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Emma Roth / The Verge:
OpenAI debuts a Responses API to help devs build agents that search the web, scan for files, and perform tasks on computers, and an Agents SDK for orchestration  —  OpenAI's new Responses API comes with web search, the ability to look through files, and computer use out of the box.
Dave2D on YouTube:
Review of the M3 Ultra Mac Studio with 512GB of unified memory: opens up new workflows on a ~$10K desktop, like running a quantized version of DeepSeek R1 671B  —  My review of Apple Mac Studio with the M3 Ultra with Gaming benchmarks and Deepseek R1 If you'd like to support the channel, consider a Dave2D membership by ...
Devindra Hardawar / Engadget:
Apple MacBook Air M4 review: fast, thin and light, great keyboard and touchpad, and excellent battery life, but could use more ports and only a 60Hz screen
Brandon Hill / Tom's Hardware:
Apple Mac Studio review: M3 Ultra offers amazing performance, silent operation, and a variety of ports, but no user memory or SSD upgrades, which are expensive
Sam Altman / @sama:
Sam Altman says OpenAI trained an AI model that is good at creative writing and shares a short story it wrote; he's “not sure yet how/when it will get released”  —  we trained a new model that is good at creative writing (not sure yet how/when it will get released). this is the first time i have been really struck by something written by AI; it got the vibe of metafiction so right. PROMPT: Please write a metafictional literary short story
Reuters:
Manus partners with Alibaba's Qwen to integrate Manus' AI agent functions with AI models and computing platforms in China and to collaborate on Qwen's AI models  —  China's Manus AI announced on Tuesday a strategic partnership with the team behind tech giant Alibaba's Qwen AI models …
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
India's largest telco Jio Platforms partners with SpaceX to offer Starlink in the country, just hours after rival Airtel announced a similar partnership  —  Jio Platforms, the subsidiary of India's conglomerate Reliance Industries and the country's largest telecom operator …
Reuters:
India's Airtel signs a deal with SpaceX to launch Starlink in the country, subject to Starlink obtaining government approval to begin operations
Stephen Totilo / Game File:
Mike Verdu, who joined Netflix in 2021 to launch its game offering and took on a new role as VP of Generative AI for games four months ago, has left the company  —  Plus: Some key changes for this year's Game Developers Conference  —  Mike Verdu, the executive who led Netflix's foray …
The Information:
Source: Anthropic's annualized revenue grew from $1B at the end of 2024 to $1.4B in early March; Manus uses tools including Claude 3.7 Sonnet to power its agent  —  Anthropic's year is off to a good start.  —  Its annualized revenue—a measure of the past month's revenue multiplied by 12 …
David McCabe / New York Times:
The Senate approves Gail Slater, President Trump's pick to lead the DOJ's antitrust unit, by a 78-19 vote; she has been critical of power in the tech industry  —  Slater, a longtime Washington lawyer, has been particularly critical of power in the tech industry.
Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk:
Mesh raised an $82M Series B, settled mostly in PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin and led by Paradigm, to expand its stablecoin-based payments settlement network  —  The fundraising was completed using PayPal's PYUSD stablecoin and was led by Paradigm.  —  What to know:
Allie Garfinkle / Fortune:
Cartesia, which is developing real-time generative AI models for voice AI, raised a $64M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins, taking its total funding to $91M  —  Since 1897, Karan Goel's family has been running the same business.  —  “My great-great-grandfather started a manufacturing business back in the day,” said Goel.
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge:
Waymo expands its operating area around Silicon Valley to a 27 square-mile region, including Mountain View, Palo Alto, Los Altos, and parts of Sunnyvale  —  The company is operating in a 27 square-mile service area that includes Mountain View, Palo Alto, Los Altos, and parts of Sunnyvale.
The Information:
Sources: self-driving simulation software provider Applied Intuition is in talks to raise hundreds of millions at a $15B valuation; it reached $400M ARR in 2024  —  Applied Intuition, an eight-year-old developer of simulation software for training self-driving vehicles …

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From Mediagazer

Corbin Bolies / The Wrap:
CBS News expands its investigative unit by hiring former Washington Post reporter and Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Gilbert and Free Press reporter Gabe Kaminsky

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
Politico names Jonathan Greenberger as its editor-in-chief, effective May 1, succeeding co-founder John Harris; Greenberger joined Politico as EVP in 2024

Brian Steinberg / Variety:
Peter Alexander, who worked as NBC News' chief White House correspondent and co-anchor of the Saturday edition of Today show, leaves the network

More News

Sander Lutz / Decrypt:
Sen. Lummis unveils the Bitcoin Act in the US Senate, with five Republican cosponsors, to codify a strategic Bitcoin reserve and let the US buy up to 1M BTC
Emma Roth / The Verge:
TikTok rolls out a new feature to show users under 16 a “wind down” reminder after 10PM, interrupting the feed and playing “calming music to help teens relax”
Sam Sabin / Axios:
President Trump nominates Sean Plankey, the director of cyber policy at the White House during the first Trump administration, to run CISA

Earlier Picks

Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica:
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D review: great gaming and general performance and AMD removed overclocking limitations, but a niche CPU, some software issues, and pricey
Counterpoint Research:
Global smartwatch shipments fell 7% YoY in 2024, the market's first ever decline; Apple fell 19% while Huawei grew 35%, Xiaomi grew 135%, and Samsung grew 3%
Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg:
Coinbase registers with India's FIU and plans to roll out its retail trading platform in India later in 2025, its second attempt to expand in the country
Reuters:
Sources: Meta is testing its first in-house AI training chip and is working with TSMC to produce it, as part of a long-term plan to lower infrastructure costs
New York Times:
Trump's call to scrap the “horrible” CHIPS Act causes concern among Republican lawmakers, who sought and received White House reassurances over the program
Columbia Journalism Review:
A study of eight AI search engines found they provided incorrect citations of news articles in 60%+ of queries; Grok 3 answered 94% of the queries incorrectly
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