🚨 AI Gone Wild, Tesla Hits the Brakes

Happy Friday. Wall Street’s doing the worm on hot concrete (again), Tesla just yeeted its gains into the sun, and Google’s Gemini is writing fiction so wild it makes Game of Thrones Season 8 look plausible.

Meanwhile, Microsoft’s Copilot is offering to file your taxes. Cool. Maybe it can also explain why you claimed your cat as a "home office security consultant."

Let’s merge into the smartest 3-minute read of your week — no fluff, just fire.

What’s Merging Today:
• Gemini caught “hallucinating” headlines 🎭
• Tesla tanks after Q1 delivery flop + tariffs 🚗💨 
• Amazon’s AI army: 1,000+ projects 🧠
• Microsoft’s Copilot now does taxes (yikes) 💸
• Merge Tools to automate everything 🛠️

📡 SIGNAL, NOT NOISE

Google Gemini: AI’s Fake News Intern?

Gemini, Google’s flagship AI, just started sprinkling fanfic into the search results — and not subtly. We’re talking about AI-generated search results serving up fake treaties, imaginary events, and sources that don’t exist. One user reported a headline claiming Netflix partnered with Starbucks to sponsor naptime. (We're listening, but still...)

🔍 What happened?
Gemini’s “creative mode” appears to have slipped into regular search — where people expect real answers, not improv comedy. Think: Clippy with a journalism degree… forged online.

🤦 The problem?
Search is sacred. It’s where billions go to figure out what’s real. When your AI treats it like Mad Libs, you’ve got a trust crisis — and not just for Google.

💡 Takeaway:
AI hallucinations stopped being cute 100 headlines ago. They’re public-facing, brand-denting, and trust-shattering. If ChatGPT is the reliable overachiever, Gemini just became the class clown with a plagiarism record.

👀 Meanwhile…
OpenAI is suspiciously quiet. You know it’s bad when your rival doesn’t even need to tweet.

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🧨 MERGE MARKETS

*Stock data as of market close on April 10, 2025. Crypto data as of 6:00 PM ET.

💥 Markets Got Mauled:
Wall Street got body-slammed across the board. The NASDAQ led the faceplant with a brutal 4.3% drop, dragged down by tech volatility and rate fears.

📉 Tesla:
Down 7.27% after Q1 flopped, tariffs spooked the Street, and Elon’s Robotaxi hype ran out of battery. Investors are suddenly asking, “Wait… was that just a tweet?”

📉 Coinbase:
Down over 4% as regulatory chatter continues to haunt crypto like a ghost in the blockchain.

📈 10-Year:
Spiked 20 basis points, signaling that investors are nervous — and probably hoarding TUMS.

🔮 Outlook:
The market is a red sea, and AI might be the only lifeboat. Until someone asks it to do taxes.

🤖 AI ON THE MOVE

Amazon Quietly Becomes the Walmart of AI

Amazon didn’t join the AI race — it bought the track, rewrote the rules, and started timing itself. CEO Andy Jassy announced over 1,000 generative AI projects are live across Alexa, AWS, Prime Video, logistics, healthcare, and yes — probably your fridge.

🧠 Jassy Quote: “Generative AI will transform every customer experience.”

🚨 Translation: Alexa’s not just playing music anymore. She’s planning your grocery list, preordering cough drops, and silently judging your fourth Hot Pocket.

🔧 Big Bets:

• Custom Trainium chips for scale

• AI baked into every AWS service

• Personal shopping so predictive, it knows what you want before you do

💡 Takeaway: Amazon is quietly becoming AI’s infrastructure layer — the duct tape holding your digital life together. Just don’t ask Alexa what she thinks of your late-night Amazon cart.

🧠 Bonus: Alexa may finally stop playing Baby Shark when you ask for “focus music.”

🧰 MERGE TOOLS

Wipe the week with tools that work:

• Adobe AI Blur – Replace your Zoom mess with beach vibes

• Loom AI – Auto-summarizes your calls (finally)

• ElevenLabs Voice Cloning – Say what you mean, but sassier

• OpusClip – Turn long rants into viral clips

• Superpowered – Real-time, human-sounding meeting notes

🛠️ Stack them before your calendar revolts… Or combusts.

🛒 MERGE FINDS

New tech toys we haven’t featured — all AI-powered, all worth a look:

1. Rabbit R1 
   An AI-powered pocket assistant that runs apps for you, no screen required.
   

2. XREAL Beam 
   Wearable AR projector that turns any surface into a screen.
   

3. Seergrills Perfecta AI Grill
   Grills steak with heat vision and machine learning.
   

4. NoteGBT’s AI Tab Manager
   AI tab manager that sorts your digital chaos into sanity.
   

5. AI Pin by Humane 
   Pin it on, talk to it, let it take notes. It’s a digital post-it… but smarter.

   
   

💡 We only feature stuff we’d recommend to friends. Or use on Zoom without shame.

🗞️ WHAT ELSE IS MERGING

• 💰 Microsoft Copilot wants to do your taxes. What could go wrong? (Besides the audit.)

• 🏬 UK retail icons folding under low foot traffic. RIP Uncle Sam’s Vintage.

• 🤖 TikTok’s AI avatars are too real. Your excuses? Not so much.

• 🧠 NVIDIA + Harvard = Quantum tag team. Skynet interns incoming.

• 🏛️ White House eases AI rules. Bold move, Cotton.

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