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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
After OpenAI released ChatGPT's new image generator, social media has been flooded with AI memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, highlighting copyright concerns — It's only been a day since ChatGPT's new AI image generator went live, and social media feeds are already flooded with AI-generated memes …
More: 404 Media, OpenAI, Ars Technica, The Verge, The Verge, Quartz, Engadget, Business Insider, Ghacks, Creative Bloq, Axios, KnowTechie, Hindustan Times, Forbes, The US Sun, Digital Trends, CoinDesk, Moneycontrol, Blockonomi, Business Standard, Coinpedia Fintech News, AI News, Digit, Livemint, VentureBeat, The Daily Beast, Variety, NBC News, HotHardware, and Tom's Guide
Bluesky: @jael. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social. X: @sama, @grantslatton, @mdurbar, @venturetwins, @pjaccetturo, @trungtphan, @shilstone_arts, @morganb, @halvarflake, @balajis, @michael_nielsen, @tobi, @bcmerchant, @loudmouthjulia, @petergyang, @quantian1, @nickmillermusic, @ednewtonrex, @trungtphan, @uncledoomer, @adonis_singh, @pjaccetturo, @heybarsee, @sama, @kilimeeeen, @peduarte, @nuberodesign, @adtac_, @pelziee, @guiltfoyle, @hkesvani, @sama, @nearcyan, @btckaz, @grantslatton, @bigblackjacobin, @thejasonrink, @indian_bronson, @space_b0y_, @r3h8t, @cpaik, @hebennigatu, @thecaptain_nemo, @gdb, @niles100, @gergelyorosz, @thekitze, @bizlet7, @nikitabier, @mrewanmorrison, @uncledoomer, @jiratickets, @ednewtonrex, @metaplexmovies, @tom_westgarth15, @nearcyan, @f_edits, @bartlebytaco, @nabeelqu, @787fka, @tracewoodgrains, @slimjosa, @ausscreenwriter, @wildbarestepf, and @imbethmccoll
Forums: r/technology, r/OpenAI, r/Bard, Beehaw, and Slashdot
| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Nintendo unveils Virtual Game Cards to make it easier for users to port over their existing Switch games to other devices and lend out games, available in April — Nintendo announced on Thursday that it is working on Virtual Game Cards, a feature that makes digitally downloaded games more portable across different devices.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI will support Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, an open-source standard that connects AI models to data for more relevant answers — OpenAI is embracing rival Anthropic's standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data resides.
More: Microsoft on GitHub, OpenAI Agents SDK, The Information, Shelly Palmer, Analytics India Magazine, Constellation Research, VentureBeat, and The Decoder
X: @sama, @openaidevs, @mikeyk, @levie, @jeff_weinstein, @maheshmurag, @tobi, @geoand86, @nilslice, @ritakozlov_, and @mattpocockuk
Forums: r/modelcontextprotocol, r/ClaudeAI, and r/modelcontextprotocol
| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: after nearly five years of building a US plant, TSMC expects new factories to take two years; TSMC plans a 3nm US plant by 2028 and a 2nm one by 2030 — TAIPEI — When TSMC Chairman and CEO C.C. Wei stood next to U.S. President Donald Trump early this month and announced …
More: AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, iClarified, and Taipei Times
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Instacart rolls out Store View, paying shoppers to film store shelves “one aisle at a time” to assess inventory, starting with select US and Canadian retailers — Store View is supposed to help Instacart determine which products are out of stock and when they may become available.
More: ZDNET and Digital Trends
| Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: |
Nvidia debuts G-Assist, an experimental, gaming-centric AI chatbot that runs locally and offers system diagnostics, setting recommendations for games, and more — Most people use their Nvidia GPUs for games, but why not both? Nvidia has a new AI you can run at the same time, having just released its experimental G-Assist AI.
More: NVIDIA GeForce on YouTube, NVIDIA, The Decoder, WinBuzzer, KitGuru, The Verge, TechRadar, Tom's Hardware, Neowin, and Digital Trends. Forums: Ars OpenForum
| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
Takeaways after using AI search exclusively for one month: AI search is more of a UX revamp than a replacement for Google's blue links-based web search paradigm — Ads and search-optimized junk made a mess of the go-to engine. Now ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude—and even Google's own AI—do it better.
More: Ars Technica, Yahoo Finance, and Search Engine Journal
Bluesky: @joannastern and @stevekovach
X: @joannastern and @joannastern
Forums: Hacker News and r/apple
| Dylan Butts / CNBC: |
Alibaba releases open-source multimodal AI model Qwen2.5-Omni-7B on Hugging Face and GitHub, saying the model can be deployed on edge devices like smartphones — Alibaba Cloud launched Thursday its latest AI model in its “Qwen series,” as large language model competition in China continues to heat up following the “DeepSeek moment.”
