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YouTube is shifting its creator monetization strategy by acting as a matchmaker between creators and sponsors, as Netflix and TikTok increasingly woo creators (John Koblin/New York Times)

YouTube is shifting its creator monetization strat...

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JD.com reports Q1 revenue up 4.9% YoY to $46.5B, above ~$45.8B est., and adjusted net profit down 42% YoY to $1B, amid a fierce food delivery battle in China (Wall Street Journal)

JD.com reports Q1 revenue up 4.9% YoY to $46.5B, a...

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EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says the EU will take action against "addictive design" on TikTok and Instagram, including "endless scrolling" (Sawdah Bhaimiya/CNBC)

EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says ...

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Sources: Anthropic officials refused a Chinese think tank's request to change its stance and allow Beijing to access Mythos at a meeting in Singapore last month (New York Times)

Sources: Anthropic officials refused a Chinese thi...

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eBay rejects GameStop's $56B takeover offer, saying the unsolicited bid is "neither credible nor attractive", in a letter from eBay Chairman Paul Pressler (Bloomberg)

eBay rejects GameStop's $56B takeover offer, sayin...

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Amp, which aims to buy excess computing capacity from data center operators to sell to startups, universities, and more, raised $1.3B from a16z and others (Cade Metz/New York Times)

Amp, which aims to buy excess computing capacity f...

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Sources: Jensen Huang was not invited to travel with President Trump on his China trip, a potential setback to Nvidia; Huang expressed his willingness to join (Bloomberg)

Sources: Jensen Huang was not invited to travel wi...

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Sources: the Trump administration is quietly debating whether to ban Chinese "cellular modules", as the US FCC pushes measures to reduce Beijing's threats (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)

Sources: the Trump administration is quietly debat...

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Human Rights Watch: at least six EU member states, including Bulgaria and Denmark, have sold surveillance tech to 24+ countries known for violating human rights (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)

Human Rights Watch: at least six EU member states,...

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Source: Microsoft Israel's GM leaves after an internal probe into alleged unethical use of Azure by Israel's MOD; Microsoft France will manage Microsoft Israel (Assaf Gilead/Globes)

Source: Microsoft Israel's GM leaves after an inte...

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A Hollywood writer recounts working as an "AI trainer" for companies like Mercor, as AI gig work becomes the "new waiting tables" for entertainment workers (Ruth Fowler/Wired)

A Hollywood writer recounts working as an "AI trai...

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Instructure reached a deal with hackers who breached its Canvas platform to return stolen data and destroy copies, without disclosing what it gave in exchange (Qasim Nauman/New York Times)

Instructure reached a deal with hackers who breach...

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Sources: some Amazon employees are using in-house OpenClaw-like tool MeshClaw for unnecessary tasks to inflate AI token use after Amazon set weekly AI targets (Financial Times)

Sources: some Amazon employees are using in-house ...

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The US House Oversight Committee launches a probe into potential conflicts in Sam Altman's personal investments; letter: several GOP AGs call for an SEC review (Wall Street Journal)

The US House Oversight Committee launches a probe ...

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AppMagic: Grok downloads fell to ~8.3M in April, from a high of 20M+ in January; Recon Analytics says Grok paid adoption in the US remains nearly flat YoY in Q2 (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)

AppMagic: Grok downloads fell to ~8.3M in April, f...

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Source: new revenue sharing terms cap OpenAI's payments to Microsoft at $38B; they previously could have totaled $135B through 2030 if long-term goals were met (The Information)

Source: new revenue sharing terms cap OpenAI's pay...

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The US Commerce Department removed from its website details about its May 5 agreement with Google, xAI, and Microsoft to test their AI models (Courtney Rozen/Reuters)

The US Commerce Department removed from its websit...

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Q&A with Scott Wu, CEO of Cognition, which hit a $445M revenue run rate in its first 18 months, on his math competition roots, the Devin AI coding agent, more (Jeremy Stern/Colossus)

Q&A with Scott Wu, CEO of Cognition, which hit a $...

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