OpenAI's model behavior lead says OpenAI is “shifting from blanket refusals in sensitive areas to a more precise approach focused on preventing real-world harm”
Navigating responsibility and user freedom, and how that influenced setting the Day 1 policy for 4o image generation in ChatGPT X: @altryne , @nexuist , @sterlingcrispin , @borismpower , @joannejang ,...
CoreWeave raised $1.5B in its IPO, selling ~37.5M shares at $40 each, down from a planned 49M shares at $47-$55; source: Nvidia anchored with a ~$250M order
CoreWeave on Thursday priced shares at $40 in the company's IPO, raising $1.5 billion in the biggest U.S. tech offering since 2021, CNBC has confirmed.
After OpenAI released ChatGPT's new image generator, social media has been flooded with AI memes in the style of Studio Ghibli, highlighting copyright concerns
here's 7 incredible examples of what it can do Kirk / Geek News Central Podcast : ChatGPT's New Image Model Sparks Additional Copyright Controversies #1810 Spencer Neale / The American Conservative : ...
Interviews with Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, and other executives about Anthropic's origin, Claude, why DeepSeek isn't a threat, reaching AGI safely, more
The brother goes on vision quests. The sister is a former English major. Together, they defected from OpenAI, started Anthropic …
Sources: DOGE aims to migrate all Social Security Administration's computer systems off COBOL in a matter of months, risking the integrity of the system
Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language.
Anthropic says it created a new tool for deciphering how LLMs “think” and used it to resolve some key questions about how Claude and probably other LLMs work
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. Today the company announced that its researchers had made a breakthrough in probing …
Sam Altman says “our GPUs are melting” due to ChatGPT's viral image generation and OpenAI plans to temporarily introduce some rate limits
OpenAI had to place free users on a waitlist for a while, “our GPUs are melting” Shelly Palmer : Our GPUs Are Melting: The Real Cost of AI Image Generation The Economic Times : As ChatGPT Ghibli-style...
Ubisoft plans to spin off a unit, which includes Assassin's Creed, into a ~€4B subsidiary with Tencent investing €1.16B for a 25% stake; UBI jumps 10%
Ubisoft Entertainment SA shares jumped as much as 10% after the video game maker said it will carve out a unit including Assassin's Creed …
Sources: the EU will impose minimal fines on Apple and Meta next week, far below the DMA's 10% of global turnover cap, to avoid tensions with President Trump
Brussels to push ahead with enforcing digital rules on Big Tech groups but with low financial penalties for breaches
AppLovin hires a law firm to investigate short sellers' allegations that the mobile ad company's ad performance numbers are fraudulent
It followed a Muddy Waters report released on Thursday that alleged that AppLovin was misappropriating data and violating some of its platform partners' terms of service …
Crypto.com says the US SEC won't pursue enforcement action; Crypto.com sued the SEC in October after receiving a Wells notice signaling potential charges
- Crypto.com said that the SEC will not file an enforcement action against the company. — Crypto.com sued the SEC in October …
AppLovin's stock closes down over 20% after short seller Muddy Waters released a report, the third such short report against the company in about a month
save room for dessert! @muddywatersre : $APP risks deplatforming bc it collects 3P user data in violation of TOS of $AAPL $GOOG $META. APP uses 3P data for black edge in auctions. $APP subterfuge occu...
Google says Pixel 9a will launch in the US, Canada, and UK on April 10; the company delayed the phone's launch to April to check “on a component quality issue”
After a last-minute delay, Google today announced that Pixel 9a will launch starting April 10.
A US judge dismisses Samsung's Oura lawsuit, saying Samsung acted prematurely in seeking a judgment that Galaxy Ring doesn't infringe on Oura's patents
Samsung essentially jumped the gun in trying to preemptively block any potential Oura patent claims.
