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YouTube livestreams will show fewer ads to users who support creators with Super Chat, Super Sticker, or gift purchases, and disable ads during peak engagement (9to5google.com)
23 minutes ago YouTube

Google expands Personal Intelligence, which lets users connect their Google accounts for tailored Gemini answers, to India, initially for AI Pro and Ultra users (techcrunch.com)
1 hour ago India Google AI Intelligence

Amazon agrees to buy satellite operator Globalstar, set to close in 2027, to expand Leo; Amazon and Apple agree for Leo to power some iPhone and Watch services (www.aboutamazon.com)
3 hours ago Amazon iPhone Apple

Amazon agrees to pay $11.57B to acquire Globalstar, or $90 per share; the deal requires Globalstar to meet certain HIBLEO-4 replacement satellite milestones (www.reuters.com)
3 hours ago Amazon

EV maker Lucid says Uber agreed to buy 35K+ additional Lucid vehicles for its robotaxi fleet and invest $200M, taking its total investments in Lucid to $500M (www.wsj.com)
4 hours ago Uber

Sources: Amazon is in advanced talks to acquire satellite operator Globalstar in a deal that could be announced as soon as Tuesday; GSAT jumps 15%+ pre-market (www.bloomberg.com)
7 hours ago Amazon

Google designates “back button hijacking” as malicious, saying sites interfering with a browser's back button function may be demoted in Search starting in June (9to5google.com)
8 hours ago Google Browser

Microsoft raises prices for Surface PCs, with Laptop 7 and Pro 11 now $500 more expensive than at their 2024 launch, citing higher memory and component costs (www.windowscentral.com)
18 hours ago Microsoft

Save 73% on a refurbished Microsoft Surface Pro 6 today (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
21 hours ago Microsoft

Internal memo: Microsoft's gaming chief Asha Sharma says “Game Pass has become too expensive for players” and that Microsoft needs “a better value equation” (www.theverge.com)
22 hours ago Microsoft

Amazon Leo unveils the Aviation Antenna, saying it can deliver up to 1 Gbps download and 400 Mbps upload speeds for in-flight Wi-Fi (www.pcmag.com)
22 hours ago Amazon

Memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser says Anthropic is “grossing up rev share with Amazon and Google” and overstating its “run rate by roughly $8B” (www.theverge.com)
23 hours ago Google Amazon

Intel added $100B+ in market value after its stock soared 53% in nine sessions following announcements to repurchase an Ireland fab and join the Terafab project (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago Intel Ireland

Microsoft says it is “exploring the potential of technologies like OpenClaw in an enterprise context”, including a team of always-on agents within Microsoft 365 (www.theinformation.com)
1 day ago Microsoft

Internal memo: OpenAI Chief Revenue Officer Denise Dresser says the Microsoft deal “limited our ability” to reach clients on Bedrock and touts its Amazon deal (www.cnbc.com)
1 day ago Amazon Microsoft

Originality AI: 23 major news websites and Reddit block the Internet Archive's crawler; journalists and advocacy groups sign a letter supporting the Archive (www.wired.com)
1 day ago AI Reddit

Amazon quietly expands Amazon Autos to offer cars from Kia, Mazda, Subaru, Chevrolet, and Jeep, after launching with Hyundai; the service is in 130+ US cities (www.wsj.com)
1 day ago Amazon

Flipkart and Amazon's quick commerce push in India is intensifying competition in an already crowded space where profitability remains under pressure (techcrunch.com)
2 days ago India Amazon

Analysts and researchers say Google's TurboQuant compression algorithm to make LLMs more efficient is more likely to expand memory chip demand than reduce it (www.ft.com)
2 days ago Google Algorithm

Amazon Luna Ends Its Support for Purchased Games and Third-Party Subscriptions (games.slashdot.org)
2 days ago Amazon

Google says that Polymarket bets showing up in Google News was an error, and the prediction market's bets on real world events were not supposed to appear there (www.theverge.com)
3 days ago Google

US Demands Reddit Unmask ICE Critic, Summons Firm To Grand Jury (yro.slashdot.org)
3 days ago Reddit

Amazon Luna is dropping support for game purchases and third-party game stores and subscriptions; previously purchased games will be accessible until June 10 (www.pcmag.com)
3 days ago Amazon

Microsoft Begins Removing Copilot Branding From Windows 11 Apps (tech.slashdot.org)
3 days ago Microsoft

Source: federal prosecutors have subpoenaed Reddit to appear before a grand jury, to provide personal data on an anonymous user who criticized ICE (theintercept.com)
3 days ago Reddit

Microsoft unveils plans to streamline the Windows Insider program, offering a simplified channel structure, moving between channels without wiping PCs, and more (www.zdnet.com)
3 days ago Microsoft

Google News Now Prominently Featuring Polymarket Bets (news.slashdot.org)
3 days ago Google

Documents: Amazon is working on “Project Houdini”, which aims to cut the time it takes to construct data centers by preassembling core server rooms into modules (www.businessinsider.com)
4 days ago Amazon

Facebook interfering in Hungarian election – Budapest (www.rt.com)
4 days ago Facebook

YouTube raises Premium prices in the US, with individual plans up $2 to $15.99 per month, family plan up $4 to $26.99, and Premium Lite up $1 to $8.99 (www.theverge.com)
4 days ago YouTube

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