|
April 10, 2025, 2:45 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| CNBC: |
The Nasdaq falls 6%+, with Apple down 7%+, Nvidia down 8%+, and Meta down 7%+, as the White House confirms that Trump's tariffs on China now total 145% — Stocks fell Thursday, giving back half of the gains from the historic rally seen in the previous session after President Donald Trump announced …
More: CNBC, NBC News, New York Times, 9to5Mac, Axios, Proactive, BBC, AppleInsider, UPI, CNN, Forbes, CNBC, Time, Yahoo Finance, Blockonomi, Benzinga, Cointelegraph, TechRadar, Macworld, Protos, and The Irish Times
Bluesky: @jessicawildfire, @ericcolumbus, @mommamia, @karlbode.com, and @karaswisher
Truth Social: @realDonaldTrump …, @realDonaldTrump …, and @realDonaldTrump …
Mastodon: @GaryRLundberg@newsie.social and @samlitzinger@journa.host
X: @howardlutnick, @whitehouse, @howardlutnick, @mikeisaac, @teroterotero, @teroterotero, @levie, @secscottbessent, @rapidresponse47, @alexberenson, @whitehouse, @johnedeaton1, @rapidresponse47, @patrickmcgee_, @whitehouse, @adamscochran, @tszzl, @stevesi, @billackman, @repcarlos, @chamath, @pattymurray, @mattbruenig, @kasparov63, @stephenm, @justinwolfers, @jamessurowiecki, @justinwolfers, @gopmajoritywhip, @noahpinion, @krassenstein, @nntaleb, @thestalwart, @cgasparino, @thestalwart, @rapidresponse47, @justinwolfers, @acyn, @mattyglesias, @thestalwart, @elerianm, @secscottbessent, @annaeconomist, @tier10k, @whitehouse, @cliffordasness, @stephenm, @mattyglesias, @byzgeneral, @oren_cass, @modeledbehavior, @greg_ip, @billackman, @rohanspatel, @walshfreedom, @speakerjohnson, @mattyglesias, @richardhanania, @jamie1coutts, @kidehen, @maggienyt, @byrnehobart, @rabois, @jamessurowiecki, @charliekirk11, @atabarrok, @rapidresponse47, @billackman, @spectatorindex, @jasonfurman, @patrickmoorhead, @whitehouse, @billackman, @emeriticus, @chadbown, @afneil, @drjstrategy, @cgasparino, @rapidresponse47, @howardlutnick, @whitehouse, and @bernstein
Forums: r/politics and r/wallstreetbets
| Reuters: |
Sources: Apple chartered cargo flights to ferry 600 tons of iPhones, or up to 1.5M units, to the US from India; a source says Apple “wanted to beat the tariff” — Tech giant Apple chartered cargo flights to ferry 600 tons of iPhones, or as many as 1.5 million …
More: The Verge, The Guardian, Fortune, PYMNTS.com, CBS News, Quartz, The Independent, New York Post, Entrepreneur, Metro.co.uk, The Sun, Patently Apple, The Economic Times, Silicon UK, Hindustan Times, Reuters, BBC, and CNBC
Forums: r/worldnews, r/politics, and r/technology
| Bloomberg: |
Trump's 90-day tariff pause gives Nintendo, whose stock closed up 11.7% on April 10, time to prep the Switch 2's US launch on June 5 and lifts pricing pressure — For now. — The 90-day reprieve on heightened tariffs for most US trading partners gives the Japanese company a chance to ramp …
More: The Verge, PCMag, Engadget, Kotaku, GoNintendo, GamesRadar, 9to5Toys, My Nintendo News, Gameranx, Creative Bloq, Video Games Chronicle, Tom's Guide, and Polygon
| Wayne Ma / The Information: |
A look at the internal chaos behind Apple's Siri failure, in part due to poor leadership, with John Giannandrea's AI/ML group dubbed “AIMLess” internally — Last June, at Apple's annual developers conference, the company offered a dazzling demonstration of how artificial intelligence …
More: MacRumors, Parker Ortolani, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Apple Must, and BGR
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Meta says LLMs have historically leaned left and wants to remove that bias with Llama 4 to “understand and articulate both sides of a contentious issue” — Bias in artificial intelligence systems, or the fact that large language models, facial recognition, and AI image generators …
More: International Business Times and WinBuzzer
Bluesky: @karlbode.com, @thekvetch, @brijsingh, @gwestr.me, @imnoexpert.com, @hypervisible, @smcgrath.phd, @philipberne.com, @caliban10, @nearestnabors.com, @emanuelmaiberg, @charlyjsp, and @josephcox
Mastodon: @alex@dair-community.social, @bitinn@mastodon.gamedev.place, and @mvsde@mastodon.social. X: @ericgeller. LinkedIn: Michael Bolton
