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| Berber Jin / Wall Street Journal: |
OpenAI plans to discontinue products that use its Sora models, including its consumer app, a Sora version for developers, and a video feature inside ChatGPT — The app, released last year, allowed people to insert themselves into famous movie scenes, among other functions
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
A New Mexico jury finds that Meta violated state laws by failing to safeguard its platforms from child predators and orders it to pay $375M in damages — A jury has reached a verdict in a major New Mexico trial in which the state's attorney general alleged that Meta failed to safeguard its family of apps from child predators.
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| Financial Times: |
Arm unveils its own AI chip called the AGI CPU, a departure from its traditional role as a designer of chips for others; Meta and OpenAI will be early customers — SoftBank-owned tech group projects fivefold revenue increase in five years — Meta and OpenAI will be among the first customers … | VideoCardz.com: |
Arm says its AGI CPU offers up to 136 Neoverse V3 cores, 6GB/s memory bandwidth per core, and more than 2x performance per rack compared with x86 systems — Arm launches AGI CPU, its first data center chip — Arm has announced the AGI CPU, its first production silicon product and its first Arm-designed data center CPU.| Bloomberg: |
Epic cuts 1,000+ jobs, saying it is “spending significantly more” than it is making and that the layoffs and $500M in savings put it “in a more stable place” — The company is seeing a downturn in engagement on Fortnite — Epic Games Inc. is cutting …
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| Thomas Claburn / The Register: |
Two versions of LiteLLM, an interface for accessing LLMs, have been removed from PyPI after a supply chain attack injected them with credential-stealing code — Two versions of LiteLLM, an open source interface for accessing multiple large language models, have been removed from the Python Package Index …
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's plans for a Siri reboot include a standalone Siri app, an overhauled interface in the Dynamic Island, and Ask Siri and Write with Siri features — Apple Inc. is testing a standalone app for its Siri voice assistant alongside a new “Ask Siri” feature that will work across …
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Apple plans to launch Apple Business, a free platform that consolidates its business tools, on April 14, and plans Apple Maps ads in summer in the US and Canada — Apple on Tuesday announced that it will begin to allow advertisers to target customers on Apple Maps, starting in the U.S. and Canada later this summer.
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| Maria Curi / Axios: |
At a hearing, a US federal judge says the Pentagon's treatment of Anthropic is “troubling” and that “it looks like an attempt to cripple Anthropic” — A federal judge on Tuesday called the Pentagon's treatment of Anthropic “troubling” as the AI company urged the court …
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| David Gewirtz / ZDNET: |
Anthropic announces an “auto mode” that enables Claude Code to make permission-level decisions while preventing destructive actions like mass file deletion — ZDNET's key takeaways — Claude's auto mode reduces permission prompts for developers.
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| Ashley Capoot / CNBC: |
OpenAI revamps ChatGPT's shopping experience by letting users upload images or describe items and include criteria like their budget — OpenAI is rolling out a new shopping experience within ChatGPT to make it easier for users to find and compare products, after its Instant Checkout feature failed to take off.
