|
April 30, 2025, 9:15 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI says GPT-4o's latest update is “now 100% rolled back” for free ChatGPT users and is rolling back for paid users, in a bid to fix the model's sycophancy — OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Tuesday said that the company is “rolling back” the latest update to the default AI model powering ChatGPT …
More: OpenAI, The Register, BBC, MacRumors, Engadget, The Economic Times, Simon Willison's Weblog, Bloomberg, Thurrott, MakeUseOf, Shelly Palmer, Ars Technica, BGR, Sherwood News, Analytics India Magazine, Tech in Asia, Decrypt, Blockchain.News, 9to5Mac, Neowin, Mashable, The Verge, The Decoder, and Don't Worry About the Vase
Bluesky: @carnage4life. X: @sama, @openai, @nearcyan, @scaling01, @edelwax, @jrhennessy, @lilyraynyc, @port_dev, @nearcyan, @nextokens, @nearcyan, @altryne, @thevcfactory, @rustybrick, @kyliebytes, and @davidmanheim
Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
At LlamaCon, Satya Nadella says 20% to 30% of code in Microsoft's repositories was AI-written, and Microsoft was seeing more progress in Python and less in C++ — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20%-30% of code inside the company's repositories was “written by software” — meaning AI …
More: CNBC, PCMag, The Register, Business Insider, Tech in Asia, Benzinga, Business Today, Moneycontrol, PC Gamer, Windows Report, Sherwood News, WinBuzzer, SiliconANGLE, The Economic Times, XDA Developers, nextbigwhat, Associated Press, and Wall Street Journal
Mastodon: @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange, @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social, @bagder@mastodon.social, @baldur@toot.cafe, and @tante@tldr.nettime.org
X: @taylordbarkley, @levie, @apphil, @tonytico, and @codebypoonam
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/linux, r/microsoft, and r/theprimeagen
| Jennifer Elias / CNBC: |
Waymo and Toyota announce a preliminary partnership aiming to develop a new autonomous vehicle platform and enhance next-generation personally owned vehicles — Alphabet-owned Waymo and Toyota on Tuesday announced a preliminary partnership to explore bringing robotaxi tech to personally-owned vehicles.
More: Waymo, Engadget, Investor's Business Daily, Analytics India Magazine, The Information, TechCrunch, Barron's Online, The Japan Times, Associated Press, Mashable, Bloomberg, Benzinga, Forbes, 9to5Google, Reuters, and The Verge
Bluesky: @carnage4life, @carlquintanilla, and @lorak
X: @waymo, @wholemarsblog, @techtekedra, @saswat101, and @dmitri_dolgov
Forums: r/teslainvestorsclub, r/RealTesla, r/waymo, and r/SelfDrivingCars
| Reuters: |
Samsung reports Q1 revenue up 10% YoY to ~$55.4B, operating profit up 1.2% YoY to ~$4.68B, and chip division operating profit down 42% YoY to ~$770M — Samsung Electronics (005930.KS) reported on Wednesday a small rise in first-quarter operating profit as customers concerned about U.S. tariffs rushed …
More: Samsung Newsroom, Bloomberg, Android Authority, SammyGuru, PhoneArena, Reuters, TrendForce News, SamMobile, English News, and CNBC
| Yuan Gao / Bloomberg: |
Xiaomi unveils open-source AI reasoning model MiMo, joining other Chinese tech leaders hoping to make a splash in the burgeoning AI field endorsed by Beijing — Xiaomi debuted MiMo a day after Alibaba unveiled the latest version of its own flagship model, amplifying a race between China's tech players …
More: Xiaomi MiMo on GitHub, Xiaomi MiMo on GitHub, Xiaomi MiMo on Hugging Face, DigiTimes, Xiaomi MiMo on Hugging Face, South China Morning Post, XiaomiTime, Tech in Asia, Xiaomi MiMo on Hugging Face, and Xiaomi MiMo on Hugging Face
Bluesky: @sungkim. X: @sino_market, @jagersbergknut, @_akhaliq, @gm8xx8, and @adinayakup. Forums: Hacker News
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Meta plans to add cloud-based AI features to WhatsApp, like message summarization and composition, using Private Processing so the data is inaccessible to Meta — WhatsApp's AI tools will use a new “Private Processing” system designed to allow cloud access without letting Meta or anyone else see end-to-end encrypted chats.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
More: Meta, MacRumors, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, Mashable, Business Standard, Bloomberg, CNBC, Newser, Digit, MIXED Reality News, Cult of Mac, The Indian Express, Tech in Asia, The Wrap, Decrypt, TechRadar, TechCrunch, Watcher Guru, Gizchina.com, Anadolu Ajansı …, Daily Sabah, The Register, Cryptopolitan, The Shortcut, MakeUseOf, Shacknews, The News International, Sharecafe, SFist, Android Central, Meta, and Sherwood News
Bluesky: @alexeheath.com and @davelee.me
Threads: @katienotopoulos, @investinqq, @investinqq, @investinqq, @investinqq, @chriscox, @parkert@www.threads.com, @parkerortolani, @lvchaoshuai, @documentingmeta, @firerock31, @boztank, @benedictevans, @wongmjane, @wongmjane, and @creators. Instagram: Mark Zuckerberg
| Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post: |
DeepSeek quietly open sources Prover-V2, a math-focused, 671B-parameter AI model using mixture-of-experts, on Hugging Face, one day after Alibaba released Qwen3 — The Chinese start-up has released the Prover-V2 model a day after Alibaba released Qwen3, and ahead of an anticipated release of DeepSeek-R2
More: Hugging Face, TechCrunch, Tech in Asia, and WinBuzzer
X: @devgerred, @ns123abc, @sino_market, and @angrytomtweets
| Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg: |
TSMC begins building a third fab in Arizona, announcing the third phase of its US expansion the same day Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick toured TSMC's site — The world's most advanced chipmaker announced the third phase of its US expansion the same day Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick toured TSMC's site … | Jason Schreier / Bloomberg: |
EA says it laid off staff and canceled “two early-stage incubation projects”; sources say EA cut 300 to 400 roles and its Respawn unit canceled a Titanfall game — The video-game publisher cuts between 300 and 400 jobs — Electronic Arts Inc. is laying off hundreds of workers …
More: AIN, PC Gamer, IGN, Eurogamer.net, PocketGamer.biz, Reuters, Guru3D, PC Games Insider, 80 Level, TechPowerUp, Moneycontrol, Gameranx, Game Rant, Aftermath, Metro.co.uk, Neowin, Engadget, Game Developer, Tech4Gamers, Pure Xbox, Push Square, PlayStation LifeStyle, GamesRadar, Video Games Chronicle, Game Informer, GameSpot, and San Francisco Chronicle
Bluesky: @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk, @jasonschreier, and @dell
X: @respawn, @fpsthetics, and @kelskiyt
Forums: r/vfx, r/programming, r/gamernews, r/3Dmodeling, r/gamedev, r/DeadSpace, r/ApexUncovered, r/xbox, r/Madden, r/gaming, r/Games, r/titanfall, r/pcgaming, r/StarWarsLeaks, and Slashdot
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple reorganizes its global affairs unit, including management of the government teams for Europe and Asia, and Apple Music's leadership structure — Powerbeats Pro 2 Review: Best Workout Earbuds Still Lag on Audio Quality — Beats' newest exercise headphones are improved, but they face stiffer competition than ever.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Appfigures: Google Play now hosts ~1.8M Android apps, down 47% from ~3.4M at the start of 2024, likely due to raising minimum quality requirements in July 2024 — Google Play's app marketplace is losing apps. — From the start of 2024 to present, the Android app marketplace went from hosting …
More: Forbes, 9to5Google, PCMag, Tech Advisor, Android Headlines, SammyGuru, Android Police, and Android Authority
| Financial Times: |
Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company would take the US to court if necessary to protect European customers' “continuity of access” to its services — Tech group says it would sue to keep European access to crucial cloud services — Microsoft's top legal officer …
More: Microsoft, DatacenterDynamics, RTÉ, Politico, Wall Street Journal, UPI, Reuters, Le Monde, Mobile Europe, and CNBC
| Martin Young / Cointelegraph: |
Filing: PayPal discloses that the US SEC said in February 2025 that it was closing its investigation into the PayPal USD stablecoin “without enforcement action” — PayPal says the US Securities and Exchange Commission has abandoned its investigation into the payment giant's US-dollar stablecoin.
More: US SEC, Decrypt, The Block, WinBuzzer, Blockchain News, CoinGape, crypto.news, CryptoSlate, Coinpedia Fintech News, Cryptopolitan, and Bloomberg
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Huawei has sold 10+ sets of its AI chip cluster CloudMatrix 384, including to data centers that serve Chinese tech companies, in a bid to rival Nvidia — CloudMatrix 384 sent to data centres serving Chinese tech companies as they seek to fill gap created by US export controls| Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch: |
An Indian court directs the government to block Proton Mail after a local firm alleged its staff received emails containing obscene content sent via the service — A court in India has ordered the blocking of encrypted email provider Proton Mail across the country.| CNBC: |
Snap reports Q1 revenue up 14% YoY to $1.36B, vs. $1.35B est., $2.96 ARPU, vs. $2.93 est., and 460M DAUs, but declines to provide Q2 guidance; SNAP drops 13%+ — Snap reported better-than-expected first-quarter revenue Tuesday but declined to provide guidance, citing macroeconomic uncertainties that could weigh on advertising demand.
More: The Verge, Reuters, Tech in Asia, Neowin, SiliconANGLE, The Information, Deadline, Investor's Business Daily, Benzinga, Variety, and Snap Inc.