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI updates ChatGPT with a memory feature that references past chats for answers, rolling out to ChatGPT Pro and Plus subscribers, but not in the UK and EEA — OpenAI announced on Thursday that it's starting to roll out a new memory feature in ChatGPT that allows the chatbot to tailor …
More: The Verge, CNET, Business Insider, BleepingComputer, Gizmodo, Tom's Guide, The Crypto Times, and iClarified
X: @openai, @sama, @sama, @msg, @sama, @bgurley, @polynoamial, @garymarcus, @elder_plinius, @sama, @sama, @openai, @openai, and @openai
Forums: r/singularity and r/OpenAI
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
SentinelLabs: AkiraBot spammers exploited OpenAI's gpt-4o-mini-based API to generate unique messages, bypassing spam filters to blast 80K+ sites in four months — Spammers used OpenAI to generate messages that were unique to each recipient, allowing them to bypass spam-detection filters …
More: SentinelOne, 404 Media, Security Affairs, Infosecurity, The Overspill, Cyber Security News, and The Hacker News
Forums: r/technews and Ars OpenForum
| Bloomberg: |
Annual shareholder letter: Andy Jassy says Amazon has to operate like the “world's largest startup” and generative AI will reinvent “every customer experience” — Powerbeats Pro 2 Review: Best Workout Earbuds Still Lag on Audio Quality| David DiMolfetta / Nextgov/FCW: |
President Trump directs the DOJ to investigate former CISA Director Chris Krebs, who Trump fired for contradicting Trump's baseless 2020 election fraud claims — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday night directing the Justice Department to investigate former top …
More: The White House, The White House, CyberScoop, ZERO DAY, PCMag, The Information, SC Media, Axios, Metacurity, USA Today, The Hill, Democracy Docket, Reclaim The Net, TechCrunch, Daily Kos, Globes Online, New Republic, Shore News Network, HuffPost, Politico, PaymentSecurity.io, and ABC News
Bluesky: @mrose220, @genebryant, @noupside, @justinling.ca, @noupside, @chrisbing, @joeuchill, @patrickhowelloneill.com, @pylos.co, @tomjoscelyn, and @noupside
Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange and @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
Threads: @renee.diresta, @hollymatheson, @hollymatheson, @oliviaoftroye, and @leslieamathews
X: @acyn, @milestaylorusa, @hfields47, @sarahamatthews1, @tvietor08, @rohanspatel, @greggnunziata, @behizytweets, @ddimolfetta, @danielsgoldman, @meidastouch, @rapidresponse47, @stephenfhayes, @greggnunziata, @larrysabato, @juliaioffe, @kimzetter, @leoknyc777, @emeraldrobinson, @bulwarkonline, @timodc, and @nicoleperlroth
Forums: r/technology, r/cybersecurity, r/AntiTrumpAlliance, and r/politics
| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Chinese officials acknowledged in a secret December meeting that China was behind Volt Typhoon hacks, linking them to escalating US support for Taiwan — A senior Chinese official linked intrusions to escalating U.S. support for Taiwan — WASHINGTON—Chinese officials acknowledged …
Bluesky: @dustinvolz
| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian's Digg launches a $5 early-access program called Groundbreakers, giving a “front-row seat to how Digg is being rebuilt” — The reboot of early-internet social news site Digg is underway. Original founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian … | IEA: |
Data centers' global electricity demand could jump 100%+ to ~945TWh by 2030, and data centers are set to account for nearly 50% of US electricity demand growth — Major new IEA report brings groundbreaking data and analysis to one of the most pressing and least understood energy issues today …
More: Tech Policy Press, IEA, Silicon Republic, Factor This, The Guardian, Route Fifty, TNW, Wall Street Journal, Axios, CleanTechnica, AI News, Silicon UK, IEA, and Bloomberg
| Matt Horne / Android Authority: |
The OnePlus Watch 3 launches in the US after it was pulled to fix the “Meda in China” typo, but for $500, up from $330 OnePlus had previously announced — OnePlus has refused to comment, but new 125% tariffs on the country where the device is made might be a big clue. — •
