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| The Verge: |
Sources: OpenAI is in the early stages of building its own X-like social network, focused on ChatGPT image generation, and is asking some outsiders for feedback — Is Sam Altman ready to up his rivalry with Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg? … OpenAI is working on its own X-like social network …
More: The Guardian, Engadget, Thurrott, Reuters, The Information, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, BGR, CNBC, Tom's Guide, iPhone in Canada Blog, ZeroHedge News, Watcher Guru, Crypto Briefing, RedState, The Crypto Times, and International Business Times
Bluesky: @snmrrw, @lorak, @garymarcus, @caseynewton, @vortexegg.com, and @karlbode.com. Mastodon: @ben@werd.social
X: @alexeheath, @amir, @kyliebytes, and @kyliebytes
Forums: r/unitedkingdom, r/StockMarket, r/artificial, r/singularity, r/ChatGPT, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Jenna McLaughlin / NPR: |
Whistleblower: at NLRB, DOGE staff disabled monitoring tools, deleted logs, one worked on “NxGenBdoorExtract”; one DOGE account tried to log in via a Russian IP — In the first days of March, a team of advisers from President Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived …
More: Reuters, Gizmodo, Forbes, New Republic, Nextgov/FCW, and Raw Story
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Mastodon: @tiffanycli@mastodon.social, @jik@federate.social, @cremevax@infosec.exchange, @Nonilex@masto.ai, @Nonilex@masto.ai, and @Nonilex@masto.ai
X: @stphnfwlr, @stphnfwlr, @stphnfwlr, @kevinbankston, @stphnfwlr, @jimprosser, @shashj, @shashj, and @garymarcus
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Mark Zuckerberg's $1B Instagram and $19B WhatsApp deals, central to the FTC's antitrust case, were mocked at the time, and the trial hinges on hypotheticals — Meta's antitrust trial, in which the government contends the company killed competition by buying young rivals … | Bloomberg: |
FTC v. Meta: Mark Zuckerberg testified about his acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, including a 2012 email exchange rationalizing the apps' acquisition — - Meta CEO asked in email if deal may ‘neutralize a competitor’ — FTC claims acquisitions created a social networking monopoly
More: TechCrunch, New York Times, Reuters, Fortune, Fast Company, Deadline, Al Jazeera, Business Insider, Android Headlines, Nairametrics, Meta, The Verge, Moneycontrol, MEDIANAMA, and PhoneArena
X: @jason_kint, @matthewstoller, @nhegde, @bbenedict33, @halsinger, @mikeisaac, and @mikeisaac
| Brendan Bordelon / Politico: |
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Forums: r/NoShitSherlock, r/technology, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google rolls out a Play services update, including an Android security feature to auto-reboot phones and tablets that are “locked for three consecutive days” — With the latest Google Play services update, Android is rolling out a new security feature that automatically restarts …
More: Ars Technica, CyberInsider, CNET, Thurrott, Android Central, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Headlines, Digital Trends, BleepingComputer, SammyGuru, WinBuzzer, Chrome Unboxed, The Verge, Ukrainian National News, How-To Geek, Neowin, Stuff, Cyber Security News, Android Police, nextpit, and Android Authority
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic says Claude now integrates with Google Workspace for access to Gmail, Calendar, and Google Docs, coming first to Max, Team, Enterprise, and Pro plans — Anthropic announced on Tuesday that its AI chatbot, Claude, now integrates with Google Workspace, allowing it to search and reference …
More: The Verge, The Standard, and Analytics India Magazine
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google rolls out its text-to-video AI model Veo 2 to Gemini Advanced subscribers and makes its Whisk Animate tool available for Google One AI Premium users — A new Whisk Animate tool is coming to Google One AI Premium users, as well. … Google is letting Gemini Advanced subscribers try out Veo 2 …
More: The Keyword, Android Authority, Android Police, CNET, T3, ZDNET, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Engadget, Android Central, Digital Trends, and Droid Life
| Reuters: |
Chinese state media: police in Harbin accuse the NSA of launching “advanced” cyberattacks during the Asian Winter Games in February 2025 and name three agents — Chinese police in the northeastern city of Harbin have accused the United States National Security Agency (NSA) …
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Mastodon: @Bing_Chris@mastodon.social and @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
Forums: r/worldnews and r/Global_News_Hub
| Financial Times: |
FCC Chair Brendan Carr says “allied western democracies” need to focus on China and those “concerned about Starlink” should be more fearful of a Chinese version — FCC chair Brendan Carr urges ‘western allies’ to pick Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet company
More: The Verge and Telecoms Tech News
Bluesky: @marypcbuk, @smtuffy, @karlbode.com, and @katjabego
Forums: r/technology, r/eutech, r/EUSpace, r/europeanunion, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Anu Adegbola / Search Engine Land: |
Temu shut off Google Shopping ads in the US on April 9; its App Store app ranking then plummeted from around third or fourth place to 58th in three days — Temu completely shut off Google Shopping ads in the U.S. on April 9, with its App Store ranking subsequently plummeting from a typical third … | Emilia David / VentureBeat: |
Cohere debuts Embed 4, its search engine for enterprise AI assistants, now with a 128K context length, better multimodal abilities for complex documents, more — Enterprise retrieval augmented generation (RAG) remains integral to the current agentic AI craze.
