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Sources: the US DOD's Defense Digital Service is effectively shutting down as nearly all staff are resigning, saying they were sidelined by DOGE's efforts (Mohar Chatterjee/Politico)
2025-04-15 21:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
In the first update to its Preparedness Framework since 2023, OpenAI says it "may adjust" its own safeguards if rival frontier labs release "high-risk" AI (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
2025-04-15 21:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A 2018 email from Mark Zuckerberg explored spinning off Instagram; he testified his thinking at the time took into account where politics seemed to be going (Bloomberg)
2025-04-15 20:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A look at the FCC's "Delete, Delete, Delete" initiative, meant to identify burdensome rules, as ISPs, broadcasters, and others send in deregulation wishlists (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
2025-04-15 20:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The valuation of Kavak, a Mexico City-based online used car dealer and LATAM's most valuable startup, was cut by $6.5B to $2.2B in a $127M equity round in March (Michael O'Boyle/Bloomberg)
2025-04-15 20:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
China Outs US Hackers for Attack, a New Frontier in Spy Games (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)
2025-04-15 18:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Anthropic's Claude adds Research, capable of searching the web and internal documents to give comprehensive answers, in beta for Max, Team, Enterprise plans (Ben Sherry/Inc)
2025-04-15 19:14 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Whistleblower: at NLRB, DOGE staff disabled monitoring tools, deleted logs, one worked on "NxGenBdoorExtract"; one DOGE account tried to log in via a Russian IP (Jenna McLaughlin/NPR)
2025-04-15 18:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: Anthropic could launch a "voice mode" feature for Claude as soon as this month, which will initially roll out on a limited basis (Bloomberg)
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Mark Zuckerberg's $1B Instagram and $19B WhatsApp deals, central to the FTC's antitrust case, were mocked at the time, and the trial hinges on hypotheticals (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
2025-04-15 17:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Anthropic says Claude now integrates with Google Workspace for access to Gmail, Calendar, and Google Docs, coming first to Max, Team, Enterprise, and Pro plans (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
2025-04-15 18:13 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google rolls out its text-to-video AI model Veo 2 to Gemini Advanced subscribers and makes its Whisk Animate tool available for Google One AI Premium users (Emma Roth/The Verge)
2025-04-15 17:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Temu shut off Google Shopping ads in the US on April 9; its App Store app ranking then plummeted from around third or fourth place to 58th in three days (Anu Adegbola/Search Engine Land)
2025-04-15 16:11 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: OpenAI is in the early stages of building its own X-like social network, focused on ChatGPT image generation, and is asking some outsiders for feedback (The Verge)
2025-04-15 16:11 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
FTC v. Meta: Mark Zuckerberg testified about his acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, including a 2012 email exchange rationalizing the apps' acquisition (Bloomberg)
2025-04-15 17:12 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
4chan is down after an apparent hack late on April 14; an Imgur post seems to show a hacker gained shell access to 4chan's hosting server and doxxed some users (Igor Bonifacic/Engadget)
2025-04-15 16:11 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Cohere debuts Embed 4, its search engine for enterprise AI assistants, now with a 128K context length, better multimodal abilities for complex documents, more (Emilia David/VentureBeat)
2025-04-15 16:11 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Notion releases Notion Mail, a lightweight Gmail client to help users schedule meetings and organize and draft emails, available as a free macOS and web app (David Pierce/The Verge)
2025-04-15 16:11 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: activist investor Elliott has built a position worth $1.5B+ in HPE, making it one of the company's top five shareholders; HPE is down ~30% in 2025 (Bloomberg)
2025-04-15 14:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
AI safety and security startup Virtue AI raised $30M in seed and Series A funding and says its customers include several frontier labs, Uber, and Glean (Sam Sabin/Axios)
2025-04-15 15:11 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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