In an addendum to the GPT-4o System Card, OpenAI says it is “not blocking the capability to generate adult public figures” and that public figures can opt out
Introducing 4o Image Generation. When OpenAI first announced GPT-4o back in May 2024 one of the most exciting features …
OpenAI rolls out GPT-4o image generation natively in ChatGPT across all subscription tiers and says the omnimodal model is “a step change above previous models”
Do You Still Need DALL-E? The Indian Express : OpenAI's new image generator for ChatGPT triggers Ghibli fest: 10 best posts on X Chris Smith / BGR : Reve Image is the latest AI image generator going v...
Developers say aggressive AI crawlers are overwhelming open-source infrastructure; LibreNews: up to 97% of some projects' traffic comes from AI companies' bots
Software developer Xe Iaso reached a breaking point earlier this year when aggressive AI crawler traffic from Amazon overwhelmed …
Gemini 2.5 Pro hands-on: a very strong model with 1M input tokens, 64K output tokens, a January 2025 knowledge cut-off, and very, very impressive coding skills
There's a new release from Google Gemini this morning: the first in the Gemini 2.5 series. Google call it “a thinking model …
Microsoft unveils AI “deep reasoning” agents for 365 Copilot: Researcher, based on OpenAI's deep research model, and Analyst, based on o3-mini, coming in April
Multi-step reasoning AI is coming to Microsoft Copilot. … After Google and OpenAI offered up AI news on Tuesday …
Sources: Fidelity Investments is in the advanced stages of testing its own stablecoin, managed by its digital assets arm; Trump pledged to back USD stablecoins
Asset manager is in advanced stages of testing token as the Trump administration prepares to overhaul crypto oversight
The US adds export restrictions to 80 organizations, primarily targeting Chinese companies, including server maker Nettrix and clients of Nvidia, Intel, and AMD
The additions included companies that are customers of Intel and Nvidia, and one firm that was the focus of a New York Times investigation last year.
Leaked email: Block lays off 931 employees, or ~8% of staff, and moves 193 managers to individual contributor roles, after cutting ~1,000 roles in January 2024
Fintech Block laid off 931 people, roughly 8% of the company's staff, on Tuesday, according to a leaked message from the company seen by TechCrunch.
Waze says it is removing Google Assistant for iPhone users, citing “ongoing difficulties” with the integration, after recently testing a Gemini-based assistant
Google has already started replacing Assistant with Gemini across its devices.
GameStop says its board has unanimously approved a plan to buy bitcoin with its corporate cash, and it has not set a ceiling on how much bitcoin it may purchase
Video game retailer GameStop announced Tuesday its board has unanimously approved a plan to buy bitcoin with its corporate cash …
iPad (A16) review: fast chip, double the storage, 2GB more RAM, good build quality and battery, and loads of apps, but an aging display and no M chips or AI
Apple's base tablet gets a few common-sense upgrades, but display and accessory issues remain. — When it debuted in 2022 …
Apple says the iPhone 16 series will be available in Indonesia from April 11, after Jakarta lifted a sales ban following Apple's $300M+ investment plan
Apple's (AAPL.O) iPhone 16 series will be available in Indonesia from April 11, it said on Wednesday, after Jakarta lifted a ban …
Amazon rolls out AI tool Interests, which checks for new inventory by interests, price limits, and preferences, to US users, and is testing chatbot Health AI
Amazon, in an effort to infuse generative artificial intelligence across a wider swath of its e-commerce universe …
Apple announces WWDC 2025 for June 9-13, which will be an “entirely online” event free for developers, with an in-person special event at Apple Park on June 9
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Anthropic convinced a California federal judge to reject a preliminary bid to block it from using lyrics owned by UMG and other music publishers to train Claude
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic convinced a California federal judge on Tuesday to reject a preliminary bid to block …
BMW partners with Alibaba to use Qwen-powered AI cockpit tech from Alibaba-backed Banma in its upcoming car models for the Chinese market, rolling out in 2026
BMW will adopt AI cockpit technology from Alibaba-backed Banma for its upcoming models tailored for the Chinese market, the companies said Wednesday in a joint statement.
Mercury, which helps startups manage their finances, raised $300M led by Sequoia at a $3.5B valuation; the fintech saw $2B in deposits after SVB's collapse
Fintech banking startup Mercury says it has more than doubled its valuation to $3.5 billion after raising $300 million in its latest funding round.
Databricks details Test-time Adaptive Optimization, or TAO, a new approach that lets its customers boost LLM performance without the need for clean labeled data
Using several recent innovations, the company Databricks will let customers boost the IQ of their AI models even if they don't have squeaky clean data.
An internal NSA memo in February 2025 warned staff of a “Signal Vulnerability”; Signal says it was a phishing warning and “had nothing to do with” its core tech
Good morning. The latest Nielsen numbers are out … HuffPost : Trump's CIA Director Blames Biden Team For Allowing Communications On Signal App James Farrell / SiliconANGLE : NSA warned about vulnerab...
IPO filings: CoreWeave, set to launch a $32B IPO on March 28, violated key terms of a $7.6B Blackstone loan in 2024, triggering a series of technical defaults
US cloud company seeking blockbuster $32bn IPO had to remedy serious administrative errors in December
A look at RISC architecture's origins, the Arm vs. RISC-V war, and how RISCites beat the CISCites, as RISC's increasing adoption risks US companies' dominance
“RISC architecture is gonna change everything.” Those absurdly geeky, incredibly prophetic words were spoken 30 years ago. Bluesky: @emilprotalinski , @wired.com , @waterslicer , and @wired.com . Mas...
