What to expect from Apple’s May 7 event: new iPad Pros, possibly with M4 chips, updated iPad Air and Pencil, but AI features may not get a “formal unveiling” (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
What to expect from Apple’s May 7 event: new iPad Pros, possibly with M4 chips, updated iPad Air and Pencil, but AI features may not get a “formal unveiling”  —  Company gears up to update its tablets for the first time since 2022  —  It’s been more than 18 months since Apple Inc …

Sources: Bill Gates remains intimately involved in Microsoft’s operations, advising on strategy, nurturing Microsoft’s relationship with Sam Altman, and more (Ashley Stewart/Business Insider)

Ashley Stewart / Business Insider:
Sources: Bill Gates remains intimately involved in Microsoft’s operations, advising on strategy, nurturing Microsoft’s relationship with Sam Altman, and more  —  Insiders say he’s still pulling the strings at Microsoft  —  In 2017, just before Microsoft forged a partnership …

A committee of UK legislators says the government’s reticence to address alleged copyright theft is a “de facto endorsement” of the way tech firms build LLMs (Lindsay Clark/The Register)

Lindsay Clark / The Register:
A committee of UK legislators says the government’s reticence to address alleged copyright theft is a “de facto endorsement” of the way tech firms build LLMs  —  A committee of UK legislators has slammed the government for its response to alleged copyright theft as a …

Filing: Google pushes back on Epic’s demands following its antitrust win, says the proposed remedies are “unnecessary” and “far beyond the scope” of the verdict (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Filing: Google pushes back on Epic’s demands following its antitrust win, says the proposed remedies are “unnecessary” and “far beyond the scope” of the verdict  —  In a new filing, Google is pushing back against Fortnite maker Epic Games’ numerous proposed remedies …

Estonian ride-hailing and scooter rentals startup Bolt Technology secures a €220M credit facility which it believes will help prepare the company for an IPO (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)

Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Estonian ride-hailing and scooter rentals startup Bolt Technology secures a €220M credit facility which it believes will help prepare the company for an IPO  —  Bolt Technology OU has secured a €220 million ($235 million) credit facility that the Estonian mobility company says will help it prepare for a public offering.

Stock photographers prepare for AI disruption, as stock photo companies say traditional photography still has a market but work on building their own AI tools (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal)

Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal:
Stock photographers prepare for AI disruption, as stock photo companies say traditional photography still has a market but work on building their own AI tools  —  Digital photography ravaged the business of taking and licensing commercial photos.  Some fear AI will kill it off entirely.