More: How-To Geek, Android Police, 9to5Google, VICE, Android Headlines, and Droid Life
| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
Block reaches a $40M settlement with NYDFS for “critical gaps” in its anti-money laundering program, including risk-based controls and customer due diligence — - Block, Inc. had AML gaps including failing to have risk-based controls to prevent money laundering and illicit activity …
More: Department of Financial …, PYMNTS.com, Bloomberg, CoinDesk, Axios, Decrypt, Reuters, CoinGape, NFTgators, Crypto Briefing, and crypto.news. LinkedIn: Gabriel O'Malley
| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The US Senate confirms former SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins as SEC chair, succeeding Gary Gensler; Atkins is widely expected to support crypto-friendly policies — Paul Atkins is just one oath away from taking over the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as President Donald Trump's pick … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Canva launches Canva AI, which lets users create images and design ideas, and Canva Code, to create mini apps that can be integrated in designs — Although there has been significant pushback from artists regarding the proliferation of AI design tools and the content used to train generative models … | Ben Bergman / Business Insider: |
Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is raising upwards of $2B at a $10B+ valuation, after previously seeking $1B at a $9B valuation in February 2025 — - Mira Murati spent 6 ½ years at OpenAI, where she served as the CTO, working on ChatGPT.
LinkedIn: Ben Bergman
| Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters: |
Google says it will give a 71% discount to US federal agencies for Workspace, as it looks to capitalize on the Trump administration's cost-cutting push — Google will offer steep discounts to U.S. federal agencies for its business apps package as the company looks to capitalize …
More: Google Cloud Blog, U.S. General Services …, Nextgov/FCW, and FedScoop
Bluesky: @kimberlyjurgen, @marypcbuk, and @chicagomike
| Anna Tong / Reuters: |
OpenAI countersues Elon Musk, claiming harassment and asking a US federal judge to stop Musk from any further attacks in the case over OpenAI's future structure — OpenAI countersued Elon Musk on Wednesday, citing a pattern of harassment by Musk and asking a federal judge to stop Musk from any …
More: Breitbart, TechCrunch, The Verge, PCMag, Associated Press, Tech Xplore, Proactive, Electrek, Maginative, Silicon UK, Fox Business, The Decoder, CryptoSlate, Business Insider, Mashable, AI News, TechSpot, City A.M., The Ankler, Blockonomi, Business Today, Engadget, StrictlyVC, Computerworld, The Crypto Times, KnowTechie, Bloomberg, SFist, and New York Times
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches the Pioneers Program, which aims to work with “multiple companies” to design tailored AI benchmarks for specific domains like legal and finance — OpenAI, like many AI labs, thinks AI benchmarks are broken. It says it wants to fix them through a new program.
More: OpenAI, Inc, Adweek, The Decoder, Vector Institute …, and Neowin
| Taryn Plumb / VentureBeat: |
Google introduces Firebase Studio, an AI-powered IDE that lets developers create custom mobile and web apps, APIs, backends, and frontends in their browser — Google has heated up the app-building space, today rolling out a generative AI-powered end-to-end app platform that allows users to create custom apps in minutes.
More: Maginative, BleepingComputer, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, TestingCatalog, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Big Technology, and TechCrunch
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says Google will add support for Anthropic's Model Context Protocol to its Gemini models and SDK, but did not give a timeline — Just a few weeks after OpenAI said it would adopt rival Anthropic's standard for connecting AI models to the systems where data resides, Google is following suit.
