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The U.S. Supreme Court rejected Apple's bid to temporarily halt a contempt order stemming from its antitrust dispute with Epic Games, leaving the iPhone maker subject to court-mandated App Store restrictions while it prepares a full appeal.

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Berkshire Hathaway's McLane Company plans to extend its Aurora Innovation autonomous trucking partnership beyond a Dallas-Houston pilot, adding new driverless freight routes across the U.S. Sun Belt by the end of 2026.

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Uber reported first-quarter revenue of $13.2 billion, just under analyst estimates, but second-quarter gross bookings guidance of up to $57.75 billion topped Wall Street expectations and sent shares surging more than 8% in premarket trading.

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Micron Technology's shares surged 12% on Tuesday, pushing the memory maker's market cap past $700 billion for the first time and extending a 700% rally over the past 12 months, as an AI-driven global memory shortage continues to fuel demand.

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A U.S. Secret Service officer was arrested Monday in Miami on an indecent exposure charge after working security at President Trump's appearance at the PGA Tour's Cadillac Championship at Trump National Doral. The agency has placed officer John Spillman on administrative leave pending a criminal proceeding and internal investigation.

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Pinterest reported first-quarter revenue of $1.01 billion, beating estimates of $966 million, as shares surged 15%. The company also issued second-quarter guidance above Wall Street projections, citing AI-driven advertising improvements.

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The SEC announced a settlement with Elon Musk's revocable trust over the late disclosure of his 2022 Twitter stock purchases, with the trust agreeing to pay a $1.5 million civil penalty — far less than the $150 million the agency claimed Musk saved by breaking disclosure rules.

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Amazon is opening its logistics network to outside businesses under the "Amazon Supply Chain Services" brand, competing directly with UPS and FedEx by offering warehousing, fulfillment, and parcel delivery to companies in retail, healthcare, and manufacturing.

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Denmark's grid operator Energinet has frozen new data center connection agreements after a backlog of roughly 60 GW in capacity requests overwhelmed a grid with peak demand of just 7 GW, putting the country's data center growth ambitions in jeopardy.

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GameStop has made an unsolicited, non-binding offer to acquire eBay for $125 per share in a cash-and-stock deal valuing the e-commerce platform at roughly $55.5 billion, with CEO Ryan Cohen pitching a path to rivaling Amazon.

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A study published in Science by Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel researchers found OpenAI's o1 model correctly diagnosed emergency room patients more often than two internal medicine physicians, though authors cautioned the findings are far from a clinical green light.

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Instructure, maker of the Canvas learning management system, has confirmed a data breach exposing user names, email addresses, and private messages. The ShinyHunters extortion gang claims the attack affected 275 million individuals across nearly 9,000 schools worldwide.

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Uber's chief technology officer revealed plans to eventually outfit the company's millions of drivers with sensor kits, building a proprietary real-world data layer for autonomous vehicle companies and AI developers.

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Wildlife creator Derrick Downey Jr. used AI coding tools including Claude to build DualShot Recorder, an iPhone camera app that reached the App Store's number-one paid spot within 12 hours of launch and stayed there for eight days.

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A new generation of AI-powered dictation apps now offers offline processing, filler-word removal, and custom tone controls, with prices ranging from free to a one-time lifetime fee — underscoring how advances in speech-to-text models have intensified competition in the category.

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Netflix has pushed "Narnia: The Magician's Nephew" to a wide global theatrical release on February 12, 2027, extending the film's exclusive run to roughly seven weeks before a streaming debut — while the Academy bars AI-generated performances and scripts from Oscar eligibility.

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Spirit Airlines ceased all operations on May 2, 2026, after surging jet fuel prices — rising from a projected $2.24 per gallon to more than $4.50 — rendered its March 2026 bondholder restructuring plan financially unviable, ending 34 years of service.

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James Baker, who directed the Pentagon's Office of Net Assessment from 2015 to 2025, has joined Anthropic as strategist-in-residence to analyze AI's effects on U.S. institutions and competition with China.

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