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Nintendo doesn’t want achievements, except when it does

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Sources: the US pushed back against EU's AI code of practice; the code is voluntary, still being finalized, and aims to help companies comply with the AI Act (Bloomberg)

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The 25 best PlayStation 5 games

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Temu and Shein raise prices ahead of de minimis tariff exemption expiring on May 2 and urged customers to make purchases prior to April 25 to avoid 120% tariffs (CNN)

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Behind the Scenes

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Tons of great sci-fi and fantasy books are up to 61% off during Amazon’s Book Sale

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Boox’s newest Android e-readers let you take notes

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Docs: X's data licensing and subscriptions revenue grew 32% YoY to $91M in February, ad revenue grew 4% YoY to $146M; Twitter had $4.5B in ad revenue in 2021 (Carmen Arroyo/Bloomberg)

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Everybody wants to buy Chrome

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Nous, which plans to launch an AI training system on Solana using people's idle computing power, raised a $50M Series A, a source says at a $1B token valuation (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)

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Get kick-ass FPS throwback RoboCop: Rogue City before it leaves PS Plus soon

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The best robot vacuum and mop to buy right now

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Sources: Tencent Music is in advanced talks to buy Chinese podcasting startup Ximalaya in a $2.4B deal (Bloomberg)

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Two of 2024’s most innovative horror movies are now on Hulu

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ChatGPT is getting a ‘lightweight’ version of its deep research tool

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Baidu CEO Robin Li says demand for text-based models like DeepSeek's is "shrinking" and claims its model had a higher propensity for "hallucinations" (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)

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Toshiba Europe researchers say they used quantum key distribution cryptography to send messages over a 250km German commercial telecommunications network (Michael Peel/Financial Times)

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Microsoft made an ad with generative AI and nobody noticed

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Brazil's AI-based social security app, launched in 2018, has cut bureaucracy in some cases but wrongly rejected hundreds of vulnerable people over minor errors (Gabriel Daros/Rest of World)

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Three European scientific funding agencies have put research programs with China on hold since 2021 due to concerns over the country's Data Security Law (Andrew Silver/Reuters)

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