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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to open up Siri to run any AI service via App Store apps in iOS 27, dropping ChatGPT as exclusive partner in Apple Intelligence and Siri — Apple Inc. plans to open Siri to outside artificial intelligence assistants, a major move aimed at bolstering the iPhone as an AI platform.
More: Thurrott, Reuters, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Blockonomi, The Indian Express, Trusted Reviews, Digit, and The Mac Observer
X: @vadimyuryev, @mweinbach, @mikeisaac, @rjonesy, @waltlightshed, @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, @markgurman, and @markgurman
Bluesky: @elkmovie and @danny.page
Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Wall Street Journal: |
The $6M LA social media verdict is a win for the plaintiffs bar, not kids or society; parenting helps mitigate the harms and most kids don't face severe issues — The verdict against Meta and YouTube is a victory for the plaintiffs bar, not for children or society.
More: Techdirt, Los Angeles Times, NBC News, Lawfare, Financial Times, International Business Times, GZERO, Silicon UK, Al Jazeera, Reason, ABC, Irish Independent, Pixel Envy, Hypebeast, National Review, Associated Press, and The Wrap
X: @matthewstoller, @taylorlorenz, @hannahgais, @taylorlorenz, @astupple, @ennuiboy420, @eckhartsladder, @sachalouise, @venturetwins, @reemamiribrahim, @taylorlorenz, @astupple, @michaelmcgough3, @punishedhoots, @meghanncuniff, @astupple, @tomfitton, @matthewstoller, @moonchilerose, @chinatowndjake, @nnnnnnxox, @wsjopinion, @taylorlorenz, @taylorlorenz, and @taylorlorenz. Mastodon: @jeffjarvis@mastodon.social
| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
As US lawmakers struggle to pass online safety laws, LA and New Mexico juries take the lead, holding social media companies accountable for harming young users — A pair of verdicts held social media companies accountable for harming young users, highlighting a growing backlash as Congress struggles to pass legislation.| Wall Street Journal: |
Back-to-back jury verdicts holding Meta liable 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
More: International Business Times, The Times, New York Times, Bloomberg Law, Yahoo Finance, Reuters, JURIST, Bloomberg, JONATHAN TURLEY, The Indian Express, Mobile World Live, Business Insider, Business Standard, The Sun Malaysia, Alaska Public Media, Global News, iPhone in Canada, and CNBC
X: @meghanncuniff, @jean_twenge, @pauljpastor, @alaneyre1, @malinowski, @meghanbobrowsky, @nicoperrino, @jillfilipovic, @vanceginn, @juliecbarrett, @manuelguzman, @theobertram, @astupple, @samadlerbell, @brihreed, @patterdude, @nicoperrino, @jason_kint, @parismartineau, @matthewstoller, and @bedoyausa. Bluesky: @jessefelder.com. Forums: r/technology
| Harshita Mary Varghese / Reuters: |
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Wikipedia bans using AI for writing or rewriting articles on its English-language site, citing AI-written articles' tendency to violate “core content policies” — Wikipedia editors can only use AI for basic copy editing or translations. … Wikipedia will no longer allow editors to write or rewrite articles using AI.
More: 404 Media, Engadget, PCWorld, MediaNama, and International Business Times
Bluesky: @jasonkoebler, @emanuelmaiberg, and @josephcox
Forums: r/technology, r/wikipedia, r/Fauxmoi, and r/goodnews
| Financial Times: |
OpenAI shelves its erotic chatbot “indefinitely” as it refocuses on its core products, sources say after technical issues as well as staff and investor concerns — Decision follows staff and investor concerns about sexual AI content — OpenAI has shelved plans to release an erotic chatbot …
More: Engadget, Reuters, TechCrunch, The Information, Ars Technica, Moneycontrol, TheGamer, Android Authority, Business Insider, Thurrott, PCMag, Digital Trends, PCWorld, Techstrong.ai, Mashable, The Verge, Blockonomi, Futurism, and The Decoder
Forums: r/ChatGPT, r/MyBoyfriendIsAI, r/OpenAI, and r/accelerate
| Valeria Wu / The Keyword: |
Google launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Live, an audio model with improved tonal understanding and lower latency for real-time dialogue, watermarked with SynthID — Our latest voice model has improved precision and lower latency to make voice interactions more fluid, natural and precise.| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Google expands Search Live, its AI conversational search feature previously limited to the US and India, to all languages and regions where AI Mode is available — Google announced on Thursday that it's expanding its AI-powered conversational search feature, Search Live …
More: The Keyword, 9to5Google, Engadget, The Decoder, iPhone in Canada, and Android Headlines
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
Apple expands its American Manufacturing Program, adding Bosch, Cirrus Logic, TDK, and Qnity Electronics to make components in the US for products sold globally — Apple announced a significant expansion of its American Manufacturing Program on Thursday, bringing four new partners — Bosch … | Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
Defense tech startup Shield AI raised $2B at a $12.7B valuation, up from $5.3B after raising $240M in March 2025; half of its business is autonomous software — The company, which develops autonomous military technology, also plans to buy a maker of simulation software as interest in next-generation defense soars.
