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Adam Chitwood / The Wrap: WBD plans to launch Max in Europe starting on May 21 in the Nordics, Iberia, and Central and Eastern Europe, in time for the Olympics, included in all plans  —  The rollout is also timed… Read More »WBD plans to launch Max in Europe starting on May 21 in the Nordics, Iberia, and Central and Eastern Europe, in time for the Olympics, included in all plans (Adam Chitwood/The Wrap)

Emma Roth / The Verge: Meta rolls out Threads fediverse integration beta in the US, Canada, and Japan, letting users cross-post and view likes from federated platforms like Mastodon  —  Threads is rolling out a beta of its fediverse integration… Read More »Meta rolls out Threads fediverse integration beta in the US, Canada, and Japan, letting users cross-post and view likes from federated platforms like Mastodon (Emma Roth/The Verge)

Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: Spotify’s TikTok-like redesign reveals the follower numbers for top podcasters: The Joe Rogan Experience has 14.5M, followed by TED Talks Daily with 5M  —  A new TikTok-like redesign from the streaming giant unveils actual audience data… Read More »Spotify’s TikTok-like redesign reveals the follower numbers for top podcasters: The Joe Rogan Experience has 14.5M, followed by TED Talks Daily with 5M (Ashley Carman/Bloomberg)

Matt Rosoff / TechCrunch: The DOJ’s Apple suit has a lot of parallels to its Microsoft suit in the 1990s, but Apple’s monopoly position is not nearly as clear-cut as Microsoft’s was  —  The U.S. Department of Justice plus attorneys… Read More »The DOJ’s Apple suit has a lot of parallels to its Microsoft suit in the 1990s, but Apple’s monopoly position is not nearly as clear-cut as Microsoft’s was (Matt Rosoff/TechCrunch)

Jason Snell / Six Colors: A look at DOJ’s case against Apple, which has some strong points but also includes some silly arguments like Apple affecting “the flow of speech” via Apple TV+  —  The U.S. Department of Justice, 15… Read More »A look at DOJ’s case against Apple, which has some strong points but also includes some silly arguments like Apple affecting “the flow of speech” via Apple TV+ (Jason Snell/Six Colors)

Bloomberg: Reddit opens up 38%, at $47 per share, in its New York Stock Exchange debut, valuing the company at about $9B on a fully diluted basis  —  The San Francisco-based company’s stock began trading on Thursday at $47 each,… Read More »Reddit opens up 38%, at $47 per share, in its New York Stock Exchange debut, valuing the company at about $9B on a fully diluted basis (Bloomberg)

The Information: Source: Microsoft agreed to pay Inflection ~$650M when hiring its staff, mostly via a licensing deal that makes Inflection’s models available for sale on Azure  —  Microsoft doesn’t want its plan to hire two of Inflection AI’s co-founders… Read More »Source: Microsoft agreed to pay Inflection ~$650M when hiring its staff, mostly via a licensing deal that makes Inflection’s models available for sale on Azure (The Information)

Paul Graham / Y Combinator: Reflecting on Reddit’s history: Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian pitching a food app, wanting to use snoo.com, and seeing traffic explode after Reddit launched  —  I met the Reddits before we even started Y Combinator. … Read More »Reflecting on Reddit’s history: Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian pitching a food app, wanting to use snoo.com, and seeing traffic explode after Reddit launched (Paul Graham/Y Combinator)

Brady Dale / Axios: Succinct, which is building zero-knowledge proof tech for blockchain apps, raised $55M led by Paradigm across a seed and a Series A  —  – That’s all well and good. … – It might, for example, take… Read More »Succinct, which is building zero-knowledge proof tech for blockchain apps, raised $55M led by Paradigm across a seed and a Series A (Brady Dale/Axios)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft unveils the Surface Laptop 6 and Surface Pro 10 for enterprises, adding a Copilot key, a Neural Processing Unit for Windows 11’s AI features, and more  —  Microsoft is gearing up for its “year… Read More »Microsoft unveils the Surface Laptop 6 and Surface Pro 10 for enterprises, adding a Copilot key, a Neural Processing Unit for Windows 11’s AI features, and more (Tom Warren/The Verge)