Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Cloud GPU provider CoreWeave opens its European HQ in London and plans two UK data centers this year as part of a £1B investment, after raising $1.1B last week — CoreWeave isn’t hanging around. Hot on the heels of a mega funding round valuing the GPU cloud company at a reported $19 billion …
A federal judge dismisses X’s lawsuit against Bright Data over data scraping; Meta previously filed a suit against Bright Data and was similarly unsuccessful (CNBC)
CNBC:
A federal judge dismisses X’s lawsuit against Bright Data over data scraping; Meta previously filed a suit against Bright Data and was similarly unsuccessful — Tesla CEO Elon Musk — A federal judge in California dismissed a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk’s X against Israel’s Bright Data …
Sources: Apple made generative AI a tent-pole project after Craig Federighi and John Giannandrea spent weeks testing ChatGPT and found Siri to be antiquated (New York Times)
New York Times:
Sources: Apple made generative AI a tent-pole project after Craig Federighi and John Giannandrea spent weeks testing ChatGPT and found Siri to be antiquated — Apple plans to announce that it will bring generative A.I. to iPhones after the company’s most significant reorganization in a decade.
OpenAI announces a live stream at 10AM PT on May 13 to demo “some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates”, which Sam Altman says are “not gpt-5, not a search engine” (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
Ben Schoon / 9to5Google:
OpenAI announces a live stream at 10AM PT on May 13 to demo “some ChatGPT and GPT-4 updates”, which Sam Altman says are “not gpt-5, not a search engine” — Following a report that the company plans to launch a Google Search competitor next week …
Bluesky rolls out an app update that lets users customize their algorithmic feeds through “Show more like this” and “Show less like this” post menu options (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Bluesky rolls out an app update that lets users customize their algorithmic feeds through “Show more like this” and “Show less like this” post menu options — Bluesky is now allowing users to personalize their main Discover feeds. The social network is rolling …
An interview with Claude Zellweger, Google’s director of industrial design, on hardware becoming a critical element for Google, Pixel’s camera bar design, more (Raymond Wong/Inverse)
Raymond Wong / Inverse:
An interview with Claude Zellweger, Google’s director of industrial design, on hardware becoming a critical element for Google, Pixel’s camera bar design, more — Lais Borges/Inverse; Photograph by Raymond Wong — Not too long ago, smartphones had more personality.
A look at the efforts in Japan, South Korea, and Australia to create stronger regulations for big tech platforms like Apple and Google (Financial Times)
Financial Times:
A look at the efforts in Japan, South Korea, and Australia to create stronger regulations for big tech platforms like Apple and Google — Tokyo, Seoul and Canberra follow the EU and US in trying to rein in the dominance of Apple and Google — Japan, South Korea and Australia are tightening rules …
Memo: Spotify’s head of podcast studios Julie McNamara is leaving the company after nearly three years, emphasizing Spotify’s reduced ambitions in podcasts (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
Memo: Spotify’s head of podcast studios Julie McNamara is leaving the company after nearly three years, emphasizing Spotify’s reduced ambitions in podcasts — – Executive internally announced her departure on Thursday — Exit follows layoffs, show cancellations and reorganizations
Binance and KuCoin become the first offshore crypto entities to get India’s approval, after being banned for “operating illegally”; KuCoin paid a $41K fine (Amitoj Singh/CoinDesk)
Amitoj Singh / CoinDesk:
Binance and KuCoin become the first offshore crypto entities to get India’s approval, after being banned for “operating illegally”; KuCoin paid a $41K fine — KuCoin paid a fine of $41,000 and Binance’s financial penalty is still to be determined after a hearing with the FIU.
Google releases a Chrome security update to fix the fifth zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild in 2024; the vulnerability is in the Visuals component (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
Google releases a Chrome security update to fix the fifth zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild in 2024; the vulnerability is in the Visuals component — Google has released a security update for the Chrome browser to fix the fifth zero-day vulnerability exploited in the wild since the start of the year.
