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Hideki Suzuki / Bloomberg: Sources: Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. is in talks with Fujitsu to help the bank's biggest customers make key decisions using AI-inferred demand predictions  —  Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. is tapping Fujitsu Ltd.'s artificial intelligence models to bolster its advisory services …

Financial Times: Samsung has turned to Chinese customers like Baidu to prop up its ailing chip business; SemiAnalysis says Samsung is the “biggest supplier of HBM into China”  —  Deals with Chinese tech giant Baidu come as South Korean giant loses ground in US and navigates Washington's curbs

The Information: Sources: Google is in advanced talks to rent Nvidia Blackwell AI chips from CoreWeave, highlighting how major Nvidia customers are struggling to get chips  —  Google is in advanced talks to rent state-of-the-art Nvidia Blackwell chips for running artificial intelligence from CoreWeave …

Bloomberg: US announces a 34% “reciprocal” tariff hike on China, going into effect from April 9; economists: average US tariffs on Chinese products may get as high as 65%  —  The US has hit China with the biggest-ever tariff hike on almost all Chinese products, bringing total levies to at least 54% …

Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo: Key parts of the US Social Security site have crashed in the past week, as phone support is reduced; report: SSA's site was down four times in 10 days in March  —  Elon Musk's organization has been monkeying with America's retirement system, with no positive results so far.

Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: The White House says “de minimis” exemptions for packages under $800 from China and Hong Kong will end on May 2, affecting Temu, Shein, and other marketplaces  —  De minimis tariff exemptions, which currently allow packages worth as much as $800 from China and Hong Kong to enter the US duty free …

Tripp Mickle / New York Times: Apple shares drop 7%+ after hours after President Trump announced new tariffs, including 46% on Vietnam and 26% on India, where Apple has been moving production  —  The iPhone maker spent years trying to move production of some products out of China to avoid tariffs.  But now that may not matter.

Kif Leswing / CNBC: Tech stocks fall in late trading after President Trump announced new tariffs: Amazon drops as much as ~6%, Meta ~5%, Nvidia ~6%, Alphabet ~3%, and Microsoft ~3%  —  Apple slid more than 6% in late trading Wednesday and led a broader decline in tech stocks after President Donald Trump announced …

Bloomberg: Source: Scale AI generated ~$870M in 2024 revenue, with its annualized run rate reaching $1.5B by the end of 2024, and expects to generate $2B in 2025 revenue  —  Startup generated revenue of about $870 million last year.  —  Scale AI, a startup that helps companies develop artificial …

Abner Li / 9to5Google: Google unveils a NotebookLM “Discover sources” feature, which searches the web and recommends up to 10 sources for users to add to their notebooks  —  To date, NotebookLM works by having you manually add files and links, with Google now introducing a “Discover sources” button that searches the web for you.

Joey Roulette / Reuters: Amazon plans to launch the first 27 satellites for its Project Kuiper internet network on April 9, after launching two prototype satellites in 2023  —  Amazon.com said on Wednesday it plans to launch the first 27 satellites for its Project Kuiper internet network next week …

Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: Europol says German and Dutch authorities shut down Kidflix, a CSAM streaming platform with 1.8M+ users between April 2022 and March 2025, on March 11  —  Kidflix, one of the largest platforms used to host, share, and stream child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on the dark web …

Bloomberg: Siemens agrees to acquire Boston-based R&D scientific software company Dotmatics from Insight Partners for $5.1B, and expects the deal to close in H1 2026  —  Siemens AG has agreed to acquire Dotmatics for $5.1 billion as part of a push to provide more artificial intelligence software to life sciences companies.

Kaya Yurieff / The Information: Source: President Trump plans to announce TikTok America, a company that is ~50% owned by US investors and 19.9% by ByteDance, which would license the algorithm  —  President Donald Trump plans to announce later on Wednesday his plan for a new company called TikTok America …

Wall Street Journal: Sources: Zuckerberg is lobbying Trump for a settlement that would prevent Meta from facing an antitrust trial later this month; he visited the White House today  —  Meta Platforms CEO has visited the White House three times since the start of Trump's second term

Clive Cookson / Financial Times: Researchers detail a new AI-powered Probability of Fire model, which they say could outperform the conventional danger forecasts used by wildfire trackers  —  New model takes into account weather forecasts as well as other factors such as levels of flammable vegetation and human activity

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia: UMC, Taiwan's second-largest chipmaker, opened a $5B plant in Singapore featuring 22nm and 28nm manufacturing technology; mass production won't start until 2026  —  TAIPEI — Taiwan's second-largest chipmaker, United Microelectronics Corp., on Tuesday opened a $5 billion plant that it describes as the …

Amy Thomson / Bloomberg: Qualcomm says it is weighing an acquisition offer for Alphawave, which has a market cap of ~$1.3B and makes high-speed semiconductor and connectivity technology  —  The San Diego-based chip firm will have to make a decision about whether to make an offer by April 29 to comply with the UK's takeover rules …

Reuters: Sources: Arm decided not to pursue a deal after recently seeking to acquire Alphawave, a UK-listed supplier of semiconductor IP that is exploring a sale  —  SoftBank-owned chip tech provider Arm Holdings (O9Ty.F) recently sought to acquire UK-based Alphawave (AWE.L) to secure a crucial technology …

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Qualcomm acquires the generative AI division of Vietnamese startup VinAI, following the acquisition of German AI and IoT company Edge Impulse in early March  —  Qualcomm has acquired the generative AI division of VinAI, an AI research company headquartered in Hanoi, for an undisclosed amount, the companies announced on Monday.

Adrian Zmudzinski / Cointelegraph: Bybit shutters its NFT marketplace, following a similar decision by NFT marketplace X2Y2; Token Terminal: daily NFT trading volume has dropped 70% YoY to $5.34M  —  Bybit is shutting down its NFT and inscription marketplaces on April 8, 2025, as part of a broader strategy to streamline its offerings amid declining market interest.

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: In a new paper, Tim O'Reilly and other researchers say OpenAI likely trained GPT-4o on paywalled books from O'Reilly Media without a licensing agreement  —  OpenAI has been accused by many parties of training its AI on copyrighted content sans permission.  Now a new paper by an AI watchdog …

CJ Haddad / CNBC: Chef Robotics, which develops AI-powered robotic meal assembly systems, raised a $20.6M Series A led by Avataar Ventures, and an additional $22.5M in debt  —  As the food service industry continues to struggle with labor shortages, a Silicon Valley startup has put together artificially-intelligent robots that are ready to clock in.

Bloomberg: Sources: AI coding startup Replit is in talks with investors to raise about $200M at a $3B valuation, almost triple its last valuation  —  The new funding round would bring in about $200 million, one of the people said.  —  Replit did not respond to requests for comment.