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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.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI plans to wind down the availability of GPT-4.5 via its API on July 14, 2025, after launching the model as a research preview on February 27, 2025  —  OpenAI said on Monday that it would soon wind down the availability of GPT-4.5, its largest-ever AI model, via its API.
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
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:
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.
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
Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware:
AMD announces its first 2nm silicon fabricated on TSMC's N2 process, set to debut on its sixth-gen EPYC “Venice” chip, which is expected to launch in 2026  —  First 2nm HPC design.  —  In a rather unexpected turn of events, AMD announced late on Monday that it had obtained …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple plans to begin on-device, privacy-centric analysis of user data, comparing it to synthetic data, to improve AI, in the iOS 18.5 and macOS 15.5 betas  —  Apple Inc. will begin analyzing data on customers' devices in a bid to improve its artificial intelligence platform …
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 …
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
Wall Street Journal:
Source: by 2030, Netflix aims to reach a $1T valuation, earn ~$9B in global ad sales, double its $39B 2024 revenue, and triple its $10B 2024 operating income  —  Streaming service shares financial performance targets with staff that underscore its dominance
Bloomberg:
India plans to add 200M to 300M UPI users, including via delegated kids accounts, and pitch UPI abroad; PwC: India makes up ~46% of global digital transactions  —  - India accounts for 46% of world's digital transactions  — Its government is pitching UPI to diaspora-heavy countries
Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times:
An interview with Google VP of Search Elizabeth Reid on AI Overviews' launch a year ago, the future of AI search, its impact on the ad revenue model, and more  —  The search executive behind the push to reinvent the group's core product says users are driving change in how to seek information
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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Bloomberg:
Sources: WBD begins exclusive talks with Netflix to sell its film and TV studios and HBO Max; Netflix is offering a $5B breakup fee if the deal isn't approved

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

James Faris / Business Insider:
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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
The Keyword:
Google details DolphinGemma, a new 400M-parameter LLM to decode dolphin communication by analyzing the vocalizations of wild Atlantic spotted dolphins
Financial Times:
NATO plans to start using Palantir's Maven Smart System, an AI system to let 20 to 50 soldiers process battlefield data that once required hundreds of analysts
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
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