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Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal:
OpenAI acquires tech news show TBPN; Fidji Simo says the move aims to “help create a space for a real, constructive conversation about the changes AI creates”  —  TBPN staff will help with marketing and communications at OpenAI but keep their editorial independence, the ChatGPT parent says
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Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information:
Sources detail Fidji Simo's moves at OpenAI, including spearheading the TBPN acquisition and pushing OpenAI to cut Sora and avoid other social media products  —  In recent weeks, Fidji Simo has burst into public view as the OpenAI executive bringing much-needed discipline to the AI startup …
George Hammond / Financial Times:
Source: OpenAI bought TBPN, which was set to generate $30M+ in 2026, for “low hundreds of millions of dollars”; OpenAI says TBPN will be editorially independent
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Sources: Meta has told members of its Oversight Board that it may stop funding the board after 2028, though eliminating all funding is not its preferred option  —  Meta has told members of its independent Oversight Board that the company may stop funding it after 2028, sources familiar with the situation told Platformer.
Ian Carlos Campbell / Engadget:
Sony Interactive Entertainment acquires Cinemersive Labs, a UK-based startup developing tools to convert 2D photos and videos into 3D volumetric photographs  —  Cinemersive Labs will join the company's Visual Computing Group.  —  Sony Interactive Entertainment, owner of the PlayStation brand …
Nat Rubio-Licht / The Deep View:
Anthropic researchers find that an AI model's representations of emotion can influence its behavior “in ways that matter,” such as driving it to act unethically  —  Can we teach machines to feel?  Short answer: We don't know.  But we can teach them to sound like they do.
Matt Mullenweg:
Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg says EmDash, while open source, is designed “to sell more Cloudflare services” and lacks WordPress' cross-platform democratization  —  So, two other Matts at Cloudflare announced EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security.
Alex Harring / CNBC:
The CFTC sues Arizona, Connecticut, and Illinois over their actions against prediction markets, saying it has the “exclusive” authority to regulate such markets  —  A federal commission on Wednesday announced lawsuits against three states over its ability to exclusively regulate prediction markets.
Vaibhavi Khanwalkar / The Economic Times:
Noon, an AI-native product design tool, emerges from stealth with $44M in funding from Chemistry, First Round Capital, Scribble Ventures, and others  —  San Francisco-headquartered startup Noon has emerged from stealth mode with $44 million in funding from Chemistry, First Round Capital …
Bloomberg:
A domestic shortage of electrical equipment such as transformers and switchgear is forcing the US to rely on Chinese imports, delaying data center construction  —  The struggle to manufacture transformers, switchgear and batteries domestically has forced the US to rely on imports, delaying data center construction.

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Ted Johnson / Deadline:
Trump lashed out at CNN reporter Kristen Holmes, telling her to “be quiet” after her questions; CNN says White House's personal attacks are “beneath the office”

Lillian Rizzo / CNBC:
Filing: Paramount seeks a $1.88B bond from state AGs, based on its calculation of ticking fees and other costs it will have to pay due to the WBD deal delay

Ethan Millman / The Hollywood Reporter:
Independent music publisher Round Hill files copyright infringement lawsuits against Anthropic and AI music platform Suno, seeking up to $1B in damages

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Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Amazon adds a 3.5% fuel and logistics surcharge to fulfillment fees for US and Canadian third-party sellers from April 17, as the Iran war drives up oil prices

Earlier Picks

Maxwell Zeff / Wired:
Cursor launches Cursor 3, an “agent-first” coding product designed to compete with Claude Code and Codex by letting developers manage all their agents in Cursor
David Pierce / The Verge:
Flipboard launches Surf, an app for creating custom feeds from Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, RSS, podcasts, and YouTube, after launching in beta in December 2024
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Google adds new features to its video editing app Vids, like directing and customizing avatars through text prompts, Veo 3.1 support, and exporting to YouTube
The Keyword:
Google launches Gemma 4, its “most intelligent” open model family, built for advanced reasoning and agentic workflows and available under an Apache 2.0 license
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Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:
Coinbase says it has won conditional approval from US banking regulators for a national trust company charter, which could let it issue stablecoins and more
Dan Milmo / The Guardian:
Ofcom: the share of adult UK social media users that actively post, share, or comment falls from 61% in 2024 to 49%, as users say they are being more selective
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