⛏️ Shovel-ready for AI

Let’s sync up. Welcome to the very first edition of The Morning Merge — where we cut through the noise and give you what actually matters across tech, AI, business, and beyond.

And since it’s April Fools’ Day… we triple-checked every headline. Shockingly, they’re all real.

Whats Merging Today:
• AMD bets $4.9B on AI server dominance 💪
• Apple’s next doctor? Your iPhone 🍏
• Brain chip lets man speak by thinking 🧠
• Markets start Q2 with a pulse
• 5 AI tools to actually save you time
• Facial recognition at Asda, CoreWeave’s IPO, OpenAI’s open model & more

SIGNAL, NOT NOISE

AMD drops $4.9B to muscle into AI data centers 🚛

AMD is done playing nice. The chipmaker just shelled out $4.9 billion to acquire ZT Systems, a company that builds AI-optimized servers for cloud giants like Microsoft and Meta. This isn’t about graphics cards anymore — AMD wants to own the whole AI hardware stack.

The deal adds 1,500 engineers to its roster and signals a full-court press into the data center space, where Nvidia has long dominated with its end-to-end AI systems. Instead of just supplying the parts, AMD now wants to design the machines that train your favorite models.

💡 Takeaway: In the AI gold rush, Nvidia’s selling picks. AMD just bought the mine, the shovels, and half the crew.

MERGE MARKETS
YEAR-TO-DATE

*Stock data as of market close on March 31, 2025. Crypto data as of 6:00 PM ET.

Q1 closed with risk assets under pressure. The S&P 500 fell 4.27%, while the NASDAQ-100 sank 8.25% on tech and growth stock weakness. Bitcoin slid 11.79%, retracing gains after a strong 2024. AMD underperformed, down 14.55% despite AI tailwinds. Meanwhile, the 10-year Treasury yield dropped 30 bps, signaling a flight to safety as macro uncertainty lingers.

AI ON THE MOVE

Apple’s quietly building your next health coach 🏋️‍♂️

Apple’s latest AI project might be its most personal yet. Internally dubbed “Project Mulberry,” the company is developing a health-focused AI coach that lives on your iPhone.

Pulling from your Apple Watch, Health app, and more, it’ll offer real-time, tailored wellness advice — think sleep, nutrition, and exercise nudges — without triggering the FDA’s red tape.

The goal? Turn your iPhone into a preventative care sidekick — always watching, learning, and gently suggesting you drink more water and order fewer late-night burgers.

🩺 Prediction: You’ll ask your phone about your heart rate before calling your doctor… and probably trust it more.

MERGE TOOLS

• 🧑‍💻 Cursor — GPT-4 coding assistant built into your IDE. Blazing fast.

• 🎙️ Rewind Pendant — Wearable mic that records and transcribes everything you hear/say. Yes, really.

• 📋 Supermanage — Preps you for 1:1s by summarizing your team’s Slack convos. Instant Chief of Staff.

• 🧠 MindStudio — Build custom AI apps and chatbots without touching a line of code. Drag, drop, deploy.

• 💡 TLDR This — Paste any URL or block of text and get an instant AI-powered summary. Bookmark it now.
  

🗞️ WHAT ELSE IS MERGING

• Brain-to-speech breakthrough: UK patient speaks through a brain chip that converts thoughts into words.

• Asda trials facial recognition in stores to deter shoplifting.

• Amazon quietly launches ‘Nova,’ its new AI agent

• Old Navy debuts ‘RADAR,’ its AI-powered inventory tracker.

• OpenAI to release an open-weight reasoning model (its first since GPT-2).

• Isomorphic Labs (Alphabet) raises $600M to bring AI into drug discovery.

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