A US judge says Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in some online advertising tech, the second time in a year a court found Google acted illegally
The ruling was the second time in a year that a federal court had found that Google had acted illegally to maintain its dominance.
OpenAI launches o3, its most advanced reasoning model, and o4-mini, a lower cost alternative that still delivers “impressive results”, for ChatGPT paid users
ChatGPT Plus users can begin using both new models starting today. — A mere two days after announcing GPT-4.1, OpenAI is releasing not one but two new models.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang arrived in China on April 16 and visited Beijing on April 17, a source says to meet officials to discuss Trump's new chip export rules
Meetings with Chinese vice-premier and DeepSeek founder come after US clamps down on chipmaker's sales to China
TSMC reports Q1 net income up 60.3% YoY to $11.1B, beating estimates, as customers stockpiled chips anticipating global trade disruptions spurred by US tariffs
Net revenue: +41.6% to 839.3B —Gross profit: +56.9% to 493.4B —Operating income: +63.5% to 407.1B —Net income: +60.3% to 361.6B Margins: —Gross: 58.8% [1Q24: 53.1%] —Operating: 48.5% [1Q24: 42.0%] —Ne...
In her ruling, Judge Brinkema says Google did not meet the monopoly definition for tools used to buy display ads, but did for ad exchanges and website ad tools
Google was found by a federal judge to have illegally monopolized some online advertising technology markets in a blow to a key part of the company's business.
FTC v. Meta: Mark Zuckerberg says he considers TikTok the “highest competitive threat” for Facebook and Instagram in the past few years
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg emphasized Wednesday that his social media company faces stiff competition from TikTok, as Meta seeks to fend off accusations …
The Wikimedia Foundation partners with Kaggle to release a dataset of “structured Wikipedia content in English and French” optimized for AI model training
Data science platform Kaggle is hosting a Wikipedia dataset that's specifically optimized for machine learning applications.
Former CISA Director Chris Krebs says he is resigning from SentinelOne to more freely challenge the White House, after Trump directed the DOJ to investigate him
Chris Krebs, the top cybersecurity official in Trump's first term, resigned from his private-sector job
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirms the elimination of R/FIMI, an office aimed at tracking and countering foreign disinformation campaigns
The only office within the US State Department that monitors foreign disinformation is to be eliminated, according to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio …
The DOJ and 17 US states that brought the antitrust case seek to force Google to sell off its “network” ad business, which is ~12% of Alphabet's total revenue
Google's dominance of the online advertising and ad-tech markets violates U.S. antitrust laws, a federal court ruled Thursday …
The US House opens a probe into whether Nvidia knowingly provided AI tech to DeepSeek in violation of US rules and asks Nvidia for details on its Asian clients
Demand Answers from Nvidia Over Chip Use Kif Leswing / CNBC : Nvidia says it follows export laws ‘to the letter’ a day after AI chip sales to China stopped Annika Masrani / TipRanks Financial : DeepSe...
OpenAI debuts Codex CLI, an open-source coding agent tool for terminals that links AI models with local code and computing tasks, like moving files
OpenAI Codex CLI Lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal npm i -g @openai/codex OpenAI on YouTube : OpenAI Codex CLI Bluesky: Tim Kellogg / @timkellogg.me : hands down, the biggest news is...
Google is making Gemini Live camera and screen sharing features free for all Android users in the coming weeks after launching them for Advanced users last week
Last week, Google started widely rolling out Gemini Live camera and screen sharing to Advanced subscribers …
Sources: Perplexity is in discussions to integrate its AI assistant on Samsung's devices and has reached an agreement to preload Perplexity on Motorola's phones
Perplexity AI Inc., an artificial intelligence startup vying with Google and OpenAI, is ramping up efforts to get prime placement for its virtual assistant on smartphones.
Sources: Intel told its Chinese clients last week that some AI chip sales would require a license; Nvidia was blindsided by Trump's curbs on its H20 chips
Investors Ask: Buy or Bail? Yahoo Finance : Why this analyst is ‘confident’ in US-China trade deal for Nvidia TrendForce News : [News] Intel Reportedly Faces New U.S. AI Chip Crackdown on China for Hi...
Google says “we won half of this case and we will appeal the other half” of the US antitrust ruling, and “we disagree” with the decision on its publisher tools
@newsfromgoogle : X: @okayy_dan and @rustybrick X: Daniel Hart / @okayy_dan : “We only got away with half the crimes” :) Barry Schwartz / @rustybrick : Google says they won half the case :) https://w...
The FTC challenges ex-Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg over past emails; she called Google+ a “real” competitor in 2011 and discussed blocking its Facebook ads in 2012
Mark Zuckerberg Says TikTok Bigger Than Facebook, Instagram Combined X: Brendan Benedict / @bbenedict33 : The FTC's questioning attorney *appears to be* chief trial counsel Susan Musser, who recently ...
xAI announces a memory feature for Grok in beta that enables the AI chatbot to remember details from past conversations and give more personalized responses
Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, is slowly bringing its Grok chatbot to parity with top rivals like ChatGPT and Google's Gemini.
