Dominic Preston / The Verge:
The White House appears to have used an oversimplified calculation that several major AI chatbots recommend to calculate reciprocal tariffs — ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude all recommend the same “nonsense” tariff calculation. … When President Donald Trump began yesterday’s announcement …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says 130M+ ChatGPT users have generated 700M+ images since the feature’s March 25 launch, and India is now the fastest-growing ChatGPT market — OpenAI’s new image-generation feature is on track to be one of the company’s most popular product launches ever.
Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg:
Sources: Oracle told some clients this week that hackers stole old login credentials, the second breach that Oracle acknowledged to clients in the past month — – FBI investigating the breach, software company told clients — Oracle informed health-care customers of separate March hack
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE:
Unframe, which lets companies deploy tailored AI products for any use case within hours, comes out of stealth with $50M in funding from Bessemer, TLV, others — Enterprise artificial intelligence platform startup Unframe Inc. launched today with an announcement that it has raised $50 million …
Bloomberg:
AI video startup Runway raised $308M led by General Atlantic, sources say at a $3B+ valuation, and plans to hire more filmmakers, screenwriters, and others — The deal, which is set to be announced Thursday, pushes Runway’s value to just over $3 billion, according to people familiar …
Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
Bitcoin fell ~5% to ~$81K, ether dropped 7%, and Solana fell 13% after President Trump unveiled new tariffs; Coinbase’s and MicroStrategy’s shares are down 6%+ — Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were under pressure Thursday after President Donald Trump’s big tariffs reveal jolted the stock market.
Anton Shilov / Tom’s Hardware:
Intel unveils a new slogan, “That’s the power of Intel Inside”, building on its Intel Inside campaign in 1991; its current marketing focuses on the Core series — From inside to outside? — Ever since Intel launched its ‘Intel Inside’ campaign in 1991, its brand identity …
Andrew Webster / The Verge:
Nintendo Switch 2 hands-on: larger than the Switch without being uncomfortable, flagship games play well, and the Joy-Con’s mouse-like mode mostly works well — The value proposition of the Nintendo Switch 2 may seem pretty clear, but it’s much more obvious when you use one.
Financial Times:
Plaid raised $575M at a $6.1B valuation, below its peak $13B+ valuation in 2021, mostly to cover employees’ tax bills for those converting RSUs to common stock — Pioneer of open banking will use $575mn raised from BlackRock and others to cover employee taxes and share buybacks
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Sources: Ireland’s DPC will fine TikTok €500M+ before the end of April for illegally shipping European users’ data to China, after a lengthy GDPR investigation — The penalty is likely to be the third highest ever dished out by the Irish watchdog following earlier fines of €746 million …