More: ZDNET, Android Headlines, Mashable, and John Battelle's Search Blog
X: @demishassabis and @sundarpichai
| Lawrence Bonk / Engadget: |
DoorDash launches robot deliveries in LA and Chicago in partnership with Coco Robotics, whose robots already deliver for DoorDash sub-brand Wolt in Helsinki — It's a partnership with the robotics firm Coco. — DoorDash has started robot deliveries in Los Angeles and Chicago.
More: DoorDash
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sonos appoints software veteran Hugo Barra to its board, replacing Mike Volpi, who is stepping down after 15 years; Barra is the head of product at /dev/agents — Barra led Android during a critical phase and also served as VP of Oculus at Meta. … As Sonos continues a company-wide effort … Sponsor Posts
TELUS Digital:
Are you ready for the era of agentic AI? — Tech leaders are always talking about what's next, and right now, agentic AI is dominating the discourse. Equip yourself with the info you need in this recorded webinar.
Are you ready for the era of agentic AI? — Tech leaders are always talking about what's next, and right now, agentic AI is dominating the discourse. Equip yourself with the info you need in this recorded webinar.
Tribe AI:
State of AI: Adoption, Challenges and Recommendations — Examining the current state of AI, the key challenges organizations face, and practical recommendations for utilizing AI integration alongside other best practices.
State of AI: Adoption, Challenges and Recommendations — Examining the current state of AI, the key challenges organizations face, and practical recommendations for utilizing AI integration alongside other best practices.
Zoho:
AI agents: Smart ways to manage work — Artificial intelligence is a buzzword you'll hear everywhere today—regardless of the vertical, companies are looking to incorporate it. At Zoho Cliq, we made AI a part of our platform long before it became a trend.
AI agents: Smart ways to manage work — Artificial intelligence is a buzzword you'll hear everywhere today—regardless of the vertical, companies are looking to incorporate it. At Zoho Cliq, we made AI a part of our platform long before it became a trend.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Decoder with Nilay Patel:
How shippers are trying to keep up with Trump's trade war
A show from the Verge about big ideas - and other problems.
Subscribe to Decoder with Nilay Patel.
Great Chat:
Imposter syndrome is due for a rebrand
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
Techmeme Ride Home:
Why Does OpenAI Want A Social Network?
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe to Techmeme Ride Home.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
How to make money in Washington, with Punchbowl's Jake Sherman
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
Spotlight On:
*RSA Preview* 1Password's Jeff Shiner on balancing B2B and B2C customers in a rapidly evolving tech landscape
A podcast from Accel about how companies are built, from the people doing the building.
Subscribe to Spotlight On.
Invest Like the Best:
Neil Mehta - Finding Future S&P 500 Companies
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 2:45 PM ET, April 10, 2025.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:Devin Leonard / Bloomberg:
Reuters:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Sam Rutherford / Engadget: |
More: Tech Advisor, Ars Technica, CNET, ZDNET, Android Authority, The Keyword, Multicore, Android Central, HotHardware, Wired, Android Headlines, Trusted Reviews, TechRadar, Expert Reviews, Tom's Guide, The Verge, Gizmodo, Android Police, 9to5Google, How-To Geek, MobileSyrup, PCMag, New York Times, Business Insider, PhoneArena, PCMag, Stuff, Droid Life, nextpit, BGR, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, and Digital Trends
X: @madebygoogle and @345triangle
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
More: PCMag, Variety, Game Rant, MIXED Reality News, Meta on YouTube, and The Wrap
Forums: r/Corridor and r/entertainment
Earlier Picks
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
| Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press: |
More: The Hill, Tech Policy Press, The Verge, US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, TechCrunch, The Bookseller, NWAonline, Associated Press, GreenBot, The Gateway Pundit, Fortune, MEDIANAMA, TechCrunch, Washington Post, The Independent, Bloomberg, New York Post, Vanity Fair, CBS News, and Bloomberg
Bluesky: @amanda.omg.lol, @amanda.omg.lol, and @stevenlevy
Threads: @chancehmiller and @judiciarydems