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David McCabe / New York Times:
A US judge says Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in some online advertising tech, the second time in a year a court found Google acted illegally  —  The ruling was the second time in a year that a federal court had found that Google had acted illegally to maintain its dominance.
Bloomberg:
In her ruling, Judge Brinkema says Google did not meet the monopoly definition for tools used to buy display ads, but did for ad exchanges and website ad tools  —  Google was found by a federal judge to have illegally monopolized some online advertising technology markets in a blow to a key part of the company's business.
Financial Times:
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang arrived in China on April 16 and visited Beijing on April 17, a source says to meet officials to discuss Trump's new chip export rules  —  Meetings with Chinese vice-premier and DeepSeek founder come after US clamps down on chipmaker's sales to China
Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg:
TSMC reports Q1 net income up 60.3% YoY to $11.1B, beating estimates, as customers stockpiled chips anticipating global trade disruptions spurred by US tariffs
Samantha Subin / CNBC:
Tech stocks plunge amid uncertainty over US tariff plans and China export controls: AMD, Nvidia, and ASML dropped 7%, Applied Materials and Lam Research fell 5%
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
The Wikimedia Foundation partners with Kaggle to release a dataset of “structured Wikipedia content in English and French” optimized for AI model training  —  Data science platform Kaggle is hosting a Wikipedia dataset that's specifically optimized for machine learning applications.
Wall Street Journal:
Former CISA Director Chris Krebs says he is resigning from SentinelOne to more freely challenge the White House, after Trump directed the DOJ to investigate him  —  Chris Krebs, the top cybersecurity official in Trump's first term, resigned from his private-sector job
Julia Shapero / The Hill:
FTC v. Meta: Mark Zuckerberg says he considers TikTok the “highest competitive threat” for Facebook and Instagram in the past few years  —  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg emphasized Wednesday that his social media company faces stiff competition from TikTok, as Meta seeks to fend off accusations …
Bloomberg:
The FTC challenges ex-Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg over past emails; she called Google+ a “real” competitor in 2011 and discussed blocking its Facebook ads in 2012
Bloomberg:
Sources: Perplexity is in discussions to integrate its AI assistant on Samsung's devices and has reached an agreement to preload Perplexity on Motorola's phones  —  Perplexity AI Inc., an artificial intelligence startup vying with Google and OpenAI, is ramping up efforts to get prime placement for its virtual assistant on smartphones.
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google is making Gemini Live camera and screen sharing features free for all Android users in the coming weeks after launching them for Advanced users last week  —  Last week, Google started widely rolling out Gemini Live camera and screen sharing to Advanced subscribers …
Jakob McWhinney / Voice of San Diego:
US community colleges are battling a flood of fake, or bot, students who bilk financial aid by enrolling in online classes and submitting AI-generated work  —  Community colleges have been dealing with an unprecedented phenomenon: fake students bent on stealing financial aid funds.
New York Times:
The US House opens a probe into whether Nvidia knowingly provided AI tech to DeepSeek in violation of US rules and asks Nvidia for details on its Asian clients  —  China's success in artificial intelligence has the Trump administration and lawmakers weighing rules and investigations to slow Beijing's progress in the industry.
Bloomberg:
Source: OpenAI is in talks to acquire Windsurf, an AI coding tool formerly known as Codeium, for ~$3B; Windsurf was valued at $1.25B in a 2024 funding deal  —  OpenAI is in talks to acquire Windsurf, an artificial intelligence-assisted coding tool formerly known as Codeium, for about $3 billion …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
xAI announces a memory feature for Grok in beta that enables the AI chatbot to remember details from past conversations and give more personalized responses  —  Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, is slowly bringing its Grok chatbot to parity with top rivals like ChatGPT and Google's Gemini.
Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
OpenAI launches o3, its most advanced reasoning model, and o4-mini, a lower cost alternative that still delivers “impressive results”, for ChatGPT paid users  —  ChatGPT Plus users can begin using both new models starting today.  —  A mere two days after announcing GPT-4.1, OpenAI is releasing not one but two new models.
Dan Shipper / Every:
OpenAI o3 review: “deep research-lite”, giving thorough answers quickly, free from some old ChatGPT limitations, and powerful thanks to ChatGPT integration
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI debuts Codex CLI, an open-source coding agent tool for terminals that links AI models with local code and computing tasks, like moving files
Steve Dickson / Bloomberg:
Global Payments acquires the 45% stake in Worldpay that Fidelity still owned and buys the 55% held by PE firm GTCR, in a deal valuing Worldpay at $24.3B  —  A trio of deals valuing Worldpay at $24.3 billion created a new behemoth in payment processing and cracked open a merger market that's …
Eileen Guo / MIT Technology Review:
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirms the elimination of R/FIMI, an office aimed at tracking and countering foreign disinformation campaigns  —  The only office within the US State Department that monitors foreign disinformation is to be eliminated, according to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio …
Fatima Hussein / Associated Press:
Sources: the Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS' free Direct File tax program, after IRS staff were told in mid-March to stop working on it

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Katie Deighton / Wall Street Journal:
WME is selling sports marketing agency 160over90 to Publicis Groupe for, sources say, $500M+; WME bought the agency in 2018 for about $200M

Variety:
Sources: the legal team for Paramount President Jeff Shell has engaged in preliminary talks about a possible exit from the company, where he was hired in 2024

Philip Oltermann / The Guardian:
Penguin Random House sued OpenAI for copyright infringement, alleging its LLM “memorized” a popular German children's book series and can reproduce the content

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