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Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Social media addiction trial: a Los Angeles jury finds Meta and YouTube were negligent and failed to warn users about the dangers of using their platforms  —  A jury in Los Angeles determined on Wednesday that Meta and Google's YouTube were negligent and failed to warn users of the dangers associated …
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New York Times:
The jury in Los Angeles' social media trial awards the plaintiff $3M in compensatory damages and $3M in punitive damages; Meta will pay 70% and YouTube 30%  —  A jury found the companies harmed a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress.  — 1k
Wall Street Journal:
President Trump names Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Ellison, Jensen Huang, and others to the Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, co-chaired by David Sacks  —  Group to advise the president on how to regulate artificial intelligence, among other issues  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump plans …
Ann E. Marimow / New York Times:
SCOTUS rules unanimously that Cox could not be held liable for the piracy of thousands of songs online, after music labels sued the internet provider in 2018  —  Leading music labels sued Cox Communications for failing to terminate accounts of subscribers flagged for distributing copyrighted music.
Eli Tan / New York Times:
Source: Meta on Wednesday laid off around 700 employees in the Reality Labs unit, as well as some in recruiting, sales, and Facebook  —  Meta on Wednesday laid off around 700 employees, a person with knowledge of the company said, the latest downsizing as the Silicon Valley giant shifts its priorities toward artificial intelligence.
Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg:
Filing: Meta offers top executives stock options for the first time since its 2012 IPO to retain talent, if it hits stock-price milestones over the coming years
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:
Google sets a 2029 deadline for its post-quantum cryptography migration, aiming to “secure the quantum era” as “frontiers may be closer than they appear”  —  Google is dramatically shortening its readiness deadline for the arrival of Q Day, the point …
Google Research:
Google Research details TurboQuant, a quantization algorithm to enable massive compression of LLMs and vector search engines without sacrificing accuracy  —  Amir Zandieh, Research Scientist, and Vahab Mirrokni, VP and Google Fellow, Google Research  —  We introduce a set …
Andy Robinson / Video Games Chronicle:
Nintendo says new first-party games exclusive to Switch 2 will have different prices for physical and digital versions in the US, beginning in May  —  Nintendo of America has announced that, beginning in May, it will introduce differing pricing for physical and digital versions of its Switch 2 games.
Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times:
Apple rolls out mandatory UK age verification with iOS 26.4, requiring users to provide a credit card or ID, a first in Europe, after UK government pressure  —  Move follows pressure from government on smartphone makers to do more to protect children online
Corbin Davenport / How-To Geek:
GitHub says it will use Copilot interaction data, including inputs, outputs, and code snippets, to train its AI models starting April 24, unless users opt out  —  The generative AI models powering ChatGPT, Copilot Gemini, and other assistants were created with mountains of training data.
Maria Curi / Axios:
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez plan to introduce legislation to pause new data center construction until AI safeguards are in place  —  Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday will announce legislation to pause …
The Information:
Source: as part of its Google deal, Apple has full access to the Gemini model in its own data centers and can use distillation to produce smaller models  —  Before we get to today's column, we wanted to flag OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's major reorg, the company's new “Spud” model and its decision …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google launches Lyria 3 Pro music generation model, with better creative control and allowing users to create three-minute tracks, up from Lyria 3's 30 seconds  —  Google announced on Wednesday that it's releasing Lyria 3 Pro, a music generation model, a month after Lyria 3's release.
Ashley Capoot / CNBC:
Legal AI company Harvey raised $200M led by GIC and Sequoia at an $11B valuation, up from $8B in December 2025, and reports 100K+ users at 1,300+ organizations  —  With OpenAI and Anthropic soaring to a combined valuation of more than $1 trillion, some in the artificial intelligence industry fear …
Mark Sullivan / Fast Company:
ARC Prize Foundation unveils ARC-AGI-3, an AI benchmark with simple video-game-like scenarios designed to measure on-the-fly reasoning rather than memory recall  —  The influential AI researcher François Chollet has long argued that the field measures intelligence incorrectly …
Sujeet Indap / Financial Times:
Musk's lawyers ask a Delaware judge to step back from cases involving him, after her account “liked” a LinkedIn post celebrating his defeat in a California case  —  Quinn Emanuel says Delaware judge must recuse herself over post, which she says she may have liked ‘accidentally’
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Reddit says it will label automated accounts that provide a service to users and will require accounts suspected of being bots to verify they are human  —  Would-be Reddit competitor Digg just shut down because it couldn't get a handle on the bots overrunning its site.
Financial Times:
Sources: China bars Manus co-founders Xiao Hong and Ji Yichao from leaving the country as it reviews whether Meta's $2B acquisition of Manus violates FDI rules  —  Deal scrutiny deepens over official fears of strategic tech flowing overseas  —  China has restricted two co-founders of Manus …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Elon Musk says X will “pause” new creator monetization rules that would base payouts on engagement from a user's local audience, after criticism from creators  —  Social media platform X swiftly backtracked on its announcement regarding new rules for creator monetization …
Rebecca Torrence / Bloomberg:
AI note taking startup Granola raised $125M led by Index Ventures at a $1.5B valuation, and plans Claude integrations and agentic AI features in the next year  —  Granola Inc., a startup whose artificial intelligence software has been gaining traction as a notetaking tool among Silicon Valley workers …
Francisco Rodrigues / CoinDesk:
Singapore-based Startale, developer of the Strium blockchain for tokenized securities and JPYSC and USDSC stablecoins, raised a $63M Series A from SBI and Sony  —  The Singapore-based company builds blockchain tools for financial firms and retail users, including a blockchain for tokenized securities, stablecoins, and a consumer app.
The Information:
Sources: cloud provider Vultr is seeking to raise $1B+ to expand its AI computing capacity, after raising $333M at a $3.5B valuation in 2024  —  Vultr, one of the oldest independent cloud providers, is seeking to raise at least $1 billion in new capital so it can compete with a growing list …

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Michael Savage / The Guardian:
The BBC names ex-Google executive Matt Brittin as its next director general, replacing Tim Davie, as the BBC negotiates its funding; Brittin left Google in 2025

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