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Nicholas Yong / Rest of World: Some Singaporean writers are resisting their government's request to use their works to train a multilingual LLM, citing little clarity on compensation and more  —  Singapore's literary community is pushing back against an official effort to train LLMs using their published works, part of a growing global resistance.

Shahram Mokhtari / iFixit News: Huawei Pura 70 Pro teardown: the 7nm Kirin 9010 is only marginally better than Kirin 9000S, and the majority of the chips are designed and manufactured in China  —  Huawei released the Pura 70 line of smartphones in April 2024 and it's already made a bit of a stir.

Ash Parrish / The Verge: Town hall: Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty discussed wanting small and prestigious games, after closing the studio behind a small, prestigious hit Hi-Fi Rush  —  Today, one day after Microsoft announced that it would shut down four of its games studios, Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios …

Nikkei Asia: SIA and BCG: by 2032, the US will have the capacity to manufacture 28% of chips below 10nm, while China is expected to make only 2% of the most advanced chips  —  U.S. set to triple its semiconductor manufacturing capacity due to CHIPS Act  —  LOS ANGELES — The U.S. is set to more than triple …

James Thomason / VentureBeat: RunPod, which offers a globally distributed GPU cloud platform for developing and deploying AI, raised a $20M seed co-led by Intel Capital and Dell Technologies  —  RunPod's platform attracts over 100,000 developers with focus on iteration speed and ease of use

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: Bumble reports Q1 revenue up 10.2% YoY to $267.8M, vs. $265.5M est., total paying users of ~4M, up from 3.5M a year ago, and expects Q2 revenue below estimates  —  Bumble (BMBL.O) beat Wall Street estimates for first-quarter revenue on Wednesday helped by growth in its paying users …

Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: Sources: Microsoft plans more cuts after closing several game studios, as the massive Activision acquisition has ramped up scrutiny on the Xbox division  —  Xbox is offering voluntary severance agreements to producers, quality assurance testers and other staff at ZeniMax as part of a broader cost-cutting initiative

AJ Vicens / CyberScoop: Boeing confirms that LockBit attempted to extort a $200M ransom in October 2023; the company reportedly didn't pay any ransom after ~43GB of its data was posted  —  That attempt was one of multiple “extremely large” ransom demands made by LockBit over the years, authorities said.

Dallin Grimm / Tom's Hardware: Some Stack Overflow users say their account was suspended after they attempted to alter their posts in protest of its OpenAI partnership to supply data for AI  —  Stack Overflow is overflowing with salt.  —  Stack Overflow, a legendary internet forum for programmers and developers …

Dade Hayes / Deadline: Disney and WBD announce a streaming bundle of Disney+, Hulu, and Max, with ad-supported and ad-free plans, beginning this summer in the US, with pricing to come  —  Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery are breaking ground in streaming with a bundled offering featuring Disney+, Hulu and Max in a single package.

Pratik Jain / Reuters: US hospital operator Ascension reports disruptions to its clinical operations due to a suspected cybersecurity incident and engages Mandiant to help investigate  —  Hospital operator Ascension reported disruptions to its clinical operations on Wednesday due to a suspected cybersecurity incident …

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: A look at potential successors to Tim Cook; sources say Apple's hardware engineering chief John Ternus is the most likely long-term successor  —  John Ternus, the head of hardware engineering, is emerging as a potential successor to the CEO.  —  Tim Cook has transformed Apple Inc. since taking …

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Instacart Q1: revenue up 8% YoY to $820M, vs. $794.5M est., gross transaction value up 11% to $8.32B; CFO Nick Giovanni is retiring, replaced by Emily Reuter  —  - Emily Reuter named CFO after joining Instacart six months ago  — Instacart reports better-than-expected first-quarter results

Jesse Pound / CNBC: Robinhood reports Q1 revenue up 40% YoY to $618M, vs. $549M est., crypto transaction revenue up 232% to $126M, net income of $157M, vs. a net loss of $511M YoY  —  Shares of Robinhood rose in extended trading Wednesday afternoon after the retail brokerage announced stronger-than-expected first-quarter results.

Ashley Capoot / CNBC: Airbnb reports Q1 revenue up 18% YoY to $2.14B, vs. $2.06B est., Nights and Experiences Booked up 9.5%, and Q2 guidance below est.; ABNB drops 8%+ after hours  —  In this photo illustration, the Airbnb logo is displayed on a computer monitor and cell phone on February 13, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.

Associated Press: A look at Campaign Nucleus, an AI company from ex-Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale, who says its AI can generate emails, gauge voter sentiment, and more  —  Donald Trump's former campaign manager looked squarely into the camera and promised his viewers they were about to witness a bold new era in politics.

Olivia Poh / Bloomberg: Amazon announces plans to double its cloud infrastructure investment in Singapore to $9B, to be done over the next four years, to meet the cloud and AI demand  —  - Cloud operator is latest global tech company to target region  — Firms grow in Southeast Asia as they diversify away from China

Joel Khalili / Wired: Q&A with Ethereum co-founder and Consensys CEO Joe Lubin on Consensys' lawsuit against the SEC, implications of SEC classifying ETH as a security, and more  —  Joe Lubin cofounded Ethereum.  Now his company is suing the Securities and Exchange Commission, and he says the future of the internet is at stake.

Blake Brittain / Reuters: A US court rejects Realtek's lawsuit accusing MediaTek of paying a company to file meritless US patent lawsuits to drive Realtek out of the TV chip market  —  Chipmaker MediaTek (2454.TW) has convinced a California federal court to reject a lawsuit accusing it of illegally partnering …

Kyle Alspach / CRN: Google Cloud unveils Google Threat Intelligence, which uses Gemini and combines insights from Mandiant, VirusTotal, and Google to provide faster protection  —  Launched at RSAC 2024, the new Google Threat Intelligence offering provides faster protection against threats by combining insights from Mandiant …

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Apple has been working on its own chip designed to run AI software in data center servers; the project is internally codenamed Project ACDC  —  The company is leaning on its long history of chip development in the effort, code-named Project ACDC  —  Apple has been working …

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: UK-based Wayve, which is developing a self-learning system for autonomous driving, raised a $1.05B Series C led by SoftBank, the UK's largest AI fundraise ever  —  Wayve, a U.K.-born startup developing a self-learning rather than rule-based system for autonomous driving …

Forbes: A look at the trademark dispute over the name AGI House between two rival hacker houses, one in Hillsborough and the other in Twin Peaks in the Bay Area  —  Two rival hacker houses, both claiming the name “AGI House,” have attracted the attention of Silicon Valley's biggest names.

Sky News: Sources: China has hacked a payroll system used by the UK's Ministry of Defence, targeting service personnel; names and bank details have been exposed  —  MPs will be told on Tuesday of a massive data breach involving the Ministry of Defence, targeting service personnel.