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Nintendo says Switch 2 preorders will start in the US on April 24, with the price staying at the initially announced $450; prices of accessories will go up — The company delayed its original preorder date in the US. … Nintendo has announced a new date for when Switch 2 preorders will kick off in the US; April 24th.
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OpenAI says its new o3 and o4-mini AI models hallucinate more often than its previous reasoning and traditional models, and the company doesn't know why — OpenAI's recently launched o3 and o4-mini AI models are state-of-the-art in many respects. However, the new models still hallucinate …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: the EU planned to penalize Meta and Apple on April 15 but delayed the announcement, avoiding conflict with the Trump administration before trade talks — Officials postponed an announcement initially planned for this week — The European Union recently delayed penalizing Apple …
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| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Experts say two federal judges declaring Google a monopoly within a year signals a judicial shift toward addressing anticompetitive behavior in digital markets — Within a year, two federal judges declared the tech giant a monopoly in search and ad technology. The tide may be turning for antitrust.
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| Vince Quill / Cointelegraph: |
Oregon sues Coinbase, alleging the exchange is selling unregistered securities; Coinbase CLO Paul Grewal says it's a “copycat case” of SEC's now-dropped lawsuit — While winning legal victories at the federal level, the crypto industry still faces regulatory hurdles at the state level in the United States.
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| Douglas Gillison / Reuters: |
A US judge temporarily halts mass firings at the US CFPB after the agency fired between 1,400 and 1,500 workers, eliminating as much as 90% of its workforce — A federal judge on Friday halted the mass firings carried out Thursday afternoon at the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau …
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
A look at Google's efforts to improve Search with AI; sources: its leaders have struggled to articulate a vision for how they want Search features to evolve — Next week, a federal judge will start the process of determining how to fix Google's search engine, which he ruled last summer was an illegal monopoly.
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| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
The Trump administration's restrictions on AI chip exports by Nvidia, AMD, and Intel to China could help turn Huawei into a global chip-making powerhouse — New restrictions on semiconductor exports to China are scrambling sales and fueling concerns that the Chinese tech giant will become a chip-making powerhouse.| Emma-Victoria Farr / Reuters: |
PE firm KKR agrees to acquire and take private Frankfurt-listed IT company Datagroup for about €450M in an all-cash deal expected to close in Q3 2025 — U.S.-based private equity firm KKR (KKR.N) has reached a deal with Frankfurt-listed Datagroup (D6HG.DE) to buy the firm … | Ryan Lawler / Axios: |
API-based background check provider Checkr acquires income and employment verification startup Truework, which had raised $125M+ and was last valued at ~$480M — Checkr, an API-based background check provider, is acquiring income and employment verification startup Truework, Checkr CEO Daniel Yanisse tells Axios exclusively.
More: Checkr, Moneycontrol, and FinSMEs
| PYMNTS.com: |
HR management company Paychex acquires Paycor, which provides HR and payroll management software, for $4.1B in an all-cash deal — Human capital management (HCM) firm Paychex has announced its acquisition of Paycor HCM, a software company providing HCM, payroll and talent services.
More: Business Wire, Paychex, and WHEC.com
| Kentaro Shiozaki / Nikkei Asia: |
Garment workshops are closing across the “Shein village” in Panyu, China, after the US ended the de minimis exemption; Shein urges suppliers to shift to Vietnam — GUANGZHOU — Garment workshops are shuttering across a Guangzhou district dubbed “Shein Village,” … | Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
Ted Sarandos says Netflix talent uses “AI tools to do set references, pre-vis, VFX sequence prep, shot planning” and AI can make movies “10% better” — Citing recent comments by James Cameron, Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos said he hopes AI can make films “10% better,” not just “50% cheaper.”
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