FTC v. Meta: in opening arguments, FTC lawyers accuse Meta of a “buy-or-bury strategy” to cement a social networking monopoly by buying Instagram and WhatsApp
The tech giant went to court on Monday in an antitrust trial focused on its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp.
Sony hikes PlayStation 5 prices in Europe, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, citing a “challenging economic environment”; the PS5 Pro remains the same price
Sony hiked the price of its flagship PlayStation 5 console in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, citing a “challenging economic environment” behind its move.
Legal expert: Meta's FTC antitrust trial, where Mark Zuckerberg could take the stand as early as today, is set to be more grueling than Congressional hearings
Meta's chief has grown accustomed to tough questioning in courts and hearings, but an antitrust trial starting Monday could be more grueling, experts said.
Sources: Apple asked suppliers in India, Vietnam, and Thailand to ramp up production earlier in 2025; Indian factory utilization rates are already at the limit
TAIPEI — Apple is ramping up production of key products in India and Vietnam to take advantage of a 90-day grace period on U.S. tariffs …
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says consumer electronics exempt from tariffs may be included in semiconductor tariffs likely coming in “a month or two”
www.ft.com/content/9038... @drdoofenschmirtz : Only 45 more months of this uncertainty, assuming we have elections in 2026 &. 2028. — Good job Wall Street!!! You got your guy Glenn Wright / @godle...
Samsung pauses its global One UI 7 rollout, citing a “serious bug”, after starting on April 7, seven months after Android 15's launch; Samsung hasn't commented
The update is on hold after some South Korean users suffered from a ‘serious bug.’
China suspends exports of a wide range of rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for making semiconductors, robots, drones, cars, and other products
Trump thought they were playing chess but Xi was actually playing Uno. Reverse. Costa Samaras / @costasamaras.com : Last week, @stevenjdavis.bsky.social, @kencaldeira.com, colleagues published a big ...
Google details DolphinGemma, a new 400M-parameter LLM to decode dolphin communication by analyzing the vocalizations of wild Atlantic spotted dolphins
DolphinGemma, a large language model developed by Google, is helping scientists study how dolphins communicate — and hopefully find out what they're saying, too.
Nvidia starts making its Blackwell chips at TSMC's Phoenix plant and says it aims to make up to $500B of AI infrastructure in the US in the next four years
Nvidia said on Monday that it has commissioned more than a million square feet of manufacturing space to build and test AI chips …
Intel says it will sell a 51% stake in Altera to Silver Lake, valuing the programmable chip unit at $8.7B; Intel bought Altera for $15B in 2015
Intel said on Monday it would sell a 51% stake in Altera to private equity firm Silver Lake, valuing the programmable chip unit at $8.75 billion.
President Trump told reporters he would announce the tariff rate on imported semiconductors over the next week, giving some flexibility to certain companies
Source: FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson, Assistant AG Gail Slater, and activist Mike Davis met Trump on April 8 to combat Meta's lobbying over the FTC antitrust case
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Global smartphone sales grew 3% YoY in Q1 2025; Apple took the top spot, its first ever for Q1, with a 19% share, and Vivo was the fastest growing brand
- The global smartphone market continued its growth trajectory in Q1 2025. Smartphone sell-through grew 3% YoY during the quarter …
Hugging Face acquires French startup Pollen Robotics, which makes the bug-eyed, two-armed, humanoid robot called Reachy 2, and plans to sell the robot
Hugging Face has acquired the open source robot startup Pollen Robotics to help “democratize” robotics.
How private prison company Geo Group built a lucrative side business making digital tools like smart watches and tracking apps to help ICE surveil immigrants
After a Honduran immigrant arrived in the United States in 2022, officials ordered him to use a government-issued app as part of an immigration surveillance program. Bluesky: @hypervisible , @marypcbu...
Meta says it plans to train its AI models on public content, like posts and comments, and interactions that users have with its AI in the EU starting this week
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Sources: the European Commission is issuing burner phones and laptops to some US-bound staff to mitigate espionage risks, a move typically reserved for China
It's amazing that in just a few short months, the US is on par with China for many countries' espionage concerns. … Mark Copelovitch / @mcopelov : Today in life under competitive authoritarianism Nath...
A look at “slopsquatting”, a supply chain attack where threat actors make malicious packages on indexes using AI-hallucinated names resembling popular libraries
Good morning. Arguments start today … arXiv : We Have a Package for You! A Comprehensive Analysis of Package Hallucinations by Code Generating LLMs arXiv.org e-Print archive : We Have a Package for Y...
Q&A with Robinhood co-founder Vlad Tenev on becoming sole CEO, prediction markets, regulatory compliance, sports betting, the American dream, media, and more
Today, I'm talking with Vlad Tenev, the cofounder and CEO of Robinhood, which is one of the most well-known consumer finance apps in the world. Bluesky: @reckless Bluesky: Nilay Patel / @reckless : On...
NATO says it will start using Palantir's Maven Smart System, which uses AI to provide “commanders with a secure, common operational capability”
w @tim.fo @financialtimes.com — www.ft.com/content/7f80... Ken Tindell / @kentindell : Can I suggest that this isn't the wisest thing to do when the US is a hostile nation and one of its most danger...
Autonomous trucking startup Kodiak Robotics says it plans to go public in the US via blank-check company Ares Acquisition Corp II, valuing Kodiak at $2.5B
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Topgolf and Puttshack founders' Poolhouse raised a $34M seed to build a “tech-enabled” version of pool, including via video projections and tracking players
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A recently published support page says OpenAI may soon require organizations to complete an ID verification process to access new advanced AI models
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
A French law requiring adult websites to run age checks and block under-18 users became applicable to sites based in France and outside of the EU on April 11
Dealroom: UK-based startups raised £16.2B in 2024, the lowest amount since 2020, as several consider moving their headquarters to the US in search of capital
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African Private Capital Association: VC inflows to Africa fell 22% YoY to $3.6B in 2024, after a 31% YoY drop in 2023; fintechs had 116 deals raising $1.4B
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A look at the limits of large context LLMs, as their increased latency, higher costs, and reduced usability result in diminishing returns for enterprises
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