large convertible bond coming due in 2026, to pre-empt a potential bankruptcy filing</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sujeet Indap / </span><span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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