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Ubisoft carves out a unit, which includes Assassin's Creed, into a ~€4B subsidiary; Tencent will invest €1.16B to acquire a 25% stake in the new entity — The deal represents a vote of confidence from Tencent, which already holds a 10% stake in Ubisoft, in the wake …
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| Andrew Goudsward / Reuters: |
A US federal judge orders agencies whose leaders participated in the Signal chat on the Houthi attacks to preserve all messages sent from March 11 to March 15 — A U.S. judge on Thursday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to preserve messages sent on the Signal messaging app … | Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
Appfigures: Signal downloads were up 45% from the daily average on March 24 in the US and up 42% in Yemen, after The Atlantic's story; global downloads grew 28% — The encrypted messaging app Signal is getting some unexpected attention this week. — High-ranking officials in the Trump administration …
More: Wired, Wall Street Journal, The Hill, Washington Post, and Sherwood News
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LinkedIn: Andy Greenberg and Richard Rosenthal
Forums: Hacker News, r/politics, r/signal, r/TrueReddit, r/technology, r/AnythingGoesNews, r/craftofintelligence, r/geopolitics, r/skeptic, r/JoeRogan, r/moderatepolitics, r/stupidpol, r/conspiracy, r/politics, r/Law_and_Politics, r/Whistleblowers, r/WeTheFifth, r/itcouldhappenhere, r/politics, r/somethingiswrong2024, r/inthenews, r/Destiny, r/politics, r/politics, r/Military, r/neoliberal, and r/politics
| Kyle Cheney / Politico: |
Source: the White House sent a “records retention policy” to DOGE staffers on Monday, reminding them to preserve their Signal messages and disable auto-delete — The recordkeeping instructions come amid fallout from the “Signalgate” scandal. — The White House …
More: The Independent. Bluesky: @gloriasin and @laurenmeidasa
Forums: Hacker News, r/neoliberal, and r/politics
| Bloomberg: |
Source: CoreWeave's IPO raised $1.5B, selling ~37.5M shares at $40 each, down from an initial plan of 49M shares at $47-$55; Nvidia anchored with a ~$250M order — The cloud-computing provider sold 37.5 million shares at $40 apiece, according to the person, who asked not to be identified because the information is private.| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Meta adds a Friends tab on Facebook that will show content just from users' friends, with no recommended posts, as it brings back “OG” Facebook experiences — A new Friends Tab will feature posts from a user's friends and relatives, which was the original mission of the app.
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Bluesky: @torriangray and @charlieblix
X: @jakeottiger, @sal19, @bonsaisgt, @colinandsamir, @thurrott, @mikeisaac, and @iryantldr. Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| 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 …
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Bluesky: @harrymccracken.com, @positronplays, @carnage4life, @jasonkoebler, @theinnerobserver, @andybrockman, @prietschka, @atherton, and @jael
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Forums: r/ArtistHate, r/technology, r/singularity, r/OpenAI, r/Bard, Beehaw, and Slashdot
| Joanne Jang / Reservoir Samples: |
OpenAI's model behavior lead says OpenAI is “shifting from blanket refusals in sensitive areas to a more precise approach focused on preventing real-world harm” — Navigating responsibility and user freedom, and how that influenced setting the Day 1 policy for 4o image generation in ChatGPT
X: @sama, @altryne, @nexuist, @sterlingcrispin, @joannejang, and @borismpower. LinkedIn: Wade G. Morgan
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sam Altman says “our GPUs are melting” due to ChatGPT's viral image generation and OpenAI plans to temporarily introduce some rate limits — The company is trying to make image generation more efficient, according to CEO Sam Altman. … The fervor around ChatGPT's more accessible …
More: Livemint, Financial Express, Cointelegraph, The Algorithmic Bridge, Blockchain.News, Benzinga, CNBC, and The Economic Times
Bluesky: @chickenpuppet.online. X: @levie, @basedbeffjezos, @luke_metro, @nic__carter, @kimmonismus, @trustlessstate, @peterrhague, @punk9059, and @sama
Forums: r/artificial, r/technology, r/singularity, 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.
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Forums: r/retrogaming and r/kindafunny
| 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.
More: Gizmodo, Android Police, Mashable, and Fast Company
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| Jeremy Kahn / Fortune: |
Anthropic says it created a new tool for deciphering how LLMs “think” and used it to resolve some key questions about how Claude and probably other LLMs work — Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. Today the company announced that its researchers had made a breakthrough in probing …
More: Anthropic, Transformer Circuits Thread, MIT Technology Review, VentureBeat, Platformer, and Anthropic on YouTube
Bluesky: @maxxxv, @dancow, and @markduffy.sh
X: @nicholasturner0, @chaitjo, @adamrpearce, @mlpowered, @anthropicai, @nickcammarata, and @antonioregalado. Forums: Hacker News
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Amazon partners with Electronic Arts to bring EA games like Star Wars Jedi: Survivor to cloud gaming service Amazon Luna, which is now available in 14 countries — Amazon Luna unveiled a multi-year agreement with big game publisher Electronic Arts to bring many of its top games to the Luna cloud gaming service.
More: Amazon Luna, TechPowerUp, Pocket-lint, Neowin, Digital Trends, Cord Cutters News, and The Verge
| Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg: |
AppLovin's stock closes down over 20% after short seller Muddy Waters released a report, the third such short report against the company in about a month — It's at least the third report from a short seller in about a month. In February, Fuzzy Panda and Culper Research both published short reports …
More: Muddy Waters Research, Investor's Business Daily, PocketGamer.biz, CNBC, Benzinga, and Yahoo Finance
Threads: @carnage4life. X: @muddywatersre, @fuzzypandashort, @muddywatersre, @muddywatersre, and @muddywatersre. Forums: r/wallstreetbets
| 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.
More: The Keyword, The Verge, Ars Technica, BGR, Chrome Unboxed, Gizchina.com, Android Headlines, Quartz, Digital Trends, PhocusWire, MakeUseOf, Engadget, PCMag, and Android Police
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Taiwan is investigating 11 Chinese tech firms, including SMIC, which is being probed for allegedly poaching engineers to access the island's advanced chip tech — Taiwan is investigating whether China's leading chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. illegally poached local engineers … | Mark Wilson / Fast Company: |
A look at Archetype, whose AI model Newton is trained to analyze output from sensors monitoring the physical world, including cities and factories — What happens when you feed an AI countless scientific readings? It learns physics, and how the world itself works.| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Q&A with Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy on working at Bell Labs and Google, building Neeva, Snowflake's business model and its approach to AI, and more — This week's Stratechery Interview is with Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy. Ramaswamy started his career at Bell Labs …
| Satviki Sanjay / Bloomberg: |
EY: Indians collectively spent 1.1T hours on their smartphones in 2024, averaging five hours daily, with ~70% of the time on social media, gaming, and videos — Indians collectively spent 1.1 trillion hours staring at their smartphones in 2024, according to management consultant EY … | The Information: |
Sources: the Chinese startup behind Manus is in talks with US VC firms and others to raise funding at a $500M+ valuation, up ~5x from its previous valuation — The Chinese startup that operates Manus, the artificial intelligence agent that became a viral hit in the U.S. earlier this month …
X: @nmasc_ and @scobleizer
| 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 … | Financial Times: |
More: The Register, Venture Capital Journal, Tom's Hardware, and CNBC
Forums: r/technology, r/intelstock, r/technology, r/technews, and Ars OpenForum
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