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| The Verge: |
Sources: OpenAI is in the early stages of building its own X-like social network, focused on ChatGPT image generation, and is asking some outsiders for feedback — Is Sam Altman ready to up his rivalry with Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg? … OpenAI is working on its own X-like social network …
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Bluesky: @snmrrw, @lorak, @garymarcus, @karlbode.com, @caseynewton, and @vortexegg.com. Mastodon: @ben@werd.social
X: @alexeheath, @amir, @kyliebytes, and @kyliebytes
Forums: r/europe, r/BetterOffline, r/unitedkingdom, r/technology, r/ChatGPT, r/singularity, r/artificial, r/StockMarket, and Slashdot
| Ben Sherry / Inc: |
Anthropic's Claude adds Research, capable of searching the web and internal documents to give comprehensive answers, in beta for Max, Team, Enterprise plans — The integration should make Claude even more effective as a virtual assistant. Plus, there's a new ‘Research’ mode.
More: Anthropic, Engadget, VentureBeat, and Thurrott
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic says Claude now integrates with Google Workspace for access to Gmail, Calendar, and Google Docs, coming first to Max, Team, Enterprise, and Pro plans — Anthropic announced on Tuesday that its AI chatbot, Claude, now integrates with Google Workspace, allowing it to search and reference …
More: The Verge, The Standard, and Analytics India Magazine
| Jenna McLaughlin / NPR: |
Whistleblower: at NLRB, DOGE staff disabled monitoring tools, deleted logs, one worked on “NxGenBdoorExtract”; one DOGE account tried to log in via a Russian IP — In the first days of March, a team of advisers from President Trump's new Department of Government Efficiency initiative arrived …
More: Reuters, Gizmodo, Forbes, FlowingData, New Republic, Nextgov/FCW, and Raw Story
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Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange, @cremevax@infosec.exchange, @Nonilex@masto.ai, @tiffanycli@mastodon.social, @jik@federate.social, @Nonilex@masto.ai, and @Nonilex@masto.ai
X: @shashj, @stphnfwlr, @kevinbankston, @stphnfwlr, @shashj, @garymarcus, @stphnfwlr, @jimprosser, and @stphnfwlr
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Mark Zuckerberg's $1B Instagram and $19B WhatsApp deals, central to the FTC's antitrust case, were mocked at the time, and the trial hinges on hypotheticals — Meta's antitrust trial, in which the government contends the company killed competition by buying young rivals … | Bloomberg: |
FTC v. Meta: Mark Zuckerberg testified about his acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, including a 2012 email exchange rationalizing the apps' acquisition — - Meta CEO asked in email if deal may ‘neutralize a competitor’ — FTC claims acquisitions created a social networking monopoly
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Threads: @benedictevans. X: @matthewstoller, @jason_kint, @mikeisaac, @nhegde, @bbenedict33, @halsinger, and @mikeisaac
| Brendan Bordelon / Politico: |
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Threads: @andymstone and @vishwanathsarangkeller
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Forums: r/NoShitSherlock, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google rolls out its text-to-video AI model Veo 2 to Gemini Advanced subscribers and makes its Whisk Animate tool available for Google One AI Premium users — A new Whisk Animate tool is coming to Google One AI Premium users, as well. … Google is letting Gemini Advanced subscribers try out Veo 2 …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google rolls out a Play services update, including an Android security feature to auto-reboot phones and tablets that are “locked for three consecutive days” — With the latest Google Play services update, Android is rolling out a new security feature that automatically restarts …
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| Anu Adegbola / Search Engine Land: |
Temu shut off Google Shopping ads in the US on April 9; its App Store app ranking then plummeted from around third or fourth place to 58th in three days — Temu completely shut off Google Shopping ads in the U.S. on April 9, with its App Store ranking subsequently plummeting from a typical third … | Reuters: |
Chinese state media: police in Harbin accuse the NSA of launching “advanced” cyberattacks during the Asian Winter Games in February 2025 and name three agents — Chinese police in the northeastern city of Harbin have accused the United States National Security Agency (NSA) …
More: Bloomberg, The Record, CyberScoop, The Register, Xinhua, PCMag, Wall Street Journal, CGTN, Associated Press, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera, BusinessLIVE, CSO, Metacurity, and Nextgov/FCW
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Mastodon: @Bing_Chris@mastodon.social and @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
Forums: r/worldnews, r/espionage, and r/Global_News_Hub
| Igor Bonifacic / Engadget: |
4chan is down after an apparent hack late on April 14; an Imgur post seems to show a hacker gained shell access to 4chan's hosting server and doxxed some users — More like 404chan, amirite? — 4chan, the controversial forum known for birthing early meme culture and Gamergate, is down, following an apparent hack.
