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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.
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| 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
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Forums: r/technology, r/DiscussionZone, r/CorpFree, and r/degoogle
| 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.
More: Associated Press, Mercury News, New York Times, Deseret News, The Guardian, Irish Examiner, MediaNama, The American Bazaar, The Hans India, Bloomberg, Town & Country, New Mexico Department of Justice, Washington Times, CNN, and Overturned
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| 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, Moneycontrol, Thurrott, PCMag, PCWorld, Reuters, Techstrong.ai, Blockonomi, The Verge, Futurism, The Decoder, and Mashable
Forums: r/accelerate, r/ChatGPT, r/MyBoyfriendIsAI, and r/OpenAI
| 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, International Business Times, and MediaNama
Bluesky: @jasonkoebler, @josephcox, and @emanuelmaiberg
Forums: r/wikipedia and r/Fauxmoi
| 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, Capital Brief, Reuters, Bloomberg, Tectonic Defense, Implicator.ai, and Tech Funding News
LinkedIn: Ian Winer, Aaron Berkey, and Eric Webber
| 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 … | 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.| 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.
More: TechCrunch, 9to5Google, Thurrott, and Chrome Unboxed
| 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 … | 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 …
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Mastodon: @[email protected] and @[email protected]
Forums: r/1Password, r/Android, and Ars OpenForum
| Charles Rollet / Business Insider: |
Leaked memo: Meta's Reality Labs is reorganizing employees into AI-native “pods” focused on specific outcomes, as part of a shift toward a flatter organization — Follow Charles Rollet … - A large division within Meta Reality Labs is undergoing an overhaul to become fully “AI-native.”| Eli Tan / New York Times: |
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Forums: r/technology, r/antiwork, r/Layoffs, r/augmentedreality, and r/Economics
| 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.| 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.
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Bluesky: @danj2k, @dbushell.com, and @natemoo.re
Mastodon: @[email protected] and @[email protected]
Forums: Hacker News, r/programming, r/BetterOffline, r/GithubCopilot, and Lobsters
| 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.| 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.”
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| 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 …
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| Robert Hart / The Verge: |
The European Parliament votes to delay EU AI Act deadlines, including pushing compliance for high-risk AI systems back to December 2027, and to ban nudify apps — The proposals would push back looming deadlines for watermarking AI-generated content and high-risk AI systems.
More: The Irish Times and European Parliament
| 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
| 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: SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, and The Deep View
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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.| Bloomberg: |
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| 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| Lucinda Shen / Axios: |
Cents, which makes operating and payments software for laundromats, raised a $110M Series C, following a $40M Series B in 2024 — What to read next
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