Bain Capital agrees to acquire a majority stake in Italian IT company Namirial from private equity firm Ambienta, a deal sources say values Namirial at €1.1B
Bain Capital agreed to acquire a majority stake in Namirial SpA from private equity firm Ambienta. … It didn't provide financial terms.
eMarketer expects X to generate $1.31B in US ad sales in 2025, up 17.5%, and $2.26B in global ad sales, up 16.5%, its first year of ad revenue growth since 2022
- Projections from Emarketer show sales up 17.5% this year — Sales remain significantly lower than before Musk's purchase
Ripple says it agreed to settle a US SEC civil lawsuit over the alleged sale of unregistered securities and pay just $50M of a previously imposed $125M fine
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Sources: the EU's Huawei corruption probe is looking at alleged exchanges of soccer tickets and phones for political favors; one detainee is a Huawei lobbyist
Representatives for Chinese tech giant accused of offering cash, football tickets and smartphones to parliament staff
Nielsen: YouTube was the top TV distributor in February 2025, making up 11.6% of all US TV; over-50s viewers accounted for 36% of time spent watching it on TVs
and it's another alarm bell for Hollywood Sam Gutelle / Tubefilter : Seniors are watching twice as much YouTube on TVs as they were a year ago John Nolte / Breitbart : Disney Loses Top Spot in TV View...
The Arc Prize Foundation says its new ARC-AGI-2 test stumps most AI models; humans get 60% of the questions right but GPT-4.5 and Claude 3.7 Sonnet score ~1%
[image] François Chollet / @fchollet : Unlike ARC-AGI-1, this new version is not easily brute-forced. Current top AI approaches score 0-4%. All base LLMs (GPT-4.5, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2, etc.)...
USCIS data shows Amazon got the most H-1B visas each year from 2020 to 2024; Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Apple ranked in the top 10 in 2024
and what they get paid Erica Kollmann / Benzinga : Big Tech Companies Employ Majority Of H-1B Visa Workers: Where Do Amazon, Google, Meta Rank? Jessica Fu / Mercury News : H-1B workers grapple with un...
TRAI Chairman Anil Kumar Lahoti says India, with only 1% of global subsea cable landing stations, must expand its subsea cable infrastructure 10x to meet demand
Karan Mahadik / The Indian Express :
Power chip companies Renesas, Infineon, and others are cutting jobs and spending, as disappointing EV market growth leaves them saddled with excess capacity
TOKYO — Producers of power semiconductors, a key component in the electric-vehicle supply chain, are shrinking their workforces …
Q&A with Careem CEO Mudassir Sheikha on the MENA ride-hailing giant becoming a super app, the spinout of its non-ride-hailing services from Uber, AI, and more
• DUBAI, THE UAE — Mudassir Sheikha likes to tell the story of Careem's growth in chapters. Bluesky: @anup Bluesky: Anup Kaphle / @anup : I met with Mudassir Sheikha, the CEO and co-founder of Caree...
TD Cowen: Microsoft walked away from new data center projects in the US and Europe that had been set to consume 2 gigawatts, a sign of AI computing oversupply
The analysts, who rattled investors with a February note highlighting leases Microsoft had abandoned in the US … Bluesky: @mattmday Bluesky: Matt Day / @mattmday : Hmm: “We continue to believe the lea...
Docs: China's new energy efficiency rules could ban Nvidia's H20 chips from data centers if implemented strictly, risking Nvidia's $17B-per-year China business
Financial Times :
NY-based Silna, which provides healthcare revenue cycle management software, emerges from stealth with a $22M Series A co-led by Accel and Bain and a $5M seed
the company I cofounded w @Jeffrey_Morelli and @sagarjajoo—is emerging with $27M in funding from Accel+Bain Capital Our platform is already enabling tens of thousands of patients to access critical ca...
US state and former US officials say satellite internet like Starlink's may cut upfront costs for the $42B rural broadband program but could cost more long term
Kelcee Griffis / Bloomberg :
A cross-party committee of UK MPs casts doubt on the UK's plan to boost the public sector with AI, citing outdated tech, poor data, and a lack of digital skills
Corruption Watch says the provision for the public … Pradeep Bairaboina / Tech Monitor : UK government to face major hurdles in AI integration, warns PAC Joe Fay / The Stack : UK.gov's AI ambitions at...
Sources: Qualcomm has complained to antitrust regulators in the EU, the US, and South Korea that Arm is hurting competition by restricting access to its tech
accuses Arm of restricting access to technology Anusuya Lahiri / Benzinga : Qualcomm Accuses Arm Of Antitrust Violations Across US, EU, And Korea Over Chip Access Catherine Sbeglia Nin / RCR Wireless ...
Character.AI adds a Parental Insights feature that lets teens send reports of their chatbot usage to their parents, including which bots they are talking to
Adi Robertson / The Verge :
As the EU considers funding a Starlink rival, experts say no single European network can match Starlink's range, likely requiring a patchwork of satellites
Financial Times :
Nexthop AI launches with $110M in seed and Series A funding led by Lightspeed Ventures, offering hardware and software for cloud AI infrastructure
Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE :
Chinese AI startup SenseTime reports FY 2024 revenue up 11% YoY to ~$524M, below ~$620M est., and a ~$592M net loss, above ~$551M est., as the AI race heats up
Rachel Yeo / Bloomberg :
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