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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
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| 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.
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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 …
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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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| 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 …
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| 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
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| 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.
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| 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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| 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’
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| 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 … | 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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| 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.| 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 …
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| Cyrus Farivar / The San Francisco Standard: |
San Francisco has become a laboratory for police surveillance after early resistance; SFPD recorded 700 drone flights last month, 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.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Reflection AI, which is developing open foundation models, seeks to raise $2.5B at a pre-money valuation of $25B; 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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| 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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| 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| 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.
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| 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 …
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Memo: Sam Altman says OpenAI's next model finished pretraining, and moves Safety to Research and Security to Scaling; Fidji Simo becomes CEO of “AGI Deployment” — It's about GPUs. Also: CPUs are back, Meta's big stock awards, a CEO actually not blaming AI for layoffs, and more.Sponsor Posts
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