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April 7, 2025, 8:15 AM
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Vlad Savov / Bloomberg:
Nintendo and Sony fell by 10%+ on April 7 amid a widespread selloff in Japan exacerbated by US tariffs; most Switch hardware is assembled in China and Vietnam  —  Nintendo, fresh off the announcement of its pivotal next-generation Switch 2 console, is particularly vulnerable as North America accounted …
David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times:
Bitcoin is down 10% to around $76,000 after President Trump's global tariffs, far below its record $110,000 high at Trump's January 20 inauguration  —  The rapid drop shows that cryptocurrencies, which the president has promoted, are subject to the same market gyrations as any other risky asset.
Reuters:
TSMC and Foxconn fell by the Taiex exchange's daily 10% limit on April 7 as US tariffs roil global supply chains; Taiwan's 32% tariff is among Asia's highest
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
How Apple may adjust to the US tariffs; sources say the iPhone 17 Pro's camera panel will span the width of the phone and will be the same color as the device  —  After years of avoiding iPhone price hikes in the US, Apple could finally be forced to to make increases.
Wall Street Journal:
Analysis: newly announced US tariffs for goods from China could raise the bill of materials for the iPhone 16 Pro with 256GB of storage from ~$550 to ~$850
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is keeping TikTok and other ByteDance apps on its US App Store for at least another 75 days, following assurances from AG Pam Bondi  —  Apple Inc., following assurances from the Trump administration, is keeping TikTok and other apps from ByteDance Ltd. on its US App Store for at least another 75 days.
The Information:
Sources: OpenAI recently discussed acquiring io Products, a startup Sam Altman has been working on with Jony Ive to develop an AI-powered 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 …
Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer:
Sources and an APK teardown: OpenAI is testing watermarks for images generated via ChatGPT's free account; whether OpenAI rolls the feature out is unclear  —  OpenAI is reportedly testing a new “watermark” for the Image Generation model, which is a part of the ChatGPT 4o model.
Sam Tobin / Reuters:
Filing: the UK Investigatory Powers Tribunal confirms Apple is appealing against a UK order to create a “back door” in its Advanced Data Protection service  —  Apple (AAPL.O) is appealing against a British government order to create a “back door” to its encrypted cloud storage systems …
Matteo Wong / The Atlantic:
A look at the ARC-AGI exam designed by French computer scientist François Chollet to show the gulf between AI models' memorized answers and “fluid intelligence”  —  Deep down, Sam Altman and François Chollet share the same dream.  They want to build AI models that achieve …
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Mathieu Pollet / Politico:
Huawei says it “terminated the employment of two individuals” from April 1 and suspended a third from April 2 in response to the EU corruption scandal  —  Chinese tech giant is at the center of Belgian investigation into wrongdoing.  —  BRUSSELS — Huawei has fired two employees …
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Katie Roof / Bloomberg:
SignalFire raised a $1B+ fund to bet on early-stage AI startups, taking its AUM to $3B, and plans to use AI to spot market trends to help portfolio companies  —  With the new funds SignalFire will focus on AI — and use it too.  —  Venture capital firm SignalFire has raised over a $1 billion …

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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
President Trump files a $10B defamation lawsuit against the BBC, alleging it intentionally doctored a Panorama documentary to misrepresent his January 6 speech

Byron Tau / Associated Press:
Sources: Bay Area radio station KCBS-AM, which faced MAGA backlash over ICE coverage, scaled back political reporting after Brendan Carr's threats of a probe

Jake Kanter / Deadline:
The UK government begins its review of the BBC's charter, set to expire in 2027, as ministers consider licence fee reforms and allowing more commercial revenue

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Brendan Bordelon / Politico:
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

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Xinmei Shen / South China Morning Post:
DeepSeek and Tsinghua University researchers detail an approach combining reasoning methods to let LLMs deliver better and faster results to general queries
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Microsoft unveils a demo of Quake II generated using its Muse AI model, with limited playability in a browser, as part of the company's Copilot for Gaming push
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