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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: |
A Los Angeles jury in the 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
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Back-to-back jury verdicts against Meta could spur a flood of litigation against social media companies and threaten to undermine Section 230 protections — Social-media giants confront existential dilemma as a flood of litigation challenges their product designs
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| Eli Tan / New York Times: |
Meta confirms laying off staff on Wednesday; a source says Meta laid off ~700 employees in its Reality Labs unit, as well in recruiting, sales, and Facebook — Meta on Wednesday laid off around 700 employees, a person with knowledge of the company said, the latest downsizing …
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| Charles Rollet / Business Insider: |
Leaked memo: Meta's Reality Labs is reorganizing staff into AI-native “pods” focused on specific outcomes, flattening the organization's leadership structure — - A large division within Meta Reality Labs is undergoing an overhaul to become fully “AI-native.”
| 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 …
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Google Research: |
Google Research details TurboQuant, a quantization algorithm to enable massive compression of LLMs and vector search engines without sacrificing accuracy — We introduce a set of advanced theoretically grounded quantization algorithms that enable massive compression for large language models and vector search engines.
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| Maria Curi / Axios: |
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 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 all new data center …
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| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Google launches the Lyria 3 Pro music generation model, with better creative control and letting users 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.
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| Sujeet Indap / Financial Times: |
Elon Musk's lawyers ask a Delaware judge to step back from cases involving him, after her LinkedIn account “liked” a post celebrating his defeat in a CA case — Quinn Emanuel says Delaware judge must recuse herself over post, which she says she may have liked ‘accidentally’
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| Brent Crane / Bloomberg: |
How Theia, a satellite imaging startup that raised $250M+ by 2020, collapsed after the US indicted its founder and four other execs on federal fraud charges — Theia raised big money to launch a next-level network of digital imagery, but its legacy is mostly lawsuits, including federal fraud charges.| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Filing: Apple settled its lawsuit against former Vision Pro designer Di Liu, who agreed to return confidential documents to Apple and pay monetary damages — Apple has reached a settlement with a former employee who it says stole thousands of documents before departing for Snap.| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
Deccan AI, which supplies post-training data and evaluation work, raised a $25M Series A led by A91 Partners; most of its workforce of experts is based in India — As demand grows for training and refining AI models, Deccan AI — a startup supplying post-training data and evaluation work …
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| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
The US DOJ charges a Chinese national and two Americans for allegedly trying to smuggle ~$62M worth of export-controlled A100 and H100 Nvidia chips into China — The US has disclosed a new Nvidia chip-smuggling case that also seems to involve San Jose-based server manufacturer Supermicro.| 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 … | 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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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.
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| Cyrus Farivar / The San Francisco Standard: |
San Francisco became a laboratory for police surveillance after early resistance; the SFPD recorded 700 drone flights in February, up from 93 in February 2025 — In 2019, the Board of Supervisors passed a landmark law making San Francisco the first major U.S. city to block the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement.| Zijing Wu / Financial Times: |
OpenRouter data: lower-cost Chinese AI models by groups such as DeepSeek and MiniMax have surpassed US rivals in token consumption since last month — Chinese AI models made by groups such as DeepSeek and MiniMax have overtaken US rivals in token consumption
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Reflection AI, which is developing open foundation models, seeks to raise $2.5B at a $25B pre-money valuation of; JPMorgan is in talks to participate — Reflection is one of several startups working alongside Nvidia to build powerful, freely available ‘open-source’ AI models
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