Taiwan is investigating 11 Chinese tech firms, including SMIC, which is being probed for allegedly poaching engineers to access the island's advanced chip tech
Taiwan is investigating whether China's leading chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp. illegally poached local engineers …
How Paul Ginsparg, a Cornell University physics professor, created the digital repository arXiv nearly 35 years ago to help researchers share their preprints
Modern science wouldn't exist without the online research repository known as arXiv. Three decades in, its creator still can't let it go. Bluesky: @peat.org , @jenlucpiquant , @smcgrath.phd , and @sa...
A US federal judge orders agencies whose leaders participated in the Signal chat on the Houthi attacks to preserve all messages sent from March 11 to March 15
www.politico.com/news/2025/03... Mastodon: Pernille Tranberg / @pernillet@mastodon.online : Good for Signal — Signal is experiencing massive downloads after the Atlantic was let into a group of high...
Meta adds a Friends tab on Facebook that will show content just from users' friends, with no recommended posts, as it brings back “OG” Facebook experiences
Here's How to See Posts From Your Friends Instead of Algorithms Jonathan Vanian / CNBC : Meta debuts Friends tab, Mark Zuckerberg pushes ‘throwback to OG Facebook’ Emma Crabtree / The Sun : Facebook a...
Nintendo unveils Virtual Game Cards, letting users transfer existing digital Switch games to other consoles and lend them out more easily, available in April
https://www.youtube.com/... #Nintendo #NintendoSwitch #VirtualGameCards #gaming #Switch2 X: Tom Warren / @tomwarren : Nintendo is introducing a new lending system for digital Switch games. You'll be ...
Court documents: India criticizes Elon Musk's X for wrongly labeling an official website, used to notify tech firms of harmful content, as a “censorship portal”
India has criticised Elon Musk's X for wrongly labelling as a “censorship portal” an official website …
PUBG developer Krafton acquires a “north of 75% stake” in Pune-based gaming studio Nautilus Mobile for $14M in an all-cash deal, its first acquisition in India
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch :
The UK's Financial Conduct Authority says it intends to begin authorizing new crypto firms in 2026 after it designs a more stringent regulatory regime
Camomile Shumba / CoinDesk :
Google rolls out new Search, Maps, and Gemini features to help plan vacations, including hotel price drop alerts and turning screenshots into holiday plans
Gemini Turns Them into Maps Lists! Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Roundtable : Google AI Overviews Itinerary, Lens Tour Guide, Maps Screenshot & Track Prices Tom Pritchard / Tom's Guide : Google Maps ...
EY: Indians collectively spent 1.1T hours on their smartphones in 2024, averaging five hours daily, with ~70% of the time on social media, gaming, and videos
Satviki Sanjay / Bloomberg :
Amazon partners with Electronic Arts to bring EA games like Star Wars Jedi: Survivor to cloud gaming service Amazon Luna, which is now available in 14 countries
The service also expands to Sweden, Portugal, Belgium, and Luxembourg. — amazonluna.blog/amazon-luna- ... [image] LinkedIn: Joseph Traverso : Extremely excited to announce our partnership with Amaz...
An appeals court agrees with India's antitrust regulator that Google's app store billing policy was unfair and restrictive but cuts the fine from $110M to $25M
Bloomberg :
A look at Archetype, whose AI model Newton is trained to analyze output from sensors monitoring the physical world, including cities and factories
Mark Wilson / Fast Company :
Google starts offering user choice billing in the UK, initially to non-game developers, says 90%+ of developers are satisfied with Google Play's native billing
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch :
Immunefi: crypto industry lost a record $1.64B in Q1 2025 across 40 incidents, including $1.46B from the Bybit hack, vs. $348.3M across 63 incidents in Q1 2024
James Hunt / The Block :
Sources: the Chinese startup behind Manus is in talks with US VC firms and others to raise funding at a $500M+ valuation, up ~5x from its previous valuation
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Q&A with Snowflake CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy on working at Bell Labs and Google, building Neeva, Snowflake's business model and its approach to AI, and more
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Cleo AI agrees to pay $17M to settle US FTC charges that the cash advance startup deceived customers about how much money they could obtain and how quickly
Jonathan Stempel / Reuters :
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