Author: Paul
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The BBC complains to the UK CMA that Apple and Google’s news aggregators weaken its relationship with the public by downplaying the BBC branding (Charles Martin/AppleInsider)
Charles Martin / AppleInsider: The BBC complains to the UK CMA that Apple and Google’s news aggregators weaken its relationship with the public by downplaying the BBC branding — The British Broadcasting Corporation has complained to a UK antitrust authority that Apple and Google’s news services, such as Apple News …
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Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will share news about a Llama 4 Reasoning model “in the next month” (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)
Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: Mark Zuckerberg says Meta will share news about a Llama 4 Reasoning model “in the next month” — Meta AI for WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram now has Llama 4. — Meta has released the first two models from its multimodal Llama 4 suite: LLama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick.
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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)
Tom Warren / The Verge: 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 — Microsoft’s Muse AI model is now available as an AI-generated Quake II tech demo. … Microsoft unveiled its Xbox AI era earlier…
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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)
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: 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 — Meta has released a new collection of AI models, Llama 4, in its Llama family — on a Saturday, no less.
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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)
Makena Kelly / Wired: 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 — DOGE operatives have repeatedly referred to the software company Palantir as a possible partner in creating a “mega API” at the IRS, sources…
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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)
Joseph Bambridge / Politico: 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” — The U.K. government’s AI copyright plans can’t seem to please anyone. — LONDON — Leading AI companies OpenAI …
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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)
Meta: Meta launches Llama 4 models: Behemoth with 2T total parameters, Maverick with 400B parameters, and Scout with 109B parameters and a 10M context window — Takeaways — We’re sharing the first models in the Llama 4 herd, which will enable people to build more personalized multimodal experiences.
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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)
Harry Alston / TheGamer: 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 — I keep my eyes on new game releases because I have to: it’s a part of my job. For those who are a bit…
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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)
Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: 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 — Meta will no longer have any fact-checkers in the U.S. come Monday, according to chief global affairs officer Joel Kaplan.
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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)
404 Media: 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 — Effective accelerationists didn’t just accidentally shoot themselves in the foot.
