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The US NHTSA opens an investigation into Alphabet’s Waymo, covering an estimated 444 vehicles and following 22 reports of 22 incidents, including 17 collisions — U.S. auto safety regulators said on Tuesday they have opened an investigation into the performance of Alphabet’s Waymo (GOOGL.O) …
A Dutch judge finds Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev guilty and sentences him to 64 months; Pertsev was jailed in August 2022 over alleged money laundering (Camomile Shumba/CoinDesk)
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A Dutch judge finds Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev guilty and sentences him to 64 months; Pertsev was jailed in August 2022 over alleged money laundering — Alexey Pertsev was first jailed in the Netherlands in August 2022. — Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev has been found guilty …
Square Enix falls 16%, the biggest decline in 13 years, after President Takashi Kiryu said sales of its big-budget games, exclusive to PlayStation, fell short (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)
Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:
Square Enix falls 16%, the biggest decline in 13 years, after President Takashi Kiryu said sales of its big-budget games, exclusive to PlayStation, fell short — – Big titles released on PlayStation fell short, president says — Games development overhaul seen taking time to bear fruit
Alibaba reports Q4 revenue up 6.6% YoY to ~$30.7B, above $30.4B est., a ~$452M net income, down 86% YoY from ~$3.2B in Q4 2023, and announces a $4B dividend (Sarah Zheng/Bloomberg)
Sarah Zheng / Bloomberg:
Alibaba reports Q4 revenue up 6.6% YoY to ~$30.7B, above $30.4B est., a ~$452M net income, down 86% YoY from ~$3.2B in Q4 2023, and announces a $4B dividend — Revenue for the three months ended March rose to 221.9 billion yuan ($30.7 billion), compared with analysts’ estimates for 219.8 billion yuan.
Source: at a private event, Google demonstrated a Chromium OS build running in a virtual machine on a Pixel 8, but did not say if this build would ever ship (Mishaal Rahman/Android Authority)
Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority:
Source: at a private event, Google demonstrated a Chromium OS build running in a virtual machine on a Pixel 8, but did not say if this build would ever ship — Google privately demoed this capability to other companies recently. — • — TL;DR — Google has developed a method to run Chrome OS on its Pixel devices.
The US plans to sharply raise tariffs on imports from China including semiconductors, EVs, and batteries, impacting $18B of products; chip tariffs start in 2025 (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)
Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
The US plans to sharply raise tariffs on imports from China including semiconductors, EVs, and batteries, impacting $18B of products; chip tariffs start in 2025 — Action designed to protect American jobs, as Joe Biden campaigns for votes across rustbelt — The Biden administration …
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT voice assistant jokes, chides, apologizes, pretends to blush, and deals with interruptions, aided by building GPT-4o as a single model (Ina Fried/Axios)
Ina Fried / Axios:
OpenAI’s new ChatGPT voice assistant jokes, chides, apologizes, pretends to blush, and deals with interruptions, aided by building GPT-4o as a single model — – The bot spoke in a sprightly female voice, responding far faster to queries than previous generations of voice-bots …
Intel announces another Foundry leadership change, naming Marvell executive Kevin O’Buckley as SVP, replacing longtime executive Stu Pann, in the role a year (Ian King/Bloomberg)
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Intel announces another Foundry leadership change, naming Marvell executive Kevin O’Buckley as SVP, replacing longtime executive Stu Pann, in the role a year — O’Buckley was named senior vice president and general manager of foundry services, the unit tasked with manufacturing chips for outside clients.
Sony reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to ~$22.4B, above ~$18.5B est., operating profit up 57% YoY to ~$1.5B, and sold 20.8M PS5 units in FY 2023, below guidance (Ryan Browne/CNBC)
Ryan Browne / CNBC:
Sony reports Q4 revenue up 14% YoY to ~$22.4B, above ~$18.5B est., operating profit up 57% YoY to ~$1.5B, and sold 20.8M PS5 units in FY 2023, below guidance — Sony on Tuesday reported a 7% drop in annual profits in the fiscal year 2023, dragged down by a decline in its financial services division.
Tencent reports Q1 revenue up 6% YoY to ~$22B, above ~$21.95B est., and net profit up 62% YoY to ~$5.8B, above ~$4.8B est., boosted by new WeChat monetization (Zheping Huang/Bloomberg)
Zheping Huang / Bloomberg:
Tencent reports Q1 revenue up 6% YoY to ~$22B, above ~$21.95B est., and net profit up 62% YoY to ~$5.8B, above ~$4.8B est., boosted by new WeChat monetization — Tencent Holdings Ltd.’s revenue beat estimates after its WeChat super-app propelled growth in advertising and gaming despite a faltering Chinese economic recovery.
