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- Shedeur Sanders and family stunned after falling out of first round in NFL Draft: 'We all didn’t expect this'
- Russian general killed in Moscow-area car bombing, investigators say
- Restaurant tipping etiquette: Should you tip for fast food or takeout?
- Alex Soros trashed as difficult, 'wrong person to lead' megadonor foundation in NY Mag profile
- Why banning 8 food dyes is important in making America healthy again
- Jets coach Aaron Glenn sidesteps Aaron Rodgers drama with interesting response during post-draft presser
- Kelvin Banks Jr's baby spits up after Saints select offensive lineman in NFL Draft
- Black national anthem divides fans before NFL Draft
- Steve Kerr condemns explicit chant toward Draymond Green: 'The guy has kids'
- Sunshine State Dem announces switch to no affiliation: 'Democratic Party in Florida is dead'
- California floats plan to allow homeless students to sleep in their cars amid housing crisis
- 10 cool AirPods features you probably didn't know about
- Sources: Tencent Music is in advanced talks to buy Chinese podcasting startup Ximalaya in a $2.4B deal (Bloomberg)
- Baidu CEO Robin Li says demand for text-based models like DeepSeek's is "shrinking" and claims its model had a higher propensity for "hallucinations" (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
- Toshiba Europe researchers say they used quantum key distribution cryptography to send messages over a 250km German commercial telecommunications network (Michael Peel/Financial Times)
- Brazil's AI-based social security app, launched in 2018, has cut bureaucracy in some cases but wrongly rejected hundreds of vulnerable people over minor errors (Gabriel Daros/Rest of World)
- Three European scientific funding agencies have put research programs with China on hold since 2021 due to concerns over the country's Data Security Law (Andrew Silver/Reuters)
- JD.com's costly bid to challenge Meituan in food delivery, while the latter enters the e-commerce space, has led to a loss of ~$70B in combined market value (Charlotte Yang/Bloomberg)
- OpenAI expands deep research usage for Plus, Pro, and Team users with an o4-mini-powered lightweight version, which also rolls out to Free users today (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- Baidu rolls out Ernie 4.5 Turbo and X1 Turbo, new versions of its flagship foundation and reasoning models, as it looks to take on Alibaba's Qwen and DeepSeek (Bloomberg)
- Adobe says Firefly users can now generate images using OpenAI's GPT, Google's Imagen 3 and Veo 2, and Flux 1.1 Pro, in addition to its own Firefly image models (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
- Sources: Apple plans to move assembly of all US-sold iPhones, ~60M/year, to India by the end of 2026, as President Trump's trade war pushes a pivot from China (Financial Times)
- YouTube is testing a new AI Overviews carousel in its search results for queries focused on products and location information, for some US Premium subscribers (Danny Goodwin/Search Engine Land)
- Sources: the US is conducting a criminal antitrust probe into TP-Link's pricing strategies and whether the router maker represents a national security threat (Bloomberg)
- Source: Alphabet's Q1 profit was boosted by $8B in unrealized gains from an investment in SpaceX; Alphabet has been a major SpaceX investor since at least 2015 (Davey Alba/Bloomberg)
- Netflix rolls out subtitles with just spoken dialog, without audio cues or speaker names, and says ~50% of US viewing hours happen with subtitles or captions on (Emma Roth/The Verge)
- Facebook will reduce the reach of accounts sharing spammy content and make them ineligible for monetization, after Zuckerberg promised a return to "OG Facebook" (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)