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Sources: Apple chartered cargo flights to ferry 600 tons of iPhones, or up to 1.5M units, to the US from India; a source says Apple “wanted to beat the tariff” — Tech giant Apple chartered cargo flights to ferry 600 tons of iPhones, or as many as 1.5 million …
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Forums: r/worldnews, r/politics, and r/technology
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
The Nasdaq falls 4%, with Meta closing down 7%, Nvidia down 6%, Amazon down 5%, and Apple down 4% as the White House say Trump's tariffs on China now total 145% — Technology stocks plummeted Thursday and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 4% on the heels of its record-setting session.
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| Bloomberg: |
Trump's 90-day tariff pause gives Nintendo, whose stock closed up 11.7% on April 10, time to prep the Switch 2's US launch on June 5 and lifts pricing pressure — For now. — The 90-day reprieve on heightened tariffs for most US trading partners gives the Japanese company a chance to ramp … | Wayne Ma / The Information: |
A look at the internal chaos behind Apple's Siri failure, in part due to poor leadership, with John Giannandrea's AI/ML group dubbed “AIMLess” internally — Last June, at Apple's annual developers conference, the company offered a dazzling demonstration of how artificial intelligence …
More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Parker Ortolani, 9to5Mac, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, mjtsai.com, Sherwood News, MacDailyNews, BGR, AppleInsider, and Apple Must
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media: |
Meta says LLMs have historically leaned left and wants to remove that bias with Llama 4 to “understand and articulate both sides of a contentious issue” — Bias in artificial intelligence systems, or the fact that large language models, facial recognition, and AI image generators …
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Mastodon: @alex@dair-community.social, @bitinn@mastodon.gamedev.place, and @mvsde@mastodon.social. X: @ericgeller. LinkedIn: Michael Bolton
| Dustin Volz / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Chinese officials acknowledged in a secret December meeting that China was behind Volt Typhoon hacks, linking them to escalating US support for Taiwan — A senior Chinese official linked intrusions to escalating U.S. support for Taiwan — WASHINGTON—Chinese officials acknowledged …
Bluesky: @dustinvolz
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI updates ChatGPT with a memory feature that references past chats for answers, rolling out to ChatGPT Pro and Plus subscribers, but not in the UK and EEA — OpenAI announced on Thursday that it's starting to roll out a new memory feature in ChatGPT that allows the chatbot to tailor …
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Forums: r/singularity and r/OpenAI
| David DiMolfetta / Nextgov/FCW: |
President Trump directs the DOJ to investigate former CISA Director Chris Krebs, who Trump fired for contradicting Trump's baseless 2020 election fraud claims — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday night directing the Justice Department to investigate former top …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
SentinelLabs: AkiraBot spammers used OpenAI's API to generate unique messages, allowing them to bypass filters and flood 80K+ sites with SEO spam in four months — Spammers used OpenAI to generate messages that were unique to each recipient, allowing them to bypass spam-detection filters …
More: SentinelOne, 404 Media, Infosecurity, Cyber Security News, Security Affairs, and The Hacker News
Forums: r/technews and Ars OpenForum
| Vikki Blake / GamesIndustry.biz: |
UK home secretary criticizes Steam for hosting No Mercy, a game with sexual violence, rape, and incest; Steam removed the game in the UK, Australia, and Canada — UPDATE: The game has been removed from Steam in the UK, Australia, and Canada — CW: This story contains references …
More: LBC, Sydney Morning Herald, LBC, 404 Media, and Video Games Chronicle. Bluesky: @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk
| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian's Digg launches a $5 early-access program called Groundbreakers, giving a “front-row seat to how Digg is being rebuilt” — The reboot of early-internet social news site Digg is underway. Original founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian … | Bloomberg: |
Annual shareholder letter: Andy Jassy says Amazon has to operate like the “world's largest startup” and generative AI will reinvent “every customer experience” — Powerbeats Pro 2 Review: Best Workout Earbuds Still Lag on Audio Quality| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Sonos appoints software veteran Hugo Barra to its board, replacing Mike Volpi, who is stepping down after 15 years; Barra is the head of product at /dev/agents — Barra led Android during a critical phase and also served as VP of Oculus at Meta. … As Sonos continues a company-wide effort … | Matt Horne / Android Authority: |
