Apple earnings are out and revenue was down almost everywhere. Boy, AI can’t come fast enough for them. Did you know you can send Bluetooth signals to satellites in space? The full Rabbit R1 reviews turned out exactly how we expected. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads suggestions.

Links:

• Apple Sales Fall as iPhone, China Businesses Remain Sluggish (WSJ)
• FDA Qualifies Apple’s AFib History feature as an MDDT (MyHealthyApple)
• Hubble Network makes Bluetooth connection with a satellite for the first time (TechCrunch)
• Coinbase’s First-Quarter Profit, Revenue Top Forecasts (Bloomberg)
• Rabbit R1 review: nothing to see here (The Verge)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• The Revenge of the Home Page (The New Yorker)
• Nick Bostrom Made the World Fear AI. Now He Asks: What if It Fixes Everything? (Wired)

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The music is back on TikTok with a new deal struck. Maybe a third of Americans were affected by that Change Healthcare hack. Why are companies suddenly cutting teams you’d think would be sacred cows? Airbnb wants you to stay in the house from the movie Up. And we finally know just how much Google pays Apple for the search default in iOS.

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Links:

• TikTok and Universal Music Group Settle Royalty Dispute With New Licensing Agreement (Variety)
• UnitedHealthcare CEO says ‘maybe a third’ of US citizens were affected by recent hack (TechCrunch)
• UnitedHealth CEO tells lawmakers the company paid hackers a $22 million ransom (CNBC)
• Google lays off hundreds of ‘Core’ employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico (CNBC)
• Amazon-backed Anthropic launches iPhone app and business tier to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT (CNBC)
• In Latest Stunt, Airbnb Lists the ‘Up’ House. It Floats. (NYTimes)
• Google’s Payments to Apple Reached $20 Billion in 2022, Antitrust Court Documents Show (Bloomberg)
• Microsoft Concern Over Google’s Lead Drove OpenAI Investment (Bloomberg)

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Binance founder CZ looks like he’s heading to jail too, but for way less time than SBF. Is the Rabbit R1 just a fancy device for a glorified Android app? Has OpenAI floated a secret pre-release of GPT5? And finally, so much has happened, I decided we had to do an omnibus catch up with what’s going on in the world of Elon.

Links:

• Binance founder Changpeng Zhao sentenced to four months in prison (The Verge)
• Rabbit R1, a thing that should just be an app, actually is just an Android app (Updated) (Android Authority)
• Powerful New Chatbot Disappears as Mysteriously as It Arrived (Gizmodo)
• Tesla conducting more layoffs, including entire Supercharger team (Electrek)

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