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Ashley Oliver / Fox Business:
Apple removes ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE officer sightings, from the App Store; AG Pam Bondi directed the DOJ to ask Apple to remove the app  —  Bondi confirmed the department reached out to Apple on Thursday to demand it remove ICEBlock
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New York Times:
As Sora clips go viral, users express awe and delight as others warn about IP theft and that its Cameos could lead to new kinds of misinformation and scams
M.G. Siegler / Spyglass:
Sora, which is fun and simple to use, shows that OpenAI remains good at creating viral products, unlike Meta, whose Vibes video feed feels half-baked and obtuse
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
OpenAI's Sora 2 generates copyright infringing content, including numerous AI-generated clips featuring SpongeBob, Pokémon, Mario, Rick and Morty, and Star Wars
Reuters:
Source: OpenAI employees sold shares to a consortium of investors including Thrive Capital, SoftBank, Dragoneer, Abu Dhabi's MGX, and T. Rowe Price  —  OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, has reached a valuation of $500 billion, following a deal in which current and former employees sold …
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
Source: OpenAI authorized up to $10.3B in shares for sale, but only $6.6B was sold, which insiders see as a sign of staff confidence and strong investor demand
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
IBM releases Granite 4.0, an open source “enterprise-ready” LLM family with a hybrid architecture, claiming it uses significantly less RAM than traditional LLMs  —  Despite being one of the oldest active tech companies in the U.S. (founded in 1911, 114 years ago!), “Big Blue” …
Kimberley Kao / Wall Street Journal:
AI chip startup Groq, last valued at $6.9B, says it plans to break ground on 12+ new data centers in 2026; Groq has set up 12 data centers in 2025 so far  —  The company, which makes chips and software to run artificial-intelligence models, was last valued at $6.9 billion
More: WinBuzzer
Ray Maker / DC Rainmaker:
Strava sues Garmin for allegedly infringing two patents related to its segments and heatmap features and violating a 2015 agreement between the companies  —  Strava has sued Garmin, an act that I very much did not have on my bingo card for 2025.  In doing so, they are demanding …
Eugene Kim / Business Insider:
Doc: Amazon's Q Business AI assistant struggled with accuracy and data processing in its first year, drawing complaints; Amazon says the document is outdated  —  Follow Eugene Kim … Saved  —  Add us on  — Amazon's Q Business AI tool faced accuracy issues in its first year.
Google Developers Blog:
Google says Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, is now generally available and supports more aspect ratios, priced at $0.039/image and $30/1M output tokens  —  Our state-of-the-art image generation and editing model which has captured the imagination of the world, Gemini 2.5 Flash Image 🍌 …
Mercor:
Mercor launches the AI Productivity Index (APEX), which evaluates AI models' ability to perform “economically valuable knowledge work”; GPT-5 leads the index  —  APEX v1.0 consists of 200 cases split evenly across investment banking, law, consulting, and medical practice.

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Wall Street Journal:
CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King signed a new deal, providing some stability at CBS News; source: King's current contract is worth ~$15M and runs through May

Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Filing: Trump added between $600K and $1.25M in Netflix bonds to his portfolio in January; he also bought between $600K and $1.25M of SiriusXM bonds

Max Tani / Semafor:
AP Senior Product Manager for AI Aimee Rinehart told staff that many editors preferred an AI-written article to a human one, and resistance to AI is “futile”

More News

Blake Brittain / Reuters:
OpenAI asks a US judge to dismiss a lawsuit alleging it hired away xAI employees to steal trade secrets, calling the case part of Musk's “ongoing harassment”
Antonio Regalado / MIT Technology Review:
Microsoft researchers say AI models can be used to design toxins that evade biosecurity systems used to screen DNA orders for potential biothreats

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Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
Google adds a new command-line interface and public API to its AI coding agent Jules, allowing it to plug into terminals, CI/CD systems, and tools like Slack
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Meta unveils communities on Threads, starting with 100+ dedicated spaces for casual conversations around topics like basketball, television, and K-pop music
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