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Sources: Intel told its Chinese clients last week that sales of some AI chips would require a license; Nvidia was blindsided by Trump's curbs on its H20 chips (t.co)
2025-4-17 Trump China Intel AI Nvidia

Source: OpenAI is in talks to acquire Windsurf, an AI coding tool formerly known as Codeium, for ~$3B; Windsurf was valued at $1.25B in a 2024 funding deal (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-4-17 AI

OpenAI o3 review: it's “deep research-lite”, giving thorough answers quickly, free from some old ChatGPT limitations, and powerful thanks to ChatGPT integration (every.to)
2025-4-17

Eliminate PDFs frustrations with this PDF software deal (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-4-17

Apple fixes two zero-days exploited in targeted iPhone attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-4-17 iPhone Apple

OpenAI says o3 and o4-mini are its first reasoning models that can use all ChatGPT tools, including web browsing, Python, and image generation (www.cnbc.com)
2025-4-17

OpenAI debuts Codex CLI, an open-source coding agent tool for terminals that links AI models with local code and computing tasks, like moving files (techcrunch.com)
2025-4-17 AI

OpenAI launches o3, its most advanced reasoning model, and o4-mini, a lower cost alternative that still delivers “impressive results”, for ChatGPT paid users (www.engadget.com)
2025-4-17

OpenAI says o3 and o4-mini represent a significant breakthrough in visual perception by reasoning with images in their chain of thought (openai.com)
2025-4-17

More people see Russia as guardian of true values – Lavrov (www.rt.com)
2025-4-17 Russia

AI-generated Music Accounts For 18% of All Tracks Uploaded To Deezer (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2025-4-17 AI

Google To Phase Out Country Code Top-level Domains (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-4-17 Google

Apple says it has reduced its global greenhouse gas emissions by over 60% vs. 2015 levels as part of its commitment to reach full carbon neutrality by 2030 (www.macrumors.com)
2025-4-17 Apple

Deezer says ~18% of songs uploaded to the service are AI-generated; 20K AI-generated songs are uploaded daily, nearly twice the number reported four months ago (www.reuters.com)
2025-4-17 AI

Slate: Economics on a Whim… (ritholtz.com)
2025-4-17

Trump ally Mel Gibson calls for ‘truth' about 9/11 (www.rt.com)
2025-4-17 Trump

Q&A with Phil Spencer on A Minecraft Movie, potential IP for future movies, Microsoft's Hollywood goals, Fallout Season 2 and the Minecraft TV series, and more (variety.com)
2025-4-17 Microsoft

Mark Zuckerberg says TikTok has been “probably the highest competitive threat for Instagram and Facebook over the last few years”, in his third day of testimony (www.nytimes.com)
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Companies Are Slashing Their SaaS Spends, UBS Says (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-4-17 SaaS

Spotify is down in the US, Europe, and more; users reported issues from 8:00AM ET, and Spotify says it is “aware of the outage” and it is not “a security hack” (www.theverge.com)
2025-4-17 Europe Spotify

UBS: Nvidia's $5.5B inventory charge indicates ~$13B in actual H20 sales; Nvidia reported $17.11B in FY 2025 revenue from China, up from $10.31B in FY 2024 (www.wsj.com)
2025-4-17 China Nvidia

Putin wants permanent peace in Ukraine – Trump envoy (www.rt.com)
2025-4-17 Trump Putin Ukraine

US blocks G7 condemnation of Russia over Ukraine strike – Bloomberg (www.rt.com)
2025-4-17 Russia Ukraine

Jira Down: Atlassian users experiencing degraded performance (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-4-17 Atlassian

CMF Phone 2 Pro coming on April 28: Here's what we know so far (indianexpress.com)
2025-4-17

Google begins unifying search country domains to Google.com (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-4-17 Google

Documents: ICE awarded Palantir nearly $30M in April 2025 to enhance its Investigative Case Management system, after a $90M, five-year deal in September 2022 (www.404media.co)
2025-4-17

Microsoft adds a “computer use” tool in Copilot Studio to let AI agents use websites and desktop apps; the feature is designed to detect UI changes dynamically (www.theverge.com)
2025-4-17 Microsoft AI

41% of Attacks Bypass Defenses: Adversarial Exposure Validation Fixes That (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-4-17

TikTok begins testing Footnotes, a Community Notes-like feature to add “more context” to videos, in the US; Footnotes won't affect algorithmic ranking (www.engadget.com)
2025-4-17

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