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Lindsay Ellis / Wall Street Journal: AI tools from Google, LinkedIn, Salesforce, and others are helping job seekers sell their skills, identify new roles, and tailor résumés to different fields  —  New AI tools at Salesforce, Google, LinkedIn and others give users insight on how skills in one field can transfer to different one

Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-Omni-3B, a scaled-down 3B-parameter variant of its flagship 7B-parameter multimodal model, designed to run on consumer PCs and laptops  —  Chinese e-commerce and cloud giant Alibaba isn't taking the pressure off other AI model providers in the U.S. and abroad.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: JetBrains makes Mellum, its 4B-parameter code-generating AI model released last year, openly available on Hugging Face under an Apache 2.0 license  —  JetBrains, the company behind a range of popular app development tools, has released its first “open” AI model for coding.

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: A researcher says Windows RDP lets users log in using passwords that have been revoked or changed; Microsoft says it has no plans to change the behavior  —  From the department of head scratches comes this counterintuitive news: Microsoft says it has no plans to change a remote login protocol …

Reuters: Sources: Adani Group pauses talks with Israel's Tower Semiconductor on a $10B chip project in Maharashtra, India, due to uncertainty over potential demand  —  Indian billionaire Gautam Adani's group has paused discussions with Israel's Tower Semiconductor (TSEM.TA) for a $10 billion chip project …

Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: Google launches Little Language Lessons, three experimental AI tools to help users learn specific phrases in a new language, sound less formal, and more  —  Google on Tuesday is releasing three new AI experiments aimed at helping people learn to speak a new language in a more personalized way.

Financial Times: Kadrey v. Meta, centered on the use of LibGen to train Llama AI models, begins Thursday and marks the first big test in the ongoing battle over AI and copyright  —  Tech giant faces lawsuit from US authors over use of material from shadow library LibGen  —  Meta will fight a group of US authors …

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google is rolling out AI image editing in the Gemini app, letting users edit uploaded images and those generated by the app using natural language text prompts  —  After developer testing last month, Google is beginning to roll out native AI image editing to the Gemini app.

Julia Love / Bloomberg: Google AdSense begins showing ads in conversations with AI chatbots; sources: Google tested the ads with some startups, including AI search apps iAsk and Liner  —  Google's ad network has begun showing advertising within the flow of conversations with chatbots — part of Alphabet Inc.'s efforts …

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: A study from Cohere, Stanford, and others accuses LMArena of helping Meta, OpenAI, Google, and Amazon game its popular crowdsourced AI benchmark Chatbot Arena  —  A new paper from AI lab Cohere, Stanford, MIT, and Ai2 accuses LM Arena, the organization behind the popular crowdsourced AI …

Alex Heath / The Verge: World's WLD launches in most of the US, including on Coinbase, starting this week, as Tools for Humanity debuts a portable “orb mini” device for iris scanning  —  After scanning millions of eyes around the world, Tools for Humanity is bringing Worldcoin to the United States.

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Apple says it disagrees with the court's injunction in its dispute against Epic Games and plans to appeal, but will comply with the order in the meantime  —  In a statement to 9to5Mac, an Apple spokesperson said the company disagrees with the decision and plans to appeal—but will comply with the court's order in the meantime:

Wall Street Journal: Sources: about a month ago, Tesla board members opened a search for a CEO to succeed Elon Musk; the current status of the succession planning is not clear  —  With profits and stock price sinking, board members told Musk he needed to spend more time at company

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: AWS launches Nova Premier, which can process text, images, and videos, and is priced at $2.50/1M input tokens and $12.50/1M output tokens, available in Bedrock  —  Amazon on Wednesday released what the company claims is the most capable AI model in its Nova family, Nova Premier.

Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: Tim Sweeney says Epic plans to submit Fortnite to the US iOS App Store next week and offers a “peace proposal” to end all litigation over App Store policies  —  Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney has announced that the company will submit Fortnite to the iOS App Store in the U.S. next week.

Axios: IAB: full-time US digital creator jobs grew from 200,000 in 2020 to 1.5M in 2024; the internet-supported economy accounts for 18% of US GDP, up from 2% in 2008  —  The number of people with full-time equivalent jobs as digital creators in the U.S. jumped from 200,000 in 2020 to 1.5 million in 2024, according to a new report.

Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: Beauhurst: UK equity crowdfunding, once one of fintech's hottest trends, fell 58% from its 2021 peak to £335M in 2024, and dropped ~60% YoY in Q1 2025 to £42.6M  —  Once one of fintech's hottest trends, equity crowdfunding gave millions of retail investors a chance to strike gold …

James Hale / Tubefilter: Streams Charts: YouTube was the most-watched livestreaming platform in Q1 2025, with 50% of total watch hours, followed by TikTok with 27% and Twitch with 16%  —  It's been a few years since the Great Ninja Exodus that pitted Twitch, YouTube, Microsoft's now-defunct Mixer …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Online graphic design platform Freepik unveils F Lite, a 10B-parameter “open” AI image model that it says was trained on ~80M licensed, “safe-for-work” images  —  Freepik, the online graphic design platform, unveiled a new “open” AI image model on Tuesday that the company …

Aryaman Gupta / Moneycontrol: Sources: NRAI, India's largest restaurant body, pauses onboarding of members onto ONDC over the platform's operational issues and a lack of strategic commitment  —  NRAI's loss could turn out to be Rapido's gain, as the mobility platform charts plans to launch food delivery.

Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg: TSMC has begun building a third fab in Arizona, announcing the third phase of its US expansion the same day Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick toured TSMC's site  —  The world's most advanced chipmaker announced the third phase of its US expansion the same day Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick …

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: At LlamaCon, Satya Nadella said 20%-30% of code in Microsoft's repositories was written by AI and the company was seeing more progress in Python and less in C++  —  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20%-30% of code inside the company's repositories was “written by software” — meaning AI …

The Cloudflare Blog: In Q1 2025, Cloudflare blocked 20.5M DDoS attacks, a 358% YoY increase, and in Q2 it blocked an attack with, by far, the most intense packet rate on record  —  Welcome to the 21st edition of the Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report.  Published quarterly, this report offers a comprehensive analysis …

Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: An Indian court directs the government to block Proton Mail after a local firm alleged its staff received emails containing obscene content sent via the service  —  A court in India has ordered the blocking of encrypted email provider Proton Mail across the country.

Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: Grab reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $773M, vs. $762.6M est., deliveries revenue up 18% YoY to $415M, and mobility revenue of $282M, as spending remains strong  —  Grab Holdings (GRAB.O) beat Wall Street expectations for first-quarter revenue on Tuesday, as the company benefited …

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple shuffles its global affairs division, including management of teams for Europe, India, and China, and changes Apple Music's leadership structure  —  Apple Inc. is shuffling the management of its global affairs and music divisions in separate moves, extending a series …

Reuters: Samsung reports Q1 revenue up 10% YoY to ~$55.4B, operating profit up 1.2% YoY to ~$4.68B, and chip division operating profit down 42% YoY to ~$770M  —  Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) reported on Wednesday a small rise in first-quarter operating profit as customers concerned about U.S. tariffs rushed …

Jennifer Elias / CNBC: Waymo and Toyota announce a preliminary partnership aiming to develop an autonomous vehicle platform and enhance next-generation personally-owned vehicles  —  Alphabet-owned Waymo and Toyota on Tuesday announced a preliminary partnership to explore bringing robotaxi tech to personally-owned vehicles.

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Appfigures: Google Play hosts 1.8M apps, down from 3.4M at the beginning of 2024, a 47% decline likely due to raised minimum quality requirements  —  Google Play's app marketplace is losing apps.  —  From the start of 2024 to present, the Android app marketplace went from hosting …

Karen Freifeld / Reuters: Sources: Trump officials are considering removing a Biden-era rule that divides the world into tiers that help determine how many AI chips a country can obtain  —  The Trump administration is working on changes to a Biden-era rule that would limit global access to AI chips …

Andrea Jiménez / Washington Post: How AI tools like Autistic Translator and Goblin Tools are helping those with autism and other neurodiverse people understand social situations  —  For people living with autism, experiencing awkward or confusing social interactions can be a common occurrence.

Owen Walker / Financial Times: A look at Interpol's innovation lab in Singapore for studying cybercrime, digital piracy, and more, and developing new techniques for bringing down criminals  —  On the front line of the escalating global arms race between police and criminals  —  A fleet of underwater drones …

Ben Smith / Semafor: A look at the sprawling network of group chats that surged in 2020 as a place for SV leaders to talk candidly, with Marc Andreessen playing a central role  —  THE SCOOP  —  Last Thursday morning, a bit before 10 am in Austin and nearly 11 pm in Singapore, Joe Lonsdale had enough of Balaji Srinivasan's views on China.

