An ex-ByteDance exec in the US sues for wrongful termination, accusing it of stealing rivals' content and giving the Chinese Communist Party "supreme access" (New York Times) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:41 Rating: 5

A profile of Linda Yaccarino, who has vast experience in ad partnerships and has praised Musk publicly, telling colleagues people get hung up on his tweets (Washington Post) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:41 Rating: 5

Anthropic expands Claude's context window from 9K to 100K tokens, or ~75K words it can digest and analyze; OpenAI's GPT-4 has a context window of ~32K tokens (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 15:41 Rating: 5

Meta announces AI Sandbox, with generative AI tools to help select advertisers create text variations, background images from text, and cropped images (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Elon Musk says he hired a CEO for X/Twitter and "she will be starting in ~6 weeks"; Musk will become "exec chair & CTO" overseeing "product, software, & sysops" (Elon Musk/@elonmusk) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 13:41 Rating: 5

Coinbase apologizes for its newsletter suggesting Pepe the Frog was a "hate symbol", saying it "did not provide the whole picture of the history of the meme" (James Cirrone/Blockworks) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 12:42 Rating: 5

Twitter appears to have disabled autocomplete in its search bar after users pointed out that it was recommending gory videos of animal abuse and war footage (Matthew Gault/VICE) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:42 Rating: 5

Sensor Tower: Bluesky had 628K mobile downloads in April, up 606% from March, when it became available on Android in addition to iOS; Mastodon had 90K downloads (CNBC) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 11:42 Rating: 5

Robinhood reports Q1 revenue up 47% YoY to $441M, vs. $425M est., net loss up 30% YoY to $511M, and MAUs up by 400K QoQ to 11.8M, vs. 15.9M in March 2022 (Bill Peters/MarketWatch) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5

Google announces new features for cars with native Android software, including YouTube, Waze, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex by Cisco, and more video games (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge) - TechnW3 Reviewed by TechNW3 on 14:41 Rating: 5