🛰️ Space Gets More Bandwidth | 🛍️ ChatGPT Turns Shopaholic | 🐉 Alibaba Unleashes Hybrid AI

Good morning, gadget-wranglers—welcome to the April 28, 2025 edition of Link & Load, your daily shot of silicon espresso. Today the FCC admits even satellites need better Wi-Fi and cracks open its dusty spectrum rulebook. OpenAI turns ChatGPT into a shopping Sherpa, so your next impulse buy might literally talk you into itself. Alibaba fires back at the Western model wars with a fresh fleet of “hybrid” brains called Qwen 3. Across the pond, UK regulators move to defuse sleazy “nudification” apps before they deep-fake more damage. And while Apple and Microsoft trip over their own AI dreams, OpenAI is gleefully setting up shop in the vacuum.

🚀 Today in Tech

FCC Gives Starlink Room to Roam

Source: https://www.reuters.com/technology/space/us-fcc-review-spectrum-sharing-rules-boost-space-based-telecom-2025-04-28/

TL;DR: The FCC votes to revisit 1990s spectrum-sharing caps, a move that could unlock stronger signals for Starlink, Amazon Kuiper, and future satellite constellations—because even outer space hates buffering. (Dad joke: the commission finally realized “space” actually needs… more space.)

ChatGPT Morphs Into Your Personal Shopper

Source: https://www.wired.com/story/openai-adds-shopping-to-chatgpt

TL;DR: OpenAI now embeds price cards, images, and reviews directly in ChatGPT results, promising ad-free, conversational product recommendations that nip at Google Shopping’s heels.

Alibaba Drops ‘Hybrid’ AI Models to Rival GPT-4

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/28/alibaba-unveils-qwen-3-a-family-of-hybrid-ai-reasoning-models/

TL;DR: The Qwen 3 family blends retrieval-augmented reasoning with long-context memory, and Alibaba claims parity—or better—versus Google and OpenAI while running cheaper, setting up an East-vs-West model showdown.

UK Targets Creepy “Nudification” Apps

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/28/what-are-nudification-apps-how-would-uk-ban-work

TL;DR: England’s Children’s Commissioner urges lawmakers to ban AI tools that strip or swap clothes in images, calling for tougher safety standards to close gaps in the Online Safety Act.

Big Tech’s AI Fumbles Hand OpenAI an Opening

Source: https://www.axios.com/2025/04/28/microsoft-apple-ai-fumble

TL;DR: Axios argues Apple’s timid Siri revamp and Microsoft’s delayed “Recall” feature have stalled on-device AI dreams, leaving cloud chatbots—especially ChatGPT—to snatch the personal-computing spotlight.

🎲 Link Grab-Bag

• https://github.com/lobehub/lobe-chat — Lobe Chat: slick, open-source multi-AI chat framework you can one-click deploy.

• https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/coinbase-fixes-2fa-log-error-making-people-think-they-were-hacked/ — Coinbase squashes a 2FA log glitch that convinced users they’d been hacked. BleepingComputer

• https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/1k58huv/54_of_tech_hiring_managers_expect_layoffs_in_2025/ — Reddit thread dissects a survey showing 54 % of tech hiring managers bracing for 2025 layoffs.

• https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250422.html — NASA’s “Terminator Moon” photo captures lunar peaks at sunrise—it’s gorgeous and geeky wallpaper fodder.

• https://github.com/kortix-ai/suna — Suna, an open-source generalist AI agent, rockets to GitHub trending overnight.

🏁 Sign-off

That’s today’s bandwidth-friendly blast—now go forth and byte the day! 🚀