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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.