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Samsung plans to launch the Galaxy S25 Edge at a May 12 virtual event at 8pm ET, and reservations for the super-slim device are now open with a $50 credit (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)

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Campaign Board Chair Nixes Eric Adams’ Re-upped Request for $4 million in Matching Funds

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At Stripe Sessions, the company announced an AI foundation model for payments, plans for stablecoin-powered accounts, a recent migration with Nvidia, and more (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

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Samsung finally has a launch date for the Galaxy S25 Edge

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Trump’s latest deportation scheme is almost certainly illegal

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Anthropic launches web search on its API for Claude 3.7 Sonnet, 3.5 Sonnet, and 3.5 Haiku at $10/1K searches, giving the models access to up-to-date information (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Alibaba partners with RedNote, also known as Xiaohongshu, to allow users on RedNote to directly click on product links to shop on Alibaba's Taobao platform (Reuters)

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GTA 6: Everything we know about Rockstar’s next game

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Eddy Cue is fighting to save Apple’s $20 billion paycheck from Google

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The best Mother’s Day gifts you can still grab

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AppLovin reports Q1 revenue up 40% YoY to $1.48B, vs. $1.38B est., net income up 144% to $576M, and forecasts Q2 revenue below est.; APP jumps 13%+ after hours (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

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The Commerce Department says it will rescind the Biden-era "AI diffusion rule", which limits exports of AI chips and is set to take effect on May 15 (Bloomberg)

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AppLovin agrees to sell its mobile gaming business to UK-based Tripledot for $400M in cash and a ~20% stake in Tripledot, in a deal expected to close in Q2 2025 (Neil Long/Mobilegamer.biz)

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Trump cuts Energy Star program that saved households $450 a year

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Google launched a Gemini app for iPad

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Sources: OpenAI staffers met with the FDA and two DOGE associates multiple times in recent weeks to discuss a project called cderGPT, likely for drug evaluation (Wired)

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These Black TikTok Best-Worst Met Gala Reviews Are Comedy Gold!

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America Reacts to SHOCKING Verdict in Tyre Nichols Case

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Reddit will keep old Reddit online ‘as long as people are using it,’ says CEO

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Arm reports Q4 revenue up 34% YoY to $1.24B, vs. $1.23B est., royalty revenue up 18% to $607M, and forecasts Q1 revenue below est.; ARM drops 8%+ after hours (Ian King/Bloomberg)

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