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Bloomberg:
Ubisoft carves out a unit, which includes Assassin's Creed, into a ~€4B subsidiary; Tencent will invest €1.16B to acquire a 25% stake in the new entity  —  The deal represents a vote of confidence from Tencent, which already holds a 10% stake in Ubisoft, in the wake …
Andrew Goudsward / Reuters:
A US federal judge orders agencies whose leaders participated in the Signal chat on the Houthi attacks to preserve all messages sent from March 11 to March 15  —  A U.S. judge on Thursday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to preserve messages sent on the Signal messaging app …
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Appfigures: Signal downloads were up 45% from the daily average on March 24 in the US and up 42% in Yemen, after The Atlantic's story; global downloads grew 28%  —  The encrypted messaging app Signal is getting some unexpected attention this week.  —  High-ranking officials in the Trump administration …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Source: the White House sent a “records retention policy” to DOGE staffers on Monday, reminding them to preserve their Signal messages and disable auto-delete  —  The recordkeeping instructions come amid fallout from the “Signalgate” scandal.  —  The White House …
Bloomberg:
Source: CoreWeave's IPO raised $1.5B, selling ~37.5M shares at $40 each, down from an initial plan of 49M shares at $47-$55; Nvidia anchored with a ~$250M order  —  The cloud-computing provider sold 37.5 million shares at $40 apiece, according to the person, who asked not to be identified because the information is private.
Mike Isaac / New York Times:
Meta adds a Friends tab on Facebook that will show content just from users' friends, with no recommended posts, as it brings back “OG” Facebook experiences  —  A new Friends Tab will feature posts from a user's friends and relatives, which was the original mission of the app.
Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
After OpenAI released ChatGPT's new image generator, social media has been flooded with AI memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, highlighting copyright concerns  —  It's only been a day since ChatGPT's new AI image generator went live, and social media feeds are already flooded with AI-generated memes …
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Joanne Jang / Reservoir Samples:
OpenAI's model behavior lead says OpenAI is “shifting from blanket refusals in sensitive areas to a more precise approach focused on preventing real-world harm”  —  Navigating responsibility and user freedom, and how that influenced setting the Day 1 policy for 4o image generation in ChatGPT
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Sam Altman says “our GPUs are melting” due to ChatGPT's viral image generation and OpenAI plans to temporarily introduce some rate limits  —  The company is trying to make image generation more efficient, according to CEO Sam Altman. … The fervor around ChatGPT's more accessible …
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch:
Nintendo unveils Virtual Game Cards to make it easier for users to port over their existing Switch games to other devices and lend out games, available in April  —  Nintendo announced on Thursday that it is working on Virtual Game Cards, a feature that makes digitally downloaded games more portable across different devices.
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Sources: Reddit banned r/WhitePeopleTwitter for 72 hours in February 2025 after Elon Musk messaged CEO Steve Huffman about users threatening DOGE staffers  —  Reddit took action after Musk messaged CEO Steve Huffman about users blocking X links and threatening DOGE staffers.
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Amazon partners with Electronic Arts to bring EA games like Star Wars Jedi: Survivor to cloud gaming service Amazon Luna, which is now available in 14 countries  —  Amazon Luna unveiled a multi-year agreement with big game publisher Electronic Arts to bring many of its top games to the Luna cloud gaming service.
Jeremy Kahn / Fortune:
Anthropic says it created a new tool for deciphering how LLMs “think” and used it to resolve some key questions about how Claude and probably other LLMs work  —  Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei.  Today the company announced that its researchers had made a breakthrough in probing …
Carmen Reinicke / Bloomberg:
AppLovin's stock closes down over 20% after short seller Muddy Waters released a report, the third such short report against the company in about a month  —  It's at least the third report from a short seller in about a month.  In February, Fuzzy Panda and Culper Research both published short reports …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
Google rolls out new Search, Maps, and Gemini features to help plan vacations, including hotel price drop alerts and turning screenshots into holiday plans  —  Google is rolling out a slew of new features — some powered by AI — across Search, Maps, and Gemini that are designed to help people plan their summer vacations.
Ben Thompson / Stratechery:
Q&A with Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy on working at Bell Labs and Google, building Neeva, Snowflake's business model and its approach to AI, and more  —  This week's Stratechery Interview is with Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy.  Ramaswamy started his career at Bell Labs …

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The Guardian:
Ireland, Spain, Slovenia, and the Netherlands exit Eurovision after Israel received an all-clear to compete; the BBC and Germany's SWR plan to participate

David Pierce / The Verge:
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