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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)
Sources: OpenAI is testing watermarks for images generated using ChatGPT's free account (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)
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)
Sources: DOGE is hosting a "hackathon" in Washington DC next week to build a "mega API" for accessing all IRS data, with Palantir as a possible partner (Makena Kelly/Wired)
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)
Meta launches Llama 4 Maverick with 400B parameters and Scout with 109B parameters and a 10M context window, and previews Behemoth with 2T total parameters (Meta)
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)
Codex, which is building a blockchain for stablecoins, raised a $15.8M seed led by Dragonfly, with Coinbase, Circle, and others participating (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
 ChatGPT-5 is on hold as OpenAI changes plans and releases new o3 and o4-mini models
Trump says he will sign an EO to keep TikTok running for an additional 75 days, as a deal "requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed" (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
How Trump's tariffs affect Meta, which relies heavily on SMBs around the world for ad revenue; 10% of Meta's 2023 revenue was from Chinese advertisers like Temu (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
 Businesses still haven’t stopped using weak passwords, and it’s getting super risky
YouTube quietly removed "gender identity" from its hate speech policy after Trump took office; Google says enforcement of the policy remains unchanged (Taylor Lorenz/User Mag)
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