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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google debuts the Gemini 2.5 “thinking” models, starting with Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, which it says leads in some benchmarks, for Gemini Advanced users — Following updates to the models that are available for all users, Google today announced Gemini 2.5 Pro (experimental) for Advanced subscribers and developers.
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| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
OpenAI announces native GPT-4o image generation, rolling out to all ChatGPT tiers including free, and says it's “a step change above previous models” — The new upgrade is better at text rendering. … OpenAI is integrating new image generation capabilities directly …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces WWDC 2025 for June 9-13, which will be an “entirely online” event free for developers, with an in-person special event at Apple Park on June 9 — Apple has officially announced WWDC 2025. The event will take place on June 9 and run through June 13 at Apple Park in California.
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| James Laporta / CBS News: |
An internal NSA memo from February warned staff a vulnerability was identified in Signal and advised against using third-party apps to share sensitive info — The National Security Agency sent out an operational security special bulletin to its employees in February 2025 warning …
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| Washington Post: |
Interviews with 24+ US government workers show many embraced Signal after Trump's return to office as a tactic to shield communications, impacting transparency — The encrypted chat app beloved by Elon Musk and foreign dissidents has been embraced by federal government workers, DOGE and military planners.
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
3D tech company Infinite Reality acquires Napster for $207M; Infinite's CEO says that the 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 …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Qualcomm has complained to antitrust regulators in the EU, US, and South Korea that Arm is hurting competition by restricting access to its technology — In private meetings and confidential filings to regulators on three continents, Qualcomm is arguing that Arm — its biggest supplier …
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
The Arc Prize Foundation says its new ARC-AGI-2 test stumps most AI models; humans get 60% of the questions right but GPT-4.5 and Claude 3.7 Sonnet score ~1% — The Arc Prize Foundation, a nonprofit co-founded by prominent AI researcher François Chollet, announced in a blog post …
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| Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: |
As TikTok faces a US ban on April 5, the ByteDance-owned app has a new ad campaign framing TikTok as a savior of Americans and a champion of small businesses — The popular video app, which could be banned in the United States next month if it is not sold to a non-Chinese owner …
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| Bloomberg: |
Trump's World Liberty Financial unveils USD1, a 1:1 USD-pegged stablecoin on Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain, with BitGo as custodian; its launch date is TBA — President Donald Trump's crypto project World Liberty Financial said it plans to launch a stablecoin redeemable one-for-one with the dollar …
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Ripple says it agreed to settle a US SEC civil lawsuit over the alleged sale of unregistered securities and pay just $50M of a previously imposed $125M fine — Ripple Labs agreed to settle a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission civil lawsuit over the alleged sale of unregistered securities …
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| Yun Li / CNBC: |
GameStop says its board has unanimously approved a plan to buy bitcoin with its corporate cash, and it hasn't set a ceiling on how much bitcoin it may purchase — Video game retailer GameStop announced Tuesday its board has unanimously approved a plan to buy bitcoin with its corporate cash … | Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out a pilot program on Instagram designed to let US schools flag any potentially rule-violating post or account for prioritized review — The platform's new partnership program will prioritize reports made by schools. … Instagram is rolling out a new program to fast-track moderation reports made by school districts.
More: Engadget, TechCrunch, Meta, Social Media Today, and Mashable
| Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Nielsen: YouTube was the #1 TV distributor in February, making up 11.6% of all US TV; viewers over age 50 accounted for 36% of time spent watching YouTube on TV — The service supplants Disney atop the Nielsen list for the second time. — YouTube commanded more TV time than any other media provider … | Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Sources: the European Commission is set to close its year-long probe into browser options on iOS without a fine after Apple 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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| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Nexthop AI launches with $110M in seed and Series A funding led by Lightspeed Ventures, offering hardware and software for cloud AI infrastructure — Nexthop AI launched today with $110 million in funding led by Lightspeed Ventures to help the world's largest cloud companies build …
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| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
TechInsights: producing 300mm wafers at TSMC's Fab 21 near Phoenix, Arizona, is only about 10% more expensive than in Taiwan — It is equipment, not labor that defines chipmaking costs. — Comments made by TSMC founder Morris Chang about high fab building costs in Arizona and higher operating costs … | 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 …
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| Bloomberg: |
Since DeepSeek-R1's debut, Chinese companies like Baidu, DeepSeek, Tencent, Ant, and Alibaba have been flooding the market with low cost AI services and models — - China firms release 10 major releases or updates in two weeks — Low-cost, open source models may undercut Valley firm profits
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