Scarlett Johansson says she declined to voice ChatGPT, and when she heard Sky she was 'shocked' that Sam Altman would pursue a voice so 'eerily similar' to hers (Kat Tenbarge / NBC News)

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Sources: Anduril has had early discussions to raise ~$1.5B at a $12.5B+ valuation, and told investors it roughly doubled revenue to about $500M last year (Cory Weinberg / The Information)

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The FBI has arrested a man on criminal charges for allegedly producing and distributing AI-generated images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct (Samantha Cole / 404 Media)

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Meta approved AI-manipulated Facebook ads during India's election that spread disinfo and incited religious violence; civil groups submitted them as a test (@hannahep / The Guardian)

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Zoom reports Q1 revenue up 3.2% YoY to $1.14B, vs. $1.13B est., enterprise revenue up 5.3% YoY to $665.7M, and a Q2 sales forecast in line with estimates (@brodyford_ / Bloomberg)

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Impressions of Windows 11 AI features Recall, Live Captions, and Cocreator, and a chat with Satya Nadella on how the Copilot+ PC push will outperform MacBooks (@joannastern / Wall Street Journal)

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Documents: cops in Austin and San Francisco, where police are banned from facial recognition, asked other towns to run photos of suspects through their systems (Doug MacMillan / Washington Post)

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Truth Social's parent company, the Trump Media and Technology Group, reports $771K in Q1 revenue, a net loss of $327.6M, and an operating loss of $12.1M (Todd Spangler / Variety)

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DOJ announces the arrest of a Taiwanese national at JFK Airport who allegedly owned Incognito Market, a dark web site used by 200K+ to buy $100M+ worth of drugs (Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer)

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Apple releases iOS 17.5.1 and iPadOS 17.5.1 and says the bug allowing some deleted photos to reappear has now been fixed (Juli Clover 🍀 / MacRumors)

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Microsoft's new push for Windows PCs with Arm chips promises better emulation for non-native apps and Qualcomm chips that can best an M3 in a MacBook Air (Tom Warren / The Verge)

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Acer, Dell, HP, and Lenovo all joined Microsoft in debuting laptops featuring Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite or Plus chips, some promising multi-day battery life (@brandonh1980 / Tom's Hardware)

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Dell debuts a Dell XPS 13 with Snapdragon X Elite, the first time the XPS 13 has not had Intel, alongside new Dell Latitude and Inspiron PCs with Qualcomm chips (Mark Hachman / PCWorld)

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Jolla, maker of Android variant Sailfish OS, details plans for a privacy-focused AI device, Jolla Mind², coming this fall for €699 and a €9.99/mo. subscription (Natasha 🧗‍♀️ / TechCrunch)

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Sensor Tower: ByteDance's Doubao AI chatbot iOS app had almost 9M downloads this year through April, vs. 8M for Baidu's Ernie Bot; Doubao has 4M+ MAUs in China (@janez901 / Bloomberg)

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Microsoft debuts the new Surface Pro, with optional OLED display and 5G, 90% faster than last gen, a new Flex keyboard with haptic feedback, and more (David Pierce / The Verge)

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Microsoft debuts the 13.8' and 15' Surface Laptop, with Snapdragon X Elite, up to 22 hours of battery life, Wi-Fi 7, and support for three 4K external monitors (Wes Davis 🐀 / The Verge)

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Microsoft unveils Recall for Windows 11, an AI-powered search tool for Copilot+ PCs that keeps track of users' actions and gives them an explorable timeline (Umar Shakir / The Verge)

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Microsoft unveils Copilot+ PCs as a new class of AI-capable Windows PCs with at least 40 TOPs of NPU performance, with several OEMs and chipmakers on board (Kris Holt / Engadget)

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UK's autonomous vehicle legislation becomes law, paving the way for first driverless cars by 2026 and clarifying who is liable in self-driving crashes (Paul Sawers / TechCrunch)

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