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- Musk v. Altman: Elon Musk says he was a "fool" for backing OpenAI, accusing Altman and Brockman of manipulating him into donating tens of millions of dollars (Angel Au-Yeung/Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- Sources: Anthropic has begun weighing a new funding round at a $900B+ valuation, after previously resisting investor proposals at an $800B+ valuation (Bloomberg) [1d]
- Meta says Q1 family daily active people fell 20M QoQ to 3.56B, vs. 3.62B est., due to internet disruptions in Iran and WhatsApp access restrictions in Russia (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) [1d]
- Alphabet reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $109.9B, vs. $107.2B est., Google Cloud revenue up 63% to $20B, vs. $18.05B est., net income up 81% to $62.58B (Alphabet) [1d]
- Google says paid subscriptions reached 350M in Q1, up 25M QoQ, driven by YouTube and Google One, while Gemini Enterprise paid MAUs grew 40% QoQ (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [1d]
- eBay reports Q1 revenue up 19% YoY to $3.09B, vs. $3.04B est., net income up 2% to $512M, GMV up 18% to $22.2B, and forecasts Q2 revenue above estimates (Kelly Cloonan/Wall Street Journal) [1d]
- AWS revenue rose 28% YoY in Q1 to $37.6B, vs. $36.64B est., its fastest growth in 15 quarters, as capital expenditures rose to $44.2B, up from $25B in Q1 2025 (Quartz) [1d]
- Qualcomm reports Q2 revenue down 3% YoY to $10.6B and says a top hyperscaler is on track to begin using its chips later this year; QCOM jumps 7%+ after hours (Ian King/Bloomberg) [1d]
- Microsoft reports Q3 Xbox hardware revenue fell 33% YoY and Xbox content and services revenue, which includes Game Pass, dropped 5% YoY (Emma Roth/The Verge) [1d]
- Google has told employees in a memo that it "proudly" works with the US military and will continue to do so, amid opposition from some staff over DOD contracts (Financial Times) [1d]
- Meta reports Reality Labs Q1 revenue of $402M, vs. $488.8M est., and a $4.03B operating loss, vs. $4.82B est.; Reality Labs has $80B+ in losses since late 2020 (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC) [1d]
- Microsoft's Q3 Intelligent Cloud revenue was $34.68B vs. $34.27B est., with Azure and other cloud services surging 40% YoY; Microsoft 365 Copilot has 20M+ seats (Jordan Novet/CNBC) [1d]
- Meta raises its 2026 capital expenditures to between $125B and $145B, far exceeding analysts' estimates, after previously forecasting $115B to $135B (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg) [1d]
- Amazon reports Q1 ad revenue up 24% YoY to $17.24B, vs. $16.87B est., and subscription services revenue up 15% to $13.43B (Annie Palmer/CNBC) [1d]
- Alphabet reports YouTube's Q1 ad revenue rose 10.7% YoY to $9.88B, vs. $9.99B est., and Google's ad revenue reached $77.25B, up from $66.89B in Q1 2025 (Todd Spangler/Variety) [1d]
- Microsoft reports Q3 revenue up 18% YoY to $82.9B, net income up 23% to $31.8B, and says its AI business surpassed an annual revenue run rate of $37B, up 123% (Microsoft) [1d]
- Amazon reports Q1 revenue of $181.5B, up 17% YoY, net income of $30.3B, up 77%, and operating income of $23.9B, up 30% YoY (Amazon) [1d]
- Alphabet reports Q1 revenue up 22% YoY to $109.9B, vs. $107.2B est., Google Cloud revenue up 63% to $20B, vs. $18.05B est., net income up 81% to $62.58B (Jennifer Elias/CNBC) [1d]
- Meta reports Q1 revenue up 33% YoY to $56.31B, net income up 61% to $26.77B, and family DAP up 4% to 3.56B on average for March; META drops 6%+ after hours (Meta) [1d]
- Letters: House Homeland Security Committee and House China Select Committee are probing Airbnb and Cursor maker Anysphere over their use of Chinese AI models (Rachyl Jones/Semafor) [1d]
- Google says the Gemini app can now generate files; supported formats include PDF, Microsoft Word and Excel, Google Docs and Sheets, plain text, and Markdown (Abner Li/9to5Google) [1d]
- Meta quietly rolled out USDC stablecoin payouts on Solana and Polygon for select creators in Colombia and the Philippines (Fortune) [1d]
- Sources: PayPal is separating Venmo into its own standalone unit and is looking to recruit a digital banking executive to run the new Venmo segment (Hugh Son/CNBC) [1d]
- SpaceX's draft IPO filing: from 2023 to 2025, Starlink's individual subscribers rose from 2.3M to 8.9M, revenue grew from $3.9B to $11.4B, and ARPU fell 18% (The Information) [1d]
