Welcome to the Tech meme right home for Thursday, April 10th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today. At the time of this writing, the tariffs are back off, but who knows what will happen by the time you hear this.

Open AI sues back. Google wants a framework for AI agents to talk to each other. Oh, and how many iPhones can you pack in a

jumbo jet? Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

Well, you know, I guess, JK, JK, JK, JK, I'm sure you've heard that a lot of the Trump tariffs were

reversed yesterday, and as I type these words, the stock market is a bit down this morning.

But yesterday afternoon, the NASDAQ jumped more than 12% on the news of the tariff reversal.

Invidia closed up 18.7%. Apple closed up 15 and a half percent. Meta, 14.8%, Amazon, 12%,

Microsoft, 10.1%, and alphabet 9.9%. Though there is this, quoting CNBC. The president also said in a

social media post that he was raising the tariffs imposed on imports from China to 125%,

quote, effective immediately due to the, quote, lack of respect that China has shown to the world

markets, end quote. China, which is the U.S.'s third largest trading partner earlier Wednesday

said it would increase its tariff rate for imports from the U.S. to 84%, end quote.

Now, this 90-day tariff pause does give Nintendo, whose stock closed up 11.7%. Time to prep the

Switch 2's U.S. launch on June 5th, after all, I guess. According Bloomberg,

roughly a third of Switch 2 units are assembled in Vietnam, which would have been subject

to a 46% levy, but now only faces the 10% universal tariff imposed by Donald Trump's administration.

Nintendo can focus all that production on the U.S. and stock up as many units as possible

over the next three months.

The company is preparing for what the industry expects to be the largest gaming console launch in history. Hoysen Corp, one of three main switch-to-assemblers, shipped more

devices in February to the U.S. from Vietnam than in the previous six months combined,

according to customs data provided by NBD. That suggests Nintendo can build a stockpile of millions

of consoles from the

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