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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 …
More: The Guardian, The Information, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Reuters, Watcher Guru, RedState, Crypto Briefing, BGR, The Crypto Times, International Business Times, and Livemint
X: @amir, @kyliebytes, and @kyliebytes
Forums: r/artificial, r/singularity, and r/technology
| 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.
More: Business Insider, Reuters, Ars Technica, Vanity Fair, MEDIANAMA, The Indian Express, Business Standard, The Wrap, CNN, Fox Business, India Today, Newser, LBCIV7, CBS News, Deadline, CBS News, The Straits Times, and Semafor
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Forums: r/NoShitSherlock, r/technology, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| 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
More: TechCrunch, Reuters, Fortune, Quartz, The Verge, Moneycontrol, MEDIANAMA, Android Headlines, and PhoneArena
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| New York Times: |
More: Thurrott, Stratechery, Entrepreneur, Meta, Deadline, BBC, Quartz, Music Ally, The Economic Times, The Overspill, Big Tech on Trial, StrictlyVC, Yahoo Finance, Meta, UPI, The Verge, NPR, Cryptopolitan, Axios, The Post Millennial, Breitbart, Spyglass, NPR, The Information, Washington Post, PetaPixel, Politico, Business Insider, New York Times, and Semafor
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| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
4chan is down after an apparent hack late on April 14; an Imgur post seems to show a hacker gained shell access to 4chan's hosting server and doxxed some users — More like 404chan, amirite? — 4chan, the controversial forum known for birthing early meme culture and Gamergate, is down, following an apparent hack.
More: The Verge, 404 Media, Newsweek, The Daily Dot, Dexerto, Mashable, The Sun, and The Express Tribune
Mastodon: @dsilverman@mastodon.social. X: @regularaugust, @klobstar, @jaredlholt, @kommiattrition, @duplavortex, @jaredlholt, @agoldmund, and @lumpythecook. Forums: r/4chan
| Financial Times: |
FCC Chair Brendan Carr says “allied western democracies” need to focus on China and those “concerned about Starlink” should be more fearful of a Chinese version — FCC chair Brendan Carr urges ‘western allies’ to pick Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet company
More: Telecoms Tech News. Bluesky: @marypcbuk, @smtuffy, @karlbode.com, and @katjabego
Forums: r/EUSpace, r/eutech, r/europeanunion, and Slashdot
| 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 …
More: Ars Technica, CNET, Thurrott, CyberInsider, BleepingComputer, How-To Geek, The Verge, Android Authority, Android Police, Neowin, Stuff, Cyber Security News, and nextpit. Forums: r/Android
| 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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Mastodon: @Bing_Chris@mastodon.social and @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
Forums: r/worldnews and r/Global_News_Hub
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia unveils its RTX 5060 family, including the RTX 5060 Ti with 4,608 CUDA cores for $379 with 8GB of VRAM or $429 for 16GB of VRAM, launching on April 16 — The $299 RTX 5060 is also releasing in May to give PC gamers more GPU options. … Nvidia is announcing its RTX 5060 family of GPUs today …
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| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: TSMC is close to finalizing specs for a new chip packaging method, known in the industry as “panel-level”, to meet rising demand for powerful AI chips — TAIPEI — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is close to finalizing the specifications for a radically new approach …
More: Benzinga, WinBuzzer, TipRanks Financial, and Focus Taiwan
| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
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Forums: r/intelstock, r/hardware, and r/AMD_Stock
| 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.
More: 9to5Mac, Thurrott, ZDNET, Engadget, TechCrunch, Tom's Guide, Tom's Guide, Fast Company, and Notion
| Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
An interview with Google VP of Search Elizabeth Reid on AI Overviews' launch a year ago, the future of AI search, its impact on the ad revenue model, and more — The search executive behind the push to reinvent the group's core product says users are driving change in how to seek information| 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 — The crash of its App Store rank reveals how heavily Temu was reliant on Google advertising for paid acquisiton. — Chat with SearchBot| 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 … | Emilia David / VentureBeat: |
Cohere debuts Embed 4, its search engine for enterprise AI assistants, now with a 128K context length, better multimodal abilities for complex documents, more — Enterprise retrieval augmented generation (RAG) remains integral to the current agentic AI craze.| Wall Street Journal: |
Nvidia's $500B US spending plan follows a familiar pattern of companies trying to please President Trump and offers few details on what AI gear would be US-made — The chip maker's plan to build AI tech in Texas comes on the heels of a new tariff threat — Chip maker Nvidia unveiled plans Monday …
More: Benzinga, The Decoder, Bloomberg, TipRanks Financial, Barron's Online, MarketWatch, Verdict, CoinGape, Newsmax, CNBC, The Register, and The Daily Wire
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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Bluesky: @bobbyallyn. X: @dnystedt, @firstadopter, @patrickmoorhead, @kristinaparts, @wenyee_lee, @altcap, @greg_price11, @firstadopter, @edludlow, @rapidresponse47, and @nvidianewsroom. LinkedIn: Jon Stresing
Forums: r/Conservative, r/hardware, r/nvidia, and r/StockMarket
| 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.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
More: OpenAI, The Verge, OpenAI on YouTube, Business Insider, Wired, CryptoSlate, Analytics India Magazine, Forbes, Tom's Guide, Tech in Asia, Digit, Blockchain.News, Neowin, TestingCatalog, iPhone in Canada Blog, and The Information
Bluesky: @quinnypig.com, @timkellogg.me, @timkellogg.me, and @timkellogg.me
Threads: @polynoamial and @mark_r_vickers
X: @sama, @gdb, @azure, @openrouterai, @bindureddy, @swyx, @scaling01, @sarahookr, @garymarcus, @stevesi, @arcprize, @daniel_mac8, @suhail, @ns123abc, @simonw, @iterintellectus, @sama, @bindureddy, @wolframrvnwlf, @paulg, @openrouterai, @openaidevs, @yuchenj_uw, @mariorod1, @silasalberti, @sama, @ilanbigio, @iruletheworldmo, @kevinhou22, @packym, @_kevinlu, @levie, @deedydas, @mattppal, @kevinweil, @natolambert, @sentdex, @adonis_singh, @polynoamial, @aidan_mclau, @_mohansolo, @code, @ashtom, @ericzakariasson, @windsurf_ai, @cursor_ai, @simonw, @itsclivetime, @satyanadella, @levie, @bindureddy, @openrouterai, @sama, @nielsrogge, and @tomwarren
Forums: Hacker News, r/ArtificialInteligence, r/artificial, and Slashdot
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