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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: Bloomberg, The Verge, Unite.AI, Microsoft Azure, TechTalks, WinBuzzer, The Decoder, Livemint, Digital Trends, The Cloudflare Blog, Hugging Face, Research & Development World, About Amazon, iClarified, AIN, VentureBeat, Simon Willison's Weblog, Simon Willison's Weblog, CNBC, Analytics India Magazine, TipRanks Financial, and Android Central
Bluesky: @chirag, @jeremymorrell.dev, @seldo.com, @simonwillison.net, @timkellogg.me, @ericflo, and @taumuyi
Threads: @chriscox, @rpn, @ajassy, @satyanadella, @latentchat, @latesttechtalk, @russsalakhutdinov, @nvidiadeveloper, @zuck, @alphasignal.ai, @omarsar0, @natolambert, @arunsasi99, @aaldahle, @natolambert, @1ar.io, @han_fang_, @vthallam, @doreturn.in, @documentingmeta, @zuck, @aaldahle, @zuck, @ericflo, and @yannlecun.  Instagram: Mark Zuckerberg
X: @ahmad_al_dahle, @aiatmeta, @burkov, @abacaj, @jeremyphoward, @natolambert, @miles_brundage, @cloudflare, @miles_brundage, @emollick, @basetenco, @levie, @miles_brundage, @dylan522p, @levelsio, @deanwball, @nearcyan, @bindureddy, @redhat_ai, @dorialexander, @emollick, @miles_brundage, @dorialexander, @emollick, @nearcyan, @eliebakouch, @openrouterai, @clementdelangue, @togethercompute, @cloudflaredev, @drjimfan, @miles_brundage, @groqinc, @ritakozlov_, @lmarena_ai, @lmarena_ai, @openrouterai, @nearcyan, @simonw, @emollick, @maximelabonne, @brbcatonfire, @charliebholtz, @iscienceluvr, @michaelsayman, @abhisk_kadian, @bhutanisanyam1, @dextersjab, @risphereeditor, @clementdelangue, @natalianeverova, @iscienceluvr, @huggingface, @krishnanrohit, @simonw, @dorialexander, @deanwball, @xlr8harder, @jconorgrogan, @sharan0909, @4xiom_, @sharan0909, @ariaurelium, @maximelabonne, @manohar_paluri, @alew3, @maximelabonne, @giffmana, @tomosman, @rsdgpt, @asaddhamani, @the_ai_investor, @middleclassdesi, @andymstone, @btibor91, @_impl, @ashter_haider, @deryatr_, @bradthilton, @burny_tech, @matthewberman, @rsalakhu, @loredanacrisan, @bindureddy, @_arohan_, @jpineau1, @eaccelerate_42, @madiator, @frameworkputer, @astonzhangaz, @naklecha, @cfgeek, @deanwball, and @rishdotblog
LinkedIn: Andrew Feldman and Sean Bell
Forums: Hacker News, r/ABoringDystopia, r/singularity, r/artificial, r/technology, r/singularity, r/LocalLLaMA, and Lobsters
Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget:
Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will share news about a Llama 4 Reasoning model “in the next month”
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
How Apple may adjust to the US tariffs; sources: the iPhone 17 Pro's camera panel will span the width of the phone and will be the same color as the device  —  After years of avoiding iPhone price hikes in the US, Apple could finally be forced to to make increases.
Wall Street Journal:
Analysis: newly announced US tariffs for goods from China could raise the bill of materials for the iPhone 16 Pro with 256GB of storage from ~$550 to ~$850  —  This is what the company pays for components inside its bestselling phone, and how Trump's China tariffs could raise the bill.
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils a demo of Quake II generated using its Muse AI model, with limited playability in a browser, as part of the company's Copilot for 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 …
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.
Xinmei Shen / South China Morning Post:
DeepSeek and Tsinghua University researchers detail an approach combining reasoning methods to let LLMs deliver better and faster results to general queries  —  In collaboration with Tsinghua University, DeepSeek developed a technique combining reasoning methods to guide AI models towards human preferences
More: arXiv.org and VentureBeat
Bluesky: @timkellogg.me and @timkellogg.me.  Mastodon: @yogthos@social.marxist ….  Forums: r/DeepSeek
Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge:
Z-Wave, popular among smart home enthusiasts, becomes an open-source protocol with a new long-range technology as it seeks Matter support to avoid obsolescence  —  Now an open-source protocol and with a new long-range technology, the path forward for Z-Wave looks clearer, with a little help from Matter.
More: Pocket-lint
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.

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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
ABC sues the FCC, claiming the agency's investigations and regulatory actions are part of a Trump administration “retaliatory campaign” to curb its free speech

Svetlana Shkolnikova / Stars & Stripes:
Longtime Stars and Stripes publisher Max Lederer announces his retirement, saying his understanding of the outlet's “value and mission” differs from DOD plans

Emma Joyce / The Guardian:
Report: changing viewing habits and reduced commissioning by commercial networks have led to significant drops in TV dramas and children's shows in Australia

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Kimberly Samra / Google Online Security Blog:
Google announces Sec-Gemini v1, an experimental AI model for cybersecurity, claiming it outperforms others on the leading CTI-MCQ threat intelligence benchmark
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
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