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The big cultural event of maybe the decade is going to take a little while longer to get here. Earnings from Apple and Amazon. More signs of the impending death of the password. More signs of self-driving rapidly becoming reality. And in the longreads, what happens when AI completely changes your field? The AI researchers were the first to experience it.
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Grand Theft Auto VI release delayed to May 2026 (The Verge)Amazon Says Operating Profits May Decline Amid Economic Uncertainty (NYTimes)Microsoft goes passwordless by default on new accounts (The Verge)Temu Blocks US Shoppers From Seeing Products Shipped From China (Wired)Auroraâs driverless trucks are making deliveries in Texas (The Verge)Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
When ChatGPT Broke an Entire Field: An Oral History (Quanta Magazine)The Life of the Most-Used Citi Bike in New York City (Bloomberg)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Apple basically got held in contempt of court in the Epic case. Rumors about Elon staying at Tesla. Meta and Microsoft earnings. Xbox price increases. Would you wear a smart ring that proves youâre not cheating on your significant other?
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Apple Dealt Stinging Court Defeat on App Store Sales Commissions (Bloomberg)Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk (WSJ)Microsoft is raising prices on Xbox consoles, controllers, and games worldwide (The Verge)Meta tightens privacy policy around Ray-Ban glasses to boost AI training (The Verge)Would you wear a smart ring that proves youâre not a cheater? (The Verge)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Zijn er afleveringen die ontbreken?
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Meta has launched a standalone competitor to ChatGPT. But is ChatGPT bending too far backwards in an attempt to please you? Even OpenAI thinks so. Waymo and Toyota cut a deal. And concerns about sovereign tech stacks rear their head again.
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Metaâs ChatGPT competitor shows how your friends use AI (The Verge)Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the companyâs code was written by AI (TechCrunch)OpenAI rolls back update that made ChatGPT âtoo sycophant-yâ (TechCrunch)Waymo, Toyota strike partnership to bring self-driving tech to personal vehicles (CNBC)Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year (TechCrunch)EU views break from US as âunrealisticâ amid global tech race (Politico)Microsoft vows to protect European operations from Donald Trump (Financial Times)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Is Amazon about to start showing tariff prices in listings? Armageddon has finally come for Temu and Shein. Is OpenAI getting into the shopping game because their web search usage is exploding? And Project Kuiper finally gets off the ground in a literal and meaningful way.
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042925 (PunchBowl News AM)Kickstarter Introduces âTariff Manager Toolâ to Add Charges to Already Fully Funded Projects (404 Media)Temu adds âimport chargesâ of about 145% after Trump tariffs, more than doubling price of many items (CNBC)Congress passes bill to fight deepfake nudes, revenge porn (Washington Post)Alibaba unveils Qwen3, a family of âhybridâ AI reasoning models (TechCrunch)OpenAI Adds Shopping to ChatGPT in a Challenge to Google (Wired)Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI (The Verge)Amazon launches first Kuiper internet satellites, taking on Starlink (Reuters)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Is Appleâs 20th Anniversary iPhone the reason they canât quit China just yet? That Chinese AI Manus just raised a big round. Is Prompt Engineer the job title that never was? And what really goes on in those powerful, behind the scenes Silicon Valley group chats?
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Apple Begins Breaking Up Its AI Team With Robotics, Siri Changes (Bloomberg)Why Trump canât build iPhones in the US (FT)The Future of Gadgets: Fewer Updates, More Subscriptions, Bigger Price Tags (WSJ)Google is killing software support for early Nest Thermostats (The Verge)Chinese AI Startup Manus Scores Funding at $500 Million Value (Bloomberg)The Hottest AI Job of 2023 Is Already Obsolete (WSJ)The group chats that changed America (Semafor)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Alphabet earnings. Intel earnings. Apple is making moves to make sure all iPhones heading to the US are no longer manufactured in China. Zuck seems bound and determined to revive his original baby. Sexy looking new Motorola Razr phones. And, of course the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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Alphabet shares rise on stronger-than-expected revenue growth (CNBC)Intel offers weak forecast amid trade tensions as CEO talks to TSMC (Reuters)Apple aims to source all US iPhones from India in pivot away from China (Financial Times)Publisher of PCMag and Mashable Sues OpenAI (NYTimes)Facebook cracks down on spammy content by cutting reach and monetization (TechCrunch)Mark Zuckerberg once considered deleting all your Facebook friends (TechCrunch)Motorolaâs new Razr Ultra brings the wood back panel back (The Verge)Netflix rolls out dialogue-only subtitles (The Verge)Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
The Apple Watch Just Turned 10. Hereâs How Far Itâs Come (Wired)The Race to Fix Aging Computer Systems Heats Up With AIâs Help (Bloomberg)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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More fallout from those EU fines yesterday. A whole slew of self driving car news. The AI Coding Wars have officially begun. The back to the office wars continue. Is Chrome worth $50 billion? And let me tell you about the AI app that wants to help you cheat at everything.
