Author: Paul
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The CEO of humanoid robot startup Figure AI, which has raised $700M+ to date, seemingly exaggerated its deployment of robots at BMW in interviews and posts (Jason Del Rey/Fortune)
Jason Del Rey / Fortune: The CEO of humanoid robot startup Figure AI, which has raised $700M+ to date, seemingly exaggerated its deployment of robots at BMW in interviews and posts — When Figure AI, a high-profile humanoid robot startup, announced a commercial agreement with automaker BMW early last year …
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An unreleased version of a Waymo privacy policy found by Jane Manchun Wong says it may use interior camera data to train AI models and sell ads, with an opt out (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch: An unreleased version of a Waymo privacy policy found by Jane Manchun Wong says it may use interior camera data to train AI models and sell ads, with an opt out — Waymo is preparing to use data from its robotaxis, including video from interior cameras tied to rider identities …
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Krea, which helps creators generate AI content using the best available models, raised a $47M Series B and a $33M Series A; sources: Krea is valued at $500M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Krea, which helps creators generate AI content using the best available models, raised a $47M Series B and a $33M Series A; sources: Krea is valued at $500M — Overwhelmed with trying to keep up with the different models you can now use to build your content using AI?
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Sources: the board of directors of clothing inventory monetization startup CaaStle let its CEO remain after fraud allegations and took months to warn investors (Dan Primack/Axios)
Dan Primack / Axios: Sources: the board of directors of clothing inventory monetization startup CaaStle let its CEO remain after fraud allegations and took months to warn investors — The most stunning part of the CaaStle fraud allegations isn’t that a huckster CEO burned through $530 million …
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President Trump posts that the US will impose additional tariffs on China of 50%, effective April 9, unless China withdraws its 34% retaliatory tariffs (Ben Berkowitz/Axios)
Ben Berkowitz / Axios: President Trump posts that the US will impose additional tariffs on China of 50%, effective April 9, unless China withdraws its 34% retaliatory tariffs — President Trump on Monday threatened to impose an extra 50% tariff on China, but opened the door to talks with other nations on a path to…
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Officials: Apple sent five planes full of iPhones and other products from India to the US in just three days in the last week of March to avoid the 10% tariff (Times of India)
Times of India: Officials: Apple sent five planes full of iPhones and other products from India to the US in just three days in the last week of March to avoid the 10% tariff — Apple transported five plane full of iPhones and other products from India to the US in just three days during…
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Q&A with Nintendo of America VP of Product Bill Trinen on pricing first-party games like Mario Kart World at $80, Joy-Con 2 and using it as a mouse, and more (Logan Plant/IGN)
Logan Plant / IGN: Q&A with Nintendo of America VP of Product Bill Trinen on pricing first-party games like Mario Kart World at $80, Joy-Con 2 and using it as a mouse, and more — On price, mouse controls, and a lot more. … Nintendo has finally pulled back the curtain on Nintendo Switch 2…
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US tech stocks fall for a third session after Trump’s tariffs as markets open: Apple and Tesla drop 5%+, while Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet fall ~1% (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
Samantha Subin / CNBC: US tech stocks fall for a third session after Trump’s tariffs as markets open: Apple and Tesla drop 5%+, while Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet fall ~1% — Technology stocks fell for a third session on Monday, continuing the momentum of last week’s devastating selloff …
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Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser says the company is “actively assessing” the impact of US tariffs, and they “weren’t factored into” Switch 2 pricing (Megan Farokhmanesh/Wired)
Megan Farokhmanesh / Wired: Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser says the company is “actively assessing” the impact of US tariffs, and they “weren’t factored into” Switch 2 pricing — Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser tells WIRED the company is still figuring out how to address tariffs …
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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 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
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.
