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Social media addiction trial: a Los Angeles jury finds Meta and YouTube were negligent and failed to warn users about the dangers of using their platforms — A jury in Los Angeles determined on Wednesday that Meta and Google's YouTube were negligent and failed to warn users of the dangers associated …
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The jury in Los Angeles' social media trial awards the plaintiff $3M in compensatory damages and $3M in punitive damages; Meta will pay 70% and YouTube 30% — A jury found the companies harmed a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress. — 1k
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| Wall Street Journal: |
President Trump names Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Jensen Huang, and others to the Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, co-chaired by David Sacks — Group to advise the president on how to regulate artificial intelligence, among other issues — WASHINGTON—President Trump plans …
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK government pressure — Move follows pressure from government on smartphone makers to do more to protect children online
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| Ann E. Marimow / New York Times: |
SCOTUS rules unanimously that Cox could not be held liable for the piracy of thousands of songs online, after music labels sued the internet provider in 2018 — Leading music labels sued Cox Communications for failing to terminate accounts of subscribers flagged for distributing copyrighted music.
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| Google Research: |
Google Research details TurboQuant, a quantization algorithm to enable massive compression of LLMs and vector search engines without sacrificing accuracy — Amir Zandieh, Research Scientist, and Vahab Mirrokni, VP and Google Fellow, Google Research — We introduce a set …
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| Eli Tan / New York Times: |
Source: Meta on Wednesday laid off around 700 employees in the Reality Labs unit, as well as some in recruiting, sales, and Facebook — Meta on Wednesday laid off around 700 employees, a person with knowledge of the company said, the latest downsizing as the Silicon Valley giant shifts its priorities toward artificial intelligence.
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
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| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez plan to introduce legislation to pause new data center construction until AI safeguards are in place — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday will announce legislation to pause …
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| The Information: |
Source: as part of its Google deal, Apple has full access to the Gemini model in its own data centers and can use distillation to produce smaller models — Before we get to today's column, we wanted to flag OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's major reorg, the company's new “Spud” model and its decision …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: China bars Manus co-founders Xiao Hong and Ji Yichao from leaving the country as it reviews whether Meta's $2B acquisition of Manus violates FDI rules — Deal scrutiny deepens over official fears of strategic tech flowing overseas — China has restricted two co-founders of Manus … | Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle: |
Nintendo says new first-party games exclusive to Switch 2 will have different prices for physical and digital versions in the US, beginning in May — Nintendo of America has announced that, beginning in May, it will introduce differing pricing for physical and digital versions of its Switch 2 games.
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| Alex Heath / Sources: |
Memo: Sam Altman says OpenAI's next model finished pretraining, and moves Safety to Research and Security to Scaling; Fidji Simo becomes CEO of “AGI Deployment” — It's about GPUs. Also: CPUs are back, Meta's big stock awards, a CEO actually not blaming AI for layoffs, and more.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Lyria 3 Pro music generation model, with better creative control and allowing users to create three-minute tracks, up from Lyria 3's 30 seconds — Google announced on Wednesday that it's releasing Lyria 3 Pro, a music generation model, a month after Lyria 3's release.
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
Legal AI company Harvey raised $200M led by GIC and Sequoia at an $11B valuation, up from $8B in December 2025, and reports 100K+ users at 1,300+ organizations — With OpenAI and Anthropic soaring to a combined valuation of more than $1 trillion, some in the artificial intelligence industry fear …
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| Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg: |
AI note taking startup Granola raised $125M led by Index Ventures at a $1.5B valuation, and plans Claude integrations and agentic AI features in the next year — Granola Inc., a startup whose artificial intelligence software has been gaining traction as a notetaking tool among Silicon Valley workers …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Elon Musk says X will “pause” new creator monetization rules that would base payouts on engagement from a user's local audience, after criticism from creators — Social media platform X swiftly backtracked on its announcement regarding new rules for creator monetization …
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| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
ARC Prize Foundation unveils ARC-AGI-3, an AI benchmark with simple video-game-like scenarios designed to measure on-the-fly reasoning rather than memory recall — ARC-AGI-3 tests whether models can reason through novel problems, not just recall patterns, a task even top systems still struggle to do.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Reddit says it will label automated accounts that provide a service to users and will require accounts suspected of being bots to verify they are human — Would-be Reddit competitor Digg just shut down because it couldn't get a handle on the bots overrunning its site.| Reuters: |
Sources: some Sora team employees were surprised by OpenAI's move to end Sora support, just a day after OpenAI posted a blog post about Sora safety standards — On Monday evening, Walt Disney Co (DIS.N) and OpenAI teams were working together on a project linked to Sora, OpenAI's AI video tool.| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
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| The Information: |
Sources: cloud provider Vultr is seeking to raise $1B+ to expand its AI computing capacity, after raising $333M at a $3.5B valuation in 2024 — Vultr, one of the oldest independent cloud providers, is seeking to raise at least $1 billion in new capital so it can compete with a growing list … | Axios: |
Memo: Mark Zuckerberg debuts Meta Small Business, a company-wide priority to support entrepreneurship and drive AI use, led by Dina Powell McCormick and others — - Zuckerberg asks product managers, designers, engineers and other employees to reach out if they want to work on the new effort.
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| Lauren Goode / Wired: |
Q&A with Arm CEO Rene Haas on changing Arm's culture, working with Arm owner SoftBank, developing Arm's AGI CPU data center chip fabricated by TSMC, and more — Arm just confirmed the rumors: It's producing its own chip for the first time. CEO Rene Haas explains why this won't alienate … | Rebecca Szkutak / TechCrunch: |
Charlotte-based Lucid Bots, which manufactures autonomous drones for cleaning windows, raised a $20M Series B co-led by Cubit and Idea Fund — Andrew Ashur, the founder and CEO of window cleaning robot startup Lucid Bots, likes to joke that his company is the antithesis of the robotics industry right now.| Chris Metinko / Axios: |
Epic Microsystems, which designs power delivery architecture for better thermal and efficiency management of AI data centers, raised a $21M Series A — Epic Microsystems, a semiconductor developer for AI data centers, has raised a $21 million Series A led by Seligman Ventures … | Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Notch, which is developing an OS designed for high-compliance sectors, raised a $30M Series A led by Headline, after pivoting from being a specialty insurer — Notch Ltd., a startup offering an artificial intelligence operating system for regulated industries, today announced … | Tracy Qu / Wall Street Journal: |
Temu owner PDD reports Q4 revenue up 12% YoY to ~$18B and net profit down 11% YoY to ~$3.56B, below ~$4B est., as it seeks to retain merchants on its platform — The comphad cautioned that its performance could fluctuate as it rolled out support to keep merchants from defecting to other platformsSponsor Posts
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