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Apple and Meta Are First to Be Hit by E.U. Digital Competition Law (NYTimes)Uber, Volkswagen pair up to launch robotaxi service in US with self-driving, electric microbuses (TechCrunch)Windsurf slashes prices as competition with Cursor heats up (TechCrunch)Google Chrome Worth âUpwards of $50 Billion,â Browser Rival Says (Bloomberg)Google forcing some remote workers to come back 3 days a week or lose their jobs (CNBC)Columbia student suspended over interview cheating tool raises $5.3M to âcheat on everythingâ (TechCrunch)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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That delayed action from the European Commission finally came down on Apple and Meta. Would OpenAI be a logical home for the Chrome web browser? Massive layoffs coming to Intel. Anysphere turned down an acquisition offer from OpenAI. And are the tariff wars coming for Elon Muskâs robots?
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Apple, Meta Fined by EU, Ordered to Comply With Tech Competition Rules (WSJ)OpenAI Would Buy Googleâs Chrome Browser, ChatGPT Chief Says (Bloomberg)Intel to Announce Plans This Week to Cut Over 20% of Staff (Bloomberg)A new, open source text-to-speech model called Dia has arrived to challenge ElevenLabs, OpenAI and more (VentureBeat)Why OpenAI wanted to buy Cursor but opted for the fast-growing Windsurf (TechCrunch)Ex-OpenAI staff and top AI experts seek to block proposed for-profit restructure (FT)Tesla Humanoid Robot Plan Hampered by China Rare Earth Curbs (Bloomberg)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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As the US v. Google remedy trial begins, the FTC also sues Uber and makes Airbnb disclose all fees. Looks like tech regulation is still very much a thing. Bluesky begins rolling out verification. Meta is using AI to find if kids are lying about their age on Instagram. And Microsoft is forging ahead with that Recall feature.
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Justice Dept. asks judge to âthawâ Googleâs search monopoly by forcing Chrome sale (Washington Post)FTC sues Uber, says company charged for Uber One without consent (CNBC)Airbnb to Show Fees in Price Display to Comply With FTC Rule (Bloomberg)Bluesky Is Rolling Out Official Verification (Wired)Google Messages Sensitive Content Warnings for nudity rolling out (9to5Google)Meta is ramping up its AI-driven age detection (The Verge)Microsoft Is Dedicated To Building A Dodgy New Database Of Every Windows 11 Userâs Online Behaviors (TechDirt)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Meta and Apple were about to go to the woodshed in Europe, but it looks like Trumpâs tariffs have run interference for them. Everyone wants in on stablecoins, example number 23. Beware of phishing emails from Google.com. And are OpenAIâs latest models good, bad, or just âjaggedâ?
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EU Delayed Punishing Apple, Meta Just Before Trade Talks Started (WSJ)Crypto Knocks on the Door of a Banking World That Shut It Out (WSJ)Phishers abuse Google OAuth to spoof Google in DKIM replay attack (Bleeping Computer)Coinbase in hot water over $12 million âcontent coinââbut exec tells haters to lean in (Fortune Crypto)OpenAIâs new reasoning AI models hallucinate more (TechCrunch)On Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after (Ethan Mollick)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Google is ruled an illegal monopoly. Again. But for a different reason this time. Switch 2 pre-orders are back on. Americans are flocking to Temu and Shein alternatives. And in the Weekend Longreads Suggestions, what if I told you 25 percent of community college applicants are now AI bots? And not only that, the bots are now âattending classesâ in quotes.
