Of Interest

• China Blocks Meta's $2 Billion Takeover of AI Startup Manus

  

  Slashdot

• Microsoft and OpenAI's famed AGI agreement is dead

  

  The Verge

• GitHub Copilot shifts to usage-based pricing June 1 - why that's no surprise

  

  Between the Lines

• Elon Musk Boosts New Yorker's Sam Altman Expos on X as Trial Begins

  

  Wired

• The Download: DeepSeek's latest AI breakthrough, and the race to build world models

  

  MIT Technology Review

• Valve's Steam Controller costs $99 and arrives May 4

  

  Engadget

• I disabled these Windows services Microsoft recommends " and everything works better

  

  Makeuseof

• Kevin O'Leary's planned data center in Utah will consume more power than the entire state

  

  Neowin

• Best Smart Glasses (2026): Meta, Viture, Xreal, and More

  

  Wired

• Legendary emulator ZSNES rewritten from scratch

  

  Boing Boing

• Apple Fitness+ gets an unlikely rival as Peloton joins Spotify

  

  T3

• Super ZSNES is a GPU-powered SNES emulator that supports per-game enhancements

  

  TechSpot

• Tesla Cybercab Production Starts For Elon Musk's Autonomous Robotaxi

  

  Ubergizmo

• Oprah goes Prime: Amazon secures multi-year rights to talk show queen's video podcasts

  

  GeekWire