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Perplexity is offering a free one-year Perplexity Pro subscription, normally $20/month, to 360M users of Bharti Airtel, India's second-largest telecom operator (Moneycontrol)

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Sources: the European Commission has stalled one of its X investigations for breaking its digital transparency rules, as it negotiates a trade deal with the US (Financial Times)

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Google says threat actors are stealing sensitive data from organizations by targeting fully patched, end-of-life appliances from cybersecurity company SonicWall (Jonathan Greig/The Record)

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Apple’s new daily puzzle game is basically Emoji Wordle

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Delta plans for 20% of its fares to be individually determined using AI by the end of 2025, up from 3% now, with the goal of eliminating static pricing entirely (Irina Ivanova/Fortune)

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Microsoft's Copilot struggles to make headway against other AI assistants; Sensor Tower: Copilot's mobile app has ~79M downloads vs. ChatGPT's 900M+ downloads (Matt Day/Bloomberg)

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Bengaluru-based QpiAI, which is integrating AI and quantum computing for enterprise use cases, raised a $32M Series A at a $162M post-money valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

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Coinbase rolls out the Base App, rebranding its Coinbase Wallet as an "everything app" that combines social networking, mini-apps, chat, payments, and trading (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)

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In response to a March FOIA request, the US Marshals Service said it held over 28,988 BTC, worth ~$3.4B at current prices, far fewer than previously believed (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)

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Gigantamax Lapras counters, weakness, and battle tips in Pokémon Go

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Multi-service messaging app Beeper relaunches, introducing premium offerings and the option to switch to an on-device model; Automattic acquired Beeper in 2024 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

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Subnautica 2’s creators sue their publisher for ‘severely’ damaging the game’s release

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The trial for an $8B lawsuit by Meta investors against Mark Zuckerberg and other leaders opens over claims tied to the 2018 Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal (Associated Press)

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Filing: Intel is laying off 5,000+ employees across California, Oregon, Texas, and Arizona; California cuts affect 1,935, more than double the initial estimates (Nathan Owens/Manufacturing Dive)

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Longplay for Mac

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NameQuick 1.9.29

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Shortcuts in macOS Tahoe

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Weak Ubiquitous Linking in Apple’s Apps

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Maelle remains Clair Obscur’s boss-killing machine, even after being nerfed

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Reflection, co-founded by ex-Google researchers, unveils Asimov, an AI agent that reads a company's codebase, docs, and more to help software engineering teams (Will Knight/Wired)

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