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New York Times:
FTC v. Meta: in opening arguments, FTC lawyers accuse Meta of a “buy-or-bury strategy” to cement a social networking monopoly by buying Instagram and WhatsApp  —  The tech giant went to court on Monday in an antitrust trial focused on its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.
Brendan Bordelon / Politico:
FTC v. Meta: the US argued Meta has a monopoly in the “personal social networking” market, which it claims includes only Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and MeWe  —  The government wants to show the Meta CEO bought Instagram and WhatsApp to snuff out social media competition.
New York Times:
Legal expert: at Meta's FTC antitrust trial, Mark Zuckerberg is likely to face a more grueling time on the stand compared to his former Congressional hearings  —  Meta's chief has grown accustomed to tough questioning in courts and hearings, but an antitrust trial starting Monday could be more grueling, experts said.
Ben Smith / Semafor:
Source: FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson, Assistant AG Gail Slater, and activist Mike Davis met Trump on April 8 to combat Meta's lobbying over the FTC antitrust case
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI releases GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and GPT‑4.1 nano, which excel at coding, instruction following, and long context understanding, available via its API  —  OpenAI on Monday launched a new family of models called GPT-4.1.  Yes, “4.1” — as if the company's nomenclature wasn't confusing enough already.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI plans to wind down the availability of GPT-4.5 via its API on July 14, 2025, after launching the model as a research preview on February 27, 2025  —  OpenAI said on Monday that it would soon wind down the availability of GPT-4.5, its largest-ever AI model, via its API.
The Information:
Sources: OpenAI's upcoming o3 and o4-mini reasoning models may excel at suggesting new types of science experiments, from nuclear fusion to pathogen detection
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Nvidia starts making its Blackwell chips at TSMC's Phoenix plant and says it aims to make up to $500B of AI infrastructure in the US in the next four years  —  Nvidia said on Monday that it has commissioned more than a million square feet of manufacturing space to build and test AI chips …
Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
Intel agrees to sell a 51% stake in Altera to Silver Lake in a deal valuing the programmable chip unit at $8.75B; Intel bought Altera for ~$17B in 2015  —  Intel said on Monday it would sell a 51% stake in Altera to private equity firm Silver Lake, valuing the programmable chip unit at $8.75 billion.
The Keyword:
Google details DolphinGemma, a new 400M-parameter LLM to decode dolphin communication by analyzing the vocalizations of wild Atlantic spotted dolphins  —  DolphinGemma, a large language model developed by Google, is helping scientists study how dolphins communicate — and hopefully find out what they're saying, too.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple plans to begin on-device, privacy-centric analysis of user data, comparing it to synthetic data, to improve AI, in beta versions of iOS 18.5, macOS 15.5  —  Apple Inc. will begin analyzing data on customers' devices in a bid to improve its artificial intelligence platform …
Counterpoint Research:
Global smartphone sales grew 3% YoY in Q1 2025; Apple took the top spot, its first ever for Q1, with a 19% share, and Vivo was the fastest growing brand  —  - The global smartphone market continued its growth trajectory in Q1 2025.  Smartphone sell-through grew 3% YoY during the quarter …
Dominic Preston / The Verge:
Samsung pauses its global One UI 7 rollout, citing a “serious bug”, after starting on April 7, seven months after Android 15's launch; Samsung hasn't commented  —  The update is on hold after some South Korean users suffered from a ‘serious bug.’
Nikkei Asia:
Sources: Apple asked suppliers in India, Vietnam, and Thailand to ramp up production earlier in 2025; Indian factory utilization rates are already at the limit  —  TAIPEI — Apple is ramping up production of key products in India and Vietnam to take advantage of a 90-day grace period on U.S. tariffs …
Reuters:
President Trump told reporters he would announce the tariff rate on imported semiconductors over the next week, giving some flexibility to certain companies
Financial Times:
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says consumer electronics exempt from tariffs may be included in semiconductor tariffs likely coming in “a month or two”
Andy Bounds / Financial Times:
Sources: the European Commission is issuing burner phones and laptops to some US-bound staff to mitigate espionage risks, a move typically reserved for China  —  European Commission officials heading to IMF and World Bank spring meetings advised to travel with basic devices

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From Mediagazer

CNN:
CNN employees and viewers have serious concerns about whether Ellison will uphold CNN's editorial independence amid severe political pressure

Chris Gardner / The Hollywood Reporter:
Equalpride, parent company of LGBTQ+ outlets like Out and The Advocate, cuts staff, including the EICs of Pride.com and The Advocate

Jeremy Barr / The Guardian:
Memo: another CBS News producer leaves, after 46 years, and says, “We've been told to aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum”

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Associated Press:
Meta says it plans to train its AI models on public content, like posts and comments, and interactions that users have with its AI in the EU starting this week

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Financial Times:
NATO will start using Palantir's Maven Smart System, an AI system that lets 20-50 soldiers process battlefield data that once required hundreds of analysts
New York Times:
How private prison company Geo Group built a lucrative side business making digital tools like smart watches and tracking apps to help ICE surveil immigrants
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Sony hikes PlayStation 5 prices in Europe, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, citing a “challenging economic environment”; the PS5 Pro remains the same price
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
A look at “slopsquatting”, a supply chain attack where threat actors make malicious packages on indexes using AI-hallucinated names resembling popular libraries
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