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Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI releases GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and GPT‑4.1 nano, which excel at coding, instruction following, and long context understanding, available via its API  —  OpenAI on Monday launched a new family of models called GPT-4.1.  Yes, “4.1” — as if the company's nomenclature wasn't confusing enough already.
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.
The Information:
Sources: OpenAI's upcoming o3 and o4-mini reasoning models may excel at suggesting new types of science experiments, from nuclear fusion to pathogen detection
Brendan Bordelon / Politico:
FTC v. Meta: the US argued Meta has a monopoly in the “personal social networking” market, which it claims includes only Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and MeWe  —  The government wants to show the Meta CEO bought Instagram and WhatsApp to snuff out social media competition.
New York Times:
FTC v. Meta: in opening arguments, FTC lawyers accuse Meta of a “buy-or-bury strategy” to cement a social networking monopoly by buying Instagram and WhatsApp  —  The tech giant went to court on Monday in an antitrust trial focused on its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.
Ben Smith / Semafor:
Source: FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson, Assistant AG Gail Slater, and activist Mike Davis met Trump on April 8 to combat Meta's lobbying over the FTC antitrust case
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Nvidia starts making its Blackwell chips at TSMC's Phoenix plant and says it aims to make up to $500B of AI infrastructure in the US in the next four years  —  Nvidia said on Monday that it has commissioned more than a million square feet of manufacturing space to build and test AI chips …
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
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware:
AMD announces its first 2nm silicon fabricated on TSMC's N2 process, set to debut on its sixth-gen EPYC “Venice” chip, which is expected to launch in 2026  —  First 2nm HPC design.  —  In a rather unexpected turn of events, AMD announced late on Monday that it had obtained …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple plans to begin on-device, privacy-centric analysis of user data, comparing it to synthetic data, to improve AI, in the iOS 18.5 and macOS 15.5 betas  —  Apple Inc. will begin analyzing data on customers' devices in a bid to improve its artificial intelligence platform …
Bloomberg:
US satellite startup Astranis and Taiwanese telco Chunghwa plan to launch a dedicated MicroGEO satellite by the end of 2025, with full bandwidth as soon as 2026  —  Powerbeats Pro 2 Review: Best Workout Earbuds Still Lag on Audio Quality  —  Beats' newest exercise headphones are improved, but they face stiffer competition than ever.
Wall Street Journal:
Source: by 2030, Netflix aims to reach a $1T valuation, earn ~$9B in global ad sales, double its $39B 2024 revenue, and triple its $10B 2024 operating income  —  Streaming service shares financial performance targets with staff that underscore its dominance
Bloomberg:
An interview with eFishery CEO Gibran Huzaifah and 20+ sources detail how Gibran's “fake-it-till-you-make-it” deceptions spiraled, losing investors $300M+  —  Agritech venture eFishery was one of Asia's brightest startups with money from the likes of SoftBank and Temasek.

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Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
A look at some of the projects looking to raise money from Democratic megadonors as party strategists try to “find the next Joe Rogan”

Matt Stevens / New York Times:
LA mayor Karen Bass issues an executive directive to streamline city processes, lower filming costs, and ease shoots at well-known city-owned locations

Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
The Chicago Sun-Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer ran a supplement featuring an AI-generated guide to summer books that do not exist

More News

Reuters:
South Korea increases assistance to its chip industry by ~25% to $23.25B amid US tariffs and competition with China; the sector represents 21% of its exports
Bloomberg:
Sources: banks are providing Silver Lake $2B in debt for its 51% acquisition of Altera; Intel will receive ~$3.4B in cash from Silver Lake as part of the deal

Earlier Picks

Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block:
Crypto exchange Kraken begins rolling out commission-free trading for over 11,000 US-listed stocks and ETFs, initially in nine US states and DC
Andy Bounds / Financial Times:
Sources: the European Commission is issuing burner phones and laptops to some US-bound staff to mitigate espionage risks, a move typically reserved for China
Associated Press:
Meta says it plans to train its AI models on public content, like posts and comments, and interactions that users have with its AI in the EU starting this week
The Keyword:
Google details DolphinGemma, a new 400M-parameter LLM to decode dolphin communication by analyzing the vocalizations of wild Atlantic spotted dolphins
Financial Times:
NATO plans to start using Palantir's Maven Smart System, an AI system to let 20 to 50 soldiers process battlefield data that once required hundreds of analysts
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