Threads: @mwi.invest and @tomgara
| Karen Freifeld / Reuters: |
Sources: Trump officials are considering removing a Biden-era rule that divides the world into three tiers to determine how many AI chips a country can obtain — The Trump administration is working on changes to a Biden-era rule that would limit global access to AI chips … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Supermicro reports preliminary Q3 revenue of $4.5B to $4.6B, vs. $5.5B est., and $0.29 to $0.31 EPS, vs. $0.54 est., lower than past guidance; SMCI drops 19%+ — Super Micro shares fell as much as 19% on Tuesday after the server maker announced preliminary results for the fiscal third quarter … | James Hale / Tubefilter: |
Streams Charts: YouTube was the most-watched livestreaming platform in Q1 2025, with 50.3% of the watch hours, followed by TikTok with 27% and Twitch with 16.3% — It's been a few years since the Great Ninja Exodus that pitted Twitch, YouTube, Microsoft's now-defunct Mixer … | Fortune: |
Amazon says Amazon Haul “considered the idea of listing import charges on certain products”, but “this was never a consideration for the main Amazon site” — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a news article on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos as she speaks during …
More: Punchbowl News, Stratechery, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Reuters, Engadget, CNBC, TechSpot, Tech in Asia, TheStreet, Benzinga, Wall Street Journal, MobileSyrup, NBC News, Yahoo Finance, WFAA-TV, and Reuters
| Mathieu Pollet / Politico: |
Doc: the EU's draft International Digital Strategy, set for June 4, acknowledges that decoupling from US tech is “unrealistic” and calls for strategic alliances — A draft strategy obtained by POLITICO points to the difficulty of unwinding years of American technological dominance.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Online graphic design platform Freepik releases F Lite, a ~10B-parameter “open” AI image model that it says was trained on ~80M licensed, “safe-for-work” images — Freepik, the online graphic design platform, unveiled a new “open” AI image model on Tuesday that the company …
More: Fal, Fal, fal on GitHub, Neowin, and nextbigwhat
X: @javilopen, @javilopen, @javilopen, and @javilopen
Sponsor Posts
Google:
Reimagine your photos with a prompt — Our new native image generation and editing is state-of-the-art, and ranked #1 in the world. Try it for free in the Gemini app.
Reimagine your photos with a prompt — Our new native image generation and editing is state-of-the-art, and ranked #1 in the world. Try it for free in the Gemini app.
Atlassian:
AI that's changing the game for teams — Give Rovo a go and discover new AI-powered skills, smarts, and places to transform your entire organization's workday.
AI that's changing the game for teams — Give Rovo a go and discover new AI-powered skills, smarts, and places to transform your entire organization's workday.
Zoho:
Zoho and Axis Bank: Bringing connected banking to modern businesses — If you're like most businesses, your finance apps and your bank operate in two separate worlds. You record expenses in one …
Zoho and Axis Bank: Bringing connected banking to modern businesses — If you're like most businesses, your finance apps and your bank operate in two separate worlds. You record expenses in one …
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
F5:
Securing AI models and agents in the enterprise — The new AI stack creates a highly dynamic attack surface, and traditional controls aren't keeping up. F5's recent acquisition will bring advanced AI guardrails to enterprise apps.
Securing AI models and agents in the enterprise — The new AI stack creates a highly dynamic attack surface, and traditional controls aren't keeping up. F5's recent acquisition will bring advanced AI guardrails to enterprise apps.Featured Podcasts
Spotlight On:
Bonus Episode: n8n's Jan Oberhauser on building the Excel of AI
A podcast from Accel about how companies are built, from the people doing the building.
Subscribe to Spotlight On.
Decoder with Nilay Patel:
The AI industry is at a major crossroads
A show from the Verge about big ideas - and other problems.
Subscribe to Decoder with Nilay Patel.
Lenny's Podcast:
First interview with Scale AI's CEO: $14B Meta deal, what's working in enterprise AI, and what frontier labs are building next | Jason Droege
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
Big Technology Podcast:
Anthropic Chief Product Officer: Why AI Model Development Is Accelerating — With Mike Krieger
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Great Chat:
David vs. Goliath, but make it venture-backed
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
Uncapped with Jack Altman:
Vince Hankes from Thrive Capital
Conversations with people I admire about things I'm genuinely interested in.
Subscribe to Uncapped with Jack Altman.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 9:15 AM ET, April 30, 2025.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Mary Randolph / Local News Initiative:Kristina Millare / Catholic World Report:
Jess Weatherbed / The Verge:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Michael Kan / PCMag: |
More: Tom's Hardware, TechPowerUp, Forbes, TrendForce News, The Register, PCWorld, Intel, ServeTheHome, and Intel
X: @iancutress, @iancutress, @iancutress, @iancutress, @anshelsag, @iancutress, and @aschilling
| John Irish / Reuters: |
More: BleepingComputer, The Kyiv Independent, International Business Times, Infosecurity, AIN, CityNews Halifax, and The Verge
Forums: r/europe and r/worldnews
| CNN: |
More: HuffPost, Fast Company, Raw Story, Quartz, Raw Story, Yahoo Finance, and Financial Times
| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
More: Inside Radio, Spotify, Digital Music News, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, Benzinga, Deadline, Hypebot, Music Business Worldwide, Yahoo Finance, The Hollywood Reporter, Investor's Business Daily, Variety, Wall Street Journal, Phandroid, and Financial Times
X: @thetranscript_ and @eldsjal
LinkedIn: Alex Norstrom, Patrick Calmels, Miguel Bañón Kelley, and Avinash Persaud