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Meta:
Meta launches Llama 4 Maverick with 400B parameters and Scout with 109B parameters and a 10M context window, and previews Behemoth with 2T total parameters  —  Takeaways  — We're sharing the first models in the Llama 4 herd, which will enable people to build more personalized multimodal experiences.
More: Moneycontrol, The Verge, VentureBeat, iClarified, MakeUseOf, AIN, CNBC, Analytics India Magazine, Simon Willison's Weblog, Simon Willison's Weblog, Android Central, and TipRanks Financial
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Threads: @chriscox, @rpn, @natolambert, @natolambert, @yannlecun, @zuck, @latentchat, @latesttechtalk, @ericflo, @omarsar0, @nvidiadeveloper, @arunsasi99, @aaldahle, @1ar.io, @documentingmeta, @alphasignal.ai, @han_fang_, @aaldahle, @russsalakhutdinov, @zuck, @vthallam, @doreturn.in, and @zuck.  Instagram: Mark Zuckerberg
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LinkedIn: Andrew Feldman and Sean Bell
Forums: Hacker News, Hacker News, r/singularity, r/artificial, r/technology, r/LocalLLaMA, r/singularity, and Lobsters
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Meta updates Meta AI in WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram Direct, and the Meta.AI website with Llama 4 in 40 countries; multimodal features are US-only in English  —  Meta has released a new collection of AI models, Llama 4, in its Llama family — on a Saturday, no less.
Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget:
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will share news about a Llama 4 Reasoning model “in the next month”  —  Meta AI for WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram now has Llama 4.  —  Meta has released the first two models from its multimodal Llama 4 suite: LLama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick.
More: Reuters, Maginative, MarkTechPost, and Hugging Face.  Threads: @zuck
Emanuel Maiberg / 404 Media:
In backing Trump, effective accelerationists like Musk and Andreessen got a “Decel-in-Chief”, who instigated a brain drain and tariffs that hurt tech companies  —  In October of 2023, Marc Andreessen, founder of the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) …
Makena Kelly / Wired:
Sources: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in Washington DC next week to build a “mega API” for accessing all IRS data, with Palantir as a possible partner  —  DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources tell WIRED.
Joseph Bambridge / Politico:
OpenAI and Google reject the UK's proposal to allow training AI on copyrighted work without permission unless rights holders opt out to “reserve their rights”  —  The U.K. government's AI copyright plans can't seem to please anyone.  —  LONDON — Leading AI companies OpenAI …
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Joel Kaplan says Meta's US fact-checking program will be over by Monday, and Community Notes will start appearing on Facebook, Threads, and Instagram  —  Meta will no longer have any fact-checkers in the U.S. come Monday, according to chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils a replica of Quake II generated using its Muse AI model and playable in a browser, as part of the company's Copilot in Gaming push  —  Microsoft's Muse AI model is now available as an AI-generated Quake II tech demo. … Microsoft unveiled its Xbox AI era earlier this year …
Charles Martin / AppleInsider:
The BBC complains to the UK CMA that Apple and Google's news aggregators weaken its relationship with the public by downplaying the BBC branding  —  The British Broadcasting Corporation has complained to a UK antitrust authority that Apple and Google's news services, such as Apple News …
More: Telegraph
Harry Alston / TheGamer:
Schedule 1, a drug-dealing simulator made by a single developer, tops Steam charts with an estimated 2M+ copies sold after going viral on streams and TikTok  —  I keep my eyes on new game releases because I have to: it's a part of my job.  For those who are a bit more casual when it comes to playing games …
Reuters:
Sources: a TikTok US deal, which was largely finalized by April 2, was put on hold after China indicated it would reject the deal over President Trump's tariffs  —  A deal to spin off the U.S. assets of TikTok was put on hold after China indicated that it would not approve …
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Trump says he signed an executive order to keep TikTok running for 75 more days, as “the deal requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed”

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TMZ.com:
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Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
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Tom Warren / The Verge:
On Microsoft's 50th anniversary, company executives reflect on its history and how it responds to challenges, experiments with software and hardware, and adapts
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders, which were set to start on April 9, “to assess the potential impact” of Trump's tariffs; the June 5 launch date is unchanged
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Sam Altman says OpenAI plans to release o3 and o4-mini “after all”, followed by GPT-5 “in a few months”, citing challenges to “smoothly integrate everything”
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