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Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
After OpenAI released ChatGPT's new image generator, social media has been flooded with AI memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, highlighting copyright concerns  —  It's only been a day since ChatGPT's new AI image generator went live, and social media feeds are already flooded with AI-generated memes …
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Forums: r/technology, r/ArtistHate, r/singularity, r/OpenAI, r/Bard, Beehaw, and Slashdot
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Joanne Jang / Reservoir Samples:
OpenAI's model behavior lead says OpenAI is “shifting from blanket refusals in sensitive areas to a more precise approach focused on preventing real-world harm”  —  Navigating responsibility and user freedom, and how that influenced setting the Day 1 policy for 4o image generation in ChatGPT
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Sam Altman says “our GPUs are melting” due to ChatGPT's viral image generation and OpenAI plans to temporarily introduce some rate limits  —  The company is trying to make image generation more efficient, according to CEO Sam Altman. … The fervor around ChatGPT's more accessible …
Andrew Goudsward / Reuters:
A US federal judge orders agencies whose leaders participated in the Signal chat on the Houthi attacks to preserve all messages sent from March 11 to March 15  —  A U.S. judge on Thursday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to preserve messages sent on the Signal messaging app …
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Appfigures: Signal downloads were up 45% from the daily average on March 24 in the US and up 42% in Yemen, after The Atlantic's story; global downloads grew 28%  —  The encrypted messaging app Signal is getting some unexpected attention this week.  —  High-ranking officials in the Trump administration …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Source: the White House sent a “records retention policy” to DOGE staffers on Monday, reminding them to preserve their Signal messages and disable auto-delete  —  The recordkeeping instructions come amid fallout from the “Signalgate” scandal.  —  The White House …
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Meta adds a Friends tab on Facebook that will show content just from users' friends, with no recommended posts, as it brings back “OG” Facebook experiences  —  A new Friends Tab will feature posts from a user's friends and relatives, which was the original mission of the app.
Bloomberg:
Source: CoreWeave plans to cut its IPO from $2.7B to ~$1.5B, offering ~37.5M shares at $40 each, vs. 49M shares at $47 to $55, as market volatility hurts demand  —  The cloud-computing provider plans to offer investors about 37.5 million shares at $40 apiece, according to the person …
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Nintendo unveils Virtual Game Cards to make it easier for users to port over their existing Switch games to other devices and lend out games, available in April  —  Nintendo announced on Thursday that it is working on Virtual Game Cards, a feature that makes digitally downloaded games more portable across different devices.
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Sources: Reddit banned r/WhitePeopleTwitter for 72 hours in February 2025 after Elon Musk messaged CEO Steve Huffman about users threatening DOGE staffers  —  Reddit took action after Musk messaged CEO Steve Huffman about users blocking X links and threatening DOGE staffers.
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google rolls out new Search, Maps, and Gemini features to help plan vacations, including hotel price drop alerts and turning screenshots into holiday plans  —  Google is rolling out a slew of new features — some powered by AI — across Search, Maps, and Gemini that are designed to help people plan their summer vacations.
Bloomberg:
Ubisoft carves out a unit, which includes Assassin's Creed, into a ~€4B subsidiary; Tencent will invest €1.16B to acquire a 25% stake in the new entity  —  The deal represents a vote of confidence from Tencent, which already holds a 10% stake in Ubisoft, in the wake …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Amazon partners with Electronic Arts to bring EA games like Star Wars Jedi: Survivor to cloud gaming service Amazon Luna, which is now available in 14 countries  —  Amazon Luna unveiled a multi-year agreement with big game publisher Electronic Arts to bring many of its top games to the Luna cloud gaming service.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Sam Altman says OpenAI will support Anthropic's Model Context Protocol, an open-source standard that connects AI models to data for more relevant answers  —  OpenAI is embracing rival Anthropic's standard for connecting AI assistants to the systems where data resides.
Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal:
Takeaways after using AI search exclusively for one month: AI search is more of a UX revamp than a replacement for Google's blue links-based web search paradigm  —  Ads and search-optimized junk made a mess of the go-to engine.  Now ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude—and even Google's own AI—do it better.
Jeremy Kahn / Fortune:
Anthropic says it created a new tool for deciphering how LLMs “think” and used it to resolve some key questions about how Claude and probably other LLMs work  —  Researchers at the AI company Anthropic say they have made a fundamental breakthrough in our understanding of exactly …

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