Tech Meme

Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: Global chip stocks drop as the US tariff rout on markets intensifies, extending last week’s losses; Nvidia, Intel, ASML, SK Hynix, Infineon, and STMicro fall  —  The rout underscores investor concerns that tariffs could lead to higher prices for chips and subdue demand Lees verder op Tech Meme

David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: Bitcoin is down 10%+ to ~$76K after President Trump’s global tariffs, far below its record price of nearly $110K on Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025  —  The rapid drop shows that cryptocurrencies, which the president has promoted, are subject to the same market gyrations as any other risky asset. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Vlad Savov / Bloomberg: Nintendo’s and Sony’s stocks closed down 7.85% and 10.04% on April 7 amid a Japan selloff driven by US tariffs; most Switches are assembled in China and Vietnam  —  Nintendo, fresh off the announcement of its pivotal next-generation Switch 2 console, is particularly vulnerable … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Will Knight / Wired: 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  —  New research from Stanford suggests artificial intelligence isn’t ruled by just OpenAI and Google, as competition increases across the US, China, and France. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mathieu Pollet / Politico: 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  —  Chinese tech giant is at the center of Belgian investigation into wrongdoing.  —  BRUSSELS — Huawei has fired two employees … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: 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  —  The rout underscores investor concerns that tariffs could lead to higher prices for chips and subdue demand Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer: Sources and an APK teardown: OpenAI is testing watermarks for images generated via ChatGPT’s free account; whether OpenAI rolls the feature out is unclear  —  OpenAI is reportedly testing a new “watermark” for the Image Generation model, which is a part of the ChatGPT 4o model. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sam Tobin / Reuters: 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  —  Apple (AAPL.O) is appealing against a British government order to create a “back door” to its encrypted cloud storage systems … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rachel Metz / Bloomberg: Source: AI coding startup Cursor, which has helped permeate “vibe coding”, hit 1M+ DAUs in March 2025, driven largely by word-of-mouth growth  —  Word-of-mouth growth has helped turn a 60-person startup into one of the early hits of the generative AI era. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Katie Roof / Bloomberg: 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  —  With the new funds SignalFire will focus on AI — and use it too.  —  Venture capital firm SignalFire has raised over a $1 billion … Lees verder op Tech Meme