Meta and Apple were about to go to the woodshed in Europe, but it looks like Trump’s tariffs have run interference for them. Everyone wants in on stablecoins, example number 23. Beware of phishing emails from Google.com. And are OpenAI’s latest models good, bad, or just “jagged”?

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Links:

• EU Delayed Punishing Apple, Meta Just Before Trade Talks Started (WSJ)
• Crypto Knocks on the Door of a Banking World That Shut It Out (WSJ)
• Phishers abuse Google OAuth to spoof Google in DKIM replay attack (Bleeping Computer)
• Coinbase in hot water over $12 million ‘content coin’—but exec tells haters to lean in (Fortune Crypto)
• OpenAI’s new reasoning AI models hallucinate more (TechCrunch)
• On Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after (Ethan Mollick)

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Google is ruled an illegal monopoly. Again. But for a different reason this time. Switch 2 pre-orders are back on. Americans are flocking to Temu and Shein alternatives. And in the Weekend Longreads Suggestions, what if I told you 25 percent of community college applicants are now AI bots? And not only that, the bots are now “attending classes” in quotes.

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Links:

• Google Broke the Law to Keep Its Advertising Monopoly, a Judge Rules (NYTimes)
• Google loses online advertising monopoly case (Axios)
• Google Found GUILTY of Monopolization Again (The Big Newsletter)
• Nintendo Switch 2 preorders start April 24th and the price is still $449.99 (The Verge)
• The latest viral ChatGPT trend is doing ‘reverse location search’ from photos (TechCrunch)
• Chinese shopping app Taobao joins DHgate in Top 5 on US App Store (TechCrunch)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• As ‘Bot’ Students Continue to Flood In, Community Colleges Struggle to Respond (Voice Of San Diego)
• Astronomers Detect a Possible Signature of Life on a Distant Planet (NYTimes)

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OpenAI has a new reasoning model, and more lower cost models as well. Is OpenAI about to acquire a coding startup? Is Perplexity turning to Samsung for distribution and branding? A Neuralink rival gets FDA approval. And why is Jensen Huang on a code-red mission to China at the moment?

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Links:

• OpenAI's new o3 and o4-mini models are all about 'thinking with images' (Engadget)
• OpenAI debuts Codex CLI, an open source coding tool for terminals (TechCrunch)
• Vibe Check: o3 Is Here—And It’s Great (Every)
• OpenAI In Talks to Buy Windsurf for About $3 Billion (Bloomberg)
• Perplexity AI in Talks to Integrate Assistant Into Samsung, Motorola Phones (Bloomberg)
• Neuralink Rival Gets FDA Clearance in Path to Less Invasive Brain Implants (Bloomberg)
• Nvidia chief Jensen Huang flies to Beijing for talks (FT)

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