Hollywood's writers on strike have two worries on AI: they don't want their work used as training data and don't want to fix AI-generated "sloppy first drafts" (Benj Edwards/Ars Technica) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Pando, which develops supply chain management software, raised a $30M Series B led by Iron Pillar and Uncorrelated Ventures, bringing its total funding to $45M (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

Gmail adds blue checkmarks for brands, indicating verified senders that adopted Google's Brand Indicators for Message Identification standard (Abner Li/9to5Google) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

ODAIA, whose software uses AI to help pharmaceutical firms bring drugs to market, raised a $25M Series B co-led by Threshold Ventures and Monograph Capital (Josh Scott/BetaKit) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:58 Rating: 5

Match Group reports Q1 revenue down 1% YoY to $787M, vs. $794M est., paying users down 3% YoY to 15.9M, revenue per paying user up 2% YoY; announces $1B buyback (Akash Sriram/Reuters) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:50 Rating: 5

Roku introduces new ad products, including use of contextual AI for automatically running ads next to relevant moments in shows and movies on The Roku Channel (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 16:12 Rating: 5

AMD reports Q1 revenue down 9% YoY to $5.35B, vs. $5.3B est., a $139M net loss, Client revenue down 65% YoY to $739M, and Q2 guidance below est.; AMD drops 5%+ (Kif Leswing/CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:01 Rating: 5

Amazon rolls out Fire TV Channels, its new hub for FAST channels, after it saw monthly hours streamed of FAST content surging 300%+ in the past six months (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 19:41 Rating: 5

Memo: Samsung is banning employees from using generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Google Bard, and Bing on company-owned devices due to security concerns (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 18:42 Rating: 5

A US federal judge declared a mistrial in Masimo's suit against Apple over Apple Watch stolen trade secrets claims after jurors were unable to reach a consensus (Joe Schneider/Bloomberg) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 17:41 Rating: 5