More: Cohere, SiliconANGLE, BetaKit, and Constellation Research
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Notion releases Notion Mail, a lightweight Gmail client to help users schedule meetings and organize and draft emails, available as a free macOS and web app — The new app looks like Notion, it works like Gmail, and it has a lot of ideas about how AI can help you tame your inbox.
More: PCMag, 9to5Mac, Thurrott, ZDNET, TechCrunch, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, Notion, Tom's Guide, Fast Company, and Tom's Guide
| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
4chan is down after an apparent hack late on April 14; an Imgur post seems to show a hacker gained shell access to 4chan's hosting server and doxxed some users — More like 404chan, amirite? — 4chan, the controversial forum known for birthing early meme culture and Gamergate, is down, following an apparent hack.
More: 404 Media, The Verge, BleepingComputer, PCMag, Newsweek, The Daily Dot, Hollywood Life, New York Daily News, Dexerto, The Sun, Mashable, and The Express Tribune
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Japan's FTC orders Google to stop alleged abuse of its market power over local smartphone manufacturers, ahead of high-stakes US trade negotiations this week — Japan's Fair Trade Commission ordered Alphabet Inc.'s Google to stop alleged abuse of its market power over local smartphone manufacturers …
More: The Japan Times, Engadget, Reuters, The Verge, The Economic Times, Neowin, Global Competition Review, Mashable, UPI, Nikkei Asia, Android Headlines, Quartz, The Asahi Shimbun, Invezz, Associated Press, RTTNews, Wall Street Journal, TipRanks Financial, and Tech in Asia
Forums: r/Android, r/technology, and r/technology
| Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
An interview with Google VP of Search Elizabeth Reid on AI Overviews' launch a year ago, the future of AI search, its impact on the ad revenue model, and more — The search executive behind the push to reinvent the group's core product says users are driving change in how to seek information| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: TSMC is close to finalizing specs for a new chip packaging method, known in the industry as “panel-level”, to meet rising demand for powerful AI chips — TAIPEI — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is close to finalizing the specifications for a radically new approach …
More: Benzinga, WinBuzzer, Focus Taiwan, and TipRanks Financial
| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
More: AMD, DatacenterDynamics, TechSpot, insideHPC, Focus Taiwan, Analytics India Magazine, WinBuzzer, TrendForce News, Ace of Spades HQ, Benzinga, and Wccftech
Forums: r/intelstock, r/hardware, and r/AMD_Stock
| Wall Street Journal: |
Nvidia's $500B US spending plan follows a familiar pattern of companies trying to please President Trump and offers few details on what AI gear would be US-made — The chip maker's plan to build AI tech in Texas comes on the heels of a new tariff threat — Chip maker Nvidia unveiled plans Monday …
More: RetailWire, The Decoder, Benzinga, Barron's Online, TipRanks Financial, MarketWatch, Verdict, CoinGape, Bloomberg, and Newsmax
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
More: NVIDIA, The White House, Tech Monitor, Evertiq AB, Reuters, Gizchina.com, RCR Wireless News, The Guardian, The Overspill, Capacity Media, TechInformed, Taiwan News, Lowyat.NET, Tech in Asia, Benzinga, Barron's Online, The Information, and Wall Street Journal
Bluesky: @bobbyallyn. X: @dnystedt, @firstadopter, @patrickmoorhead, @kristinaparts, @wenyee_lee, @altcap, @greg_price11, @firstadopter, @edludlow, @rapidresponse47, and @nvidianewsroom. LinkedIn: Jon Stresing
Forums: r/Conservative, r/hardware, r/nvidia, and r/StockMarket
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI plans to wind down the availability of GPT-4.5 via its API on July 14, 2025, after launching the model as a research preview on February 27, 2025 — OpenAI said on Monday that it would soon wind down the availability of GPT-4.5, its largest-ever AI model, via its API.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
More: OpenAI, The Verge, OpenAI on YouTube, MobileSyrup, Techstrong.ai, TechPowerUp, Business Insider, Wired, CryptoSlate, Tom's Guide, Analytics India Magazine, Forbes, Tech in Asia, and The Information
Bluesky: @quinnypig.com, @timkellogg.me, @timkellogg.me, and @timkellogg.me
Threads: @polynoamial and @mark_r_vickers
X: @sama, @gdb, @azure, @openrouterai, @swyx, @sarahookr, @stevesi, @arcprize, @suhail, @sama, @bindureddy, @simonw, @scaling01, @bindureddy, @garymarcus, @daniel_mac8, @ns123abc, @iterintellectus, @wolframrvnwlf, @paulg, @openrouterai, @openaidevs, @yuchenj_uw, @mariorod1, @silasalberti, @sama, @ilanbigio, @iruletheworldmo, @kevinhou22, @packym, @_kevinlu, @levie, @deedydas, @mattppal, @kevinweil, @natolambert, @sentdex, @adonis_singh, @polynoamial, @aidan_mclau, @_mohansolo, @code, @ashtom, @ericzakariasson, @windsurf_ai, @cursor_ai, @simonw, @itsclivetime, @satyanadella, @levie, @bindureddy, @openrouterai, @sama, @nielsrogge, and @tomwarren
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