🧾 Big Tech’s messiest week yet

Happy Friday. Microsoft's AI just made headlines (and legal filings), Google's CEO got deepfaked into a crypto ad, and Elon’s X made the ‘Report Misinformation’ button vanish like your last tweet

Also inside: AI tools to rescue your sanity, a deepfake scandal at Google, and 5 facts to wreck your group chat’s confidence.

Merge into the smartest 3-minute read of your week — no fluff, just fire.

What’s Merging Today:

• 🧠 OpenAI rolls out memory for all users
• 🧯 Google deepfaked into crypto chaos
• 🧾 Microsoft sued over Recall AI
• 🎬 Netflix debuts AI-powered thumbnails
• 🐦 Elon’s X deletes “Report Misinformation”

🤯 MERGE MINDBLOWERS

5 Facts to drop in a pitch meeting, then vanish like a magician:

1. Nvidia's latest chip packs 180 billion transistors — that's 20,000x the Apollo 11 computer. All to render your cat in ultra-HD

2. 93% of Fortune 500 companies now use at least one AI tool weekly.

3. The average Gmail user receives 26 AI-suggested replies per day.

4. China banned AI models from “spreading rumors” — which reportedly includes criticizing pandas.

5. OpenAI’s ChatGPT now consumes as much daily electricity as 100,000 U.S. homes.

📡 SIGNAL, NOT NOISE

Microsoft’s Recall AI Gets Sued 

Microsoft’s new AI-powered “Recall” feature for Copilot+ PCs automatically screenshots everything you do — supposedly for productivity.

👀 Privacy experts and users? Not thrilled. A new lawsuit calls Recall "the creepiest clipboard in history" and alleges wiretap violations.

🔍 What’s at stake:

• Whether local AI can legally record your screen without consent.

• If AI-enhanced productivity will always come at the cost of privacy.

💡 Takeaway: Microsoft just learned that in the AI age, memory isn't always a feature — sometimes it's evidence.

🤖 AI ON THE MOVE

Google’s Deepfaked Its Own CEO (Oops)

An AI-generated video of Google CEO Sundar Pichai promoting a fake crypto scam went viral — and it fooled even Googlers.

🧠 Why it matters:

• The video was so realistic, mid-level employees flagged it as real internally.

• Worse? It was made with open-source tools — proof that deepfakes don’t need fancy tech to cause chaos.

💡 Takeaway: Deepfakes just hit the C-suite. Regulation isn’t coming — it’s now overdue.

🧰 MERGE TOOLS

AI tools that slap (and might quietly steal your job):

• uPresenter – Turn a prompt into a sleek, editable presentation. Great for pitches, decks, and team updates.

• Veed.io – Turn Zoom calls into shareable clips with auto subtitles.

• NotebookLM – Google’s AI note-taker that summarizes, explains, and organizes your docs in seconds.

• Saleswhale – AI follow-ups even your ghosted leads will read.

• Loopin – Real-time AI meeting summaries and auto reminders that don’t suck.

🛠️ Add them now or envy your faster, lazier friends later.

🧨 MERGE MARKETS

*Stock data as of market close on April 17, 2025. Crypto data as of 6:00 PM ET.

📈 Bright Spot:

Eli Lilly surged over 14% after strong earnings and a major FDA nod for its weight-loss drug. Big Pharma’s back — and slimmer than ever.

📉 Rough Ride:

UnitedHealth got body-slammed with a 22% drop after a grim outlook and mounting regulatory pressure. Healthcare stocks are officially on life support.

🔮 Outlook: Mixed bag on Wall Street. Big Tech stayed relatively calm while healthcare stocks got dragged. All eyes now shift to upcoming earnings from Tesla and Microsoft.

🗞️ WHAT ELSE IS MERGING

• 🐦 Elon’s X quietly removed all “Report Misinformation” buttons

• 💼 OpenAI adds memory opt-out toggle to settings

• 📱 Samsung reveals AI-powered Bixby upgrade (finally)

• 🎮 Meta’s AI NPCs are now live in Horizon Worlds

• 🧪 Researchers develop AI that can smell through molecular prediction

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