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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 (Chris Metinko/Crunchbase News)
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Appfigures: ChatGPT was the most downloaded app globally in March, excluding games, with 46M downloads across App Store and Google Play, its biggest month ever (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
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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 (Counterpoint Research)
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US investigators are probing whether the China ties of TP-Link Systems Inc., the US-based business of Wi-Fi router giant TP-Link, pose an "unacceptable risk" (Kate O'Keeffe/Bloomberg)
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Sources: Palantir is helping DOGE build an API layer above all IRS databases; DOGE wants Palantir's Foundry software to be the "read center of all IRS systems" (Makena Kelly/Wired)
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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" (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)
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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 (Financial Times)
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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 (Wall Street Journal)
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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 (Reuters)
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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 (Sophie McEvoy/GamesIndustry.biz)
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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 (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
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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 (Ari Levy/CNBC)
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Netflix is testing an OpenAI-powered search engine that lets users find shows via inquiries that go beyond genres or actors' names, like the subscriber's mood (Bloomberg)
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Meta adds Stripe CEO Patrick Collison and Dina Powell McCormick, who worked as deputy national security adviser to Trump in his first term, to its board (Sara Fischer/Axios)
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Sources: Ilya Sutskever's Safe Superintelligence raised $2B led by Greenoaks at a $32B valuation; SSI last raised $1B at a $5B valuation in September 2024 (Financial Times)
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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 (Aisha S Gani/Bloomberg)
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Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Optilogic, a supply chain software provider, raised a $40M Series B led by NewRoad Capital and launches a tariff optimization tool (Colin Campbell/Axios)
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Blue Water Autonomy, which says it is building a 100-ton autonomous naval ship, emerges from stealth with a $14M seed from Eclipse VC, Riot, and Impatient (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)
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There is increasing uncertainty about China approving Synopsys' $35B Ansys acquisition, amid the escalating tariff fight between the US and China (Bloomberg)
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A group of former OpenAI employees file an amicus brief in support of Elon Musk in his lawsuit opposing OpenAI's for-profit transition (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
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