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

Jordan Novet / CNBC: 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  —  Microsoft owns lots of Nvidia graphics processing units, but it isn’t using them to develop state-of-the-art artificial intelligence models. 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

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

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

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

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