Apr 17th 2025
Tech News Weekly 383
Google Loses DoJ Ad Tech Case
Hosted by
Mikah Sargent,
Dan Moren
OpenAI, Zuckerberg, o3 & o4-mini
Records every Thursday at 2:00pm Eastern / 11:00am Pacific / 18:00 UTC.
Google's ad business takes a loss against the DoJ. OpenAI is working on its own social network. Inside Zuckerberg's negotiations to end the antitrust case against Meta. And ChatGPT's newest AI models is performing 'reverse location searches' from photos.
- Breaking news as the Department of Justice finds Google's Ad Tech violates antitrust laws.
- OpenAI is building a social network that looks to take on other social networks such as Meta and X. But why would OpenAI be interested in a social network?
- A Wall Street Journal article looks into Mark Zuckerberg's negotiations with the FTC to drop Meta's antitrust case.
- And ChatGPT's latest AI models, o3 and o4-mini, are being utilized to perform 'reverse location searches' through uploaded photos.
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Links
- DoJ Wins Another Victory: Google's Ad Tech Empire Violates Antitrust Laws - MacRumors
- OpenAI is building a social network | The Verge
- What Does OpenAI Want With Its Own Social Network?
- Meta blocks Apple Intelligence on Facebook and its other iOS apps
- Exclusive | Inside Mark Zuckerberg’s Failed Negotiations With the FTC to End Meta’s Antitrust Case - WSJ
- The latest viral ChatGPT trend is doing 'reverse location search' from photos | TechCrunch