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Blue Water Autonomy, which says it is building a 100-ton autonomous naval ship, emerges from stealth with a $14M seed from Eclipse VC, Riot, and Impatient (Sean O'Kane/TechCrunch)

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Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Optilogic, a supply chain software provider, raised a $40M Series B led by NewRoad Capital and launches a tariff optimization tool (Colin Campbell/Axios)

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A group of former OpenAI employees file an amicus brief in support of Elon Musk in his lawsuit opposing OpenAI's for-profit transition (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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There is increasing uncertainty about China approving Synopsys' $35B Ansys acquisition, amid the escalating tariff fight between the US and China (Bloomberg)

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How Nintendo is navigating tariff chaos, including shipping an estimated 1.7M Switch 2 units to the US before tariffs took effect, assembling in Vietnam, more (Christopher Mims/Wall Street Journal)

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China exempts products from AMD, Nvidia, Intel, Qualcomm, and others that are made by Taiwanese companies like TSMC from the 125% tariff on US products (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)

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SmartScout: China-based electronics accessories maker Anker has raised prices by ~18% on a fifth of its products on Amazon, as US starts applying new tariffs (Reuters)

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BlackRock's crypto ETFs saw $3B in net inflows in Q1 2025, down 83% QoQ; BlackRock had ~$50.3B in digital assets at the end of Q1, or 0.5% of its total assets (Helene Braun/CoinDesk)

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OpenAI will retire GPT-4, launched over two years ago, from ChatGPT on April 30, to be "fully replaced" by GPT-4o; GPT-4 will remain available in OpenAI's API (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

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Ireland's DPC launches a probe into how personal data in publicly accessible X posts was used to train Grok, which could stoke tensions between the EU and US (Ellen O'Regan/Politico)

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China's retail giants launch initiatives to help Chinese exporters pivot to the domestic market in response to the US trade war; JD.com launched a $27B fund (Reuters)

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Microsoft is rolling out a preview of its Recall AI feature to Copilot+ PCs, after previously delaying its launch twice over security and privacy concerns (Jay Peters/The Verge)

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US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cuts $5.1B in IT and consulting contracts, including with Accenture and Deloitte, calling them "wasteful spending" (Business Insider)

US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cuts $5.1B in IT...

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AI reasoning models cost more to benchmark, making it harder to independently verify claims; Artificial Analysis: OpenAI's o1 costs $2,767.05 to evaluate (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

AI reasoning models cost more to benchmark, making...

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Sources: Tim Cook approved doubling Apple's AI chips budget in 2023 after John Giannandrea sought more GPUs, but CFO Luca Maestri cut the increase to under half (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)

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Madrid-based Jobandtalent, which connects gig workers with companies, raised a $103M Series F at a $1.5B valuation, down from its $500M Series E at $2.35B (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Madrid-based Jobandtalent, which connects gig work...

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Bermuda-based Meanwhile, which offers life insurance to US citizens with BTC holdings, raised a $40M Series A led by Framework and Fulgur at a $190M valuation (Catherine McGrath/Fortune)

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American small-business owners who source goods from overseas, especially from China, and sell them online, face acute uncertainty about the tariffs' impact (Caroline O'Donovan/Washington Post)

American small-business owners who source goods fr...

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