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How Nintendo is navigating tariff chaos, including shipping an estimated 1.7M Switch 2 units to the US before tariffs took effect, assembling in Vietnam, more (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)
2025-04-11 18:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
China exempts products from AMD, Nvidia, Intel, Qualcomm, and others that are made by Taiwanese companies like TSMC from the 125% tariff on US products (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
2025-04-11 17:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
BlackRock's crypto ETFs saw $3B in net inflows in Q1 2025, down 83% QoQ; BlackRock had ~$50.3B in digital assets at the end of Q1, or 0.5% of its total assets (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)
2025-04-11 15:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
SmartScout: China-based electronics accessories maker Anker has raised prices by ~18% on a fifth of its products on Amazon, as US starts applying new tariffs (Reuters)
2025-04-11 16:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
OpenAI plans to retire GPT-4, launched in March 2023, from ChatGPT on April 30, to be "fully replaced" by GPT-4o; GPT-4 will remain available via OpenAI's API (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
2025-04-11 15:49 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
China's retail giants launch initiatives to help Chinese exporters pivot to the domestic market in response to the US trade war; JD.com launched a $27B fund (Reuters)
2025-04-11 14:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Ireland's DPC launches a probe into how personal data in publicly accessible X posts was used to train Grok, which could stoke tensions between the EU and US (Ellen O'Regan/Politico)
2025-04-11 14:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cuts $5.1B in IT and consulting contracts, including with Accenture and Deloitte, calling them "wasteful spending" (Business Insider)
2025-04-11 12:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Microsoft is rolling out a preview of its Recall AI feature to Copilot+ PCs, after previously delaying its launch twice over security and privacy concerns (Jay Peters/The Verge)
2025-04-11 13:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
AI reasoning models cost more to benchmark, making it harder to independently verify claims; Artificial Analysis: OpenAI's o1 costs $2,767.05 to evaluate (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
2025-04-11 12:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Tim Cook approved doubling Apple's AI chips budget in 2023 after John Giannandrea sought more GPUs, but CFO Luca Maestri cut the increase to under half (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)
2025-04-11 10:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Madrid-based Jobandtalent, which connects gig workers with companies, raised a $103M Series F at a $1.5B valuation, down from its $500M Series E at $2.35B (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
2025-04-11 10:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Bermuda-based Meanwhile, which offers life insurance to US citizens with BTC holdings, raised a $40M Series A led by Framework and Fulgur at a $190M valuation (Catherine McGrath/Fortune)
2025-04-11 09:48 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
American small-business owners who source goods from overseas, especially from China, and sell them online, face acute uncertainty about the tariffs' impact (Caroline O'Donovan/Washington Post)
2025-04-11 08:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
EC president von der Leyen: the EU may tax Big Tech ad revenue, targeting Meta and Google, if Trump trade talks fail and won't revisit its "untouchable" rules (Financial Times)
2025-04-11 06:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Despite Trump admin pressure, Apple is unlikely to move iPhone production to the US soon due to facility, labor, and supply chain gaps only Asia can fill now (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
2025-04-11 05:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: Google laid off hundreds of employees in its platforms and devices unit, which works on Android, Pixel, and Chrome, after offering buyouts in January (Erin Woo/The Information)
2025-04-11 05:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: OpenAI recently gave staff and third-party groups just days, vs. several months previously, to evaluate risks and performance of its latest models (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
2025-04-11 04:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
China discloses details about its ~$8.2B AI Industry Investment Fund, aimed at early-stage investments in AI projects, established with money from the Big Fund (Ann Cao/South China Morning Post)
2025-04-11 03:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The DOJ charges AI shopping app Nate's ex-CEO Albert Saniger with fraud, alleging the app relies heavily on human workers in the Philippines; Nate raised $50M+ (Charles Rollet/TechCrunch)
2025-04-11 02:47 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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