More: Shield AI, TechCrunch, Capital Brief, The Next Web, Reuters, Tectonic Defense, Implicator.ai, Bloomberg, and Tech Funding News
LinkedIn: Ian Winer, Aaron Berkey, and Eric Webber
| Wall Street Journal: |
Fannie Mae will accept crypto-backed mortgages for the first time; Coinbase launches a mortgage product allowing buyers to pledge bitcoin or USDC as collateral — New offering from Better Home & Finance and Coinbase allows home buyers to pledge bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies when making a down payment
More: Business Wire, CoinDesk, The Block, Coinbase, CoinGape, CNBC, Cointelegraph, Yahoo Finance, Benzinga, Unchained, Dow Jones Newswires, Blockonomi, Bitcoin News, Decrypt, Bitcoin Magazine, crypto.news, BTC Times, The Crypto Basic, Bloomberg, The Crypto Times, Watcher Guru, Crypto Briefing, and CryptoPotato
X: @mikeisaac. Bluesky: @theserfstv, @thegatesofmel.blacksky.app, @dburbach, @risettemd, and @hammancheez
| Eliza Gkritsi / Politico: |
The European Commission opens a DSA investigation into Snap for failing to protect kids on Snapchat, including whether it does enough to assess its users' ages — Investigation comes amid growing scrutiny of the impact and liability of technology platforms towards kids.| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Cohere launches Transcribe, its first voice model; the 2B-parameter, open-source speech recognition model handles tasks like notetaking and speech analysis — Enterprise AI company Cohere on Thursday launched its first voice model: Transcribe is an open source automatic speech recognition model …
More: Cohere and MarkTechPost
| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
The European Parliament votes to ban nudify apps and delay EU AI Act deadlines, including pushing compliance for high-risk AI systems back to December 2027 — The proposals would push back looming deadlines for watermarking AI-generated content and high-risk AI systems.
More: European Parliament
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp rolls out features and updates: an AI tool that suggests replies based on a user's conversations, the ability to touch up photos with Meta AI, and more — WhatsApp is rolling out a slew of new features and updates, including one that generates AI-powered suggested replies based on your conversations.
More: ZDNET, 9to5Mac, PCMag, Moneycontrol, WhatsApp Blog, Meta Newsroom, The Economic Times, The American Bazaar, WABetaInfo, Thurrott, BleepingComputer, iPhone in Canada, The Hans India, Implicator.ai, Android Central, Bizcommunity, Business Standard, The Mac Observer, AppleInsider, CNET, and Engadget
| Tamara Djurickovic / Tech.eu: |
Italy-based Subbyx, which builds infrastructure that lets businesses offer access-based subscriptions, raised a €30M Series A — Subbyx will use the funding to expand its subscription infrastructure platform, supporting businesses in transitioning from ownership to access-based models … | Katie Rogers / New York Times: |
Melania Trump appeared alongside Figure AI's Figure 3 humanoid robot at the White House to push integrating tech into US children's educational and social lives — The first lady, Melania Trump, believes that more children should be educated by “humanoid educators.”
More: Associated Press, TechCrunch, CNBC, Slate, Forbes, CNET, eWeek, Global News, Metro.co.uk, Hackwhackers, Sandra Rose, Digit, HuffPost, Pharyngula, Robotics & Automation News, Newsweek, Mashable, Benzinga, Reuters, San Francisco Chronicle, Raw Story, and SFist
X: @figure_robot, @zephyrteachout, @gunnelswarren, @andykimnj, @shipwreckshow, @humanoidnetwork, @sketchesbyboze, @sabbysabs2, @adamdeats, @sarcasmstardust, @ginahinojosatx, @cszabla, @esjesjesj, @mattxiv, @cassandrarules, @dougwahl1, @realstewpeters, @ryanrozbiani, @anisha_moonka, and @marionawfal. Bluesky: @stucowan. Forums: Slashdot
| Mike Scarcella / Reuters: |
A US federal judge dismisses X's antitrust lawsuit that accused the World Federation of Advertisers and a group of major companies of illegally boycotting X — A U.S. judge on Thursday dismissed X Corp's antitrust lawsuit that accused the World Federation of Advertisers and a group …
More: BBC, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Engadget, Benzinga, Business Insider, Bloomberg, MediaPost, Reuters, and Forbes. Forums: r/news
| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Interviews with 37 Anduril sources detail safety concerns and project challenges at Anduril's manufacturing operations; Anduril calls the claims “inaccurate” — From drones to missiles to submarines, the $30.5 billion defense startup wants to transform how the tools of war are made.