- Pursuit, which uses AI to scan public data to help companies find and win government contracts, raised a $22M seed led by OpenGov co-founder Mike Rosengarten (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch) [1d]
- OpenLight, which designs custom application-specific photonic chips, raised $50M in a Series A extension, after raising $34M in August 2025 (Charlotte Trueman/DatacenterDynamics) [1d]
- Sources: Apple plans a new Siri camera mode in iOS 27 by moving Visual Intelligence, currently tied to the Camera Control button, into the camera app (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) [1d]
- Motorola unveils its 2026 foldables lineup, including its first book-style model, which costs $1,900; prices for clamshell models have gone up by up to $200 (Chris Welch/Bloomberg) [1d]
- Scout AI, which is building an AI model to operate and command military assets like autonomous ATVs, raised a $100M Series A co-led by Align and Draper (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch) [1d]
- Seven families of victims in the Tumbler Ridge shooting in Canada sue OpenAI, accusing it of failing to warn authorities about the suspect's ChatGPT activity (Clare Duffy/CNN) [1d]
- Aidoc, which provides AI medical imaging software to flag incidental findings on CT scans and X-rays, raised a $150M Series E, taking its total funding to $520M (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios) [1d]
- Uber partners with Expedia to launch a hotel booking integration in its app in the US, and plans to add Expedia's Vrbo brand later in 2026 (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg) [1d]
- SpaceX IPO filing: Elon Musk can only be removed as CEO via a vote by holders of Class B super-voting shares, which he will control post-IPO, a rare provision (Reuters) [1d]
- Crypto payments company MoonPay acquires Israeli crypto security startup Sodot, sources say in a $100M all-stock deal, to launch a unit focused on institutions (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg) [1d]
- Brookfield-backed Compass drops plans to develop 800+ acres in Virginia's 2,100-acre Digital Gateway data center corridor, sources say due to local opposition (Dawn Lim/Bloomberg) [1d]
- Divine, a Vine reboot financed by Jack Dorsey-backed nonprofit and Other Stuff and built by an early Twitter staffer, launches with ~500K restored Vine videos (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) [1d]
- Google celebrates 20 years of Translate with a new AI pronunciation practice tool for Android users in the US and India; Translate gets 1B+ queries per month (Macy Meyer/CNET) [1d]
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- NYT Connections hints and answers for Thursday, April 30 (game #1054) [1d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Thursday, April 30 (game #1557) [1d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Thursday, April 30 (game #788) [1d]
- 'The era of the pilot is over, the era of the agent is here': Google Cloud wants you to unlock the power of your data [1d]
- Prompts now, pollutants later: Report claims data centers are harming the environment to the tune of $25 billion and inducing a debt on the health of current and future generations [1d]
- 'Chaining vulnerabilities is the hallmark of a sophisticated attack': 750,000 websites must be patched as Microsoft's popular open source Dotnetnuke CMS hit by an XSS flaw that allows attackers to hijack admin sessions and take over entire web servers [1d]
- 'The storm is here': Why you and your neighbors may be paying multibillion-dollar bill for AI data centers right now — but that may not last long as more US states join revolt against unjust 'socialist' approach to electricity bills [1d]
- SpaceX's theorized data centers in space face 'significant technical complexity and unproven technologies,' and the 'unpredictable environment of space' means they may not be commercially viable [1d]
- Smart-home brand Dreame showed me a rocket-powered electric car, and then things got weirder from there [1d]
- 'The ocean is really unlimited in terms of how much energy is available': No land, no fuel, no cables — how wave-powered ocean platforms could tackle the power needs of AI data centers [1d]
- I tried Google’s new AI wardrobe feature with Motorola’s Razr — and it turns your photos into a surprisingly useful digital closet full of outfits [1d]
- I've hand-picked the best Lego Botanicals sets for Mother's Day, from spiky succulents to cheerful sunflowers [1d]
