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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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| 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, Engadget, Breitbart, Fortune, New York Times, Yahoo Finance, Proactive, The Hill, Axios, The Verge, AzerNews, Fast Company, Reuters, Meta, Al Jazeera, Business Insider, Business Standard, Android Headlines, Nairametrics, The Week, MEDIANAMA, Moneycontrol, The Wrap, and PhoneArena
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| Bloomberg: |
A 2018 email from Mark Zuckerberg explored spinning off Instagram; he testified his thinking at the time took into account where politics seemed to be going — Mark Zuckerberg considered spinning off Instagram into a separate company in 2018 as he increasingly became concerned that the photo …
More: The Verge, Washington Post, Business Insider, USA Today, BBC, The Wrap, Tech Xplore, CNBC, Reuters, Deadline, Vanity Fair, DNA India, Latin Times, Android Headlines, and CBS News
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Threads: @kurtwag8 and @mike_isaac
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Mark Zuckerberg's $1B Instagram and $19B WhatsApp deals, central to the FTC's antitrust case, were mocked at the time, and the trial hinges on hypotheticals — Meta's antitrust trial, in which the government contends the company killed competition by buying young rivals … | 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) …
More: SC Media, The Record, Bloomberg, Xinhua, CyberScoop, The Register, PCMag, Wall Street Journal, CGTN, Bloomberg, CSO, Metacurity, Fortune, Al Jazeera, and Nextgov/FCW
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Mastodon: @Bing_Chris@mastodon.social and @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
Forums: r/espionage, r/worldnews, and r/Global_News_Hub
| 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.
More: Anthropic, Engadget, VentureBeat, and Thurrott
X: @mikeyk, @anthropicai, @anthropicai, and @willccbb
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic says Claude now integrates with Google Workspace for access to Gmail, Calendar, and Google Docs, coming first to Max, Team, Enterprise, and Pro plans — Anthropic announced on Tuesday that its AI chatbot, Claude, now integrates with Google Workspace, allowing it to search and reference … | 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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| 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.| 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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| 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 … | 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
| 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 …
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| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
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| 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 …
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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: 404 Media, The Verge, Ars Technica, The Register, Newsweek, BleepingComputer, PCMag, The Daily Dot, The Sun, Dexerto, Mashable, The Express Tribune, Hollywood Life, and New York Daily News
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Forums: r/technology, r/technews, and r/Fauxmoi
| 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 …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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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: |
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