Wall Street Journal:
Analysis: newly announced US tariffs for goods from China could raise the bill of materials for the iPhone 16 Pro with 256GB of storage from ~$550 to ~$850 — This is what the company pays for components inside its bestselling phone, and how Trump’s China tariffs could raise the bill.
Ben Blanchard / Reuters:
Foxconn reports Q1 revenue up 24.2% YoY to $49.5B, driven by AI demand, but says the impact of evolving global political conditions will need “close monitoring” — Taiwan’s Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker, posted its highest first-quarter revenue ever …
Xinmei Shen / South China Morning Post:
DeepSeek and Tsinghua University researchers detail an approach combining reasoning methods to let LLMs deliver better and faster results to general queries — In collaboration with Tsinghua University, DeepSeek developed a technique combining reasoning methods to guide AI models towards human preferences
Krystal Hu / Reuters:
SandboxAQ, which uses quantum computing to develop AI, raised a $150M Series E extension from Google, Nvidia, and others, taking its total funding to $950M+ — SandboxAQ, a startup drawing on quantum computing techniques to develop quantitative artificial intelligence models for enterprises …
Charles Martin / AppleInsider:
The BBC complains to the UK CMA that Apple and Google’s news aggregators weaken its relationship with the public by downplaying the BBC branding — The British Broadcasting Corporation has complained to a UK antitrust authority that Apple and Google’s news services, such as Apple News …
Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget:
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will share news about a Llama 4 Reasoning model “in the next month” — Meta AI for WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram now has Llama 4. — Meta has released the first two models from its multimodal Llama 4 suite: LLama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils a replica of Quake II generated using its Muse AI model and playable in a browser, as part of the company’s Copilot in Gaming push — Microsoft’s Muse AI model is now available as an AI-generated Quake II tech demo. … Microsoft unveiled its Xbox AI era earlier this year …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Meta updates Meta AI in WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram Direct, and the Meta.AI website with Llama 4 in 40 countries; multimodal features are US-only in English — Meta has released a new collection of AI models, Llama 4, in its Llama family — on a Saturday, no less.
Makena Kelly / Wired:
Sources: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in Washington DC next week to build a “mega API” for accessing all IRS data, with Palantir as a possible partner — DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.
Joseph Bambridge / Politico:
OpenAI and Google reject the UK’s proposal to allow training AI on copyrighted work without permission unless rights holders opt out to “reserve their rights” — The U.K. government’s AI copyright plans can’t seem to please anyone. — LONDON — Leading AI companies OpenAI …
