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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 …
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Bluesky: @carnage4life, @lorak, @garymarcus, @snmrrw, @karlbode.com, @mantzarlis.com, @caseynewton, @jerthorp, @vortexegg.com, and @ernie.tedium.co. Mastodon: @ben@werd.social. Threads: @the_coach_life
X: @pitdesi, @raywongy, @andrewcurran_, @davewiner, @scobleizer, @krzysztof_lysy, @zacbowden, @sirodoht, @briansolis, @bindureddy, @turnernovak, @morqon, @katienotopoulos, @rihardjarc, @birdyword, @amir, @kyliebytes, @kyliebytes, and @alexeheath. LinkedIn: Alison McCauley
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta offered $450M in late March to settle the FTC's antitrust case and raised its offer to ~$1B as the trial neared; the FTC had demanded $30B — The FTC wanted $30 billion to drop its case. Zuckerberg offered much less and hoped Trump would back him up.
More: CNET, Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, Entrepreneur, Axios, The Straits Times, and Semafor
Bluesky: @mims and @edzitron.com
| Bloomberg: |
A 2018 email from Mark Zuckerberg explored spinning off Instagram; he testified his thinking at the time took into account where politics seemed to be going — Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram into a separate company in 2018 as he increasingly became concerned that the photo …
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| 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
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| 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 …
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| Reuters: |
Figma confidentially files for a US IPO; the company was valued at $12.5B in a May 2024 tender offer — Cloud-based designer platform Figma on Tuesday confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the United States, more than a year after a $20 billion deal to be acquired by Adobe (ADBE.O) hit regulatory roadblocks.| 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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Forums: r/espionage, r/worldnews, and r/Global_News_Hub
| CNBC: |
Filing: Nvidia says it will record a $5.5B charge after the US said it would require a license to export the H20 chips to China; NVDA drops 6%+ after hours — Nvidia said on Tuesday that it will take a quarterly charge of about $5.5 billion tied to exporting H20 graphics processing units to China and other destinations.| 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 …
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X: @googlelabs, @google, @googledeepmind, @sundarpichai, @nearcyan, and @nearcyan. Forums: r/singularity
| Ben Sherry / Inc: |
Anthropic's Claude adds Research, capable of searching the web and internal documents to give comprehensive answers, in beta for Max, Team, Enterprise plans — The integration should make Claude even more effective as a virtual assistant. Plus, there's a new ‘Research’ mode.| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google plans to redirect all Search users to google.com over the coming months, saying “country-level domains are no longer necessary” — Historically, Google users around the world have visited country-specific sites like google.com.br (Brazil), google.fr (France), or google.co.uk (UK).
More: The Keyword, Android Police, Engadget, The Verge, Search Engine Land, MakeUseOf, and Android Central
X: @lilyraynyc and @rossstevens_uk
| 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 …
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| Mohar Chatterjee / Politico: |
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Bluesky: @laurenmeidasa. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social and @KimPerales@toad.social. Forums: r/politics
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: activist investor Elliott has built a position worth $1.5B+ in HPE, making it one of the company's top five shareholders; HPE is down ~30% in 2025 — Elliott Investment Management has built a large position worth more than $1.5 billion in Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., according to people familiar with the matter.| David DiMolfetta / Nextgov/FCW: |
Mitre, the nonprofit research organization behind the CVE program, says the US government funding needed to develop and operate CVE will expire on April 16 — Organizations across industry, government, national security and critical infrastructure rely on the CVE Program …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/cybersecurity, r/cybersecurity, and Lobsters
| 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 … | 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, Android Police, Associated Press, Forbes, Nikkei Asia, Global Competition Review, Quartz, SammyGuru, Neowin, RTTNews, TipRanks Financial, Android Headlines, UPI, Mashable, and Wall Street Journal
Forums: r/Android, r/technology, and r/technology
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
A look at the FCC's “Delete, Delete, Delete” initiative, meant to identify burdensome rules, as ISPs, broadcasters, and others send in deregulation wishlists — Industry groups have submitted deregulatory wishlists for the Federal Communications Commission's “Delete, Delete … | 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
| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
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