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Trump officials accidentally added The Atlantic's EIC to a Signal group chat about the US' Houthi war plans; Signal is not approved for sharing classified info — U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn't think it could be real.
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| Washington Post: |
Interviews with 24+ US government workers show many embraced Signal after Trump's return to office as a tactic to shield communications, impacting transparency — The encrypted chat app beloved by Elon Musk and foreign dissidents has been embraced by federal government workers, DOGE and military planners.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces WWDC 2025 for June 9-13, which will be an “entirely online” event free for developers, with an in-person special event at Apple Park on June 9 — Apple has officially announced WWDC 2025. The event will take place on June 9 and run through June 13 at Apple Park in California.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google debuts Gemini 2.5, first with 2.5 Pro Experimental, a “thinking” model that Google says leads on some benchmarks; available now for Gemini Advanced users — Following updates to the models that are available for all users, Google today announced Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental) for Advanced subscribers and developers.| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-VL-32B, a 32B open model under Apache 2.0, claiming better math reasoning and alignment with human preferences than earlier 2.5 models — Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter. The second big open weight LLM release from China today - the first being DeepSeek v3-0324.
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| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
OpenAI starts rolling out GPT-4o-powered “Images in ChatGPT” to all tiers including free; OpenAI says it's a step change above previous image-generating models — The new upgrade is better at text rendering. … OpenAI is integrating new image generation capabilities directly …
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: the European Commission is set to close its year-long probe into browser options on iOS without a fine after Apple made changes to comply with the DMA — EU antitrust regulators are set to close their year-long investigation into Apple's (AAPL.O) browser options on iPhones …
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| Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: |
As TikTok faces a US ban on April 5, the ByteDance-owned app has a new ad campaign framing TikTok as a savior of Americans and a champion of small businesses — The popular video app, which could be banned in the United States next month if it is not sold to a non-Chinese owner …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out a pilot program on Instagram designed to let US schools flag any potentially rule-violating post or account for prioritized review — The platform's new partnership program will prioritize reports made by schools. … Instagram is rolling out a new program to fast-track moderation reports made by school districts.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
3D tech company Infinite Reality acquires Napster for $207M; Infinite's CEO says that the file-sharing phenomenon will be used for marketing in the metaverse — A quarter century ago, Napster was notorious on the internet for allowing people to swap songs for free, long before the music industry …
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
The Arc Prize Foundation says its new ARC-AGI-2 test stumps most AI models; humans get 60% of the questions right but GPT-4.5 and Claude 3.7 Sonnet score ~1% — The Arc Prize Foundation, a nonprofit co-founded by prominent AI researcher François Chollet, announced in a blog post …
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| Bloomberg: |
Since DeepSeek-R1's debut, Chinese companies like Baidu, DeepSeek, Tencent, Ant, and Alibaba have been flooding the market with low cost AI services and models — - China firms release 10 major releases or updates in two weeks — Low-cost, open source models may undercut Valley firm profits| Bloomberg: |
Trump's World Liberty Financial unveils USD1, a 1:1 USD-pegged stablecoin on Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain, with BitGo as custodian; its launch date is TBA — President Donald Trump's crypto project World Liberty Financial said it plans to launch a stablecoin redeemable one-for-one with the dollar …
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| Danny Park / The Block: |
Binance suspends an employee for allegedly using insider information to sell tokens for significant profits; X users suggest the project was the memecoin UUU — - Binance Wallet announced that it has suspended an employee for allegedly using insider information to sell tokens for significant profits …
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| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
TechInsights: the costs of 300mm wafers at TSMC's Fab 21 near Phoenix, Arizona, are set to be only ~10% higher than those of similar wafers processed in Taiwan — It is equipment, not labor that defines chipmaking costs. — Comments made by TSMC founder Morris Chang about high fab building costs … | Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Some EU organizations weigh moving from AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure over US privacy fears under Trump; two European cloud providers say it is driving interest — Companies in the EU are starting to look for ways to ditch Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud services amid fears of rising security risks from the US.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: companies like Nvidia and many governments are trying to persuade Trump to loosen AI chip export curbs set for May, known as the “AI diffusion rule” — - Nvidia and Oracle pushing for full repeal of AI diffusion rule — Companies must start complying with global restrictions May 15| Michael Burkhardt / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Music is opening its catalog to DJs by integrating with popular DJ software and hardware platforms including Algoriddim's djay Pro and AlphaTheta — In a statement today, Apple announced that it would be integrating the Apple Music catalog with a number of popular tools … | Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
Quora's Poe launches a cheaper $5/month premium tier, alongside a new $250/month plan that it says is better for more “expensive” models like GPT-4.5 and o1-pro — Poe, Quora's chatbot app, launched one of its most affordable subscription options on Monday, priced at just $5 per month.
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| Bloomberg: |
A profile of veteran Googler Liz Reid, who became Head of Search in March 2024 and rolled out major changes, like AI Overviews, as Google competes with ChatGPT — Big changes are underway for the internet's most popular product, and Google (and the web) may never be the same.
More: Search Engine Land. Mastodon: @glenngabe@mas.to. X: @daveyalba, @ichbingisele, @daveyalba, and @daveyalba. Forums: r/technology
| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Nexthop AI launches with $110M in seed and Series A funding led by Lightspeed Ventures, offering hardware and software for cloud AI infrastructure — Nexthop AI launched today with $110 million in funding led by Lightspeed Ventures to help the world's largest cloud companies build …
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