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Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
AMD’s revenue jumps 38 percent from last year as Q1 data center sales hit $5.8 billion.

Data center sales are now “the primary driver of our revenue and earnings growth,” according to CEO Lisa Su. AI agents are increasing demands for CPUs, and AMD and Intel’s x86 industry group recently announced a new instruction set, AI Compute Extensions (ACE), to help close the performance gap with GPUs.

Its client and gaming revenue grew 23 percent to $3.6 billion despite lower “semi-custom revenue” for devices like game consoles.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
The Bear got a surprise prequel episode that you can watch right now.

“Gary” stars Ebon Moss-Bachrach (Richie) and Jon Bernthal (Mikey) and was written by the pair, according to Moss-Bachrach. It’s available now on Hulu.

It’s a small treat ahead of season five of The Bear, which will be the show’s last and is expected to debut in June.

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A promotional image for the “Gary” prequel episode set in The Bear’s universe.
Image: Hulu / Ebon Moss-Bachrach on Instagram
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Meta is working on an OpenClaw-like AI agent for regular people.

The agent is dubbed “Hatch” internally, The Information reports. Meta is also apparently working on an agentic shopping tool for Instagram that it wants to launch before Q4.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
Valve shared the CAD files for the external shells of the Steam Controller and its puck.

With the files, people can more easily make accessories for the hardware. “Feel free to use these to make your own Puck holders, Controller sweaters, or whatever else you want to create!” Valve says on the GitLab page with the files.

Can’t wait to see what folks come up with. (And if you’re doing something cool, let me know!)

A detailed image of the Steam Controller.
Image: Valve
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
A 40,000-acre data center project was just approved in Utah, despite outcry from the community.

As reported by The Salt Lake Tribune, the planned hyperscale data center in Box Elder County, when fully completed, is expected to use 9 gigawatts of power — more than double the 4 gigawatts of power used by the state right now. The project is backed in part by Shark Tank investor Kevin O’Leary.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
SEC proposal would end quarterly earnings reports requirements and switch to every six months.

Every three months, we get another round of financial updates from publicly traded companies like Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon, but the Trump Administration is pushing to lower that requirement to every six months. The argument in favor of changing it claims that quarterly reporting is a burden on small or medium-sized companies, despite the risks of weaker monitoring, as Reuters and WSJ report.

Emma Roth
Emma Roth
Pennsylvania sues Character.AI over chatbots pretending to be doctors.

An investigation by Pennsylvania found that some of Character.AI’s chatbots “claimed to be licensed professionals,” including one that “falsely stated it was licensed in Pennsylvania and provided an invalid license number.”

The state alleges Character.AI violated Pennsylvania’s Medical Practice Act, which says people can’t present themselves as a medical professional without a license.

Andrew Liszewski
Andrew Liszewski
Chrome on Android is increasing privacy with approximate location sharing.

For times when you don’t need a website to know exactly where you are (like when checking the weather versus finding the closest ATM) Google is introducing the option to only share your approximate location. It will launch for Chrome on Android first, but expand to the desktop browser in the coming months.

An Android smartphone displaying a screenshot of Google Chrome’s location tracking options.
Android phones will have the option to share your exact location with websites in Chrome, or only the neighborhood you’re in.
Image: Google
Jay Peters
Jay Peters
The Android Show is back ahead of Google I/O.

The next edition will take place on May 12th at 1PM ET. The link for the livestream is already up, and Google is promising that “This is going to be one of the biggest years for Android yet.”

Google I/O kicks off a week later, on May 19th.