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Bloomberg:

The Trump administration exempts smartphones, laptops, hard drives, processors, memory chips, and machines used to make semiconductors from reciprocal tariffs — President Donald Trump's administration exempted smartphones, computers and other electronics from its so-called reciprocal tariffs …

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Washington Post:

Arguments start Monday in the FTC's antitrust suit targeting Meta's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, amid reports Zuckerberg asked Trump to intervene — Arguments start Monday in the FTC's blockbuster antitrust suit targeting Facebook's purchases of Instagram and WhatsApp, as Zuckerberg pleads for the White House to intervene.

More: The Verge, Fortune, Tech in Asia, Fast Company, CNBC, Tech Policy Press, Cryptopolitan, and Wall Street Pit

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James O'Donnell / MIT Technology Review:

How the Pentagon uses AI tools from Vannevar Labs, which got a DoD deal worth up to $99M, to scan open-source intelligence, write intelligence reports, and more — For much of last year, about 2,500 US service members from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit sailed aboard three ships throughout the Pacific …

Bluesky: @ainowinstitute, @heidykhlaaf, and @jamesmodonnell. Forums: r/technews

Wall Street Journal:

Sources: Binance asked the US Treasury last month to loosen oversight on its AML compliance, after Binance entered into deal talks with Trump's crypto venture — Executives for the cryptocurrency exchange met with Treasury officials last month after the company entered into talks with a Trump family venture

More: The Block, crypto.news, Cryptopolitan, Cointelegraph, DL News, CoinGape, The Crypto Times, Reuters, Crypto Briefing, Coinpedia Fintech News, and Bloomberg

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Bloomberg:

India's JioHotstar now has 200M+ paid subscribers, driven by multi-language IPL cricket streams, ranking third-largest globally after Netflix and Prime Video — JioHotstar, India's largest streaming platform, has increased its paying subscriber base to over 200 million …

More: Business Standard

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Washington Post:

Sources: the DOD appointed several conservative influencers to civilian roles without disclosing their assignments as they amplify Pete Hegseth's viewpoints

Gene Maddaus / Variety:

In a Truth Social post, Trump endorses a US tax incentive for film and TV production; the MPA has worked with Jon Voight to push for a 20% credit on labor costs

F. Brinley Bruton / NBC News:

Masked Israeli settlers injured three NBC News staffers and a Palestinian woman they were interviewing in the West Bank; Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the attack

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Connor Jones / The Register:

UK government report: 43% of businesses faced a cyber breach or attack in the past year; phishing was the most common type, affecting 85% of those attacked

More: BetaNews, Tech Monitor, The Stack, and ITPro. LinkedIn: Simon Lang

Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News:

Asia's startup funding fell 40% YoY to ~$13B in Q1 2025, the lowest funding for a quarter since $12.3B in Q4 2014; AI startup funding fell 50% YoY to just $1.8B

X: @crunchbasenews

Counterpoint Research:

In Q1 2025, SK Hynix overtook Samsung for the first time to lead global DRAM revenues with a 36% share, driven by its dominant 70% market share in HBM

More: SamMobile, KED Global, SammyGuru, DigiTimes, and Tech in Asia. X: @counterpointtr

Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:

Google says some terms in AI Overviews will link to Google's search results “to help people more easily explore topics and discover relevant websites”

More: 9to5Google and Search Engine Roundtable. Bluesky: @glenngabe

Financial Times:

Bain Capital agrees to buy Blackstone-backed HealthEdge, which offers SaaS for health insurers to modernize their systems, sources say for ~$2.6B including debt

More: Axios and Bain Capital

Reuters:

Source: Alphabet and Nvidia are among investors backing Safe Superintelligence; Google Cloud announced on April 9 that SSI is using its TPUs for AI research

More: TechCrunch, Neowin, and Financial Times

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Sophie McEvoy / GamesIndustry.biz:

Newzoo: global consumer spending for PC and console gaming fell 2% YoY to $80.2B in 2024, with console revenues leading market share with $42.8B, down 3.9% YoY

More: Newzoo, TechSpot, ITC.UA, Mezha.Media, Game Rant, Kotaku, Game File, PC Games Insider, and CNET

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Natalie Lung / Bloomberg:

YipitData: Waymo's robotaxis made up about 20% of rides offered by Uber in Austin in the last week of March, after launching on March 4

More: Engadget, The Robot Report, TipRanks Financial, and The Driverless Digest

Bluesky: @jf2u. X: @aleximm, @stockmarketnerd, @adamkovac, and @sethdavishoops. Forums: r/waymo

Ari Levy / CNBC:

Filing: Founders Fund has closed a $4.6B late-stage venture fund; source: a substantial amount of the capital was provided by the firm's general partners

More: The Economic Times, Tech in Asia, Bloomberg, and US SEC

Aisha S Gani / Bloomberg:

Revolut plans to add UK stocks to its trading platform as some investors look to diversify away from US equities, and says it has over 800K UK trading customers

More: The Guardian and PYMNTS.com. LinkedIn: Aisha S Gani

Erin Woo / The Information:

Source: Google cuts hundreds of employees in its platforms and devices unit, which works on Android, Pixel, and Chrome, after offering buyouts in January 2025

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