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Google Broke the Law to Keep Its Advertising Monopoly, a Judge Rules (NYTimes)Google loses online advertising monopoly case (Axios)Google Found GUILTY of Monopolization Again (The Big Newsletter)Nintendo Switch 2 preorders start April 24th and the price is still $449.99 (The Verge)The latest viral ChatGPT trend is doing âreverse location searchâ from photos (TechCrunch)Chinese shopping app Taobao joins DHgate in Top 5 on US App Store (TechCrunch)Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
As âBotâ Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond (Voice Of San Diego)Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet (NYTimes)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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OpenAI has a new reasoning model, and more lower cost models as well. Is OpenAI about to acquire a coding startup? Is Perplexity turning to Samsung for distribution and branding? A Neuralink rival gets FDA approval. And why is Jensen Huang on a code-red mission to China at the moment?
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OpenAI's new o3 and o4-mini models are all about 'thinking with images' (Engadget)OpenAI debuts Codex CLI, an open source coding tool for terminals (TechCrunch)Vibe Check: o3 Is HereâAnd Itâs Great (Every)OpenAI In Talks to Buy Windsurf for About $3 Billion (Bloomberg)Perplexity AI in Talks to Integrate Assistant Into Samsung, Motorola Phones (Bloomberg)Neuralink Rival Gets FDA Clearance in Path to Less Invasive Brain Implants (Bloomberg)Nvidia chief Jensen Huang flies to Beijing for talks (FT)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Well, it looks like DOGE has finally come for cybersecurity. It sounds like the tariff stuff is already biting Nvidia to the tune of $5 billion. Why is OpenAI building a social network? The government would have settled the antitrust case with Meta to the tune of $30 billion. And why did Mark Zuckerberg consider spinning off Instagram voluntarily?
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Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program (The Register)Nvidia says it will record $5.5 billion charge tied to H20 processors exported to China (CNBC)OpenAI is building a social network (The Verge)Figma confidentially files for IPO more than a year after ditching Adobe deal (CNBC)Inside Mark Zuckerbergâs Failed Negotiations to End Antitrust Case (WSJ)Zuckerberg Says He Considered Spinning Off Instagram in 2018 (Bloomberg)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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OpenAI releases its latest next gen models but you wouldnât know it by the nomenclature because the numbers are going backwards. Whatâs up with that? Apple is tying itself in a pretzel to train on user data but still stick to privacy. And a big rundown of the first day of the big Meta antitrust trial.
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OpenAIâs new GPT-4.1 AI models focus on coding (TechCrunch)OpenAI launches another model before GPT 5 â hereâs what this one can do (Tom's Guide)Nvidia says it plans to manufacture some AI chips in the US (TechCrunch)Apple to Analyze User Data on Devices to Bolster AI Technology (Bloomberg)Zuckerberg testifies as FTC, Meta trade opening salvos in antitrust trial (Politico)Mark Zuckerberg Takes Stand to Defend Meta Against Antitrust Suit (NYTimes)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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You know that meme of Ebenezer Scrooge shouting out the window? âHey boy, what tariff regime is it today?â Sam Altman again implies ChatGPT usage has exploded. If youâre coding with AI, a big new vulnerability you need to know about. And is Apple pivoting the Vision Pro to the type of product I thought they should have done all along?
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Apple, Nvidia Score Relief From US Tariffs With Exemptions (Bloomberg)Sony raises PlayStation 5 prices in Europe citing âchallengingâ economic environment (CNBC)ChatGPT Hits 1 Billion Users? âDoubled In Just Weeksâ Says OpenAI CEO (Forbes)LLMs can't stop making up software dependencies and sabotaging everything (The Register)AI-hallucinated code dependencies become new supply chain risk (Bleeping Computer)Apple Readies Pair of Headsets While Still Looking Ahead to Glasses (Bloomberg)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Europe says it could tax social media ads if the tariff wars get really nasty. Why COULDNâT Apple make an iPhone in the US as President Trump wants? Is OpenAI cutting corners on safety in order to stay ahead in the AI race? And as always, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.
