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Microsoft unveils a replica of Quake II generated using its Muse AI model and playable in a browser, as part of the company's Copilot in Gaming push (Tom Warren/The Verge)
2025-04-05 23:11 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: DOGE is hosting a "hackathon" in Washington DC next week to build a "mega API" for accessing all IRS data, with Palantir as a possible partner (Makena Kelly/Wired)
2025-04-05 21:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta updates Meta AI in WhatsApp, Messenger, Instagram Direct, and the Meta.AI website with Llama 4 in 40 countries; multimodal features are US-only in English (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
2025-04-05 21:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Meta launches Llama 4 models: Behemoth with 2T total parameters, Maverick with 400B parameters, and Scout with 109B parameters and a 10M context window (Meta)
2025-04-05 19:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI and Google reject the UK's proposal to allow training AI on copyrighted work without permission unless rights holders opt out to "reserve their rights" (Joseph Bambridge/Politico)
2025-04-05 19:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Schedule 1, a drug-dealing simulator made by a single developer, tops Steam charts with an estimated 2M+ copies sold after going viral on streams and TikTok (Harry Alston/TheGamer)
2025-04-05 18:10 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Joel Kaplan says Meta's US fact-checking program will be over by Monday, and Community Notes will start appearing on Facebook, Threads, and Instagram (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
2025-04-05 17:09 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
In backing Trump, effective accelerationists like Musk and Andreessen got a "Decel-in-Chief", who instigated a brain drain and tariffs that hurt tech companies (404 Media)
2025-04-05 16:08 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Miami-based Felix Pago, which uses stablecoins for cross-border remittances and handled $1B+ of transfers via WhatsApp in 2024, raised $75M Series B led by QED (Bloomberg)
2025-04-05 14:07 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Leaked docs show Outlier and Scale AI use freelancers to write prompts about suicide, abuse, and terrorism to stress-test AI, urging creativity but banning CSAM (Effie Webb/Business Insider)
2025-04-05 12:07 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Crunchbase: global VC funding reached $113B in Q1 2025, up 54% YoY, buoyed by OpenAI's $40B deal; PitchBook says 77% of US deal value in Q1 2025 went to AI (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
2025-04-05 06:05 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Analysis: tech companies have pledged at least $1.4T in US spending since Trump was elected, although many of the plans aren't new and not all will be fulfilled (Bloomberg)
2025-04-05 07:06 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signs a law criminalizing the "deceptive and dangerous" creation and sharing of deepfakes, including fake AI nudes of minors (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
2025-04-05 06:05 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google announces Sec-Gemini v1, an experimental AI model for cybersecurity, claiming it outperforms others on the leading CTI-MCQ threat intelligence benchmark (Google Online Security Blog)
2025-04-05 06:05 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Utah-based SchoolAI, an AI-powered teaching and learning platform used in 1M+ classrooms across 80+ countries, raised a $25M Series A led by Insight Partners (FinSMEs)
2025-04-05 05:05 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
A US federal judge decides Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI will go to a jury trial in spring 2026; Musk and OpenAI agreed to fast-track the trial last month (Anna Tong/Reuters)
2025-04-05 05:05 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
SensorTower: users in India have spent $8M on ChatGPT subscriptions through IAP since 2023, not including web app purchases, versus ~$330M spent by US users (TechCrunch)
2025-04-05 04:04 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: enterprise AI search startup Glean is in talks to raise hundreds of millions, including money to buy employee shares, at an estimated ~$7B valuation (Sri Muppidi/The Information)
2025-04-05 02:03 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Turbine, which allows LPs to borrow funds secured by their position in venture funds, emerges from stealth with a $13M Series A and an $8.75M seed (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
2025-04-05 01:03 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff rejoins Amazon as a VP of product overseeing Ring and related businesses, replacing Elizabeth Hamren, who succeeded him in 2023 (Taylor Soper/GeekWire)
2025-04-05 00:03 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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