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FTC v. Meta: the US argued Meta has a monopoly in the "personal social networking" market, which it claims includes only Instagram, WhatsApp, Snapchat, and MeWe (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)
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Apple plans to begin on-device, privacy-centric analysis of user data, comparing it to synthetic data, to improve AI, in beta versions of iOS 18.5, macOS 15.5 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
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Online trading platform Webull closed up 374.72% on its second day of trading following its SPAC merger, giving it a market cap of almost $30B (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
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OpenAI releases GPT‑4.1, GPT‑4.1 mini, and GPT‑4.1 nano, which excel at coding, instruction following, and long context understanding, available via its API (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
2025-04-14 18:05 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: OpenAI's upcoming o3 and o4-mini reasoning models may excel at suggesting new types of science experiments, from nuclear fusion to pathogen detection (The Information)
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Crypto exchange Kraken begins rolling out commission-free trading for over 11,000 US-listed stocks and ETFs, initially in nine US states and DC (Naga Avan-Nomayo/The Block)
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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 (Andy Bounds/Financial Times)
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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 (Ben Smith/Semafor)
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Q&A with Robinhood co-founder Vlad Tenev on becoming sole CEO, prediction markets, regulatory compliance, sports betting, the American dream, media, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
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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 (Deborah Sophia/Reuters)
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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 (Associated Press)
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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 (New York Times)
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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 (Will Knight/Wired)
2025-04-14 14:04 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google details DolphinGemma, a new 400M-parameter LLM to decode dolphin communication by analyzing the vocalizations of wild Atlantic spotted dolphins (The Keyword)
2025-04-14 14:04 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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 (Meta)
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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 (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
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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 (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
2025-04-14 13:04 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
NATO acquires Palantir's Maven Smart System, which uses generative AI, ML, and LLMs to provide "commanders with a secure, common operational capability" (Financial Times)
2025-04-14 13:04 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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 (Ruth Olurounbi/Bloomberg)
2025-04-14 12:03 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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 (New York Times)
2025-04-14 11:03 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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