More: OpenAI, Axios, TechCrunch, Adweek, Neowin, The Decoder, OpenAI Foundation, and Blockonomi
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| Meghan Bobrowsky / Wall Street Journal: |
Meta names CTO Andrew Bosworth to oversee its “AI for Work” initiative, which aims to drive AI adoption across its workforce, replacing Guy Rosen — Andrew Bosworth, Meta's chief technology officer, will oversee the company's ‘AI For Work’ initiatives as focus shifts away from the metaverse| Naga Avan-Nomayo / The Block: |
Tether says it has engaged a Big Four accounting firm to conduct its first full independent audit of reserves behind its USDT stablecoin — Quick Take — Tether says it has engaged a Big Four accounting firm to conduct its first full independent audit of reserves.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Amazon acquired New York-based Fauna Robotics, which is developing a human-like, 42-inch tall robot that can interact with people, walk, grip items, and dance — Amazon.com Inc. acquired New York-based startup Fauna Robotics, becoming the latest technology giant to step into the burgeoning consumer humanoid market.| Greg Bensinger / Reuters: |
Amazon says its AWS region in Bahrain has been “disrupted” due to drone activity in the area amid the US-led Iran war, marking the second disruption in a month — Amazon (AMZN.O) said on Monday its Amazon Web Services region in Bahrain has been “disrupted” amid the current conflict …
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| Financial Times: |
How Palantir became a flashpoint on the US campaign trail due to its ICE work, ahead of the midterms; six lawmakers publicly refuse any further Palantir funds — Donald Trump's unpopular immigration crackdown has made links to the Peter Thiel-backed company a liability for candidates| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Baltimore sues xAI, accusing it of violating consumer protection laws and engaging in deceptive trade practices by marketing Grok as generally safe — Lawsuits against Elon Musk's xAI are piling up, with Baltimore becoming the first major U.S. city to file a complaint against the company concerning issues …
More: The Guardian, Circuit Court For Baltimore City, Engadget, NBC News, Reuters, and StateScoop
| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases iOS 26.4, with Playlist Playground, which generates an Apple Music playlist from a prompt, 8 new emojis, improved keyboard accuracy, and more — Apple has released iOS 26.4, bringing 13 enhancements to your iPhone. The new software update includes 8 new emoji characters …
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X: @betaprofiles, @emojipedia, @applesclubs, and @zollotech
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft agrees to a deal with Crusoe to lease a data center in Abilene, Texas, representing ~700 MW of capacity, after Oracle and OpenAI walked away — Microsoft Corp. has agreed to rent a data center project in Texas that was originally being developed for Oracle Corp. and OpenAI …
More: Reuters, DatacenterDynamics, Benzinga, The Decoder, and Blockonomi
Bluesky: @dmnd.me and @edzitron.com
| Vicky Ge Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
The NYSE partners with Securitize to develop the Digital Trading Platform, an alternative 24/7 trading system for tokenized stocks and ETFs on a blockchain — Under the exchange's plan, stocks would trade as digital tokens — The New York Stock Exchange said Tuesday that it was joining …
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LinkedIn: Jorge Serna and Billy Miller
| Bloomberg: |
Filing: SK Hynix plans to spend ~$8B on cutting-edge EUV lithography chipmaking tools from ASML through 2027, as it competes with Samsung to supply DRAM and HBM — SK Hynix Inc. plans to spend 11.9 trillion won ($7.9 billion) on cutting-edge extreme ultraviolet lithography chipmaking tools … | CoinDesk: |
Circle shares fell as much as 18%, and Coinbase dropped about 8%, after a draft of the US Clarity Act raised the prospect of strict limits on stablecoin yield — The latest version of the Clarity Act is pressuring stocks as it would restrict stablecoin rewards. — What to know:| Anthony Halpin / Bloomberg: |
Russian space startup Bureau 1440 says it launched 16 broadband internet satellites, an early operational step in a low-Earth orbit network set to rival SpaceX — Russia's Bureau 1440 space company launched 16 broadband Internet satellites, marking an early operational step in a low-Earth orbit network … | Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI releases a set of prompts designed to be used with its open-weight safety model gpt-oss-safeguard that lets developers make their apps safer for teens — OpenAI said Tuesday it is releasing a set of prompts that developers can use to make their apps safer for teens.
More: OpenAI, The Next Web, and Mashable
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: OpenAI nears a deal to raise ~$10B from Abu Dhabi's MGX, Coatue, and Thrive, bringing its latest funding round to ~$120B at a $730B valuation — OpenAI is nearing a deal to raise about $10 billion from venture investors, according to people familiar with the matter …
Bluesky: @edzitron.com
| Marina Temkin / TechCrunch: |
Doss, which provides an AI-native inventory management layer that integrates with existing accounting systems, raised a $55M Series B — Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are often described as a company's ‘central brain’ because the software connects different departments …
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Nintendo plans to cut its Switch 2 production this quarter by 33%, from 6M to 4M units, after weaker-than-expected holiday demand, especially in the US — Nintendo Co. is cutting back the production of Switch 2 after demand for the $450 gaming console trailed the company's expectations during …
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