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| Fareed Sahloul / Bloomberg: |
Sources: StubHub, Klarna, eToro, and adtech group MNTN have paused their IPO plans as President Trump's trade war upends the global economy — Billions of dollars worth of acquisitions and initial public offerings are on hold as Donald Trump's trade war upends the global economy …
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| Fortune: |
Analysts say Microsoft, whose shares fell the least among top tech companies, is shielded from the worst tariff impacts due to Azure and a broad enterprise base — As Microsoft celebrates its 50th anniversary Friday with a Seattle event spotlighting its latest AI developments …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
The Nasdaq fell 5.8% on the second day following Trump's tariffs announcement, with Nvidia closing down 7.4%, Apple 7.3%, Netflix 6.7%, Meta 5%, and Amazon 4.2% — Amid steep losses, U.S. president says ‘my policies will never change’ — Stocks dropped sharply for a second day …
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| Reuters: |
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| Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Trump says he will sign an EO to keep TikTok running for an additional 75 days, as a deal “requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed” — President Donald Trump on Friday extended a deadline requiring China-based ByteDance to sell the U.S. operations of TikTok …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: a TikTok deal, which was largely finalized by April 2, was put on hold after China indicated it would reject the deal over Trump's tariffs — A deal to spin off the U.S. assets of TikTok was put on hold after China indicated that it would not approve the deal following President …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders that were set for April 9 due to concerns about Trump's tariffs but the June 5 launch date remains unchanged — Nintendo says preorders will no longer start on April 9th, but the console's June 5th release date is unchanged.
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Microsoft Copilot adds support for memory, personalization, web-based actions, podcast creation, camera and screen analysis, deep research, and more — The AI assistant adds personalization, web actions, podcast creation, and more. … As it marks its 50th anniversary …
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| Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: |
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| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Amazon introduces a Kindle Recaps feature that uses GenAI and moderators to create short summaries of books in a series — Amazon is introducing a new “Recaps” feature for Kindle users to help them recall plot points and character arcs before picking up the latest book in a series.
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| RT Watson / The Block: |
The US SEC says that “covered” US dollar stablecoins like USDT and USDC are not securities, and registration is not required for minting or redeeming them — - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said “covered” U.S. dollar stablecoins — basically USDT and USDC …
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff rejoins Amazon as a VP of product overseeing Ring and related businesses, replacing Elizabeth Hamren, who succeeded him in 2023 — Jamie Siminoff has returned to Amazon as a vice president of product overseeing the company's home security camera arm and related businesses.
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| Issie Lapowsky / Politico: |
Investors, founders, and others detail a culture of fear around criticizing Elon Musk or DOGE; some are appalled he is seen as a reflection of the tech industry — A huge swath of Silicon Valley is horrified by what Elon Musk is doing — but they're increasingly afraid to say so.| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Google releases API pricing for Gemini 2.5 Pro: $1.25 per 1M input tokens and $10 per 1M output tokens for prompts up to 200K tokens, its priciest model yet — On Friday, Google released API pricing for Gemini 2.5 Pro, an AI reasoning model with industry-leading performance on several benchmarks measuring coding, reasoning, and math.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI plans to release o3 and o4-mini “after all” and GPT-5 “in a few months”, citing challenges in “smoothly integrating everything” — After effectively cancelling the consumer release of its o3 reasoning model, OpenAI now says that it plans …
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