Internal messages: Twitter wants to charge brands $1,000 per month to keep their gold verification badges, plus $50 per month for each affiliated account (Erin Woo/The Information) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Italy's privacy watchdog orders SF-based AI chatbot maker Replika, which operates a freemium "virtual friendship" service, to stop processing local users' data (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Q&A with Sam Altman about AI systems replacing search engines, OpenAI's Microsoft investment, how artificial general intelligence could "break capitalism", more (Forbes) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:42 Rating: 5

Elon Musk says Twitter will start sharing revenue from reply-thread ads with creators who are subscribed to Twitter Blue Verified, but doesn't share any details (Mitchell Clark/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 10:42 Rating: 5

Tim Cook says iPhone revenue would have grown without supply constraints, currency fluctuations were a challenge, and layoffs are a "last resort kind of thing" (Aaron Tilley/Wall Street Journal) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:42 Rating: 5

Apple reports Q1 revenue in Greater China fell 7.3% YoY to $23.9B, revenue in Japan fell 5% to $6.8B, and revenue in the rest of Asia-Pacific fell 2.8% to $9.5B (Yifan Yu/Nikkei Asia) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:42 Rating: 5

Apple Q1 revenue: iPhone down 8% YoY to $65.8B, Mac down 29% YoY to $7.7B, iPad up 30% YoY to $9.4B, Wearables, Home and Accessories down 8% YoY to $13.5B (Kif Leswing/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Alphabet reports Q4 revenue up 1% YoY to $76B, net income down 34% YoY to $13.6B, Google Cloud revenue up 32% YoY to $7.3B; stock is down 4%+ (Alphabet) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:42 Rating: 5

Amazon reports Q4 revenue up 9% YoY to $149.2B, net income down 98% YoY to $278M, AWS revenue up 20% YoY to $21.4B; stock falls 5%+ (Amazon) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:42 Rating: 5

Portside, which makes software to help businesses manage aviation operations, raised a $50M Series B led by Insight Partners, bringing its total funding to $70M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:42 Rating: 5