Paris-based Pennylane, which makes cloud-based accounting software, raised €75M, doubling its valuation to €2B, led by Sequoia and with Alphabet among investors (Ryan Browne/CNBC)

April 06, 2025

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Ryan Browne / CNBC: Paris-based Pennylane, which makes cloud-based accounting software, raised €75M, doubling its valuation to €2B, led by Sequoia and with Alphabet...

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Sources: OpenAI is testing watermarks for images generated using ChatGPT's free account (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)

April 06, 2025

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Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: Sources: OpenAI is testing watermarks for images generated using ChatGPT's free account  —  OpenAI is reportedly...

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Analysis: child begging livestreams are actively promoted by TikTok's algorithm and TikTok profits from the content despite having policies against begging (Shanti Das/The Guardian)

April 06, 2025

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Shanti Das / The Guardian: Analysis: child begging livestreams are actively promoted by TikTok's algorithm and TikTok profits from the content despite having...

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Lina Khan, Steve Bannon, and others worry the FTC could abandon its Meta antitrust case after Zuckerberg's concessions to Trump; the trial is set for April 14 (Brendan Bordelon/Politico)

April 06, 2025

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Brendan Bordelon / Politico: Lina Khan, Steve Bannon, and others worry the FTC could abandon its Meta antitrust case after Zuckerberg's concessions to Trump;...

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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)

April 05, 2025

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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...

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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)

April 05, 2025

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Joseph Bambridge / Politico: OpenAI and Google reject the UK's proposal to allow training AI on copyrighted work without permission unless rights holders opt...

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The US SEC says that "covered" US dollar stablecoins like USDT and USDC are not securities, and registration is not required for minting or redeeming them (RT Watson/The Block)

April 04, 2025

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RT Watson / The Block: The US SEC says that “covered” US dollar stablecoins like USDT and USDC are not securities, and registration is not required for minting...

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