Samm Sacks / Bloomberg: Huawei's recovery shows the limits of US policies aimed at restricting China, and how those policies can backfire, spurring Chinese firms to innovate and grow  —  The US banned Huawei.  Now it's a bigger threat than ever.  —  In May 2019, the US Department of Commerce added China's Huawei Technologies Co …

CBS Mornings on YouTube: Geoffrey Hinton fears AI companies are under-investing in safety research, embracing military usage, and sharing model weights while pushing for less regulation  —  Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, often called a “godfather of artificial intelligence,” spoke with Brook Silva-Braga …

Anjli Raval / Financial Times: A profile of Darktrace CEO Jill Popelka, who joined the British cyber security firm in Jan. 2024 and was at the helm when it was bought by Thoma Bravo for £4.3B  —  Jill Popelka has tried to strengthen the cyber company's operations and cast off the shadow of early backer Mike Lynch

Manish Singh / India Dispatch: Analysis: Meesho accounts for about 37% of India's e-commerce orders, but only 8%-9% of the sector's total value due to the small average transaction size  —  A $4.5 sari reveals the ruthless arithmetic behind Meesho's assault on India's e-commerce hierarchy

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: While Apple's iPhone manufacturing in India matches China in quality, making the extraordinarily complex 20th anniversary iPhones outside China remains doubtful  —  Apple has begun breaking up its AI and machine learning organization by moving pieces to other parts of the company.

Wall Street Journal: Architect Partners: crypto firms have struck 88 M&A and SPAC deals worth $8.2B so far in 2025, nearly 3x the $2.75B transaction value across 188 deals in 2024  —  Companies seek to capitalize on lighter regulation, growing mainstream interest  —  President Trump's embrace of digital currencies …

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Huawei has approached some clients about testing the technical feasibility of the Ascend 910D, its newest AI chip that it hopes will beat Nvidia's H100  —  Superpower rivalry over semiconductors heats up despite Washington's attempts to block Beijing

Matt Levine / Bloomberg: A look at the rise of “pure play” bitcoin companies like Twenty One, as the stock market is paying far more for crypto exposure than the crypto market itself is  —  Twenty One, Trumpcoin dinner, KKR empathy, carry on co-investments and quantitative analysis of hockey.  —  Project Mystery

Prachi Verma / The Economic Times: India faces a shortage of agentic AI professionals, with executives estimating fewer than 100K in the country while demand is projected to hit ~200K by 2026  —  India is grappling with a critical shortage of agentic AI professionals as demand surges, driven by the shift towards sophisticated AI agents capable …

Furquan Ameen / Rest of World: Experts say that India is behind China in deep tech innovation due to its historical focus on services, lower R&D investment, and a brain drain of AI talent  —  India's government urges the private sector to take the lead in tech innovation, while industry experts say it's complicated.

Financial Times: Trump's tariffs could slow robot adoption in the US, as demand weakens and supplies of components from China, like magnets and precision bearings, are disrupted  —  Depressed buyers and global supply chains could delay the adoption of futuristic technology  —  Elon Musk, facing disarray …

Ryan Naraine / SecurityWeek: Tel Aviv-based Sentra, whose cloud data security software now includes controls aimed at keeping AI prompts free from restricted data, raised a $50M Series B  —  Sentra has now raised north of $100 million for controls technology to keep sensitive data out of misconfigured AI workflows.

Wall Street Journal: Docs and sources detail the opaque market for shares of Elon Musk's private companies; Valor recently offered investors $1B worth of shares in SpaceX and xAI  —  Lucrative stock deals have allowed SpaceX to avoid public scrutiny even as it has grown into one of the largest companies in the U.S.

Devon Pendleton / Bloomberg: A profile of Saudi billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed, who, along with his investment firm Kingdom Holding, is the second-biggest shareholder in XAI Holdings  —  The flamboyant Saudi billionaire investor is back in the spotlight, emboldened by Donald Trump's return to the White House.

Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: IBM has booked $6B in sales around generative AI and Red Hat's revenue has about doubled since IBM bought it, fueling a ~2x jump in IBM's stock since April 2020  —  ‘Big Blue’ has clawed back into investor favor, but needs to show staying power in AI to cement its comeback

Bloomberg: NetEase has lost at least three senior executives in recent months, as CEO William Ding pulls back on investments and cuts jobs in a bid to boost profits  —  Simon Zhu, NetEase's president for global investments and partnerships, said he was leaving the Chinese video-game company in a social media post on Friday.

Nnaemeka Onyekachi / Nairametrics: A Nigerian tribunal upholds a $220M fine imposed on Meta in July 2024 for discriminatory and exploitative practices against Nigerian consumers  —  Nigeria's Competition and Consumer Protection Tribunal on Friday ordered WhatsApp and Meta Platforms Incorporated to pay a $220 million penalty …