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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans a new Passwords app in macOS 15, iOS 18, and iPadOS 18, powered by iCloud Keychain, and will let users import passwords from rival services  —  Apple Inc. will introduce a new homegrown app next week called Passwords, aiming to make it easier for customers to log …
Zac Bowden / Windows Central:
After Microsoft eroded Windows users' trust with bad practices for years, Recall is a PR disaster, as users remain skeptical despite the company's assurances  —  The world is up-in-arms over Windows Recall, but why?  It stems from Microsoft's seeming lack of care for Windows and its users.
David McCabe / New York Times:
Sources: the US DOJ will take the lead in investigating whether Nvidia has violated antitrust laws; the US FTC will lead the inquiries into OpenAI and Microsoft  —  The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission agreed to divide responsibility for investigating three major players in the artificial intelligence industry.
Wall Street Journal:
Source and documents: the US FTC sent civil subpoenas to Microsoft and Inflection AI seeking information about how and why they negotiated their partnership
Financial Times:
US DOJ Assistant AG for Antitrust Jonathan Kanter says he is examining “monopoly choke points and the competitive landscape” in AI, cloud, data, GPUs, and more
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Adobe faces a backlash over its terms of service that say Adobe may access user content via “automated and manual methods” to improve its services and software  —  Adobe has been one of the leading legacy enterprise software companies to embrace generative AI and make it accessible …
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Cara, an artist-run, anti-AI social platform, grew from 40K to 650K users in the past week, as some Instagram artists leave over plans to train AI on user data  —  ‘Building a product is a bit like making art,’ said founder Jingna Zhang  —  Artists have finally had enough with Meta's predatory AI policies …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google partners with RapidSOS, a platform for emergency first responders, to let users contact 911 via RCS, from December and initially only in Google Messages  —  Google said today it is partnering with RapidSOS, a platform for emergency first responders, to enable users to contact 911 through RCS (Rich Messaging Service).
New York Times:
Sources: as the Ai Pin flopped, with just ~10K orders by early April, Humane started talking to HP about selling itself for $1B+; Humane has raised $240M  —  Days before gadget reviewers weighed in on the Humane Ai Pin, a futuristic wearable device powered by artificial intelligence …
Rachel Graf / Bloomberg:
A US federal court finds Mike Lynch not guilty of criminal charges that he duped HP into buying Autonomy for $11B in 2011; he lost a UK civil trial in 2022  —  - San Francisco acquittal follows Lynch's defeat in civil trial  — He's claimed for years he was scapegoated for merger gone bad
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
The FBI urges LockBit ransomware victims to reach out after getting 7,000+ decryption keys to recover data for free; police seized 2,500+ keys in February 2024  —  The FBI urges past victims of LockBit ransomware attacks to come forward after revealing that it has obtained …
Caitlin Ostroff / Wall Street Journal:
Robinhood plans to acquire crypto exchange Bitstamp for $200M, in a deal expected to close in H1 2025, and says Bitstamp would still operate under its own brand  —  Move comes a month after SEC notice of a potential lawsuit over the brokerage's crypto offerings
Aisha Counts / Bloomberg:
Meta plans WhatsApp features, including an AI-powered assistant for businesses in India and Singapore, and AI tools to create ads in English-speaking markets  —  - Assistant lets businesses chat with customers using AI  — New features will roll out first in India and Singapore
Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Sources: Kraken seeks to raise $100M+ in a pre-IPO round; the crypto exchange's previous attempts to go public were thwarted in part by a dispute with the SEC  —  - Crypto exchange has talked about doing IPO for several years  — Closely held exchange is engaged in a dispute with the SEC
Sander Lutz / Decrypt:NEW
Telegram launches Stars, a new in-app currency for the purchase of digital goods and services in Telegram mini apps; developers can convert Stars into TON  —  Developers of mini apps on Telegram will now be able to sell digital goods and services for Stars, which can be converted into Toncoin.
Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal:
Sources detail how Apple fell behind in the AI race: its AI team failing to collaborate with product teams, a lack of access to computing resources, and more  —  For those who saw them, the demonstrations inside Apple increase earlier this decade of a revamped Siri offered a showcase …
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A profile of ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet, a 51-year-old Frenchman who sources say supports global tech collaboration, as ASML starts to worry about geopolitics  —  ASML makes some of the most advanced chip-making machines.  It must balance Western demands to curb China's access while keeping a foothold in a key market.

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Sander Lutz / Decrypt:
Telegram launches Stars, a new in-app currency for the purchase of digital goods and services in Telegram mini apps; developers can convert Stars into TONFind
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Cheyenne Ligon / CoinDesk:
NY AG sues crypto companies AWS Mining and NovaTechFX for allegedly operating pyramid schemes that targeted Haitian immigrants and bilked investors out of $1B+Find
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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans a new Passwords app in macOS 15, iOS 18, and iPadOS 18, powered by iCloud Keychain, and will let users import passwords from rival servicesFind
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Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Sources: Kraken seeks to raise $100M+ in a pre-IPO round; the crypto exchange's previous attempts to go public were thwarted in part by a dispute with the SECFind
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Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Adobe faces a backlash over its terms of service that say Adobe may access user content via “automated and manual methods” to improve its services and softwareFind
4 hours ago
Rachel Graf / Bloomberg:
A US federal court finds Mike Lynch not guilty of criminal charges that he duped HP into buying Autonomy for $11B in 2011; he lost a UK civil trial in 2022Find
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Aisha Counts / Bloomberg:
Meta plans WhatsApp features, including an AI-powered assistant for businesses in India and Singapore, and AI tools to create ads in English-speaking marketsFind
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David Folkenflik / NPR:
Will Lewis repeatedly offered an exclusive interview about WaPo's future, in exchange for dropping a story on claims he helped cover up UK phone hacking scandal

OPB:
Rachel Smolkin, SVP of global news for CNN Digital, is leaving to become president and CEO of Oregon Public Broadcasting

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
SiriusXM will launch Mediaite's Press Club, a weekly show on events and people in media and politics, on June 8, hosted by Mediaite Editor Aidan McLaughlin

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Jason Schreier / Bloomberg:
How Suicide Squad became the biggest video game flop of 2024 so far, including a tumultuous development and delayed release; WBD took a $200M loss on the game

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Bloomberg:
eBay emails customers to say the service will drop American Express cards as a payment option because of “unacceptably high” transaction fees, from August 17
Wired:
Investigation: 22M+ flight coordinates show how the US' first police drone program, in Chula Vista, California, impacts residents and raises privacy concerns
David Pierce / The Verge:
Carl Pei says smartphones will be the main AI form factor of the future, but the UX needs to be redefined, and Phone (3) will be Nothing's first true AI phone
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