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October 11, 2025, 6:15 AM

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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
President Trump says that the US will impose an extra 100% tariff on imports from China and “Export Controls on any and all critical software” from November 1  —  - CNBC Councils  — CNBC on Peacock  — Join the CNBC Panel  — Supply Chain Values  — Ad Choices
Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk:
Crypto markets crashed after Trump threatened an extra 100% tariff on China, triggering $19.1B+ in liquidations, 10x+ the liquidations during the FTX crash  —  Trump's 100% tariff warning on China ignited a global sell-off that wiped out $16 billion in leveraged crypto longs and pushed Ethena's USDe to a rare sub-$1 print.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google adds a Chrome feature that automatically disables browser notifications from websites users haven't interacted with recently, on Android and desktop  —  Google's Chrome web browser is about to become much less noisy.  —  On Friday, the technology giant announced a new feature …
Reuters:
Ten major banks including Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, and UBS announce an early-stage project to explore issuing stablecoins pegged to G7 currencies  —  - Group includes US, UK, Swiss, Japanese, Canadian lenders  — Banks seeking to find their way as stablecoin demand grows
Sharon Goldman / Fortune:
Nathan Calvin, general counsel of AI safety nonprofit Encode, says OpenAI used intimidation tactics to undermine California's SB 53 while it was being debated  —  Nathan Calvin, the 29-year-old general counsel of Encode—a small AI policy nonprofit with just three full-time employees …
Heather Knight / New York Times:
Marc Benioff says President Trump is “doing a great job” and believes National Guard troops should be deployed to San Francisco to help reduce crime in the city  —  Mr. Benioff, the Salesforce C.E.O. and owner of Time magazine, once supported Hillary Clinton and a business tax for homeless services.
Hugh Son / CNBC:
Sources: Morgan Stanley told its financial advisors it will broaden access to crypto investments to all clients and allow such investments in any account type  —  Morgan Stanley on Friday told its financial advisors that the firm was broadening access to crypto investments to all clients …
Jagmeet Singh / TechCrunch:
NPCI, which runs India's UPI, partners with OpenAI and digital payment company Razorpay on a pilot to let consumers shop and pay directly through ChatGPT  —  India has kicked off a pilot to let consumers shop and pay directly through AI chatbots, with OpenAI's ChatGPT leading the rollout …
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder:
Google says it hit a milestone of 1.3 quadrillion monthly tokens processed across its services this summer, up from 980T monthly tokens announced in July  —  Google says it now processes more than 1.3 quadrillion tokens every month with its AI models.  But this headline number mostly reflects …

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