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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