🍎 Apple just had its best March quarter ever

⚖️ Elon Musk's day in court is not going great

🤖 Chinese court rules companies can't fire workers just to hire AI

🔍 Reddit search usage jumps 30% as the platform eyes a billion users

🚗 Google swaps Assistant for Gemini in millions of cars

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Apple reported $111.2 billion in revenue for Q2 2026, up 17% year over year and above its own guidance of 13-16% growth, with $2.01 earnings per share beating Wall Street's $1.94 estimate.

iPhone led with $56.99 billion in revenue, while Services hit an all-time record at $30.98 billion, continuing its climb as Apple's second-largest and fastest-growing revenue pillar.

Apple said demand for the iPhone 17 lineup drove a March quarter record, and the newly launched MacBook Neo is pulling in customers — giving the earnings beat a product story, not just a macro one.

Musk spent a third day on the stand in his lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging the company abandoned its nonprofit mission, but OpenAI's lawyer repeatedly caught him in contradictions using his own emails, posts, and deposition transcripts.

The cross-examination exposed several credibility problems: Musk claimed he never loses his temper, then raised his voice at the lawyer; said he didn't know what "safety cards" are, even though xAI publishes them for Grok.

Musk left OpenAI after its founders refused to hand him control, and now runs xAI as a for-profit company — two facts OpenAI's lawyer made sure the jury heard before Musk could frame himself as a principled safety advocate.

A Hangzhou court ruled that an AI tech company broke labor law when it fired a quality assurance supervisor after its own LLMs took over his job, marking a significant precedent in AI-era employment disputes.

The court found that AI-driven replacement doesn't qualify as a "major change in objective circumstances" under China's Labor Contract Law, a threshold reserved for events like mergers, and that a 40% pay cut isn't a "reasonable" reassignment.

A similar ruling came out of Beijing involving a map data collector, suggesting Chinese courts are building a consistent position: companies adopting AI voluntarily must absorb the risk, not offload it onto workers.

Reddit reported 30% year-on-year growth in weekly search users, with CEO Steve Huffman crediting the search team directly on the Q1 earnings call and calling it a key driver of retention and daily actives.

The gains follow years of investment in search infrastructure, including AI features like Reddit Answers and a new AI-powered shopping search test that targets the 40% of Reddit conversations Huffman says are commercial in nature.

Reddit hit 493 million weekly active users and beat revenue expectations by $53 million, which makes its ambition to reach a billion daily users sound slightly less like a joke than it did a year ago.

Google is rolling out Gemini to cars with Google built-in in the U.S., replacing Assistant with a system that handles navigation, music, messages, car settings, and hands-free controls.

The upgrade taps into Google Maps, Gmail, and Calendar, and can pull answers directly from vehicle manuals — General Motors is bringing it to around 4 million cars from model year 2022 onward.

Gemini Live, a conversational beta mode for learning and brainstorming, is also included — a feature that feels a little ambitious for a Tuesday morning commute, but points to where this is heading.

A) Sure, that tracks — geopolitics are real - 19%

B) Nah, that's a convenient excuse - 81% 🏆