🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-04-12
Fridays bring a flurry of overlooked stories as the news week hits its peak.
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By Friday, everything seems to be reaching the peak of getting news turned in before a deadline or dread-line. It sometimes seems like we reach a fever pitch in news coverage throughout the week.
Peak 🏔️ vs. Peek 👀
Then there is a trope, cliché, or bromide about slow news days and the quietly mentioned news updates sent on a Friday — to try and sneak it past wider coverage. Or, in a nutshell, peak patronizing publishing.
In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.
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Techmeme: A group of former OpenAI employees files an amicus brief in support of Elon Musk in his lawsuit opposing OpenAI's for-profit transition (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
By Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: Ireland's DPC opens an investigation into how personal data in public X posts was used to train xAI's Grok, which could stoke tensions between the EU and the US (Ellen O'Regan/Politico)
By Ellen O'Regan / Politico. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cuts $5.1B in IT and consulting contracts, such as with Accenture, Deloitte, and Booz Allen, calling them “wasteful spending” (Business Insider)
From Business Insider. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: Sources: OpenAI recently gave staff and third-party groups just days, vs. several months previously, to evaluate the risks and performance of its latest models (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
By Cristina Criddle / Financial Times. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: SmartScout: China-based electronics accessories maker Anker has raised prices by ~18% on a fifth of its products on Amazon, as US starts applying new tariffs (Reuters)
From Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.
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