Category: Consumer Assistance
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Sources: Apple plans to move assembly of all US-sold iPhones, ~60M/year, to India by the end of 2026, as President Trump’s trade war pushes a pivot from China (Financial Times)
Financial Times: Sources: Apple plans to move assembly of all US-sold iPhones, ~60M/year, to India by the end of 2026, as President Trump’s trade war pushes a pivot from China — FT Exclusive: Tech giant plans to shift assembly as soon as next year in response to Donald Trump’s trade war
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Adobe says Firefly users can now generate images using OpenAI’s GPT, Google’s Imagen 3 and Veo 2, and Flux 1.1 Pro, in addition to its own Firefly image models (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
Stephen Nellis / Reuters: Adobe says Firefly users can now generate images using OpenAI’s GPT, Google’s Imagen 3 and Veo 2, and Flux 1.1 Pro, in addition to its own Firefly image models — Adobe (ADBE.O) said on Thursday it is adding image-generation artificial intelligence models from OpenAI and Alphabet’s Google …
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YouTube is testing a new AI Overviews carousel in its search results for queries focused on products and location information, for some US Premium subscribers (Danny Goodwin/Search Engine Land)
Danny Goodwin / Search Engine Land: YouTube is testing a new AI Overviews carousel in its search results for queries focused on products and location information, for some US Premium subscribers — YouTube’s AI Overviews test could reshape how users find videos. Will it boost discovery or cut into views for creators and brands?
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Source: Alphabet’s Q1 profit was boosted by $8B in unrealized gains from an investment in SpaceX; Alphabet has been a major SpaceX investor since at least 2015 (Davey Alba/Bloomberg)
Davey Alba / Bloomberg: Source: Alphabet’s Q1 profit was boosted by $8B in unrealized gains from an investment in SpaceX; Alphabet has been a major SpaceX investor since at least 2015 — That company is Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp., according to a person familiar with the matter.
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Sources: the US is conducting a criminal antitrust probe into TP-Link’s pricing strategies and whether the router maker represents a national security threat (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: Sources: the US is conducting a criminal antitrust probe into TP-Link’s pricing strategies and whether the router maker represents a national security threat — Beyond pricing, a focus of the inquiry is also whether the company’s growing US market share represents a threat to national security …
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Netflix rolls out subtitles with just spoken dialog, without audio cues or speaker names, and says ~50% of US viewing hours happen with subtitles or captions on (Emma Roth/The Verge)
Emma Roth / The Verge: Netflix rolls out subtitles with just spoken dialog, without audio cues or speaker names, and says ~50% of US viewing hours happen with subtitles or captions on — The new option drops sound descriptions and speaker names from subtitles. … Netflix is rolling out a new subtitle option that shows…
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US v. Google: a Yahoo executive estimates that a bid for Chrome would cost tens of billions of dollars, and says Yahoo “would be able to pursue it with Apollo” (Leah Nylen/Bloomberg)
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: US v. Google: a Yahoo executive estimates that a bid for Chrome would cost tens of billions of dollars, and says Yahoo “would be able to pursue it with Apollo” — – Company working to ‘revitalize’ its search engine, properties — Yahoo official testifies at Google’s antitrust remedy trial
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Facebook will reduce the reach of accounts sharing spammy content and make them ineligible for monetization, after Zuckerberg promised a return to “OG Facebook” (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Facebook will reduce the reach of accounts sharing spammy content and make them ineligible for monetization, after Zuckerberg promised a return to “OG Facebook” — Facebook will begin lowering the reach of accounts sharing spammy content and making them ineligible for monetization, Meta announced on Thursday.
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The US Federal Reserve withdraws guidance requiring banks to seek regulatory approval before engaging in crypto-related activities, joining the FDIC and OCC (Pete Schroeder/Reuters)
Pete Schroeder / Reuters: The US Federal Reserve withdraws guidance requiring banks to seek regulatory approval before engaging in crypto-related activities, joining the FDIC and OCC — U.S. banking regulators announced on Thursday they were pulling back several documents that urge banks to show caution when dabbling in cryptocurrency and related activities.
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Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan announces changes, including an engineering refocus, reductions in unnecessary bureaucracy and workforce, and four-day-per-week RTO policy (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
Sean Hollister / The Verge: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan announces changes, including an engineering refocus, reductions in unnecessary bureaucracy and workforce, and four-day-per-week RTO policy — Today is Intel’s Q1 2025 earnings call, and the first we’re truly hearing from new Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan, who took over the company on March 18th.
