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Bloomberg : An in-depth look at the impact of stratospheric pollution from satellite reentries on the ozone layer, as Starlink and others launch more internet satellites   —  for Bloomberg Green + The Big Take May 1, 2025  —  Elon Musk's SpaceX has more than 7,000 satellites in orbit to create its Starlink internet constellation.

Brian Merchant / Blood in the Machine : Duolingo's “AI-first” announcement highlights the unfolding AI jobs crisis, with attrition in creative fields, hiring cuts, declining freelance incomes, more   —  It's not coming, it has already arrived.  —  On Monday, April 29th, Luis von Ahn, the billionaire CEO …

New York Times : Sensor Tower: Temu cut US digital ad spending by an estimated 31% and Shein by 19% in the two week period from March 31 as the de minimis exemption is closed   —  For Meta, Alphabet and other platforms, the elimination of the tariff exemption for inexpensive goods is already cutting into advertising revenue.

Financial Times : Inside Disco Corp, which has a radical HR system where no employee has a boss and manufactures ~75% of the machines used to cut, grind, and dice semiconductors   —  It's the start of another day for an ordinary Tokyo salaryman.  On a rain-drenched Monday morning, the engineer stows …

A former top advisor to ex-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., suggested House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., is not meeting the moment in the current Trump era. "Trump is just giving us all this incredible red meat. I mean, I've never seen anything like this before. It's like the biggest gift any party has been given by the opposition, and we're just squandering it, to a degree," former Pelosi advisor Ashley Etienne told Politico's Deep Dive podcast.  Etienne helped Pelosi oversee Democrats' messaging during President Donald Trump's first impeachment. She also previously worked for former Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Barack Obama's 2008 campaign. She said Jeffries was "doing well" in many areas and said she had "a tremendous amount of respect" for the New York Democrat but signaled that he was missing opportunities on anti-Trump messaging. WATCH: AOC LEAVES DOOR OPEN FOR 2028 PRESIDENTIAL BID ...

The House Freedom Caucus described President Donald Trump's budget proposal as "a paradigm shift," and members of the conservative group expressed support for the president's plan. "This is how you break the Swamp. Passing MAGA Republican priorities in reconciliation with Republican votes — ending Democrats’s leverage against the President in appropriations to fund the Left’s wasteful, woke and weaponized bureaucracy. The FY26 budget is a paradigm shift," the Freedom Caucus declared in a post on X. The president is seeking to decrease non-defense discretionary spending and boost funding for defense . TRUMP ADMIN RELEASES BUDGET BLUEPRINT IN PUSH FOR DEFENSE SPENDING BOOST Trump "is proposing base non-defense discretionary budget authority (of) $163 billion, 22.6 percent below current-year spending, while still protecting funding for homeland security, veterans, seniors, law enforcement, and infrastructure," Office of Management and Budget Dire...

Natasha Singer / New York Times : Google plans to roll out Gemini next week for children under 13 whose parents use Family Link and says it will not use the under-13 users' data to train its AI   —  The tech giant said it would make its Gemini chatbot available to children next week, and warned families in an email about the changes.

A federal judge has allowed Venezuelans targeted for deportation under the Alien Enemies Act in the Southern District of Texas to proceed with a class-action lawsuit against President Donald Trump's administration.  U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr., who was appointed by Trump during his first term, issued a 12-page order Thursday granting a group of petitioners "class certification."  "The unusual circumstances of this case present a compelling justification to utilize a procedure equivalent to a class action authorized by Rule 23," Rodriguez wrote.  The Trump administration has argued the petitioners have "no basis" to establish a protected legal class "to resolve whether an alien has been properly included in the category of alien enemies–necessarily individual determinations." TRUMP TO NAME HAITIAN GANGS FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS: REPORT The judge considered whether individual "habeas corpus hearings" would ...

President Donald Trump tapped former national security advisor Mike Waltz for his administration's ambassador to the United Nations after Waltz was ousted from the National Security Council office earlier Thursday.  "I am pleased to announce that I will be nominating Mike Waltz to be the next United States Ambassador to the United Nations," Trump posted to Truth Social Thursday.  "From his time in uniform on the battlefield, in Congress and, as my National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz has worked hard to put our Nation’s Interests first. I know he will do the same in his new role. In the interim, Secretary of State Marco Rubio will serve as National Security Advisor, while continuing his strong leadership at the State Department. Together, we will continue to fight tirelessly to Make America, and the World, SAFE AGAIN. Thank you for your attention to this matter!" UN WATCHDOG PROJECT CALLS ON DOGE CAUCUS TO ‘AUDIT’ THE INTERNATIONAL ORG Waltz posted to X sho...

Kevin McLaughlin / The Information : Sources: AWS is developing an AI-assisted coding service that offers features similar to Cursor and goes beyond its current coding assistant Amazon Q Developer   —  Artificial intelligence-assisted coding firms are some of the hottest startups in Silicon Valley right now, drawing attention from OpenAI, among others.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe said Wednesday that a restructuring was underway at President Donald Trump's direction to eliminate "well-documented politicization" of the agency.  Trump joked during a meeting of his Cabinet secretaries on Wednesday that perhaps Ratcliffe was the only one "who's not allowed to talk about the great job he's done," given the classified nature of the Central Intelligence Agency's work.  "At your direction, the CIA has deployed our unique covert action, authorities in various places and continents, to successfully advance your national security and foreign policy priorities, to advance peace, to end wars, to take terrorists off the battlefield, and to keep illicit drugs from coming into this country and harming Americans," Ratcliffe reported to Trump, in front of news cameras. "Unfortunately, as much as I would love to detail your accomplishments in that regard, we can't do so with this crowd. But you a...