More: 404 Media, The Verge, The Register, BleepingComputer, Newsweek, PCMag, The Daily Dot, The Sun, New York Daily News, Hollywood Life, Dexerto, Mashable, and The Express Tribune
Mastodon: @dsilverman@mastodon.social. X: @kommiattrition, @agoldmund, @klobstar, @jaredlholt, @duplavortex, @lumpythecook, @jaredlholt, and @regularaugust
Forums: r/4chan, r/technology, and r/Fauxmoi
| Financial Times: |
FCC Chair Brendan Carr says “allied western democracies” need to focus on China and those “concerned about Starlink” should be more fearful of a Chinese version — FCC chair Brendan Carr urges ‘western allies’ to pick Elon Musk's Starlink satellite internet company
More: The Verge and Telecoms Tech News
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Forums: r/technology, r/eutech, r/EUSpace, r/europeanunion, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Emilia David / VentureBeat: |
Cohere debuts Embed 4, its search engine for enterprise AI assistants, now with a 128K context length, better multimodal abilities for complex documents, more — Enterprise retrieval augmented generation (RAG) remains integral to the current agentic AI craze.
More: Cohere, SiliconANGLE, Constellation Research, and BetaKit
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Notion releases Notion Mail, a lightweight Gmail client to help users schedule meetings and organize and draft emails, available as a free macOS and web app — The new app looks like Notion, it works like Gmail, and it has a lot of ideas about how AI can help you tame your inbox.
More: XDA Developers, PCMag, Notion, TechCrunch, Thurrott, 9to5Mac, ZDNET, Neowin, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, Tom's Guide, Tom's Guide, and Fast Company
| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Japan's FTC orders Google to stop alleged abuse of its market power over local smartphone manufacturers, ahead of high-stakes US trade negotiations this week — Japan's Fair Trade Commission ordered Alphabet Inc.'s Google to stop alleged abuse of its market power over local smartphone manufacturers …
More: The Japan Times, Android Police, Engadget, Reuters, Nikkei Asia, The Verge, SammyGuru, Global Competition Review, The Economic Times, Mashable, Neowin, UPI, Quartz, The Asahi Shimbun, Invezz, Associated Press, RTTNews, Wall Street Journal, TipRanks Financial, Android Headlines, and Tech in Asia
Forums: r/Android, r/technology, and r/technology
| Wall Street Journal: |
Nvidia's $500B US spending plan follows a familiar pattern of companies trying to please President Trump and offers few details on what AI gear would be US-made — The chip maker's plan to build AI tech in Texas comes on the heels of a new tariff threat — Chip maker Nvidia unveiled plans Monday …
More: RetailWire, Benzinga, Barron's Online, TipRanks Financial, The Decoder, CoinGape, MarketWatch, Verdict, Newsmax, and Bloomberg
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
More: NVIDIA, The White House, Gizchina.com, RCR Wireless News, The Guardian, Tech Monitor, Evertiq AB, Capacity Media, TechInformed, The Overspill, Reuters, Barron's Online, The Information, and Wall Street Journal
Bluesky: @bobbyallyn. X: @dnystedt, @firstadopter, @patrickmoorhead, @kristinaparts, @wenyee_lee, @altcap, @greg_price11, @firstadopter, @edludlow, @rapidresponse47, and @nvidianewsroom. LinkedIn: Jon Stresing
Forums: r/Conservative, r/hardware, r/nvidia, and r/StockMarket
| Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: TSMC is close to finalizing specs for a new chip packaging method, known in the industry as “panel-level”, to meet rising demand for powerful AI chips — TAIPEI — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is close to finalizing the specifications for a radically new approach …
More: Benzinga, WinBuzzer, Focus Taiwan, and TipRanks Financial
| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
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Forums: r/intelstock, r/hardware, and r/AMD_Stock
| 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.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
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Bluesky: @quinnypig.com, @timkellogg.me, @timkellogg.me, and @timkellogg.me
Threads: @polynoamial and @mark_r_vickers
X: @sama, @gdb, @azure, @openrouterai, @swyx, @sama, @bindureddy, @stevesi, @suhail, @sarahookr, @arcprize, @simonw, @scaling01, @bindureddy, @garymarcus, @daniel_mac8, @ns123abc, @iterintellectus, @wolframrvnwlf, @paulg, @openrouterai, @openaidevs, @yuchenj_uw, @mariorod1, @silasalberti, @sama, @ilanbigio, @iruletheworldmo, @kevinhou22, @packym, @_kevinlu, @levie, @deedydas, @mattppal, @kevinweil, @natolambert, @sentdex, @adonis_singh, @polynoamial, @aidan_mclau, @_mohansolo, @code, @ashtom, @ericzakariasson, @windsurf_ai, @cursor_ai, @simonw, @itsclivetime, @satyanadella, @levie, @bindureddy, @openrouterai, @sama, @nielsrogge, and @tomwarren
Forums: Hacker News, r/ArtificialInteligence, r/artificial, and Slashdot
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