Bluesky: @wired.com and @wired.com
| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
An oral history of Apple's earliest days told by people who lived it, including Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne, Mike Markkula, and Liza Loop, as Apple turns 50 — Before there was an iPod, an iPhone, an iPad, or an Apple Watch—before there was a Macintosh or Apple II or even an Apple-1 … | Corbin Davenport / How-To Geek: |
Microsoft says it will use GitHub Copilot interaction data, like inputs, outputs, and code snippets, to train its AI models from April 24, unless users opt out — The generative AI models powering ChatGPT, Copilot Gemini, and other assistants were created with mountains of training data.
More: The Register, The GitHub Blog, The Pragmatic Engineer, Thurrott, Feld Thoughts, TechRadar, Implicator.ai, Help Net Security, WinBuzzer, Ghacks, The Decoder, Neowin, and Windows Central
X: @jedisct1, @github, @jackals__, and @kcnickerson
Bluesky: @danj2k, @dbushell.com, and @natemoo.re
Mastodon: @shawnhooper@fosstodon.org and @kcnickerson@mastodon.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/programming, r/BetterOffline, r/GithubCopilot, and Lobsters
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Mistral launches Voxtral TTS, an open-source enterprise text-to-speech model that supports nine languages, including Hindi and Arabic, based on Ministral 3B — French AI company Mistral released a new open source text-to-speech model on Thursday that can be used by voice AI assistants or in enterprise use cases like customer support.
More: VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, and The Deep View
X: @qtnx_, @vllm_project, @mistralai, @mistralai, @tunguz, @alex_h_liu, @slowdownisha, and @mistralai
| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
The US DOJ charges a Chinese national and two Americans for allegedly trying to smuggle nearly $62M worth of export-controlled Nvidia A100s and H100s into China — The US has disclosed a new Nvidia chip-smuggling case that also seems to involve San Jose-based server manufacturer Supermicro.| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Google sets its post-quantum cryptography migration deadline for 2029, aiming to “secure the quantum era” as “quantum frontiers may be closer than they appear” — Google is dramatically shortening its readiness deadline for the arrival of Q Day …
More: The Keyword, The Guardian, PCWorld, Google Online Security Blog, Quartz, PC Gamer, DL News, Help Net Security, Gizmodo, crypto.news, ZyCrypto, Coin Edition, CryptoSlate, Fortune, CryptoPotato, Neowin, WinBuzzer, SiliconANGLE, Decrypt, CyberScoop, PhoneArena, The Quantum Insider, Android Authority, and ComputerWeekly.com
X: @nic_carter, @yugacohler, @newsfromgoogle, @craiggidney, @bwesterb, @philvenables, and @nic_carter. LinkedIn: Bas Westerbaan
Bluesky: @durumcrustulum.com, @wowbaggert, and @dangoodin
Mastodon: @dangoodin@infosec.exchange and @mttaggart@infosec.exchange
Forums: r/1Password, r/Android, and Ars OpenForum
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: X let go of 20+ staffers in nontechnical roles ahead of a SpaceX IPO; X staff have been told to focus on growing revenue since xAI brought on a CRO — Redundant roles have been removed as the social-media company tries to boost profit and integrate with Musk's space-exploration company
More: Advanced Television
| Vincent Chow / South China Morning Post: |
The China Computer Federation calls for a boycott of AI conference NeurIPS after organizers barred submissions from US-sanctioned companies like Huawei — Move to comply with US sanctions sparks backlash, with China's top computing body threatening to blacklist the AI conference| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber partners with China-based Pony AI and Croatia-based, Rimac-spinoff Verne to launch Europe's first commercial robotaxi service, initially debuting in Zagreb — The companies are already testing autonomous vehicles in Croatia, where they will launch their first commercial service.| Bloomberg: |
More: Pony AI Inc., South China Morning Post, Benzinga, Dow Jones Newswires, Automotive World, EV, Reuters, CnEVPost, and Fortune
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