More: Qwen, SiliconANGLE, Hugging Face, Alizila, Benzinga, Barron's Online, Moneycontrol, Analytics India Magazine, South China Morning Post, KrASIA, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, and Tech in Asia. Forums: r/LocalLLaMA
| Caiwei Chen / MIT Technology Review: |
Sources: many new Chinese AI data centers sit unused due to weak demand and DeepSeek-driven shifts; local reports: up to 80% of new computing resources are idle — A year or so ago, Xiao Li was seeing floods of Nvidia chip deals on WeChat. A real estate contractor turned data center project manager …
Bluesky: @emilprotalinski, @sungkim, @carnage4life, @niallfirth, @lifewinning.com, @technologyreview.com, @drdoofenschmirtz, and @mattmday. Mastodon: @jukkan@mstdn.social
Forums: r/NVDA_Stock, r/China, r/technews, r/ArtistHate, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Isabella Ward / Bloomberg: |
JPMorgan researchers say they have generated and certified truly random numbers using a quantum computer, a world-first with potential security and trading uses — Researchers created the sequence using a quantum computer built by Honeywell's Quantinuum, according to a paper published in the scientific journal Nature on Wednesday.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out new Search, Maps, and Gemini features to help plan vacations, including hotel price drop alerts and turning screenshots into holiday plans — Google is rolling out a slew of new features — some powered by AI — across Search, Maps, and Gemini that are designed to help people plan their summer vacations.| The Information: |
Source: Nvidia is in advanced talks to acquire Lepton AI, which rents Nvidia GPU-based servers, for several hundred million dollars; Lepton raised $11M in 2023 — Nvidia is in advanced talks to buy Lepton AI, a two-year-old startup that rents out servers powered by Nvidia's artificial intelligence chips …
More: DatacenterDynamics, Verdict, TipRanks Financial, Benzinga, Tech in Asia, and TechCrunch. Bluesky: @emilprotalinski
| Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
Google says it plans to develop Android fully in private to streamline its development process but will continue to publish the source code for new releases — Android OS development will now fully happen behind closed doors, but Google says it's committed to releasing source code
More: Ars Technica, 9to5Google, The Standard, Ghacks, Neowin, Beebom, WinBuzzer, SammyGuru, Business Standard, Phandroid, Liliputing, Android Central, ZDNET, Android Police, Droid Life, Android Headlines, and OSnews
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Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/technology, r/google, r/technews, r/technology, r/opensource, r/Android, Beehaw, Lobsters, news.slashdot.org, and Ars OpenForum
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is promoting Vanessa Trigub to VP of stores and retail operations globally, as it streamlines management of its retail arm under Deirdre O'Brien — Apple Inc. is naming a global head of stores, a move meant to streamline management of its retail arm under senior executive Deirdre O'Brien …
More: MacRumors, Fortune, iClarified, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Benzinga, and Tech in Asia
| Bloomberg: |
Source: CoreWeave plans to cut its IPO from $2.7B to ~$1.5B, offering ~37.5M shares at $40 each, vs. 49M shares at $47 to $55, as market volatility hurts demand — The cloud-computing provider plans to offer investors about 37.5 million shares at $40 apiece, according to the person …
More: Semafor, Financial Times, Financial Times, CoinDesk, Reuters, Axios, Barron's Online, and Forbes
Bluesky: @quinnypig.com, @python357, @edzitron.com, and @treadingwater1
X: @lizrhoffman and @austinahlman
| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
The Trump administration cut $20M for the Commerce Department's Bureau of Industry and Security, which oversees chip export controls, or ~10% of BIS' budget — A White House move to cut 10% of the funding for the agency responsible for semiconductor export controls risks undermining US efforts … | Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Reddit banned r/WhitePeopleTwitter for 72 hours in February 2025 after Elon Musk messaged CEO Steve Huffman about users threatening DOGE staffers — Reddit took action after Musk messaged CEO Steve Huffman about users blocking X links and threatening DOGE staffers.
Forums: r/NoShitSherlock and r/politics
| Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
Robinhood plans to roll out checking and savings accounts in 2025 for its paying Gold subscribers, aiming to provide more of a private banking-like experience — Now it's taking it a step further: It also wants to be your bank. — Robinhood will roll out checking and savings accounts later … | Paul Berger / Wall Street Journal: |
Flexport CEO Ryan Petersen says the startup generated revenue of $2.1B in 2024, up from $1.6B in 2023, but missed its target to be profitable by the end of 2024 — Founder and CEO of digital forwarder, Ryan Petersen, says company will hit goal in 2025, paving way for potential public offering
More: The Information
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Oracle customers confirm the authenticity of data samples shared by a threat actor who allegedly breached Oracle Cloud servers, after Oracle denied the breach — Despite Oracle denying a breach of its Oracle Cloud federated SSO login servers and the theft of account data for 6 million people …
More: Computing, The Register, SecurityWeek, The Register, BleepingComputer, Security Boulevard, WebProNews, Ace of Spades HQ, Australian Financial Review, IT Brew, AIM, CSO, Cybersecurity Dive, ITPro, Information Age, and Benzinga
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Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social and @jerry@infosec.exchange
LinkedIn: Tom Walker and Alon Gal
Forums: Hacker News and r/cybersecurity
| Maggie Miller / Politico: |
DNI Tulsi Gabbard told a Congressional hearing that Signal comes “pre-installed” on government devices, hinting at a major shift following the Salt Typhoon hack — The app had been largely banned on government-issued devices in the past. — Director of National Intelligence …
More: Doomsday Scenario, NPR, The Overspill, New York Times, The Hill, MSNBC, Bloomberg, NBC News, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, WSJ News on YouTube, C-SPAN.org, Newsmax, Good Morning America, On Democracy …, Washington Post, Roll Call, ABC News on YouTube, Washington Post, CBS News on YouTube, Forbes Breaking News on YouTube, Associated Press, New York Times, Above the Law, USA Today, Time, Santa Clarita Valley Signal, Raw Story, Fast Company, The Hill, NPR, and CBS News
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