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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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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.| 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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| Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai warns of a bubble in data center construction, saying the buildout may outpace early AI demand and is starting to look indiscriminate — A rush by big tech firms, investment funds and other entities to erect server bases from the US to Asia is starting to look indiscriminate … | 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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| 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| 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 … | 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 … | 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 and Beyond Search
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| Reuters: |
Samsung says co-CEO Han Jong-hee has died at age 63 from cardiac arrest and that Jun Young-hyun, appointed as co-CEO just last week, would now be the sole CEO — South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) said on Tuesday that its co-CEO Han Jong-hee has died from cardiac arrest.
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| 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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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI updates Advanced Voice Mode to make ChatGPT “more direct, engaging, concise, specific, and creative” for paying users, and interrupt all users less often — OpenAI released updates Monday for Advanced Voice Mode, its AI voice feature that enables real-time conversations in ChatGPT …
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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
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| 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 …
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| Bloomberg: |
TikTok memo: Blake Chandlee, who oversaw TikTok's ad sales and marketing globally, is moving to an advisory role; TikTok faces an April 5 deadline for a US sale — A TikTok executive responsible for its core advertising business is stepping aside as part of a reorganization … | 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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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo plans to launch its Waymo One ride-hailing service in Washington, DC in 2026; the city currently prohibits autonomous vehicles without safety drivers — But it will need to change the law prohibiting fully driverless vehicles first. … Waymo announced that Washington, DC will be its next robotaxi city.
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| Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
AI startup Synthesia says it's creating a $1M stock pool to pay actors with equity for the use of their likeness, a first for the AI industry — Move by London-based start-up to compensate those it uses to generate digital ‘avatars’ is a first for AI industry
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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 … Sponsor Posts
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