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• Microsoft says Asia’s climb up the value chain—from ‘made in’ to ‘created in’—will make it a hub for AI adoption April 29, 2025
  “We are consuming more AI than the rest of the world,” Microsoft Asia president Rodrigo Kede Lima notes. “The region is ahead on AI.”
  Nicholas Gordon
• U.S. tariffs will hasten, not slow, China’s drive for tech self-sufficiency April 29, 2025
  The next time the U.S. tries something like the H20 chip ban, it may mean very little to the China AI ecosystem.
  Grace Shao
• UPS in talks with startup Figure AI to deploy humanoid robots April 28, 2025
  UPS is in talks with Figure AI to use humanoid robots for some tasks in the logistics giant’s network.
  Jackie Davalos, Bloomberg
• Musk ‘super fan’ eyes Texas shift for $110 billion MercadoLibre April 28, 2025
  MercadoLibre co-founder and Chief Executive Officer Marcos Galperin has expressed admiration for Elon Musk.
  Daniel Cancel, Bloomberg
• U.S. stocks rebound late in the day to finish positive after earlier drawdowns April 28, 2025
  Investors are still looking to potential trade deals to offer some certainty moving forward.
  Paolo Confino
• Trump’s trade war means empty shelves are looming: How long until consumers feel the pain April 28, 2025
  "It is quite evident that the impact of the trade war has caused many shippers to pause, or outright cancel, shipments," says one container-shipping expert.
  Alicia Adamczyk
• BlackRock is piling money into the U.K. as Larry Fink claims the country has discovered its ‘capitulation point’ April 28, 2025
  Larry Fink is hitting the U.K. economy with all guns blazing, provided he can find the office space.
  Ryan Hogg
• ‘Godfather of AI’ says AI is like a cute tiger cub—unless you know it won’t turn on you, you should worry April 28, 2025
  Geoffrey Hinton, one of the “godfathers of AI,” is warning that the technology he helped create could take control of humans.
  Beatrice Nolan
• James Dyson, one of U.K.’s most celebrated business tycoons, thinks experienced hires are overrated April 28, 2025
  At Dyson, the consumer electronics company, “experience doesn’t help us very much and, in fact, it can get in the way,” its billionaire founder says.   
  Prarthana Prakash
• Nail salon employee pleads guilty after holding 13 remote IT jobs worked by developers in China April 27, 2025
  The man had no experience in IT, but he let overseas workers use his driver’s license and U.S. passport to get jobs in tech.
  Amanda Gerut