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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.
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Social media addiction trial: an LA jury finds Meta and YouTube were negligent and failed to warn users on the dangers of their platforms; both plan to appeal  —  A jury in Los Angeles determined on Wednesday that Meta and Google's YouTube were negligent and failed to warn users …
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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
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 …
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.
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 …
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.
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 …
Eli Tan / New York Times:
Meta confirms laying off staff on March 25; a source says Meta laid off ~700 employees in its Reality Labs unit, as well as in recruiting, sales, and Facebook
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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 …
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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.
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.
Patience Haggin / Wall Street Journal:
The US FCC opens a comment period for a proposal to help return outsourced call center jobs to the US; critics say the plan could drive companies to automation  —  Analysts say the proposal, aimed to reduce fraud and language barriers, could drive companies toward automation

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Bertelsmann, owner of Penguin Random House, RTL, and BMG, reports 2025 after-tax profit of €1.01B, down from €1.04B in 2024, and revenue flat YoY at €18.96B

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