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| The Verge: |
Sources: OpenAI is in the early stages of building its own X-like social network, focused on ChatGPT image generation, and is asking some outsiders for feedback — Is Sam Altman ready to up his rivalry with Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg? … OpenAI is working on its own X-like social network …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Meta offered $450M in late March to settle the FTC's antitrust case and raised its offer to ~$1B as the trial neared; the FTC had demanded $30B — The FTC wanted $30 billion to drop its case. Zuckerberg offered much less and hoped Trump would back him up.
More: The Information, CNET, Associated Press, Los Angeles Times, Entrepreneur, Axios, The Straits Times, and Semafor
| Bloomberg: |
Email: Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram in 2018 as he increasingly became concerned that its success was hurting the Facebook social network — Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram into a separate company in 2018 as he increasingly became concerned that the photo …
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Threads: @kurtwag8 and @mike_isaac
| Bloomberg: |
FTC v. Meta: Mark Zuckerberg testified about his acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, including a 2012 email exchange rationalizing the apps' acquisition — - Meta CEO asked in email if deal may ‘neutralize a competitor’ — FTC claims acquisitions created a social networking monopoly| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
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| CNBC: |
Filing: Nvidia says it will record a $5.5B charge after the US said it would require a license to export the H20 chips to China; NVDA drops 6%+ after hours — Nvidia said on Tuesday that it will take a quarterly charge of about $5.5 billion tied to exporting H20 graphics processing units to China and other destinations.
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| David DiMolfetta / Nextgov/FCW: |
Mitre, the nonprofit research organization behind the CVE program, says the US government funding needed to develop and operate CVE will expire on April 16 — The U.S. government funding needed for non-profit research giant MITRE to develop, operate and maintain its flagship Common Vulnerabilities …
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| Reuters: |
Figma confidentially files for a US IPO; the company was valued at $12.5B in a May 2024 tender offer — Cloud-based designer platform Figma on Tuesday confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the United States, more than a year after a $20 billion deal to be acquired by Adobe (ADBE.O) hit regulatory roadblocks.
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| Reuters: |
Chinese state media: police in Harbin accuse the NSA of launching “advanced” cyberattacks during the Asian Winter Games in February 2025 and name three agents — Chinese police in the northeastern city of Harbin have accused the United States National Security Agency (NSA) …
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Forums: r/espionage, r/worldnews, and r/Global_News_Hub
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google plans to redirect all Search users to google.com over the coming months, saying “country-level domains are no longer necessary” — Historically, Google users around the world have visited country-specific sites like google.com.br (Brazil), google.fr (France), or google.co.uk (UK).
More: The Keyword, Android Police, Engadget, The Verge, Search Engine Land, MakeUseOf, and Android Central
X: @lilyraynyc and @rossstevens_uk
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google rolls out its text-to-video AI model Veo 2 to Gemini Advanced subscribers and makes its Whisk Animate tool available for Google One AI Premium users — A new Whisk Animate tool is coming to Google One AI Premium users, as well. … Google is letting Gemini Advanced subscribers try out Veo 2 …
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X: @nearcyan, @googlelabs, @google, @nearcyan, @googledeepmind, and @sundarpichai. Forums: r/singularity
| Jenna McLaughlin / NPR: |
Whistleblower: at NLRB, DOGE staff disabled monitoring tools, deleted logs, one worked on “NxGenBdoorExtract”; one DOGE account tried to log in via a Russian IP — In the first days of March, a team of advisers from President Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived …
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| Mohar Chatterjee / Politico: |
More: The Hill, Daily Caller News Foundation, The Gateway Pundit, and Raw Story
Bluesky: @laurenmeidasa. Mastodon: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social and @KimPerales@toad.social. Forums: r/politics
| Ben Sherry / Inc: |
Anthropic's Claude adds Research, capable of searching the web and internal documents to give comprehensive answers, in beta for Max, Team, Enterprise plans — The integration should make Claude even more effective as a virtual assistant. Plus, there's a new ‘Research’ mode.| Bloomberg: |
Sources: activist investor Elliott has built a position worth $1.5B+ in HPE, making it one of the company's top five shareholders; HPE is down ~30% in 2025 — Elliott Investment Management has built a large position worth more than $1.5 billion in Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., according to people familiar with the matter.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google rolls out a Play services update, including an Android security feature to auto-reboot phones and tablets that are “locked for three consecutive days” — With the latest Google Play services update, Android is rolling out a new security feature that automatically restarts … | Jay Peters / The Verge: |
OpenAI is adding an image library to ChatGPT to make it easier for users to access their AI-generated images, rolling out to all Free, Plus, and Pro users — The new Library is rolling out now to all Free, Plus, and Pro users. … OpenAI is adding an image library to ChatGPT to make it easier …
X: @openai
| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Japan's FTC orders Google to stop alleged abuse of its market power over local smartphone manufacturers, ahead of high-stakes US trade negotiations this week — Japan's Fair Trade Commission ordered Alphabet Inc.'s Google to stop alleged abuse of its market power over local smartphone manufacturers …
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Forums: r/Android, r/technology, and r/technology
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
A look at the FCC's “Delete, Delete, Delete” initiative, meant to identify burdensome rules, as ISPs, broadcasters, and others send in deregulation wishlists — Industry groups have submitted deregulatory wishlists for the Federal Communications Commission's “Delete, Delete … | Anu Adegbola / Search Engine Land: |
Temu shut off Google Shopping ads in the US on April 9; its App Store app ranking then plummeted from around third or fourth place to 58th in three days — Temu completely shut off Google Shopping ads in the U.S. on April 9, with its App Store ranking subsequently plummeting from a typical third … | David Pierce / The Verge: |
Notion releases Notion Mail, a lightweight Gmail client to help users schedule meetings and organize and draft emails, available as a free macOS and web app — The new app looks like Notion, it works like Gmail, and it has a lot of ideas about how AI can help you tame your inbox.
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