- Is this 'the largest breach in football history'? Hackers allegedly breach Cristiano Ronaldo's Saudi team and AFC governing body, leak passports, contracts, and emails online [1d]
- 15 quirky gadgets for your desk — and yes, they’re actually really useful for work [1d]
- This smart fridge scans your food and your fingerprints to give you personalized nutrition advice — but I'm not sure I want judgemental appliances in my kitchen [1d]
- 'This campaign works because it feels ordinary': Experts reveal how hackers use fake DHL messages to lure in victims [1d]
- 'I won’t provide instructions, tactics, or advice that could help someone commit a crime': ChatGPT claims it won't assist would-be felons, despite claims to the contrary from Florida AG [1d]
- GTA 6 desperately needs this one feature to give PC players a boost — and I can't believe I'm saying this, but it should take a gamer-friendly page from Ubisoft's book [1d]
- Does a home theater speaker need to be beautiful? Scottish hi-fi great Fyne Audio is banking on 'reference-level' sound with a high SPL being enough for its new line-up — they more for hiding in the wall than displaying proudly, and that's okay [1d]
- I’ve been using bird feeder cameras for years, and new avian health warnings had me worried for the summer months — but this smart bird bath alternative, along with expert advice, will let me get my garden bird-watching fix responsibly [1d]
- I went hands-on with the Motorola Razr Fold, and it feels like Moto's excellent flip phone formula finally scaled up [1d]
- 'The first releases will begin very, very soon': How to access UFO and alien files anonymously as President Trump hints at 'tremendous interest' in the soon-to-be-released and previously classified US records on extraterrestrial life [1d]
- Letting OpenAI win risks 'losing every charity in America' Elon Musk says in court, as his lawsuit hearing begins [1d]
- How to watch Atletico Madrid vs Arsenal: Free Streams for Champions League 2025/26 Semi-Final 1st leg [1d]
- I tried Motorola’s Razr Ultra 2026, and it makes every other flip phone feel boring by comparison [1d]
- Motorola just dropped 5 new products, including the Samsung Galaxy-rivaling Razr Ultra 2026 series and Razr Fold [1d]
- Experts say this affordable gadget will keep annoying fruit flies away from your dinner table this summer — no chemicals, sprays or smelly candles required [1d]
- MacBook Neo could get an upgrade next year — I just hope Apple's RAM supply chain stays strong until then [1d]
- How to watch Giro d’Italia 2026 free from anywhere with this VPN deal [1d]
- 'The challenge is no longer identifying bots. It’s understanding what the bot, agent, or automation is doing': New report flags 40% of all internet traffic is now bad bots [1d]
- A GTA 6 competitor just launched with customizable cars and a wanted level system — it's even free on PS5 [1d]
- Binge watched Unchosen? Here are 3 similar Netflix shows you should add to your watchlist immediately [1d]
- ChatGPT just announced it can finally pass the simple ‘how many “r”s in strawberry’ test, but users are still tripping it up by switching to ‘cranberry’ [1d]
- I tested the 7 best survey and poll apps to earn money in 2026 [1d]
- Support global journalism and get a free NordVPN subscription — here's how [1d]
- 'VPNs have adapted': How BlancVPN and VPN Liberty are dodging Russia's VPN blocking technology to allow Russians access to Telegram without losing everyday services [1d]
- Why scaling connectivity is imperative to continue meeting demand [1d]
- 'The best of both worlds': This innovative DAC and headphone amp uses a unique processing system that basically converts your Hi-Res Audio to DSD on the fly, to give you ultra-low-distortion music — and it's packed with wired and wireless connectivity [1d]
- 'A perfect marriage of performance and efficiency': There's a massive Apple MacBook Air sale at B&H if you want to grab our laptop of the year for cheap, but the deal ends soon [1d]
- ‘You don’t cook a Thanksgiving turkey in the microwave’: Pentagon confirms Department of Defense will use Google Gemini for ‘classified projects’ – US military to expand AI vendors as ‘overreliance on one vendor is never a good thing’ [1d]
- AWS and OpenAI confirm cloud partnership — a day after ChatGPT maker ended its Microsoft exclusivity [1d]
- Apple removes AdGuard’s TrustTunnel from Russian App Store amid censorship push [1d]
- 'We should be interested in what these people are like and how they behave': these AI slop-pooping robot dogs with the heads of Musk and Bezos by the artist Beeple can be seen in a Berlin museum — and they pose nuanced questions about tech ethics [1d]
