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April 14, 2025, 8:15 PM
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New York Times:
FTC v. Meta: in opening arguments, FTC lawyers accuse Meta of a “buy-or-bury strategy” to cement a social networking monopoly by buying Instagram and WhatsApp  —  The tech giant went to court on Monday in an antitrust trial focused on its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.
Brendan Bordelon / Politico:
FTC v. Meta: the US argued Meta has a monopoly in the “personal social networking” market, which it claims includes only Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and MeWe  —  The government wants to show the Meta CEO bought Instagram and WhatsApp to snuff out social media competition.
New York Times:
Legal expert: at Meta's FTC antitrust trial, Mark Zuckerberg is likely to face a more grueling time on the stand compared to his former Congressional hearings  —  Meta's chief has grown accustomed to tough questioning in courts and hearings, but an antitrust trial starting Monday could be more grueling, experts said.
Ben Smith / Semafor:
Source: FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson, Assistant AG Gail Slater, and activist Mike Davis met Trump on April 8 to combat Meta's lobbying over the FTC antitrust case
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI releases GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and GPT‑4.1 nano, which excel at coding, instruction following, and long context understanding, available via its API  —  OpenAI on Monday launched a new family of models called GPT-4.1.  Yes, “4.1” — as if the company's nomenclature wasn't confusing enough already.
The Information:
Sources: OpenAI's upcoming o3 and o4-mini reasoning models may excel at suggesting new types of science experiments, from nuclear fusion to pathogen detection
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Nvidia starts making its Blackwell chips at TSMC's Phoenix plant and says it aims to make up to $500B of AI infrastructure in the US in the next four years  —  Nvidia said on Monday that it has commissioned more than a million square feet of manufacturing space to build and test AI chips …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple plans to begin on-device, privacy-centric analysis of user data, comparing it to synthetic data, to improve AI, in beta versions of iOS 18.5, macOS 15.5  —  Apple Inc. will begin analyzing data on customers' devices in a bid to improve its artificial intelligence platform …
Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters:
Intel agrees to sell a 51% stake in Altera to Silver Lake in a deal valuing the programmable chip unit at $8.75B; Intel bought Altera for ~$17B in 2015  —  Intel said on Monday it would sell a 51% stake in Altera to private equity firm Silver Lake, valuing the programmable chip unit at $8.75 billion.
The Keyword:
Google details DolphinGemma, a new 400M-parameter LLM to decode dolphin communication by analyzing the vocalizations of wild Atlantic spotted dolphins  —  DolphinGemma, a large language model developed by Google, is helping scientists study how dolphins communicate — and hopefully find out what they're saying, too.
Dominic Preston / The Verge:
Samsung pauses its global One UI 7 rollout, citing a “serious bug”, after starting on April 7, seven months after Android 15's launch; Samsung hasn't commented  —  The update is on hold after some South Korean users suffered from a ‘serious bug.’
Counterpoint Research:
Global smartphone sales grew 3% YoY in Q1 2025; Apple took the top spot, its first ever for Q1, with a 19% share, and Vivo was the fastest growing brand  —  - The global smartphone market continued its growth trajectory in Q1 2025.  Smartphone sell-through grew 3% YoY during the quarter …
Nikkei Asia:
Sources: Apple asked suppliers in India, Vietnam, and Thailand to ramp up production earlier in 2025; Indian factory utilization rates are already at the limit  —  TAIPEI — Apple is ramping up production of key products in India and Vietnam to take advantage of a 90-day grace period on U.S. tariffs …
Reuters:
President Trump told reporters he would announce the tariff rate on imported semiconductors over the next week, giving some flexibility to certain companies
Financial Times:
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says consumer electronics exempt from tariffs may be included in semiconductor tariffs likely coming in “a month or two”
Andy Bounds / Financial Times:
Sources: the European Commission is issuing burner phones and laptops to some US-bound staff to mitigate espionage risks, a move typically reserved for China  —  European Commission officials heading to IMF and World Bank spring meetings advised to travel with basic devices

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From Mediagazer

Reuters:
Independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta plans to shut down after 30+ years, following pressure from Russian authorities and the persecution of its reporters

Andrew Fedorov / The San Francisco Standard:
A look at Colossus, a VC-backed quarterly mimicking glossy magazine writing with glowing tech exec profiles that investors praise and some journalists call PR

David Ehrlich / IndieWire:
Netflix spent 10 years trying to make movie theaters obsolete and is now pivoting to real theatrical releases, in a rare about-face for a tech giant

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Associated Press:
Meta says it plans to train its AI models on public content, like posts and comments, and interactions that users have with its AI in the EU starting this week

Earlier Picks

Financial Times:
NATO will start using Palantir's Maven Smart System, an AI system that lets 20-50 soldiers process battlefield data that once required hundreds of analysts
New York Times:
How private prison company Geo Group built a lucrative side business making digital tools like smart watches and tracking apps to help ICE surveil immigrants
Arjun Kharpal / CNBC:
Sony hikes PlayStation 5 prices in Europe, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, citing a “challenging economic environment”; the PS5 Pro remains the same price
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
A look at “slopsquatting”, a supply chain attack where threat actors make malicious packages on indexes using AI-hallucinated names resembling popular libraries
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