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EU could tax Big Tech if Trump trade talks fail, says von der Leyen (Financial Times)Why Trumpâs Dream of Made-in-the-USA iPhones Isnât Going to Happen (Bloomberg)OpenAI updates ChatGPT to reference your past chats (TechCrunch)OpenAI slashes AI model safety testing time (Financial Times)Mira Murati doubled the fundraising target for her new AI startup to $2 billion. It could be the largest seed round in history. (Business Insider)Weekend Longreads Suggestions:
12 Graphs That Explain the State of AI in 2025 (IEEE Spectrum)Generative AI is learning to spy for the US military (MIT Technology Review)How Apple Fumbled Siriâs AI Makeover (The Information)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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At the time of this writing, the tariffs are back off, but who know what will happen by the time you hear this. OpenAI sues back. Google wants a framework for AI agents to talk to each other. Oh, and how many iPhones can you pack in a jumbo jet?
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Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries, hits China harder with 125% (CNBC)Nintendo Gains Time to Prep Switch 2 Debut With Tariff Pause (Bloomberg)How Many New iPhones Can Fit on a Freight Plane? (Daring Fireball)Wall Street Consultant Paul Atkins Confirmed to Lead SEC (Bloomberg)OpenAI countersues Elon Musk, claims harassment (Reuters)Google launches Agent2Agent protocol to connect AI agents across platforms (Testing Catalog)OpenAI launches program to design new âdomain-specificâ AI benchmarks (TechCrunch)AI is set to drive surging electricity demand from data centres while offering the potential to transform how the energy sector works (IEA)AI to double data centre energy demand by 2030 (Silicon Republic)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Google unveils its new TPUâs, this time with inference! Temu and Shein officially get nuked from orbit. More signs of pullback in AI datacenter buildout. Are we actually, for real, about to get an iPad Instagram app? And a cute little home robot from ages ago, looks like itâs finally coming to a house near you this summer.
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Ironwood is Googleâs newest AI accelerator chip (TechCrunch)Google announces âWorkspace Flowsâ automation with Gems, audio in Docs, and more Gemini (9to5Google)US Raises Charges on Small Parcels, Targeting Chinese Retailers (Bloomberg)Microsoft pauses $1bn data center plans in Licking County, Ohio (Data Center Dynamics)Instagramâs Mosseri Positions App for TikTok Turmoil (The Information)Amazon Seeks Partners for $15 Billion Warehouse Expansion Plan (Bloomberg)Google Maps is launching tools to help cities analyze infrastructure and traffic (The Verge)Samsung Taps Google AI to Launch Long-Promised Ballie Robot With Video Projector (Bloomberg)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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Uh oh, it looks like the tech price hikes are already starting! People are accusing Meta of doing some weird things with those latest AI models. Shopify tells workers that they need to embrace AI for everything. Is AI killing web traffic? And how AI is being used to automatically create sequels for books.
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Framework âtemporarily pausingâ some laptop sales because of new tariffs (ArsTechnica)Exclusive: Micron to impose tariff-related surcharge on some products from April 9, sources say (Reuters)Apple Plans to Source More iPhones From India as Potential Tariff Fix (WSJ)Apple Customers Dash to Stores to Buy iPhones Ahead of Tariffs (Bloomberg)Meta got caught gaming AI benchmarks (The Verge)Shopify CEO says staffers need to prove jobs canât be done by AI before asking for more headcount (CNBC)Google AI Search Shift Leaves Website Makers Feeling âBetrayedâ (Bloomberg)THE A.I. ROMANCE FACTORY (Bloomberg Businessweek)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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TikTok lives! Again. Again. At least for another 75 days. Metaâs big new Llama models are out. AI coding assistant Cursor has become the big breakout hit of the AI moment. And then yes, we get into the tariff situation, including, me polling tech execs who make consumer facing gadgets: do you plan to raise prices? Hereâs what they told me.
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Trump extends TikTok deadline for the second time (CNBC)Meta releases two Llama 4 AI models (The Verge)AI Coding Assistant Cursor Draws a Million Users Without Even Trying (Bloomberg)Tariffs are tanking tech stocks, so why is Microsoft escaping the worst of the bloodbath? (Fortune)See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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