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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Google says it needs more time to upgrade Assistant to Gemini on most Android devices; Google previously planned to complete the transition by the end of 2025 — The transition from Assistant to Gemini will continue into 2026. — Google wanted to remove Assistant from most Android phones … | Wall Street Journal: |
Inside NeurIPS 2025, and how it has transformed from a small academic conference into a massive industry event with 24,000+ attendees, yacht parties, and more — It used to be a small gathering just for nerdy researchers. Now there are yacht parties—and everyone is feeling bubbly.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Security company Koi finds browser extensions with 8M+ total installs that collected users' conversations with AI chatbots and sold them for marketing use — Browser extensions with more than 8 million installs are harvesting users' complete and extended AI conversations and selling …
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| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
The RAISE Act requires AI companies with $500M+ in revenue to publish safety protocols and disclose safety incidents within 72 hours, with fines up to $3M — Days after President Trump moved to block states from regulating AI, New York's governor signs what the bill's sponsor calls the strongest AI safety law in the U.S.| Ashley Gold / Axios: |
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs the RAISE Act into law; the AI safety bill's text was modified earlier to more closely resemble California's SB 53 — Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) signed the RAISE Act into law Friday, making New York the latest state to have broad safety rules for the most advanced AI models.
More: TechCrunch, City & State New York, Originally Reported …, New York Times, Governor Kathy Hochul, American Innovators Network, Chamber of Progress, Politico, Design It For Us, and Bloomberg Government
| Max Knoblauch / Sherwood News: |
Morgan Stanley: ad tiers account for 30% of Netflix subscribers and 50% of Disney+ subscribers; ad tiers accounted for all net subscriber additions in 2025 — As streaming prices climb, ad-free subscribers are becoming a rarity. — A mass digital migration is taking place … | Jon Keegan / Sherwood News: |
A look at Meta's 2GW Hyperion data center in Louisiana, with the first phase opening in 2028; an analysis shows sales tax breaks on GPUs could total $3.3B+ — $10 billion of investment. Code names to disguise projects and companies. Mixed opinions. Skyrocketing property values.
More: KALB-TV and Meta Newsroom
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI introduces a framework to evaluate chain-of-thought monitorability and a suite of 13 evaluations designed to measure the monitorability of an AI system — We introduce evaluations for chain-of-thought monitorability and study how it scales with test-time compute, reinforcement learning, and pretraining.
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| Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: |
Micron projects FY Q2 sales to grow over 2x YoY to $18.7B and adjusted operating income to rise over 5x to $11.3B, signaling higher memory chip prices in 2026 — The AI gold rush is creating shortages for memory chips that could raise prices for all sorts of gadgets
More: Barron's Online, Yahoo Finance, The Straits Times, Barchart.com, The Next Platform, and Android Headlines. Mastodon: @remixtures@tldr.nettime.org
| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Resolve AI, which is developing an autonomous site reliability engineering tool, raised a Series A at multiple valuation tiers, including at $1B — Resolve AI, a startup developing an autonomous site reliability engineer (SRE), a tool that automatically maintains software systems …
More: Tech in Asia
| Bloomberg: |
China issues new rules letting online merchants set their own prices across platforms for goods and services they sell, effective April 10, 2026, for five years — China issued rules for governing pricing-related practices of internet platform operators to safeguard the interests of consumers and merchants …
More: Tech in Asia
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
OpenAI rolls out an update to let users adjust ChatGPT's characteristics, including how warm or enthusiastic it is, and its use of headers, lists, and emojis — OpenAI is making it easier to edit emails with ChatGPT, too. … OpenAI will now give you the ability to dial up — or down — ChatGPT's warmth and enthusiasm.
More: Mashable, The Decoder, Tech in Asia, and Blockchain.News
| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
YouTube's head of products for podcasts Steve McLendon says viewers streamed 700M+ hours of podcasts on TV in October, up from 400M hours in October 2024 — That's up from 400 million hours a year ago as podcasts become the new late-night TV. — People are spending more time tuning … | Chris Stokel-Walker / Fast Company: |
Sequoia's Shaun Maguire speculated in an X post that an innocent Palestinian student was behind the Brown University shooting; the post was later deleted — The discovery of the body of Claudio Manuel Neves Valente, a Portuguese national who studied physics at Brown University … Sponsor Posts
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