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Jamie Dimon says JPMorgan will now let clients buy bitcoin, adding "We're not going to custody it. We're going to put it in statements for clients." (CNBC)
Eight workers, from a nurse dealing with hospital discharge planning algorithms to a salon owner with AI-generated hairstyles, share how AI changed their work (Marin Cogan/Bloomberg)
An interview with GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke and CPO Mario Rodriguez on the year of SWE agents, Copilot phase two, Project Padawan, programming's future, and more (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)
How rapid advances in AI are helping Harvard's Galileo Project and other UFO research efforts process huge amounts of data in real time from multiple sources (Bloomberg)
A look at EA's attempts to shut down "anti-DEI" mods for The Sims 4, including one that changes LGBT and Black NPCs to straight and white (Alana Yzola/Wired)
What to expect at Google I/O 2025: an updated Gemini Ultra model, updates for Android 16, Project Astra AI assistant, and Project Mariner AI agents, and more (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
The FCC approves Verizon's $9.6B acquisition of Frontier Communications after Verizon agreed to pare back what Brendan Carr called "invidious" DEI practices (Kelcee Griffis/Bloomberg)
Sources: Cohere, which has raised $1B+, was on pace to generate just $70M in revenue annually as of February 2025, after projecting ~$450M in revenue in 2024 (Jon Victor/The Information)
Sources: under the Trump administration, the SEC continues investigating whether Coinbase misstated its user numbers by reporting 100M+ "verified users" in 2021 (New York Times)
Meta releases the Open Molecules 2025 dataset and the Universal Model for Atoms family of models to accelerate the development of new drugs and materials (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
PayPal reportedly launches iPhone NFC payments in Germany, after the EU's DMA forced Apple to open up (Wes Davis/The Verge)
Amazon says the ad tier of Prime Video now reaches 130M+ US customers and it plans AI-powered tools for advertisers on Amazon including contextual ad copy (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
A look at "AI-native" startups, which integrate AI into their workflows and team structures, allowing them to operate with fewer employees and consolidate tasks (Jo Constantz/Bloomberg)
Singapore unveils a blueprint for global collaboration on AI safety, developed in consensus with researchers and experts from the US, China, and other countries (Will Knight/Wired)
Ramp AI index: 32.4% of US businesses had OpenAI subscriptions in April, up from 28% in March; Google AI subscriptions fell from 2.3% in Feb. to 0.1% in April (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
Q&A with Sonos interim CEO Tom Conrad on the disastrous app redesign, the Ace headphones, subscriptions, the canceled video player, Google, and more (Chris Welch/The Verge)
Sources: the US Treasury asked Benchmark whether its Manus AI funding is covered by restrictions on investments in tech destined for "countries of concern" (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)
Epic Games says it has submitted Fortnite to the US App Store for review (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
Meta says it will start testing video ads on Threads with a "small number" of advertisers, and "Reels trending ads", which will be shown next to trending Reels (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Google rolls out AI-powered defenses to help combat scams on Chrome, including the use of Gemini Nano, its on-device LLM, in Enhanced Protection mode on desktop (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)