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Reddit reports Q1 revenue up 61% YoY to $392M, vs. $370M est., and global daily active uniques up 31% to 108.1M; RDDT jumps 15%+ after hours on strong guidance (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/01/reddit-rddt-q1-2025.html
http://www.techmeme.com/250501/p49#a250501p49

Google says "a small percentage" of people in the US will start seeing a tab in Search for its AI Mode chatbot "in the coming weeks" (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/news/659448/google-ai-mode-search-public-test-us
http://www.techmeme.com/250501/p36#a250501p36

On Meta's Q1 call, Mark Zuckerberg says WhatsApp now has 3B+ MAUs, up from 2B in February 2020 and 1.5B in January 2018; Facebook passed 3B MAUs in July 2023 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/01/whatsapp-now-has-more-than-3-billion-users/
http://www.techmeme.com/250501/p17#a250501p17

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 (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)

https://stratechery.com/2025/an-interview-with-meta-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-about-ai-and-the-evolution-of-social-media/
http://www.techmeme.com/250501/p20#a250501p20

Epic v. Apple: a judge says Phil Schiller wanted Apple to comply with the court order, but Tim Cook ignored him, and its finance VP "outright lied under oath" (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/30/court-finds-apple-executive-lied-under-oath.html
http://www.techmeme.com/250430/p56#a250430p56

Source: Amazon plans to soon show how much President Trump's tariffs are adding to the price of each product next to its total listed price (Punchbowl News)

https://punchbowl.news/archive/42925-am/#__amazontodisplaytariffcostsforconsumers__
http://www.techmeme.com/250429/p6#a250429p6

Kickstarter introduces a "Tariff Manager tool" that lets creators add extra charges for backers on projects that were already fully funded (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)

https://www.404media.co/kickstarter-introduces-tariff-manager-tool-to-add-charges-to-already-fully-funded-projects/
http://www.techmeme.com/250428/p13#a250428p13

4chan is back online after being down for 10 days, following a hack that leaked the emails of its lead administrators, known as "janitors" (Owen Carry/Know Your Meme)

https://knowyourmeme.com/news/4chan-is-back-online-days-after-the-infamous-april-2025-hack-that-leaked-its-janitors-emails
http://www.techmeme.com/250427/p1#a250427p1

Infinite Reality, a metaverse startup that claims it is valued at $15.5B, faces questions about the legitimacy of its funding, investor identities, and more (Phoebe Liu/Forbes)

http://www.forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/2025/04/24/infinite-reality-john-acunto-155-billion-metaverse-startup-biggest-fundraise/
http://www.techmeme.com/250424/p25#a250424p25

Boeing agrees to sell parts of its digital aviation unit, including software maker Jeppesen and navigation app ForeFlight, to Thoma Bravo for $10.55B in cash (Financial Times)

https://www.ft.com/content/68e4a5d1-12d8-4020-97fb-997b107e200b
http://www.techmeme.com/250422/p13#a250422p13

Paul Graham likened Palantir's ICE work to "infrastructure of the police state"; a Palantir exec said Paul's view is like Google's when it killed Project Maven (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/20/palantir-exec-defends-companys-immigration-surveillance-work/
http://www.techmeme.com/250420/p10#a250420p10

Sources: hackers intercepted ~100 bank regulators' emails, 150K+ in total, for over a year at the US Treasury's OCC, which disclosed a breach on February 26 (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-08/hackers-spied-on-100-bank-regulators-emails-for-over-a-year
http://www.techmeme.com/250408/p26#a250408p26

Elon Musk's X and xAI all-stock merger broke Wall Street's usual rules, with the same advisers, Morgan Stanley and Sullivan & Cromwell, working on both sides (Wall Street Journal)

https://www.wsj.com/business/deals/elon-musks-megadeal-between-x-and-xai-breaks-wall-streets-rulebook-191b2706?st=6qUe5s&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.techmeme.com/250402/p12#a250402p12

Source: hackers broke into Oracle's Cerner servers sometime after January 22 and stole patient data to extort US medical providers; the FBI is investigating (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-28/oracle-warns-health-customers-of-patient-data-breach
http://www.techmeme.com/250328/p30#a250328p30

Source: the White House sent a "records retention policy" to DOGE staffers on Monday, reminding them to preserve their Signal messages and disable auto-delete (Kyle Cheney/Politico)

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/27/white-house-doge-signal-records-00254122
http://www.techmeme.com/250327/p37#a250327p37

Nielsen: YouTube was the #1 TV distributor in February, making up 11.6% of all US TV; viewers over age 50 accounted for 36% of time spent watching YouTube on TV (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/youtube-most-tv-use-us-february-2025-1236171731/
http://www.techmeme.com/250325/p32#a250325p32

Sources: the real closer for Wiz and Google executives was President Trump's election, which brought with it the prospect of a friendlier antitrust review (Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/googles-32-billion-deal-wiz-accelerated-under-trump-sources-say-2025-03-19/
http://www.techmeme.com/250318/p51#a250318p51

OpenAI calls DeepSeek "state-controlled" and recommends that the US consider banning "PRC-produced" models that "violate user privacy and create security risks" (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/openai-calls-deepseek-state-controlled-calls-for-bans-on-prc-produced-models/
http://www.techmeme.com/250313/p44#a250313p44

Tech stocks lead a broad sell-off; the Nasdaq falls ~4%, with Apple dropping by ~6%, Meta by ~5%, Nvidia by ~5%, Google by ~5%, and Microsoft by 3%+ (Myles Udland/Yahoo Finance)

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/nvidia-tesla-stocks-slide-as-magnificent-7-names-lead-markets-lower-142510967.html
http://www.techmeme.com/250310/p16#a250310p16

Sources describe the collapse of fintech middleman Synapse that left ~$200M in customer money frozen, with entities blaming each other for shoddy recordkeeping (Fortune)

https://fortune.com/2025/03/07/synapse-evolve-mercury-bankruptcy-lawsuits/
http://www.techmeme.com/250308/p15#a250308p15