Tech Meme

Alex Isenstadt / Axios: In an hour-long Q&A with reporters, Elon Musk talked DOGE, including acknowledging its shortcomings, leaving the US government, working with Trump, and more  —  Elon Musk acknowledges his budget-cutting exercise known as DOGE hasn’t been as successful as he hoped. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Microsoft releases three Phi-4 reasoning models on Hugging Face, expanding its Phi “small model” family, which it launched in May 2024 for AI app developers  —  Microsoft launched several new “open” AI models on Wednesday, the most capable of which is competitive with OpenAI’s o3-mini on at least one benchmark. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft raises the prices of its Xbox Series S and X consoles, Xbox controllers, and some new Xbox games globally; the Xbox Series S is up $80 to $380  —  New first-party Xbox games are moving from $69.99 to $79.99 later this year, but there are no Xbox Game Pass increases. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Cecilia D’Anastasio / Bloomberg: Roblox reports Q1 revenue up 29% YoY to ~$1B, Bookings up 31% YoY to ~$1.2B, above $1.11B est., and DAUs up 26% YoY to 97.8M, above 93.3M est.; RBLX jumps 8%+  —  Daily active users rose 26% to 97.8 million in the three months ended March 31, the San Mateo, California-based company said in a statement Thursday. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Tobin / Reuters: London’s Court of Appeal rules Apple must pay Optis $502M as a lump sum for using Optis’ 4G patents from 2013 to 2027, overturning a 2023 High Court decision  —  Apple (AAPL.O) must pay a U.S. patent holder $502 million for the use of 4G patents in devices including iPhones and iPads … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chris Welch / The Verge: Meta updated Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses’ privacy policy on April 29 to enable the Hey Meta voice command by default, store voice recordings for a year, and more  —  The company has removed the option to disable your voice recordings from being stored, among other changes. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg: Document: a US Army report from April ranks Palantir’s new $178M mobile battlefield intelligence-gathering vehicle and trailer among its top-performing programs  —  An April report to Congress of the Army’s “Highest and Lowest Performing” programs lists the company’s Tactical Intelligence … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ben Thompson / Stratechery: Q&A with Mark Zuckerberg on LlamaCon, Llama API, Meta’s AI opportunity, social networking 2.0, Ray-Bans, Apple, the Meta AI app, tariffs, Reality Labs, and more  —  An interview with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg about Llama and the AI opportunity, the evolution of social medial, and what it means to connect. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Natalie Lung / Bloomberg: Uber launches a simpler UI for older adults, offering larger text, easy to find saved destinations, and fewer homescreen buttons; Lyft plans a similar update  —  Uber Technologies Inc. launched a simpler version of its rideshare app to make it easier for older adults to get around … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Isenstadt / Axios: In an hour-long Q&A with reporters, Elon Musk talked DOGE, including acknowledging its shortcoming, leaving the US government, working with Trump, and more  —  Elon Musk acknowledges his budget-cutting exercise known as DOGE hasn’t been as successful as he hoped. Lees verder op Tech Meme