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Techmeme - 2025-04-22T12:50:48-04:00

FTC v. Meta: Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom testifies that "Mark was not investing in Instagram because he believed we were a threat to their growth" (Cecilia Kang/New York Times) - 2025-04-22T12:50:01-04:00

Instagram launches Edits, a "video creation app designed for creators" intended to rival ByteDance's CapCut app, for free on iOS and Android (Dominic Preston/The Verge) - 2025-04-22T12:48:56-04:00

In a reversal, Google says it won't roll out a new standalone third-party Chrome cookie prompt, meaning adtech companies can keep using related targeting tools (Ronan Shields/Digiday) - 2025-04-22T12:43:36-04:00

Apple drops "available now" from an Apple Intelligence page featuring an AI-supercharged Siri and removes a Siri-related video, after the BBB nonprofit inquired (Emma Roth/The Verge) - 2025-04-22T12:35:01-04:00

The Washington Post partners with OpenAI to make its content "more accessible" in ChatGPT; OpenAI says it now has similar deals with 20+ other publishers (Todd Spangler/Variety) - 2025-04-22T12:30:02-04:00

Sources: Apple's new Siri engineering chief Mike Rockwell is replacing much of Siri's leadership with top Vision Pro software execs, and is restructuring teams (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg) - 2025-04-22T12:25:01-04:00

Boeing agrees to sell parts of its digital aviation unit, including software maker Jeppesen and navigation app ForeFlight, to Thoma Bravo for $10.55B in cash (Financial Times) - 2025-04-22T12:10:04-04:00

Global PC shipments rose 6.7% YoY in Q1 2025 driven by anticipation of US tariffs and growing adoption of AI PCs; Apple rose 17% YoY and Lenovo jumped 11% YoY (Counterpoint Research) - 2025-04-22T12:05:02-04:00

The US DOJ says Google backed off more restrictive Gemini distribution deals, partly due to its case; Google says rivals talked to Samsung about chatbot deals (Erin Woo/The Information) - 2025-04-22T11:50:01-04:00

Several VCs say they fear Trump's tariffs could slow down tech investments, further decelerate the market for IPOs, and put some tech startups out of business (Lauren Goode/Wired) - 2025-04-22T10:55:01-04:00

Docs: in July 2024, Amazon set up Project Greenland to manage and optimize GPU allocation across its retail unit; Amazon says it now has "ample" GPU capacity (Eugene Kim/Business Insider) - 2025-04-22T09:25:01-04:00

A survey of US teens and parents: 48% of teens say social media harms people their age, up from 32% in 2022, and girls' experiences skew more negative at times (Pew Research Center) - 2025-04-22T07:50:00-04:00

Manychat, which offers social messaging tools for brands, raised a $140M Series B led by Summit, after an $18M Series A in 2019, and says it has ~1.5M customers (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch) - 2025-04-22T07:30:01-04:00

A draft executive order sent to US agencies shows the Trump administration is considering issuing an order to create a policy integrating AI into K-12 education (Frances Vinall/Washington Post) - 2025-04-22T06:55:01-04:00

Duolingo plans to add a chess course, which uses short puzzles to help learn the game, in beta on iOS in English in the coming weeks before an Android launch (Jay Peters/The Verge) - 2025-04-22T06:30:03-04:00