- These 'ridiculously good wireless earbuds' are now just £15 at Amazon [1d]
- Shark's SilkiPro Straight made my curly hair shine bright –I just wish it was easier to use [1d]
- Evolving observability architecture for cloud-scale event data [1d]
- How to watch 60 Minutes Australia online from anywhere outside Australia [1d]
- 'Claude can't replace taste or imagination, but it can open up new ways of working': Anthropic signs up Adobe, Blender and more to push Claude into creative work [1d]
- ‘Safer, smarter, and more connected’: Apple’s Vision Pro used in world-first VR-assisted surgery, and it could be the future of medicine [1d]
- What is the release date for Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season 2 episode 10 on Apple TV? [1d]
- Why Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth feels right at home on Nintendo Switch 2 [1d]
- 'The creatives are about to become more powerful than anyone expected': Freepik's relaunch marks a wider industry shift to all-in-one AI-driven content creator software — and lowering the barrier of creativity means beginners have never had it so good [1d]
- Adorama kicks off massive Nikon sale — including record-low prices on the Z6 III and my favorite camera from last year [1d]
- 'An unauthorized actor accessed certain Vimeo user and customer data': Vimeo confirms security incident, blames attack on Anodot breach [1d]
- Dreame’s robot arm obsession produced a next-gen RGB mini-LED TV with speakers that physically change their angle to follow you around your room and provide the best sound wherever you're sitting [1d]
- GTA 6 boss says marketing will begin 'soon', solidifying earlier promise [1d]
- ‘It disappeared right in front of my eyes’: some Google Messages users are fuming after a bug erased some of their most prized chats — here’s what a Google product expert recommends doing [1d]
- I tested the Nikon Z 70-200mm f/2.8 VR S II, and it's flawless — now I’m desperate to upgrade from my trusty DSLR original [1d]
- Yellowstone spinoff Marshals season 2 won't be losing Kayce Dutton as Luke Grimes 'signs new contract' — but Dutton Ranch and wider Western Taylor Sheridan world could also benefit [1d]
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- Gemini Can Now Generate Files Directly in the Chat [1d]
- Apple Reportedly Plans Major Camera AI Overhaul in iOS 27 [1d]
- Motorola Razr Fold vs. Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7: How the Book-Style Phones Compare [1d]
- OpenAI Said to Be Making Phone With AI Agents to Replace Apps [1d]
- FC 26, Wuchang and Nine Sols Are Up for Grabs in May for PS Plus Subscribers [1d]
- New Gemini Feature in GM Cars Could Let Drivers Check Fuel Prices [1d]
- New at Disneyland: Your Face, Recognized at the Gate [1d]
- 0–60 in Under a Second? Dreame's Rocket-Powered EV Sounds Like a Sci-Fi Dream [1d]
- Today's Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for April 30, #1776 [1d]
- Gas Prices Are Spiking Dramatically. A Few Quick Tricks Can Save You Money at the Pump [1d]
- 'Jack Ryan: Ghost War,' 'Spider-Noir' and More New Prime Video Releases We Can't Wait to Watch in May [1d]
- Do It for 'Da Vine': Divine, the AI-Free Video App and Vine Archive, Is Out Now [1d]
- Greece Reportedly Wants to Curb Anonymity on Social Media Platforms [1d]
- Google Is Paying Android Phone Owners $135 Million. Learn Why and Who's Eligible [1d]
- Champions League Soccer: Stream Atletico Madrid vs. Arsenal Live [1d]
- Motorola Razr Fold Hands-On: Watch Out Samsung, This Phone Has an Edge [1d]
- Motorola's Razr Ultra Flip Phone Will Be a Tough Sell Even With Its Wild New Camera [1d]
- Motorola's Razr 2026 Phones Are Still Powerful in Your Pocket, Just Pricier video [1d]
- One AirPod Not Working? Here’s How to Fix It [1d]
- 7 Home-Safety Checks You Should Make Every Morning Before Work [1d]
- Uber Adds Hotel Bookings, Pushing Its Vision of Becoming a Super App [1d]
- Best Garden Hoses: I Tested 7 Hoses Find You the Best This Spring [1d]
- Best Smart Glasses in 2026: Wait for Google [1d]
- Waymo Eyes Portland for Robotaxi Expansion, With Testing Already Underway [1d]
- How to Write a Resume With ChatGPT That AI Detectors Could Never Clock [1d]
- iPad Pro M5 Review: Closer Than Ever to the Future Mac [1d]
- Nothing to Watch on Netflix? These Secret Codes Unlock the Entire Library [1d]
- Trust Me: All Photographers Need These 3 Types of Cameras [1d]
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