- Trump crypto soars as president offers dinner to top holders
- Report: Bluesky restricted access to 72 accounts in Turkey at the government's request; the accounts are available on third-party apps using the AT Protocol (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Meta's Oversight Board rules that two posts disparaging trans women aren't hate speech, in the first major test since Meta weakened its policies in January (Naomi Nix/Washington Post)
- Perplexity's iOS app enables support for the company's conversational AI voice assistant, letting users ask the chatbot to write emails, set reminders, and more (Umar Shakir/The Verge)
- Water firms admit sewage monitoring damaging public trust
- Mystery will may reveal Zappos founder’s final wishes
- Interfax: Russia's Central Bank and Finance Ministry plan to launch a crypto exchange for “highly qualified investors” under an experimental legal regime (RT Watson/The Block)
- Trump signs an EO to boost AI education and workforce training, and establishes an AI education task force led by White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios (Stephanie Lai/Bloomberg)
- Lyft plans to dispatch licensed taxis for the first time to US riders who have opted in, beginning in St. Louis on May 5; Uber has long let users hail taxis (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
- Daily doses of peanuts could desensitise adults with the allergy
- SK Hynix reports Q1 revenue up 42% YoY to ~$12.4B, vs. ~$12.1B est, and operating profit up 158% YoY to ~$5.2B, vs. ~$4.6B est., on demand for its HBM chips (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
- Sources: OpenAI aims to debut its next “open” model, which will be “text in, text out” and possibly let developers turn “reasoning” on and off, in early summer (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
- IBM affected by DOGE cuts, downplays impact during Q1 earnings call
- IBM effected by DOGE cuts, downplays impact during Q1 earnings call
- The White House says that fines on Apple and Meta by the EU are a “novel form of economic extortion” that the United States will not tolerate (Reuters)
- Rocket Lab introduces line of customizable solar arrays for satellites
- Air pollution still plagues nearly half of Americans. That does a number on our health
- Tapeworm in fox poop that will slowly destroy your organs is on the rise
- Windsurf slashes prices as competition with Cursor heats up
- Tesla says it has started testing its autonomous ride-hailing service with employees in Austin and the Bay Area, and has completed 15,000 miles of driving (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
- Elle Fanning teams up with a predator in first Predator: Badlands trailer
- Can the legal system catch up with climate science?
- Watch live as China launches Shenzhou 20 astronauts to Tiangong space station on April 24
- Tesla begins ‘FSD Supervised’ ride-hail tests with employees in Austin, Bay Area
- Government censorship comes to Bluesky, but not its third-party apps … yet
- TSMC plans to begin production with its A14 fabrication process in 2028 and an intermediary A16 chip process in late 2026 (Bloomberg)
- Scientists trick the eye into seeing new color 'olo'
- Clinical trials to test vaccine against Alzheimer's-promoting tau protein
- B cells found to be crucial for long-term vaccine protection, new study shows
- New and surprising traction trait in sculpin fish
- Skeletal evidence of Roman gladiator bitten by lion in combat discovered
- By 15 months, infants begin to learn new words for objects, even those they've never seen
- Hotter temps trigger wetlands to emit more methane as microbes struggle to keep up
- ATP prevents harmful aggregation of proteins associated with Parkinson's and ALS
- New Jersey sues RealPage, accusing the property management software company and 10 of the state's largest landlords of conspiring to drive up residential rents (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
- The antibiotic that takes the bite out of Lyme
- Post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome may be driven by remnants of infection
- Engineering a robot that can jump 10 feet high — without legs
- Researchers identify pathway responsible for calciphylaxis, a rare and serious condition
- FRESH bioprinting brings vascularized tissue one step closer
- Smart bandage clears new hurdle: Monitors chronic wounds in human patients
- New precision mental health care approach for depression addresses unique patient needs
- Nature accounting in Colombia makes sound economic case for protecting native ecosystems
- Metabolic syndrome linked to increased risk of young-onset dementia
- OpenAI seeks to make its upcoming open AI model best-in-class
- Internal documents: several Google units have notified remote workers that their jobs will be in jeopardy if they don't show up at the office three days a week (Jennifer Elias/CNBC)
- NASA Astronaut to Answer Questions from Students in California
- IBM reports Q1 revenue up 0.6% YoY to $14.54B, vs. $14.4B est., software revenue up 7% to $6.34B, and maintains its full-year forecast (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
- FCC Democrat slams chairman for aiding Trump’s “campaign of censorship”
- Here are the 19 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2025
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