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April 27, 2025, 11:50 PM

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Ben Smith / Semafor:
A look at the sprawling network of group chats that surged in 2020 as a place for SV leaders to talk candidly, with Marc Andreessen playing a central role  —  THE SCOOP  —  Last Thursday morning, a bit before 10 am in Austin and nearly 11 pm in Singapore, Joe Lonsdale had enough of Balaji Srinivasan's views on China.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
While Apple's iPhone manufacturing in India matches China in quality, making the extraordinarily complex 20th anniversary iPhones outside China remains doubtful  —  Apple has begun breaking up its AI and machine learning organization by moving pieces to other parts of the company.
Jeff Horwitz / Wall Street Journal:
Test conversations with some Meta AI digital companions, including celebrity-voiced ones, show them engaging in sexual chats even when users identify as minors  —  Chatbots on Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp are empowered to engage in ‘romantic role-play’ that can turn explicit.
Furquan Ameen / Rest of World:
Experts say that India is behind China in deep tech innovation due to its historical focus on services, lower R&D investment, and a brain drain of AI talent  —  India's government urges the private sector to take the lead in tech innovation, while industry experts say it's complicated.
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Owen Carry / Know Your Meme:
4chan is back online after being down for 10 days, following a hack on April 14 that led to emails of its lead administrators, called “janitors”, being leaked  —  4chan is officially back online today.  —  The imageboard site had been down for 10 days, ever since a hack …
Anjli Raval / Financial Times:
A profile of Darktrace CEO Jill Popelka, who joined the British cyber security firm in Jan. 2024 and was at the helm when it was bought by Thoma Bravo for £4.3B  —  Jill Popelka has tried to strengthen the cyber company's operations and cast off the shadow of early backer Mike Lynch
Owen Walker / Financial Times:
A look at Interpol's innovation lab in Singapore for studying cybercrime, digital piracy, and more, and developing new techniques for bringing down criminals  —  On the front line of the escalating global arms race between police and criminals  —  A fleet of underwater drones …

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