😽 Markets Brace for ‘Black Monday’

The crypto market is in sharp decline, with Bitcoin slipping below $75,000 — a continuation of the panic triggered by Donald Trump’s newly announced economic measures.

Asian stock markets were hit first, with Japan’s Nikkei 225 and South Korea’s KOSPI dropping so fast that trading was briefly halted. U.S. stock futures and commodity prices also plunged, sending shockwaves through crypto markets.

Starting April 2, Trump imposed sweeping tariffs on imports from over 200 countries and territories: 20% on the EU, 34% on China, and 46% on India. Even the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands made the list.

According to Reuters, Wall Street is bracing for at least a week of market volatility. The S&P 500 has already dropped 10%, with listed companies losing over $5 trillion in market value.

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🍏 iPhones, Incoming

Apple flew in five planeloads of iPhones and gadgets from India to the U.S. → all within three days and right before the new import tariffs hit.

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😆 Not friends anymore?

Elon Musk asked Trump to roll back the new tariffs → and got a hard no.

The new rules, signed April 2, impose duties of up to 50% on goods from 185 countries. Starting April 5, a 10% base rate now applies to all imports.

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⛔️ It’s Not Slowing Down

Starting April 9, the U.S. will impose a 104% tariff on Chinese goods → a direct response to Beijing’s refusal to drop its retaliatory tariffs.

The White House says similar penalties could hit other countries that don’t stand down.

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😎 At long last

Meta is finally building a native Instagram app for iPad → after years of saying the user base was too small.

The decision comes as the U.S. tightens pressure on TikTok, and Meta moves to strengthen its grip on the market.

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📱 Surprise Patch Drop

Google → just rolled out an emergency security update for Android. Both are zero-day vulnerabilities — and one was already exploited in the wild without any user interaction.

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😄 Tariff Time-Out

Trump has postponed the broader import tariffs → for over 75 countries, reducing rates to 10% for the next 90 days.

The exception is China — now facing a steep 125% duty after enforcing its own retaliatory measures.

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🛸 Premium Thoughts, Premium Price

Anthropic has launched its most expensive Claude plan yet → $200/month for the new “Max” tier. That gets you 20x the usage of the $18 Pro plan, though limits still apply.

The company says it’s testing how far users will go to pay for cutting-edge AI access.

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🧑‍⚖️ OpenAI sues Elon Musk

OpenAI has filed a countersuit against Elon Musk. What exactly the company is demanding — we break it down here.

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🍏 AIMLess at Apple

Insiders say Apple’s AI → efforts stalled due to poor leadership and a lack of clear direction.

Siri’s team reportedly learned about new “AI features” during the WWDC keynote — at the same time as everyone else.

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🤔 Fold Me Once

Insiders say Apple is working on a massive 19-inch foldable device → possibly a MacBook–iPad hybrid. If all goes to plan, production starts late 2026, with a release expected in 2027.

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😘 Elon, if you're reading this...

U.S. President comments on relationship with Elon Musk: says he’s doing “a fantastic job” running the Department of Government Efficiency.

Trump also recalled why he bought a Tesla back in March 2025 — and under what terms.

“Everyone was asking me, ‘Oh, did you get a bargain?’ No. I said, ‘Give me the top price.’ I paid a lot of money for that car,” he said.

Bloomberg previously reported that Musk was seen as a “major beneficiary” of Trump’s return to the White House, with some even calling him a “shadow president” after the election.

Trump has repeatedly praised Musk, calling him a “special guy,” a “super genius,” and a “new star,” and publicly backed Tesla during protests over the billionaire’s political stance.

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❤️ This weekend in #TECH

💘 ChatGPT topped global app downloads in March with 46M installs, followed by Telegram in the top 10.

💘 Sony announced a 25% price hike for the PlayStation 5 across multiple regions.

💘 The recent U.S. tariff exemption on smartphones, laptops, and other electronics has been confirmed as temporary. New sector-specific duties are expected within one to two months.

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🧠 GPT-4.1 is here

OpenAI has introduced GPT-4.1 for developers → a faster, cheaper, and more capable successor to GPT-4o. It offers a 1 million token context window and comes in three versions: Standard, Mini, and Nano.

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