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Trump officials accidentally added The Atlantic's EIC to a Signal group chat about the US' Houthi war plans; Signal is not approved for sharing classified info — U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn't think it could be real.
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| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Alibaba releases Qwen2.5-VL-32B, a 32B open model under Apache 2.0, claiming better math reasoning and alignment with human preferences than earlier 2.5 models — Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter. The second big open weight LLM release from China today - the first being DeepSeek v3-0324.
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| Luz Ding / Bloomberg: |
Alibaba Chairman Joe Tsai warns of a bubble in data center construction, saying the buildout may outpace early AI demand and is starting to look indiscriminate — A rush by big tech firms, investment funds and other entities to erect server bases from the US to Asia is starting to look indiscriminate …
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI updates Advanced Voice Mode to make ChatGPT “more direct, engaging, concise, specific, and creative” for paying users, and interrupt all users less often — OpenAI released updates Monday for Advanced Voice Mode, its AI voice feature that enables real-time conversations in ChatGPT …
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| Danny Park / The Block: |
Binance suspends an employee for allegedly using insider information to sell tokens for significant profits; X users suggest the project was the memecoin UUU — - Binance Wallet announced that it has suspended an employee for allegedly using insider information to sell tokens for significant profits … | Reuters: |
Samsung says co-CEO Han Jong-hee has died at age 63 from cardiac arrest and that Jun Young-hyun, appointed as co-CEO just last week, would now be the sole CEO — South Korean tech giant Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) said on Tuesday that its co-CEO Han Jong-hee has died from cardiac arrest.
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| Financial Times: |
Chinese AI startups revamp business models after DeepSeek's rise; sources: Zhipu eyes IPO, 01.ai drops pre-training LLMs to sell apps using DeepSeek, and more — The country's top groups are re-evaluating their strategies as they race to remain competitive
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: companies like Nvidia and many governments are trying to persuade Trump's team to loosen incoming AI chip export rules, known as the AI diffusion rule — - Nvidia and Oracle pushing for full repeal of AI diffusion rule — Companies must start complying with global restrictions May 15
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: the European Commission is set to close its year-long probe into Apple's browser options on iOS after the company made changes to comply with the DMA — EU antitrust regulators are set to close their year-long investigation into Apple's (AAPL.O) browser options on iPhones …
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
Some EU organizations weigh moving from AWS, Google, and Azure cloud services over US privacy fears under Trump; two cloud providers say it is driving interest — Companies in the EU are starting to look for ways to ditch Amazon, Google, and Microsoft cloud services amid fears of rising security risks from the US.
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| Bloomberg: |
Internal TikTok memo: Blake Chandlee, who oversaw TikTok's ad sales globally, is moving to an advisory role; TikTok faces an April 5 deadline for a US sale — A TikTok executive responsible for its core advertising business is stepping aside as part of a reorganization … | Bloomberg: |
A profile of veteran Googler Liz Reid, who became Head of Search in March 2024 and rolled out major updates like AI Overviews, as Google competes with ChatGPT — Big changes are underway for the internet's most popular product, and Google (and the web) may never be the same.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
3D tech company Infinite Reality buys Napster for $207M; CEO John Acunto says the one-time file-sharing phenomenon will be used for marketing in the metaverse — A quarter century ago, Napster was notorious on the internet for allowing people to swap songs for free, long before the music industry … | Matthew Griffin / Bloomberg: |
eToro files for an IPO, with plans to list on the Nasdaq, and reports $12.6B in 2024 revenue, about 96% of which was from cryptoassets, and a $192M net income — The trading and investment platform had $12.6 billion in total revenue in 2024, with net income of $192 million …
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| Reuters: |
Document: India orders Samsung and its executives in the country to pay $601M in back taxes and penalties for dodging tariffs on key telecoms equipment imports — India has ordered Samsung and its executives in the country to pay $601 million in back taxes and penalties for dodging tariffs …
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| Thomas Barrabi / New York Post: |
Sources: the European Commission is expected to find that Meta violated the DMA and fine the company hundreds of millions of dollars, possibly over $1B — The European Union is set to slap Mark Zuckerberg's Meta with a fine that could stretch to $1 billion or more for allegedly violating … | Cynthia Brumfield / CyberScoop: |
A look at the 25-year-old CVE program, which assigns unique IDs to flaws; 413 orgs now report CVEs, with 40K+ reported in 2024, pushing the total past 270K — Learn more. — In 1999, Dave Mann and Steve Christey, two researchers from the nonprofit R&D corporation MITRE …
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| TechCrunch: |
Sources: 11x, an AI-powered sales automation startup backed by a16z and Benchmark, has been misrepresenting its customer base and financial performance — Last year, AI-powered sales automation startup 11x appeared to be on an explosive growth trajectory. — However, nearly two dozen sources … | Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
TechInsights: the costs of 300mm wafers at TSMC's Fab 21 near Phoenix, Arizona, are set to be only ~10% higher than those of similar wafers processed in Taiwan — It is equipment, not labor that defines chipmaking costs. — Comments made by TSMC founder Morris Chang about high fab building costs …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo plans to launch its Waymo One ride-hailing service in Washington, DC in 2026; the city currently prohibits autonomous vehicles without safety drivers — But it will need to change the law prohibiting fully driverless vehicles first. … Waymo announced that Washington, DC will be its next robotaxi city.
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