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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta launches the Meta AI app, a standalone ChatGPT competitor featuring a Discover feed, where users can see AI interactions that friends have chosen to share — The new Meta AI app puts a twist on social media. … Meta's standalone ChatGPT competitor is mostly what you'd expect from an AI assistant.
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| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
WhatsApp plans to add cloud-based AI features like message summarization and composition, utilizing a system called Private Processing to maintain data privacy — WhatsApp's AI tools will use a new “Private Processing” system designed to allow cloud access without letting Meta or anyone else see end-to-end encrypted chats.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Meta debuts an API for its Llama AI models, in limited preview with pricing yet to be publicly announced — At its inaugural LlamaCon AI developer conference on Tuesday, Meta announced an API for its Llama series of AI models: the Llama API. — Available in limited preview … | Fortune: |
Amazon says Amazon Haul “considered the idea of listing import charges on certain products”, but “this was never a consideration for the main Amazon site” — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a news article on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos as she speaks during …
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| Kevin Breuninger / CNBC: |
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says Amazon reportedly adding tariff pricing to each product on its site “is a hostile and political act by Amazon” — WATCH NOW — The White House on Tuesday slammed Amazon for reportedly planning to display the cost …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
The latest update of GPT-4o is “now 100% rolled back” for free users and is currently rolling back for paid users, as OpenAI aims to fix the model's sycophancy — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday said that the company is “rolling back” the latest update to the default AI model powering ChatGPT …
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| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Waymo and Toyota announce a preliminary partnership aiming to develop an autonomous vehicle platform and enhance next-generation personally-owned vehicles — Alphabet-owned Waymo and Toyota on Tuesday announced a preliminary partnership to explore bringing robotaxi tech to personally-owned vehicles.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Appfigures: Google Play hosts 1.8M apps, down from 3.4M at the beginning of 2024, a 47% decline likely due to raised minimum quality requirements — Google Play's app marketplace is losing apps. — From the start of 2024 to present, the Android app marketplace went from hosting … | Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
At LlamaCon, Satya Nadella said 20%-30% of code in Microsoft's repositories was written by AI and the company was seeing more progress in Python and less in C++ — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20%-30% of code inside the company's repositories was “written by software” — meaning AI …
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| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
An Indian court directs the government to block Proton Mail after a local firm alleged its staff received emails containing obscene content sent via the service — A court in India has ordered the blocking of encrypted email provider Proton Mail across the country.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple shuffles its global affairs division, including management of teams for Europe, India, and China, and changes Apple Music's leadership structure — Apple Inc. is shuffling the management of its global affairs and music divisions in separate moves, extending a series … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Supermicro reports preliminary Q3 revenue of $4.5B to $4.6B, vs. $5.5B est., earnings per share of $0.29 to $0.31, vs. $0.54 est.; SMCI drops 16%+ after hours — Super Micro shares fell as much as 19% on Tuesday after the server maker announced preliminary results for the fiscal third quarter … | Karen Freifeld / Reuters: |
Sources: Trump officials are considering removing a Biden-era rule that divides the world into tiers that help determine how many AI chips a country can obtain — The Trump administration is working on changes to a Biden-era rule that would limit global access to AI chips … | CNBC: |
Snap reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.36B, vs. $1.35B est., and does not offer Q2 guidance, citing macroeconomic uncertainties; SNAP drops 14%+ after hours — Snap reported better-than-expected first-quarter revenue Tuesday but declined to provide guidance, citing macroeconomic uncertainties that could weigh on advertising demand.
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| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to €4.2B, subscribers up 12% to 268M, vs. 265.2M est., MAUs up 10%, forecasts Q2 gross profit margins and MAUs below est. — Spotify Technology SA shares tumbled on Tuesday after the streaming company gave a muted outlook for profit and subscriber growth in the current quarter.
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| Bloomberg: |
The UK government publishes draft legislation on cryptoassets, set to be finalized later in 2025, and says it will work with US officials on crypto regulation — The UK government will collaborate with US officials on plans to regulate the burgeoning crypto industry, distancing itself … | James Hale / Tubefilter: |
Streams Charts: YouTube was the most-watched livestreaming platform in Q1 2025, with 50% of total watch hours, followed by TikTok with 27% and Twitch with 16% — It's been a few years since the Great Ninja Exodus that pitted Twitch, YouTube, Microsoft's now-defunct Mixer … | The Cloudflare Blog: |
In Q1 2025, Cloudflare blocked 20.5M DDoS attacks, a 358% YoY increase, and in Q2 it blocked an attack with, by far, the most intense packet rate on record — Welcome to the 21st edition of the Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report. Published quarterly, this report offers a comprehensive analysis … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Online graphic design platform Freepik unveils F Lite, a 10B-parameter “open” AI image model that it says was trained on ~80M licensed, “safe-for-work” images — Freepik, the online graphic design platform, unveiled a new “open” AI image model on Tuesday that the company …
More: Fal, Fal, Neowin, fal on GitHub, and nextbigwhat
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| Emily Nicolle / Bloomberg: |
Beauhurst: UK equity crowdfunding, once one of fintech's hottest trends, fell 58% from its 2021 peak to £335M in 2024, and dropped ~60% YoY in Q1 2025 to £42.6M — Once one of fintech's hottest trends, equity crowdfunding gave millions of retail investors a chance to strike gold … | Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg: |
TSMC has begun building a third fab in Arizona, announcing the third phase of its US expansion the same day Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick toured TSMC's site — The world's most advanced chipmaker announced the third phase of its US expansion the same day Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick … | Aryaman Gupta / Moneycontrol: |
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