Sources: Nvidia has privately pushed back against new US export rules, arguing China can already make some H20-level chips; Nvidia sold ~$12B of H20s in FY 2024
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Sources: the Trump administration plans to eliminate the IRS' free Direct File tax program, after IRS staff were told in mid-March to stop working on it
apnews.com/article/irs-... Representative Seth Magaziner / @magaziner.house.gov : So instead of using technology to make government more efficient, DOGE is canceling technology to make big corporation...
US community colleges are battling a flood of fake, or bot, students who bilk financial aid by enrolling in online classes and submitting AI-generated work
Community colleges have been dealing with an unprecedented phenomenon: fake students bent on stealing financial aid funds. Bluesky: @socialmedialab.ca , @thealexknapp , @voiceofsandiego.org , @damon.k...
Global Payments acquires the 45% stake in Worldpay that Fidelity still owned and buys the 55% held by PE firm GTCR, in a deal valuing Worldpay at $24.3B
A trio of deals valuing Worldpay at $24.3 billion created a new behemoth in payment processing and cracked open a merger market that's …
Leaked email: the US CFPB plans a 50% reduction in supervisory activities and a shift in focus from fintech companies back to traditional banks
America's top consumer financial watchdog has spelled out its priorities under the Donald Trump era, including a dramatic cut to supervision …
China bans automakers from using “smart driving” or “autonomous driving” in ads for driver-assist tech and tightens scrutiny after a fatal Xiaomi EV crash
China is banning automakers from using the terms “smart driving” and “autonomous driving” …
Indian EV ride-hailing startup BluSmart appears to have suspended service a day after regulators launched a probe into Gensol, which shares its co-founders
clean energy experts Vidhi Taparia / Fortune India : BluSmart halts services amid Gensol crisis; Sebi action, funds crunch casts shadow on EV ride-hailing startup Prashant Tamta / DNA India : BluSmart...
Sources: OpenAI and SoftBank are considering investing in the UK for Stargate as part of an international expansion, if the project proves successful in the US
US $500bn data centre venture looks overseas to build out global infrastructure capacity — Stargate, the $500bn US data …
Source: OpenAI is in talks to acquire Windsurf, an AI coding tool formerly known as Codeium, for ~$3B; Windsurf was valued at $1.25B in a 2024 funding deal
they are the black hole of Startups People still don't get it Evil institution Deedy / @deedydas : @EMostaque Perhaps the time (say even 6mos) it takes to build and grow a Windsurf like product and GT...
Polish parcel locker operator InPost acquires UK delivery service Yodel, boosting its UK market share from 2% to ~8% and delivering 300M+ UK parcels annually
Konrad Krasuski / Bloomberg :
TSMC CEO C. C. Wei says “TSMC is not engaged in any discussion with other companies regarding any joint venture”, after a recent report of a tie-up with Intel
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Discord requires some UK and Australian users to verify their age by scanning their face or ID to access sensitive material; Discord says it's “an experiment”
VGC: Some Discord users now need to scan their face or ID to view sensitive material https://www.videogameschronicle.com/ ... #Discord #cybersecurity #infosec Forums: r/pcgaming : Some Discord users n...
Instagram launches Blend, an invite-only, personalized Reels feed for users and their friends in a group chat with new content everyday
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch :
Auradine, which manufactures Bitcoin miners and offers AI infrastructure, raised a $153M Series C, with $138M in equity and $15M in debt, led by StepStone Group
Yogita Khatri / The Block :
Study: in South Korea, active YouTube users spent 210 minutes per day on the service in Q4, while Netflix subscribers spent 96 minutes per day on the streamer
Max Goldbart / Deadline :
Santiago, Chile-based Toku, which helps businesses accept consumer payments, send payment reminders, and more, raised a $39M Series A led by Oak HC/FT
Jeff Kauflin / Forbes :
A US judge grants a permanent injunction against an Ohio law that required platforms to verify users are at least 16 and seek parental consent for younger users
Bloomberg Law :
The US FDA cleared Neuralink rival Precision Neuroscience in late March 2025 to offer a less invasive brain implant; the device contains 1,024 metal electrodes
Ike Swetlitz / Bloomberg :
In Q1 2025, AI and ML startups raised $73.1B, accounting for 57.9% of global VC funding, with OpenAI's recent round led by SoftBank contributing $40B
Jacob Robbins / PitchBook :
Konvoy: the gaming industry saw 43 M&A transactions and 77 VC deals in Q1 2025, and the sector is projected to be worth $186B in 2026, a 4.7% YoY jump
Rachel Kaser / VentureBeat :
Smashing, an AI-powered news and social media posts aggregation app by Goodreads co-founder Otis Chandler, shuts down, citing its inability to grow quickly
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Docusign unveils AI contract agents, which can analyze agreements and surface issues that usually require human intervention, available by the end of 2025
Larry Dignan / Constellation Research :
Workers and researchers say data annotation jobs that many Venezuelans relied on have become scarce and poorly paid with the rise of generative AI
Laura Rodríguez Salamanca / Rest of World : Forums: Beehaw Forums: Alyaza To / Beehaw : Venezuelan migrants relied on clickwork to survive. Now AI is replacing them
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