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From Techmeme: Music publishers including UMG, Warner Music, and Sony drop a copyright suit against Verizon following a SCOTUS decision limiting ISP liability in Cox's suit (Kyle Jahner/Bloomberg Law)

From memeorandum: Trump ally Ronny Jackson weighs bid for top House Armed Services spot (Connor O'Brien/Politico)

From Techmeme: Anthropic says it has fixed three causes of recent Claude Code quality issues: reduced default reasoning, a caching bug, and a system prompt to reduce verbosity (Anthropic)

From Techmeme: GPT-5.5 is priced at $5/1M input tokens and $30/1M output tokens, double GPT-5.4's pricing; GPT-5.5 Pro costs $30/1M input tokens and $180/1M output tokens (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

From Techmeme: GPT-5.5 is rolling out to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in ChatGPT and Codex, and GPT-5.5 Pro to Pro, Business, and Enterprise users in ChatGPT (The Verge)

From Techmeme: At a town hall, Asha Sharma said Microsoft is returning to using Xbox for its gaming division, instead of Microsoft Gaming, as "Xbox needs to be our identity" (Tom Warren/The Verge)

From Techmeme: Memo: Meta plans to cut 10% of workers, or ~8,000 jobs, on May 20 and won't fill 6,000 open roles, in an effort to offset its AI spending and boost efficiency (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

From Techmeme: Microsoft announces its first voluntary retirement program, for staff whose years of employment and age add up to 70+; source: 7% of US employees are eligible (Jordan Novet/CNBC)

From Techmeme: A look at Microsoft's recent wave of executive departures, as it struggles to retain talent and changes its annual rewards and performance programs in response (Tom Warren/The Verge)

From memeorandum: Washington Enters Its TMZ Era (Charlotte Klein/New York Magazine)

From memeorandum: 'All eyes are on Ron DeSantis': Florida could make or break the GOP's redistricting edge (Politico)

From memeorandum: 'The Rich Don't Play by the Rules. So Why Should I?' (New York Times)

From memeorandum: Pence calls Trump's Jesus imagery 'offensive,' warns tariffs are straining the economy (Ali Vitali/MS NOW)

From memeorandum: Trump Administration Aims to Strip Citizenship From Hundreds of Naturalized Americans (New York Times)

From memeorandum: RFK Jr. draws backlash for ripping Medicaid programs that pay people to care for relatives (Mike Hixenbaugh/NBC News)

From memeorandum: 'People Here Do Not Consider Themselves Poor. They Consider Themselves Broke.' (Michelle Cottle/New York Times)

From memeorandum: Russell Brand Admits to 'Exploitative' Sexual Behavior (Jason P. Frank/Vulture)

From memeorandum: Trump Voters Like Marco Rubio More and More (Sarah Longwell/The Atlantic)

From memeorandum: ICE tells officers to curtail court arrests, stop entering homes without warrants (NBC News)

From memeorandum: Senate Adopts G.O.P. Budget, Defeating Democrats' Affordability Proposals (New York Times)