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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple has renewed discussions with OpenAI about using its technology to power some features in iOS 18; talks with Google on using Gemini remain ongoing -
Eugen Rochko / Mastodon Blog: Mastodon forms a new US non-profit, to receive tax-deductible US donations and in-kind support, with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and others on its board -
Karen Weise / New York Times: Microsoft, Meta, and Alphabet disclosed that they had spent $32B+ combined on data centers and other capital expenses in Q1, as they accelerate AI spending -
Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: Investors cheer Microsoft and Alphabet's huge AI spending plans as shares of both firms rallied but not Meta's, which saw its worst trading day in 18 months -
Washington Post: TikTok users with stigmatized interests or marginalized identities express anxiety over its potential ban, as rebuilding their communities elsewhere may be hard -
Akayla Gardner / Bloomberg: Trump is using the prospect of a TikTok ban to court younger voters, blaming Biden for setting a ban in motion, as the new law rattles pro-Biden TikTok creators -
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: EyeEm, the bankrupt photo sharing network acquired by Freepik last year, will license users' photos to train AI if the images are not deleted within 30 days -
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: A number of Apple users say they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on April 26 and forced to reset their password before logging back in -
Ryan Vlastelica / Bloomberg: Alphabet closes above a $2T market cap for the first time, reaching a valuation of $2.15T after rising 10% on April 26, its biggest one-day jump since July 2015 -
Yuvraj Malik / Reuters: Google plans to invest $2B to set up a data center in Indiana and $1B to expand three Virginia sites, and announces a $75M fund to train Americans on AI skills -
Jonathan Ford / Financial Times: A review of Dana Mattioli's The Everything War, which covers Lina Khan's antitrust battle against Amazon and makes a case that no company should be so powerful -
Andy Edser / PC Gamer: Microsoft partners with IBM to release the MS-DOS 4.0 source code under the MIT license on GitHub — Fond memories of beige machines. — Ah, the PC in the spare room. -
Nikkei Asia: Google opens its second hardware office in New Taipei City, as VP of Engineering Elmer Peng says “Taiwan is Google's largest hardware R&D hub outside of the US” -
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: Filing: FTC says Jeff Bezos, Andy Jassy, and other Amazon execs used Signal's disappearing messages to conceal evidence in FTC's antitrust case against Amazon