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- The US FDA cleared Neuralink rival Precision Neuroscience in late March 2025 to offer a less invasive brain implant; the device contains 1,024 metal electrodes (Ike Swetlitz/Bloomberg)
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- The Wikimedia Foundation partners with Kaggle to release a dataset of "structured Wikipedia content in English and French" optimized for AI model training (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
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- TSMC CEO C. C. Wei says "TSMC is not engaged in any discussion with other companies regarding any joint venture", after a recent report of a tie-up with Intel (Bloomberg)
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang arrived in China on April 16 and visited Beijing on April 17, a source says to meet officials to discuss Trump's new chip export rules (Financial Times)
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- Sources: Nvidia has privately pushed back against new US export rules, arguing China can already make some H20-level chips; Nvidia sold ~$12B of H20s in FY 2024 (Wall Street Journal)
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- In Q1 2025, AI and ML startups raised $73.1B, accounting for 57.9% of global VC funding, with OpenAI's recent round led by SoftBank contributing $40B (Jacob Robbins/PitchBook)
- Smashing, an AI-powered news and social media posts aggregation app by Goodreads co-founder Otis Chandler, shuts down, citing its inability to grow quickly (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
- Konvoy: the gaming industry saw 43 M&A transactions and 77 VC deals in Q1 2025, and the sector is projected to be worth $186B in 2026, a 4.7% YoY jump (Rachel Kaser/VentureBeat)
- Workers and researchers say data annotation jobs that many Venezuelans relied on have become scarce and poorly paid with the rise of generative AI (Laura Rodríguez Salamanca/Rest of World)
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- TSMC reports Q1 net income up 60.3% YoY to $11.1B, beating estimates, as customers stockpiled chips anticipating global trade disruptions spurred by US tariffs (Jane Lanhee Lee/Bloomberg)
- China bans automakers from using "smart driving" or "autonomous driving" in ads for driver-assist tech and tightens scrutiny after a fatal Xiaomi EV crash (Reuters)
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- Docusign unveils AI contract agents, which can analyze agreements and surface issues that usually require human intervention, available by the end of 2025 (Larry Dignan/Constellation Research)
- Auradine, which manufactures Bitcoin miners and offers AI infrastructure, raised a $153M Series C, with $138M in equity and $15M in debt, led by StepStone Group (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
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- The US House opens a probe on whether Nvidia knowingly provided AI tech to DeepSeek in violation of US rules and asks Nvidia for details on its Asian customers (New York Times)
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- Tech stocks plunge amid uncertainty over US tariff plans and China export controls: AMD, Nvidia, and ASML dropped 7%, Applied Materials and Lam Research fell 5% (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
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