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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirms the elimination of R/FIMI, an office aimed at tracking and countering foreign disinformation campaigns (Eileen Guo/MIT Technology Review)
2025-04-16 21:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sensor Tower: Temu and Shein cut their ad spending on platforms including Meta and X an average of 31% and 19%, respectively, so far in April, compared to March (Financial Times)
2025-04-16 20:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Intel told its Chinese clients last week that sales of some AI chips would require a license; Nvidia was blindsided by Trump's curbs on its H20 chips (Financial Times)
2025-04-16 19:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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 (Fatima Hussein/Associated Press)
2025-04-16 19:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI o3 review: it's "deep research-lite", giving thorough answers quickly, free from some old ChatGPT limitations, and powerful thanks to ChatGPT integration (Dan Shipper/Every)
2025-04-16 19:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: OpenAI is in talks to acquire Windsurf, an AI-assisted coding tool formerly known as Codeium, for about $3B (Bloomberg)
2025-04-16 18:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI says o3 and o4-mini are its first reasoning models that can use all ChatGPT tools, including web browsing, Python, and image generation (Hayden Field/CNBC)
2025-04-16 18:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI says o3 and o4-mini represent a significant breakthrough in visual perception by reasoning with images in their chain of thought (OpenAI)
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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 (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
2025-04-16 17:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI launches o3, its most advanced reasoning model, and o4-mini, a lower cost alternative that still delivers "impressive results", for ChatGPT paid users (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
2025-04-16 17:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Apple says it has reduced its global greenhouse gas emissions by over 60% vs. 2015 levels as part of its commitment to reach full carbon neutrality by 2030 (Hartley Charlton/MacRumors)
2025-04-16 17:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Deezer says ~18% of songs uploaded to the service are AI-generated; 20K AI-generated songs are uploaded daily, nearly twice the number reported four months ago (Reuters)
2025-04-16 17:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Q&A with Phil Spencer on A Minecraft Movie, potential IP for future movies, Microsoft's Hollywood goals, Fallout Season 2 and the Minecraft TV series, and more (Jennifer Maas/Variety)
2025-04-16 16:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
UBS: Nvidia's $5.5B inventory charge indicates ~$13B in actual H20 sales; Nvidia reported $17.11B in FY 2025 revenue from China, up from $10.31B in FY 2024 (Dan Gallagher/Wall Street Journal)
2025-04-16 15:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Mark Zuckerberg says TikTok has been "probably the highest competitive threat for Instagram and Facebook over the last few years", in his third day of testimony (New York Times)
2025-04-16 16:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Spotify is down in the US, Europe, and more; users reported issues from 8:00AM ET, and Spotify says it is "aware of the outage" and it is not "a security hack" (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
2025-04-16 15:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Documents: ICE awarded Palantir nearly $30M in April 2025 to enhance its Investigative Case Management system, after a $90M, five-year deal in September 2022 (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
2025-04-16 15:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
CISA says it will extend funding to Mitre, which runs the CVE Program, and "there will be no lapse in critical CVE services", after Mitre said funding expired (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
2025-04-16 14:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
TikTok begins testing Footnotes, a Community Notes-like feature to add "more context" to videos, in the US; Footnotes won't affect algorithmic ranking (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
2025-04-16 14:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Microsoft adds a "computer use" tool in Copilot Studio to let AI agents use websites and desktop apps; the feature is designed to detect UI changes dynamically (Tom Warren/The Verge)
2025-04-16 15:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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