Mike Scarcella / Reuters: US v. Google: Google has preemptively paid damages to the US government, an unusual move aimed at avoiding a jury trial in the DOJ's antitrust lawsuit  —  Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google has preemptively paid damages to the U.S. government, an unusual move aimed at avoiding a jury trial …

Kat Tenbarge / NBC News: Scarlett Johansson says she declined an offer to voice ChatGPT and was “shocked, angered” that Sam Altman would pursue Sky, a voice “so eerily similar” to hers  —  The “Her” actor released a statement following OpenAI pulling its “Sky” voice from ChatGPT, which many people said sounded like her.

Cory Weinberg / The Information: Sources: Anduril has had early discussions to raise ~$1.5B at a $12.5B+ valuation, and told investors it roughly doubled revenue to about $500M last year  —  Military defense startup Anduril has had early discussions to raise what would be one of the largest venture capital rounds of the year so far …

Samantha Cole / 404 Media: The FBI has arrested a man on criminal charges for allegedly producing and distributing AI-generated images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct  —  He allegedly used Stable Diffusion, a text-to-image generative AI model, to create “thousands of realistic images of prepubescent minors,” prosecutors said.

Hannah Ellis-Petersen / The Guardian: Meta approved AI-manipulated Facebook ads during India's election that spread disinfo and incited religious violence; civil groups submitted them as a test  —  Exclusive: Ads containing AI-manipulated images were submitted to Facebook by civil and corporate accountability groups

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Zoom reports Q1 revenue up 3.2% YoY to $1.14B, vs. $1.13B est., enterprise revenue up 5.3% YoY to $665.7M, and a Q2 sales forecast in line with estimates  —  Revenue will be about $1.15 billion in the period ending in July, the company said Monday in a statement.  Profit, excluding some items, will be about $1.21 per share.