The OnePlus Watch 3 launches in the US after it was pulled to fix the “Meda in China” typo, but for $500, up from $330 OnePlus had previously announced — OnePlus has refused to comment, but new 125% tariffs on the country where the device is made might be a big clue. — •
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| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
Block reaches a $40M settlement with NYDFS for “critical gaps” in its anti-money laundering program, including risk-based controls and customer due diligence — - Block, Inc. had AML gaps including failing to have risk-based controls to prevent money laundering and illicit activity …
More: Department of Financial …, Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, Cointelegraph, Axios, CoinDesk, Decrypt, crypto.news, CoinGape, NFTgators, Reuters, and Crypto Briefing. LinkedIn: Gabriel O'Malley
| IEA: |
Data centers' global electricity demand could jump 100%+ to ~945TWh by 2030, and data centers are set to account for nearly 50% of US electricity demand growth — Major new IEA report brings groundbreaking data and analysis to one of the most pressing and least understood energy issues today … | Ben Bergman / Business Insider: |
Sources: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab is raising upwards of $2B at a $10B+ valuation, after previously seeking $1B at a $9B valuation in February 2025 — - Mira Murati spent 6 ½ years at OpenAI, where she served as the CTO, working on ChatGPT.| Lawrence Bonk / Engadget: |
DoorDash launches robot deliveries in LA and Chicago in partnership with Coco Robotics, whose robots already deliver for DoorDash sub-brand Wolt in Helsinki — It's a partnership with the robotics firm Coco. — DoorDash has started robot deliveries in Los Angeles and Chicago.
More: Crain's Chicago Business, DoorDash, and Chain Store Age
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches the Pioneers Program, which aims to work with “multiple companies” to design tailored AI benchmarks for specific domains like legal and finance — OpenAI, like many AI labs, thinks AI benchmarks are broken. It says it wants to fix them through a new program.
More: OpenAI, ZDNET, Inc, Adweek, The Decoder, Vector Institute …, and Neowin
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Canva launches Canva AI, which lets users create images and design ideas, and Canva Code, to create mini apps that can be integrated in designs — Although there has been significant pushback from artists regarding the proliferation of AI design tools and the content used to train generative models … | Arsheeya Bajwa / Reuters: |
Google says it will give a 71% discount to US federal agencies for Workspace, as it looks to capitalize on the Trump administration's cost-cutting push — Google will offer steep discounts to U.S. federal agencies for its business apps package as the company looks to capitalize …
More: Ars Technica, Google Cloud Blog, U.S. General Services …, Nextgov/FCW, and FedScoop
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says Google will add support for Anthropic's Model Context Protocol to its Gemini models and SDK, but did not give a timeline — Just a few weeks after OpenAI said it would adopt rival Anthropic's standard for connecting AI models to the systems where data resides, Google is following suit.| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
In an interview with Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, James Cameron says he is cautiously optimistic about generative AI's role in filmmaking, including cutting costs — In an interview with Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, the filmmaker weighs in on Stability AI and VFX, “in the style of” prompts …
More: Business Insider, PCMag, Daily Star, Kotaku, Variety, Meta on YouTube, Game Rant, and The Wrap
Forums: r/Corridor and r/entertainment
| Stephen Nellis / Reuters: |
nEye Systems, which is developing data center chips that use light to send data, raised a $58M Series B led by CapitalG, bringing its total funding to $72.5M — NEye Systems, a startup developing a new kind of networking chip for artificial intelligence data centers, on Thursday raised $58 million …
More: FinSMEs and FinTech Futures
| Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
BeReal rolls out in-feed ads in the US, says it has an estimated 40M MAUs, including 5M in the US, and 85% of its users are Gen Z — It's time for BeReal to get real — it's difficult to turn a profit on a social photo-sharing app without selling ads or memberships.| Sam Rutherford / Engadget: |
Google Pixel 9a review: a great display, battery life, and cameras, a sleek design, and IP68, but slow charging, no Pixel Screenshot, and a finicky Macro Focus — Starting at just $499, the Pixel 9a is also the best value Android phone around. — The push for the latest …
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