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Meta:
Meta launches Llama 4 Maverick with 400B parameters and Scout with 109B parameters and a 10M context window, and previews Behemoth with 2T total parameters  —  Takeaways  — We're sharing the first models in the Llama 4 herd, which will enable people to build more personalized multimodal experiences.
More: The Verge, VentureBeat, AIN, MakeUseOf, CNBC, Analytics India Magazine, Simon Willison's Weblog, Simon Willison's Weblog, Android Central, and TipRanks Financial
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X: @ahmad_al_dahle, @jeremyphoward, @togethercompute, @groqinc, @basetenco, @openrouterai, @openrouterai, @nearcyan, @nearcyan, @bindureddy, @miles_brundage, @miles_brundage, @miles_brundage, @miles_brundage, @miles_brundage, @levelsio, @emollick, @lmarena_ai, @middleclassdesi, @xlr8harder, @levie, @ashter_haider, @bindureddy, @deanwball, @matthewberman, @rsalakhu, @madiator, @emollick, @manohar_paluri, @alew3, @btibor91, @burny_tech, @_impl, @iscienceluvr, @maximelabonne, @eliebakouch, @ariaurelium, @jconorgrogan, @drjimfan, @asaddhamani, @huggingface, @maximelabonne, @sharan0909, @dorialexander, @4xiom_, @sharan0909, @the_ai_investor, @nearcyan, @deanwball, @cfgeek, @brbcatonfire, @charliebholtz, @clementdelangue, @iscienceluvr, @krishnanrohit, @michaelsayman, @simonw, @deryatr_, @giffmana, @abhisk_kadian, @_arohan_, @loredanacrisan, @dorialexander, @tomosman, @andymstone, @jpineau1, @bradthilton, @emollick, @frameworkputer, @bhutanisanyam1, @dorialexander, @emollick, @rishdotblog, @deanwball, @dextersjab, @astonzhangaz, @naklecha, @natalianeverova, @rsdgpt, @risphereeditor, @clementdelangue, @maximelabonne, @eaccelerate_42, @aiatmeta, @lmarena_ai, and @simonw
LinkedIn: Andrew Feldman and Sean Bell
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/singularity, r/artificial, r/technology, r/singularity, and Lobsters
Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget:
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will share news about a Llama 4 Reasoning model “in the next month”  —  Meta AI for WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram now has Llama 4.  —  Meta has released the first two models from its multimodal Llama 4 suite: LLama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick.
More: Reuters, Maginative, MarkTechPost, and Hugging Face.  Threads: @zuck
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Meta updates Meta AI in WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram Direct, and the Meta.AI website with Llama 4 in 40 countries; multimodal features are US-only in English  —  Meta has released a new collection of AI models, Llama 4, in its Llama family — on a Saturday, no less.
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
In backing Trump, effective accelerationists like Musk and Andreessen got a “Decel-in-Chief”, who instigated a brain drain and tariffs that hurt tech companies  —  In October of 2023, Marc Andreessen, founder of the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) …
Joseph Bambridge / Politico:
OpenAI and Google reject the UK's proposal to allow training AI on copyrighted work without permission unless rights holders opt out to “reserve their rights”  —  The U.K. government's AI copyright plans can't seem to please anyone.  —  LONDON — Leading AI companies OpenAI …
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Joel Kaplan says Meta's US fact-checking program will be over by Monday, and Community Notes will start appearing on Facebook, Threads, and Instagram  —  Meta will no longer have any fact-checkers in the U.S. come Monday, according to chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan.
Makena Kelly / Wired:
Sources: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in Washington DC next week to build a “mega API” for accessing all IRS data, with Palantir as a possible partner  —  DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.
Harry Alston / TheGamer:
Schedule 1, a drug-dealing simulator made by a single developer, tops Steam charts with an estimated 2M+ copies sold after going viral on streams and TikTok  —  I keep my eyes on new game releases because I have to: it's a part of my job.  For those who are a bit more casual when it comes to playing games …
Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica:
New Jersey's governor signs a law criminalizing creating and sharing “deceptive and dangerous deepfakes”, like fake AI nudes of minors, with up to a $30K fine  —  When Francesca Mani was 14 years old, boys at her New Jersey high school used nudify apps to target her and other girls.
Reuters:
Sources: a TikTok US deal, which was largely finalized by April 2, was put on hold after China indicated it would reject the deal over President Trump's tariffs  —  A deal to spin off the U.S. assets of TikTok was put on hold after China indicated that it would not approve …
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Trump says he signed an executive order to keep TikTok running for 75 more days, as “the deal requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed”

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Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters:
Warner Bros. Discovery says John Malone is not seeking re-election to the board of directors and will instead take on the role of chairman emeritus

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