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Poste Italiane says it will launch a €10.8B cash-and-share offer to fully acquire Telecom Italia; Poste is already Telecom Italia's largest shareholder (Reuters)
Reuters : Poste Italiane says it will launch a €10.8B cash-and-share offer to fully…
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Tencent launches ClawBot, an OpenClaw-based agent integrated into WeChat, letting its 1B+ MAUs send and receive commands to interact with the AI agent via chat (Reuters)
Reuters : Tencent launches ClawBot, an OpenClaw-based agent integrated into WeChat,…
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AI tools like Claude Code have transformed coders' lives, and AI labs are now eyeing a bigger goal: automating everyone's lives and winning the non-coder market (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
Kate Clark / Wall Street Journal : AI tools like Claude Code have transformed coder…
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Hands-on with Gemini task automation on mobile: it's super impressive despite being very slow and failing at some tasks; it can order food, book Ubers, and more (Allison Johnson/The Verge)
Allison Johnson / The Verge : Hands-on with Gemini task automation on mobile: it…
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How gig apps like Kled AI, Silencio, Neon Mobile, and Luel AI pay users for data that AI companies can use to train models, from phone calls to videos of places (Shubham Agarwal/The Guardian)
Shubham Agarwal / The Guardian : How gig apps like Kled AI, Silencio, Neon Mobile, …
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A look at "tokenmaxxing", a status game where employees at a number of companies compete on leaderboards to show how much AI they're using (Kevin Roose/New York Times)
Kevin Roose / New York Times : A look at “tokenmaxxing”, a status game where employ…
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Social media accounts showing AI-generated women as pro-Trump soldiers, truckers, and cops have gone viral, with thousands appearing to believe they are real (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)
Drew Harwell / Washington Post : Social media accounts showing AI-generated women a…
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Sources: contract electronics manufacturer Zetwerk plans to file for an IPO in India, aiming to raise ~$550M at a ~$4B valuation; it was valued at $3.1B in 2024 (Reuters)
Reuters : Sources: contract electronics manufacturer Zetwerk plans to file for an I…
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Memo: Roblox is planning to take a share of revenue from sponsorships in its games and is overhauling advertising policies beginning May 4 (Cecilia D'Anastasio/Bloomberg)
Cecilia D'Anastasio / Bloomberg : Memo: Roblox is planning to take a share of r…
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Mark Zuckerberg's original metaverse vision is effectively over, after renaming Facebook to Meta and spending ~$80B on the endeavor, as his focus shifts to AI (New York Times)
New York Times : Mark Zuckerberg's original metaverse vision is effectively ove…
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Deezer reports a net income of €9M in 2025, its first profit since its 2007 founding, while revenue fell 1.4% YoY to €534M (Daniel Thomas/Financial Times)
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times : Deezer reports a net income of €9M in 2025, its f…
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At an all-hands, Andy Jassy said he expects AI to help AWS reach $600B in annual sales by 2036, double his prior estimate; AWS had revenue of $128.7B in 2025 (Greg Bensinger/Reuters)
Greg Bensinger / Reuters : At an all-hands, Andy Jassy said he expects AI to help A…
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Arizona sues Kalshi for allegedly operating an illegal gambling business and unlawfully facilitating betting on elections; Kalshi faces a similar suit in Nevada (Anna Washenko/Engadget)
Anna Washenko / Engadget : Arizona sues Kalshi for allegedly operating an illegal g…
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Nvidia unveils DLSS 5, which uses a real-time neural rendering model to add photorealistic lighting to game frames, arriving this fall to RTX 50-series GPUs (Richard Leadbetter/Digital Foundry)
Richard Leadbetter / Digital Foundry : Nvidia unveils DLSS 5, which uses a real-tim…
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A group of Tennessee teenagers sues xAI, alleging its AI tools were used to create nude images of them by editing photos in which they were clothed (Faiz Siddiqui/Washington Post)
Faiz Siddiqui / Washington Post : A group of Tennessee teenagers sues xAI, alleging…
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