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The CEO of humanoid robot startup Figure AI, which has raised $700M+ to date, seemingly exaggerated its deployment of robots at BMW in interviews and posts (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)
2025-04-07 19:20 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
An unreleased version of a Waymo privacy policy found by Jane Manchun Wong says it may use interior camera data to train AI models and sell ads, with an opt out (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
2025-04-07 18:20 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: the board of directors of clothing inventory monetization startup CaaStle let its CEO remain after fraud allegations and took months to warn investors (Dan Primack/Axios)
2025-04-07 17:20 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
President Trump posts that the US will impose additional tariffs on China of 50%, effective April 9, unless China withdraws its 34% retaliatory tariffs (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)
2025-04-07 16:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Krea, which helps creators generate AI content using the best available models, raised a $47M Series B and a $33M Series A; sources: Krea is valued at $500M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
2025-04-07 16:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Q&A with Nintendo of America VP of Product Bill Trinen on pricing first-party games like Mario Kart World at $80, Joy-Con 2 and using it as a mouse, and more (Logan Plant/IGN)
2025-04-07 15:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Officials: Apple sent five planes full of iPhones and other products from India to the US in just three days in the last week of March to avoid the 10% tariff (Times of India)
2025-04-07 16:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says an "off-frontier" strategy of building models "three or six months behind" cuts costs and helps focus on some use cases (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
2025-04-07 14:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Chinese media outlet Caijing: Microsoft's joint venture Wicresoft will cease its China operations from April 8 after stopping outsourcing after-sales support (Reuters)
2025-04-07 14:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser says the company is "actively assessing" the impact of US tariffs, and they "weren't factored into" Switch 2 pricing (Megan Farokhmanesh/Wired)
2025-04-07 14:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
US tech stocks fall for a third session after Trump's tariffs as markets open: Apple and Tesla drop 5%+, while Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet fall ~1% (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
2025-04-07 14:19 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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 (Mathieu Pollet/Politico)
2025-04-07 12:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Global chip stocks drop as the US tariff rout intensifies, extending losses from last week; Nvidia, Intel, ASML, SK Hynix, Infineon, and STMicro all fall (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal)
2025-04-07 12:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Stanford's 2025 AI index: China files more AI patents than the US, but US companies produced 40 frontier models, compared to 15 from China and three from Europe (Will Knight/Wired)
2025-04-07 13:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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 (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
2025-04-07 11:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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 (Katie Roof/Bloomberg)
2025-04-07 12:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: AI coding startup Cursor, which has helped permeate "vibe coding", hit 1M+ DAUs in March 2025, driven largely by word-of-mouth growth (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
2025-04-07 11:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says the company is involved in discussions about US rules on stablecoins, and may offer a US-only coin depending on new US regulations (Philip Stafford/Financial Times)
2025-04-07 10:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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 (Vlad Savov/Bloomberg)
2025-04-07 10:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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 (David Yaffe-Bellany/New York Times)
2025-04-07 10:18 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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