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Surveys: half of US adults under 50 get health info from influencers or podcasts; 86% of the health influencers are on Instagram, 62% on TikTok, 45% on YouTube (Pew Research Center)
Analysis: the combined free cash flow of Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, and Meta is expected to fall to ~$4B in Q3 and hit its lowest full-year level since 2014 (Financial Times)
Filings: Baidu's AI chip unit Kunlunxin is planning a dual IPO on Shanghai's STAR Board and in Hong Kong; Baidu holds a 58% stake in Kunlunxin (Bloomberg)
Fintech app Toss, used by ~66% of South Korea's 51M people, says its FacePay service, available at 330K retail outlets, has attracted 4.8M users since September (Financial Times)
Sources: SK Hynix's big customers have been proposing a range of offers to secure memory chip supplies, including investing in dedicated chip production lines (Reuters)
Instructure disables its Canvas edtech platform, used by thousands of schools and universities, amid a data extortion attack claimed by ShinyHunters (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
Sony reports 1.5M PS5 unit sales in Q4, down 46% YoY, and forecasts annual sales at its gaming business to fall 6% YoY to $1.69B, amid memory chip price surge (Sam Nussey/Reuters)
Sources: Anthropic weighs raising as much as $50B at a ~$900B pre-money valuation, likely closing within two months; its annualized revenue is nearing $45B (Financial Times)
Sources: White House unease over Mythos has left some administration officials fearful that the change represents a reversal of its hands-off AI policy (Wall Street Journal)
OpenAI is rolling out GPT-5.5-Cyber, a security-focused variant of the model, in a limited preview capacity to vetted cybersecurity teams (Sam Sabin/Axios)
A US judge blocks DOGE's termination of $100M in National Endowment for the Humanities grants, saying ChatGPT prompts used to decide the cuts were ill-defined (Zoe Tillman/Bloomberg)
Mozilla says Anthropic's Mythos Preview and other AI models helped it identify and ship 423 Firefox security bug fixes in April, compared to 31 a year earlier (Russell Brandom/TechCrunch)
Sources: AI model builder Core Automation, founded in March by Jerry Tworek, aims to raise $300M-$500M at a $4B valuation after raising $100M at a $1B valuation (The Information)
MercadoLibre reports Q1 revenue up 49% YoY to $8.8B, vs. $8.4B est., and net income down 16% to $417M, vs. $433M est.; MELI drops 5%+ after hours (Bloomberg)
French prosecutors escalate an investigation into Elon Musk and X, focused on alleged algorithmic manipulation and sexual deepfakes, to a criminal probe (Lora Kolodny/CNBC)

Wired

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Google Is Rebranding the Fitbit App to ‘Google Health’
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Elon Musk’s Last-Ditch Effort to Control OpenAI: Recruit Sam Altman to Tesla
A Kid With a Fake Mustache Tricked an Online Age-Verification Tool
Trump’s Team Wants Him to Accept an Iran Deal He’s Already Rejected
Anthropic Gets in Bed With SpaceX as the AI Race Turns Weird
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Engadget

Instructure hackers claim they stole data from nearly 9,000 schools
Sony PS5 sales fall off a cliff amid memory shortages
Twitch has new penalties for streamers caught viewbotting, CEO says
iam8bit recorded a jazzy Persona album for the series' 30th
The Paranormal Activity game project is dead
Bumble will replace swiping right with... something
OpenAI debuts a Codex plugin for Chrome
Meta's AI agent plans reportedly include an OpenClaw competitor that can shop on Instagram
The Lexus TZ is a quieter, upscale take on the Highlander EV
I'm already dreading Apple's camera-equipped AirPods
Perplexity opens up its Personal Computer AI assistant to all Mac users
Amazon Luna's May lineup includes Guardians of the Galaxy and the Resident Evil 2 remake
Valve will open reservations on May 8 for the second wave of Steam Controllers
Cozy city builder Town to City leaves early access on May 26
The Ploopy Bean is a travel-friendly mouse with a ThinkPad-style nub
Teenage Engineering just released a stereo mixer that physically connects to its EP-series samplers
Spotify now lets AI agents like OpenClaw generate personal podcasts
Qualcomm reveals two new affordable phone chips with Smooth Motion UI tech
Angry Birds and FIFA International Soccer join the World Video Game Hall of Fame
Spotify's AI-powered personal DJ expands to more languages and countries

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