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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.
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X: @matthewstoller, @imkialikethecar, @pkafka, @zamaan_qureshi, and @matthewstoller. Forums: Hacker News
| Bloomberg: |
Email: Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram in 2018 as he increasingly became concerned that its success was hurting the Facebook social network — Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram into a separate company in 2018 as he increasingly became concerned that the photo …
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Threads: @mike_isaac and @kurtwag8
| Business Insider: |
Email: Mark Zuckerberg offered to buy Snapchat for $6B in 2013; Zuckerberg testified that he thought Snapchat “wasn't growing at the potential that it could” — - Mark Zuckerberg's failed Snapchat bid resurfaced in Meta's antitrust trial. — And the Meta boss seems like he hasn't fully moved on.
More: Digit, The Verge, Futurism, The Wrap, and Vanity Fair
| 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: |
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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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| 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 — The U.S. government funding needed for non-profit research giant MITRE to develop, operate and maintain its flagship Common Vulnerabilities …
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| 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.
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Forums: r/China, r/technology, and r/WallStreetbetsELITE
| 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.
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| 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, The Verge, Search Engine Land, Android Central, Lowyat.NET, Android Police, MakeUseOf, and Engadget
X: @rossstevens_uk and @lilyraynyc
| Mohar Chatterjee / Politico: |
Sources: the US DOD's Defense Digital Service is effectively shutting down as nearly all staff are resigning, saying they were sidelined by DOGE's efforts — Employees of a defense tech unit say they were sidelined by DOGE. “Either we die quickly or we die slowly,” says the director.
More: Daily Caller News Foundation, The Hill, Raw Story, and The Gateway Pundit
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| Jenna McLaughlin / NPR: |
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Bluesky: @jennamclaughlin, @joemenn, @skiles, @paleofuture, @maxberger, @timmarchman, @charlottegarden, @charlottegarden, @joshkovensky, @emptywheel, and @npr.org
Mastodon: @brian_greenberg@infosec …, @briankrebs@infosec.exchange, @tiffanycli@mastodon.social, @jik@federate.social, @cremevax@infosec.exchange, @Nonilex@masto.ai, @Nonilex@masto.ai, and @Nonilex@masto.ai
X: @shashj, @stphnfwlr, @kevinbankston, @stphnfwlr, @shashj, @garymarcus, @stphnfwlr, @jimprosser, and @stphnfwlr
| 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: @nearcyan, @googlelabs, @google, @nearcyan, @googledeepmind, and @sundarpichai. 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.
More: Anthropic, Neowin, Tech in Asia, PYMNTS.com, Analytics India Magazine, and Engadget
| 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, Reuters, TechCrunch, Wired, The Verge, Newsweek, The Daily Dot, The Register, The Sun, and The Express Tribune
Bluesky: @zappit and @amanda.omg.lol
X: @kommiattrition, @agoldmund, @klobstar, @jaredlholt, @duplavortex, @lumpythecook, @jaredlholt, and @regularaugust. LinkedIn: Matt Burgess
Forums: r/news, r/technology, r/technews, and r/Fauxmoi
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
OpenAI is adding an image library to ChatGPT to make it easier for users to access their AI-generated images, rolling out to all Free, Plus, and Pro users — The new Library is rolling out now to all Free, Plus, and Pro users. … OpenAI is adding an image library to ChatGPT to make it easier … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
xAI unveils Grok Studio, a canvas-like tool for its Grok chatbot that can generate and edit documents, run code like Python and JavaScript, and more — Grok, the chatbot from Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, has gained a canvas-like feature for editing and creating documents and basic apps.| Max A. Cherney / Reuters: |
Sources: chip industry executives told US officials and lawmakers that Trump's new tariffs could cost US semiconductor equipment makers more than $1B a year — U.S. President Donald Trump's new tariffs could cost U.S. semiconductor equipment makers more than $1 billion a year … | Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
Analysis: stablecoins' market value rose ~4.5% from the end of February to a new high of ~$234B in April, as crypto traders sat out the market volatility — In stable condition — As volatility took over global markets over the past couple of months, one part of the volatile digital asset market quietly grew: stablecoins.| Ellen Huet / Bloomberg: |
Inside San Francisco-based live-in startup accelerator HF0, whose alumni include OpenSea's founders; HF0's latest fund is $100M, up from its previous $16M fund — HF0, a live-in program for startup founders in San Francisco, mixes New Agey spirituality with Silicon Valley-esque hypercapitalism.| Nikkei Asia: |
Trump's planned tariffs on chip imports risk upending a global supply chain and could lead to oversupply as the US and other countries seek domestic production — TOKYO/PALO ALTO, U.S. — The Trump administration's steps toward extending its tariffs to the semiconductor industry threaten …
More: BBC
| Financial Times: |
European carmakers are increasingly doing deals with Chinese rivals to prevent them from falling behind in core areas such as software and autonomous driving — The EU is trading market access for expertise in key technologies, just as Beijing once did — Two decades ago …
More: Bloomberg
| PYMNTS.com: |
Cape Town-based Stitch, which provides an online payments suite to enterprises, raised a $55M Series B led by QED Investors, bringing its total funding to $107M — South Africa-based payments infrastructure company Stitch raised $55 million in a Series B funding round to expand its offerings for enterprise merchants.| Debaroti Adhikary / Moneycontrol: |
Indian food delivery and quick commerce platform Swiggy launches Pyng, an online marketplace to let users find verified professionals like financial advisors — The app will help connect customers to verified professions including health & wellness experts, financial advisors … Sponsor Posts
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