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OpenAI is integrating Sora's image generation capabilities directly into ChatGPT across all tiers including free, initially just for images, not videos (Kylie Robison/The Verge)

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The Arc Prize Foundation says its new ARC-AGI-2 test stumps most AI models; humans get 60% of the questions right but GPT-4.5 and Claude 3.7 Sonnet score ~1% (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

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Meta rolls out a pilot program on Instagram designed to let US schools flag any potentially rule-violating post or account for prioritized review (Emma Roth/The Verge)

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Apple announces WWDC 2025 for June 9-13, which will be an "entirely online" event free for developers, with an in-person special event at Apple Park on June 9 (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

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Google debuts Gemini 2.5, first with 2.5 Pro Experimental, a "thinking" model that Google says leads on some benchmarks; available now for Gemini Advanced users (Abner Li/9to5Google)

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Google releases TxGemma, a collection of open models built on Gemma that are designed to improve the efficiency of therapeutic drug development (Shekoofeh Azizi/Google Developers Blog)

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Quora's Poe launches a cheaper $5/month premium tier, alongside a new $250/month plan that it says is better for more "expensive" models like GPT-4.5 and o1-pro (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

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As TikTok faces a US ban on April 5, the ByteDance-owned app has a new ad campaign framing TikTok as a savior of Americans and a champion of small businesses (Sapna Maheshwari/New York Times)

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Trump's World Liberty Financial unveils USD1, a 1:1 USD-pegged stablecoin on Ethereum and Binance Smart Chain, with BitGo as custodian; its launch date is TBA (Bloomberg)

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India's Finance Minister says the country will scrap a 6% tax on digital advertisements, easing costs for US tech giants, as a way of soothing US trade concerns (Reuters)

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Since DeepSeek-R1's debut, Chinese companies like Baidu, DeepSeek, Tencent, Ant, and Alibaba have been flooding the market with low cost AI services and models (Bloomberg)

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Apple Music is opening its catalog to DJs by integrating with popular DJ software and hardware platforms including Algoriddim's djay Pro and AlphaTheta (Michael Burkhardt/9to5Mac)

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AI startup Synthesia says it's creating a $1M stock pool to pay actors with equity for the use of their likeness, a first for the AI industry (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)

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3D tech company Infinite Reality acquires Napster for $207M; Infinite's CEO says that the file-sharing phenomenon will be used for marketing in the metaverse (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

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Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras' IPO, in limbo for months, has been delayed while Trump fills key roles and CFIUS reviews Abu Dhabi-based G42's $335M investment (Reuters)

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TechInsights: the costs of 300mm wafers at TSMC's Fab 21 near Phoenix, Arizona, are set to be only ~10% higher than those of similar wafers processed in Taiwan (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)

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Sources: the European Commission is set to close its year-long probe into browser options on iOS without a fine after Apple made changes to comply with the DMA (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

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Waymo plans to launch its Waymo One ride-hailing service in Washington, DC in 2026; the city currently prohibits autonomous vehicles without safety drivers (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

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Sources: companies like Nvidia and many governments are trying to persuade Trump to loosen AI chip export curbs set for May, known as the "AI diffusion rule" (Bloomberg)

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Document: India orders Samsung and its executives in the country to pay $601M in back taxes and penalties for dodging tariffs on key telecoms equipment imports (Reuters)

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