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April 7, 2025, 3:25 PM

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Megan Farokhmanesh / Wired:
Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser says the company is “actively assessing” the impact of US tariffs, which “weren't factored into” its Switch 2 pricing  —  Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser tells WIRED the company is still figuring out how to address tariffs …
Samantha Subin / CNBC:
US tech stocks fall for a third session after US tariffs: Apple, Tesla, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet drop; an X post caused stocks to jump temporarily  —  Technology stocks teetered in volatile trading Monday as President Donald Trump stood by his sweeping global tariff plans following last week's devastating selloff.
Vlad Savov / Bloomberg:
Nintendo's and Sony's stocks closed down 7.85% and 10.04% on April 7 amid a Japan selloff driven by US tariffs; most Switches are assembled in China and Vietnam  —  Nintendo, fresh off the announcement of its pivotal next-generation Switch 2 console, is particularly vulnerable …
Times of India:
Officials: Apple sent five planes full of iPhones and other products from India to the US in just three days in the last week of March to avoid the 10% tariff  —  Apple transported five plane full of iPhones and other products from India to the US in just three days during the final week of March …
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
President Trump posts that the US will impose additional tariffs on China of 50%, effective April 9, unless China withdraws its 34% retaliatory tariffs  —  President Trump on Monday threatened to impose an extra 50% tariff on China, but opened the door to talks with other nations on a path to lowering their tariffs.
David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times:
Bitcoin is down 10%+ to ~$76K after President Trump's global tariffs, far below its record price of nearly $110K on Trump's inauguration on January 20, 2025  —  The rapid drop shows that cryptocurrencies, which the president has promoted, are subject to the same market gyrations as any other risky asset.
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Logan Plant / IGN:
Q&A with Nintendo of America VP of Product Bill Trinen on pricing first-party games like Mario Kart World at $80, Joy-Con 2 and using it as a mouse, and more  —  On price, mouse controls, and a lot more. … Nintendo has finally pulled back the curtain on Nintendo Switch 2 …
Sam Tobin / Reuters:
Filing: the UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal confirms Apple is appealing against a UK order to create an encryption “back door”, and says the case can be public  —  Apple (AAPL.O) is appealing against a British government order to create a “back door” to its encrypted cloud storage systems …
The Information:
Sources: in recent weeks, OpenAI discussed acquiring io Products, a startup Sam Altman has been working on with Jony Ive to develop an AI device, for $500M+  —  OpenAI in recent weeks discussed acquiring a startup its CEO Sam Altman has been working on with ex-Apple designer Jony Ive's studio …
Will Knight / Wired:
Stanford's 2025 AI index: China files more AI patents than the US, but US companies produced 40 frontier models, compared to 15 from China and three from Europe  —  New research from Stanford suggests artificial intelligence isn't ruled by just OpenAI and Google, as competition increases across the US, China, and France.
Jordan Novet / CNBC:
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says an “off-frontier” strategy of building models “three or six months behind” cuts costs and helps focus on some use cases  —  Microsoft owns lots of Nvidia graphics processing units, but it isn't using them to develop state-of-the-art artificial intelligence models.
Dan Primack / Axios:
Sources: the board of directors of clothing inventory monetization startup CaaStle let its CEO remain after fraud allegations and took months to warn investors  —  The most stunning part of the CaaStle fraud allegations isn't that a huckster CEO burned through $530 million …

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