EXCLUSIVE:  WASHINGTON — Vice President JD Vance said the first 100 days of the Trump administration were about making changes "very quickly," but the next 100 days will require Congress and international partners to "step up to the plate." Vance spoke about the opportunities he sees ahead to "juice the economy" and end the war between Ukraine and Russia during an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital Wednesday — Day 101 of the Trump administration — in his office in the West Wing of the White House.  " The first 100 days is — you’re almost fixing and addressing all the things that are very easy to do," Vance said. "I mean, the border crisis is a matter of presidential enforcement. You have a different president. You have different enforcement policies that happen immediately that don’t require an act of Congress. It is just something you can change immediately. TRUMP EASES AUTO TARIFFS AS HE CELEBRATES 100TH DAY WITH MICHIGAN RALL...

Rep. Gabe Evans, R-Colo., who snagged an endorsement from President Donald Trump this week, is firing back at Colorado Democrats following a series of "People's Town Halls" that went off the rails during the April congressional recess, as intra-party tensions and strange songs took center stage.  "While Democrats goof off and sing songs, Congressman Gabe Evans is working hard and fighting to make Colorado a better and safer place to live, work, and raise a family," Evans' spokeswoman said in a statement to Fox News Digital.  Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, one of several Democrats hosting town halls in Republican-held congressional districts , traveled to Colorado for a Democrat-run town hall in Evans' home district last week. The town hall was derailed by questions about the Democratic Party, undercutting the Democratic National Committee's (DNC) plan to provide a "platform to fight back against Republicans’ dangerous agenda." Town hall at...

John Irish / Reuters : In a first for the country, France blames Russia's GRU for a string of local cyber attacks, including on ministries, defense firms, and think tanks   —  Figurines with computers and smartphones are seen in front of the words “Cyber Attack” in this illustration taken, February 19, 2024.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch : Meta says its Llama AI models have been downloaded 1.2B times, up from 1B downloads in March and 650M downloads in early December 2024   —  In mid-March, Meta said that its “open” AI model family, Llama, hit 1 billion downloads, up from 650 million downloads as of early December 2024.

A Milwaukee judge arrested Friday for allegedly hiding a previously deported  illegal immigrant in her jury room had a notice posted to her courtroom door for people who feel "unsafe" coming to the courthouse, Fox News learned Monday. The notice posted to Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan's courtroom door was dated April 14, four days before she allegedly helped Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, an illegal immigrant, and his attorney leave the courthouse to evade ICE agents, Fox News observed. The notice states: "ATTENTION - IF ANY ATTORNEY, WITNESS COORDINATOR, OR OTHER COURT OFFICIAL KNOWS OR BELIEVES THAT A PERSON FEELS UNSAFE COMING TO THE COURTHOUSE TO COURTROOM 615, PLEASE NOTIFY THE BRANCH 31 CLERK TO REQUEST COURT APPEARANCE VIA ZOOM." Dugan was arrested and charged with obstruction of an official proceeding after evidence came to light that she had shielded Flores-Ruiz from ICE agents, according to a criminal complaint. She was also charged with...

Sharon Goldman / Fortune : P-1 AI, which is developing an AI-powered engineering agent and hopes AI can eventually design complex machines, emerges from stealth with $23M in seed funding   —  P-1 AI founders Paul Eremenko (left), Aleksa Gordic (center), and Adam Nagel (right).  —  Courtesy of P-1 AI

President Donald Trump's 15th week in office will include his 100th day back in the White House, which he will celebrate by hosting a rally in Michigan – the last state he campaigned in before polls opened on Election Day of last year.  "President Trump is excited to return to the great state of Michigan next Tuesday, where he will rally in Macomb County to celebrate the FIRST 100 DAYS!" White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in an X post announcing the rally.  Trump's presidential campaigns in 2016, 2020 and 2024 all ended with rallies in the battleground state of Michigan. Trump's visit to Macomb County this week follows his final 2024 campaign rally in Grand Rapids, where he joined the crowds just after midnight in the final hours before his victory over then-Vice President Kamala Harris.  The event is billed as a celebration of Trump's "LEGENDARY start to his presidency," according to the Republican National Committee's websit...

Manish Singh / India Dispatch : Analysis: Meesho accounts for about 37% of India's e-commerce orders, but only 8%-9% of the sector's total value due to the small average transaction size   —  A $4.5 sari reveals the ruthless arithmetic behind Meesho's assault on India's e-commerce hierarchy

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg : While Apple's iPhone manufacturing in India matches China in quality, making the extraordinarily complex 20th anniversary iPhones outside China remains doubtful   —  Apple has begun breaking up its AI and machine learning organization by moving pieces to other parts of the company.