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April 3, 2025, 12:25 PM

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Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Tech stocks fall after President Trump announced new global tariffs: Meta drops as much as ~8%, Amazon drops ~7%, Nvidia ~5%, Alphabet ~4%, and Microsoft ~3%  —  Apple slid more than 6% in late trading Wednesday and led a broader decline in tech stocks after President Donald Trump announced …
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Tripp Mickle / New York Times:
Apple shares drop 7%+ after President Trump announced new tariffs, including 46% on Vietnam and 26% on India, where Apple has been moving production from China  —  The iPhone maker spent years trying to move production of some products out of China to avoid tariffs.  But now that may not matter.
Dominic Preston / The Verge:
The White House appears to have used an oversimplified calculation that several major AI chatbots recommend to calculate reciprocal tariffs  —  ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude all recommend the same “nonsense” tariff calculation. … When President Donald Trump began yesterday's announcement …
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg:
The White House says de minimis tariff exemptions for up to $800 packages from China and Hong Kong will end on May 2, affecting marketplaces like Temu and Shein  —  De minimis tariff exemptions, which currently allow packages worth as much as $800 from China and Hong Kong to enter the US duty free …
Bloomberg:
Sources: Microsoft has halted talks for, or delayed development of, data center projects in Indonesia, the UK, Australia, Illinois, North Dakota, and Wisconsin  —  The software company has recently halted talks for, or delayed development of, sites in Indonesia, the UK, Australia, Illinois …
Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times:
Q&A with Christopher Bishop on leading Microsoft's AI for Science lab, why scientific discovery will be AI's single most important application, and more  —  The AI for Science lab director discusses the technology's capability to accelerate time-consuming research
Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer:
Europol says German and Dutch authorities shut down Kidflix, a CSAM dark web streaming platform with 1.8M users between April 2022 and March 2025, on March 11  —  Kidflix, one of the largest platforms used to host, share, and stream child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on the dark web …
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google unveils a NotebookLM “Discover sources” feature, which searches the web and recommends up to 10 “relevant sources” for users to add to their notebooks  —  To date, NotebookLM works by having you manually add files and links, with Google now introducing a …
Kaya Yurieff / The Information:
Source: President Trump plans to announce TikTok America, a company that is ~50% owned by US investors and 19.9% by ByteDance, which would license the algorithm  —  President Donald Trump plans to announce later on Wednesday his plan for a new company called TikTok America …

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