May 10, 2025

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-05-10

Fridays bring a flood of news that is rarely covered in depth.

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Ah, the Friday news dump. Let’s see the memes!

By Friday, everything seems to be reaching the peak of getting news turned in before a deadline or dread-line. It sometimes seems like we reach a fever pitch in news coverage throughout the week.

Peak 🏔️ vs. Peek 👀

Then there is a trope, cliché, or bromide about slow news days and the quietly mentioned news updates sent on a Friday — to try and sneak it past wider coverage. Or, in a nutshell, peak patronizing publishing.

Insert Let's See Who This Really Is Meme

Techmeme: Sources: the US Treasury asked Benchmark whether its Manus AI funding is covered by restrictions on investments in tech destined for “countries of concern” (Reed Albergotti/Semafor)

By Reed Albergotti / Semafor. View the full context on Techmeme.

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

Techmeme: Google agrees to pay Texas $1.4B to settle two lawsuits claiming it tracks Texans' personal location and maintains their facial recognition data without consent (Ryan Autullo/Bloomberg Law)

By Ryan Autullo / Bloomberg Law. View the full context on Techmeme.

Insert We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

Techmeme: Tech companies warn they may pull back from US investment pledges if Congress doesn't fully reinstate the R&D tax deduction pared back in Trump's 2017 tax bill (Emily Birnbaum/Bloomberg)

By Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.

Insert That Wasn't Me, That Was Patricia Meme

Techmeme: President Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexico is suing Google for ignoring requests not to call the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America on Google Maps in the US (Danai Nesta Kupemba/BBC)

By Danai Nesta Kupemba / BBC. View the full context on Techmeme.

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

Techmeme: Appfigures estimates Apple made $10.1B in revenue from US App Store commissions in 2024, up from $4.8B in 2020, $6.7B in 2021, $7.4B in 2022, and $8.8B in 2023 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

By Sarah Perez / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.

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