Technology

Brazil's AI-based social security app, launched in 2018, has cut bureaucracy in some cases but wrongly rejected hundreds of vulnerable people over minor errors (Gabriel Daros/Rest of World)

April 25, 2025 by appcompact

Three European scientific funding agencies have put research programs with China on hold since 2021 due to concerns over the country’s Data Security Law (Andrew Silver/Reuters)

April 25, 2025 by appcompact

JD.com's costly bid to challenge Meituan in food delivery, while the latter enters the e-commerce space, has led to a loss of ~$70B in combined market value (Charlotte Yang/Bloomberg)

April 25, 2025 by appcompact

OpenAI expands deep research usage for Plus, Pro, and Team users with an o4-mini-powered lightweight version, which also rolls out to Free users today (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

April 25, 2025 by appcompact

Baidu rolls out Ernie 4.5 Turbo and X1 Turbo, new versions of its flagship foundation and reasoning models, as it looks to take on Alibaba's Qwen and DeepSeek (Bloomberg)

April 25, 2025 by appcompact

Adobe says Firefly users can now generate images using OpenAI's GPT, Google's Imagen 3 and Veo 2, and Flux 1.1 Pro, in addition to its own Firefly image models (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)

April 25, 2025 by appcompact

Apple plans to move assembly of all US-sold iPhones, ~60M/year, to India by the end of 2026, as President Trump’s trade war pushes a pivot from China (Financial Times)

April 25, 2025 by appcompact

YouTube is testing a new AI Overviews carousel in its search results for queries focused on products and location information, for some US Premium subscribers (Danny Goodwin/Search Engine Land)

April 25, 2025 by appcompact