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| Elisabeth Buchwald / CNN: |
The White House says that tariffs on China are set to rise to 104% at 12:01am ET on April 9 after China missed Trump's deadline to remove its reciprocal tariffs — President Donald Trump is set to impose an astounding 104% in levies across all Chinese imports on Wednesday …
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
Sources and a document: Amazon canceled orders for multiple products made in China and other Asian countries after Trump's April 2 global tariffs announcement — The orders for beach chairs, scooters, air conditioners and other merchandise from multiple Amazon vendors were halted …
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Forums: r/wallstreetbets, r/technology, r/StockMarket, and r/worldnews
| Reuters: |
Call transcript: Luxshare Chair Wang Laichun says the iPhone and AirPods maker is in talks with clients to move more production from China, including to the US — Apple (AAPL.O) supplier Luxshare (002475.SZ) is in talks with customers on ways to respond to U.S. tariffs by shifting …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says that President Trump “believes” the US has the labor, workforce, and resources to build iPhones in the US — Trump's massive 104% tariffs on China are set to go into effect at midnight tonight, a move that will have a major impact on Apple and its supply chain.
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: to avoid tariffs, Apple, Dell, Microsoft, Lenovo, and others pressed suppliers to fly as many $3,000+ devices as possible to the US before April 9 — TAIPEI/PALO ALTO, California — Ever since Donald Trump was elected president back in November, the world's biggest electronics brands …
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| Karthikeyan Sundaram / Bloomberg: |
White House document: the US will tax imports of items priced up to $800 at 90% of their value, up from a prior plan of a 30% levy, targeting Chinese retailers — The escalating trade war between the US and China saw President Donald Trump raise tariffs even further on small parcels that were until now exempt from taxes.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Cloud Next: Google unveils Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU and the first for inference, coming later in 2025 in a 256-chip cluster or a 9,216-chip cluster — During its Cloud Next conference this week, Google unveiled the latest generation of its TPU AI accelerator chip.
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Forums: r/Bard and r/singularity
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google launches Workspace Flows, an AI tool to automate multi-step processes, in alpha, and new Docs, Sheets, Meet, Chat, and Vids features, like audio in Docs — Besides new Gemini features in Google Docs, Sheets, Meet, Chat and Vids, Cloud Next 2025 saw the announcement of Google Workspace Flows.
More: Google Developers Blog, TechCrunch, Engadget, Google Workspace Blog, Bloomberg, Android Authority, ZDNET, Digital Trends, and SiliconANGLE. Forums: r/singularity
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
| NPR: |
Sources: after Jensen Huang went to Mar-a-Lago last week, the White House reversed course on Nvidia H20 export restrictions to China, in the works for months — When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attended a $1 million-a-head dinner at Mar-a-Lago last week, a chip known as the H20 may have been on his mind.
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| Will Canny / CoinDesk: |
Ripple agrees to acquire prime brokerage Hidden Road for $1.25B; Hidden Road plans to use Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin as collateral across its platform — Among other things, the deal is expected to strengthen Ripple's stablecoin ambitions. — What to know:
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| BBC: |
Ofcom opens an investigation into a pro-suicide forum with 10K+ members, its first using the Online Safety Act; the BBC links the unnamed forum to 50+ UK deaths — A pro-suicide forum is under investigation by the UK's online regulator - its first using new powers under the Online Safety Act.| Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: |
How Google used new AI techniques to enhance 90%+ of The Wizard of Oz, released in 1939, to show on the Las Vegas Sphere's giant screen from August 28, 2025 — Google invented new techniques to enhance resolution and generated new character performances to bring the 1939 film to the giant screen
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Source: Nintendo has decided to postpone the Switch 2's release in China, an apparent response to the country's tight controls targeting the gaming industry — GUANGZHOU/OSAKA — Nintendo has decided to postpone the release of its Switch 2 gaming device in China, Nikkei has learned … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
WordPress.com launches an AI tool to help users build simple websites using a chat interface, available to users for free, to compete with Squarespace and Wix — Hosting platform WordPress.com on Wednesday launched a new AI website builder that allows anyone to create a functioning website using an AI chat-style interface.
More: WordPress.com News and Security Boulevard
| Georgia Butler / DatacenterDynamics: |
Microsoft backs out of its October 2024 plan to invest $1B in three Ohio data center campuses, the latest in a series of its data center project cancellations — Another data center project bites the dust — Microsoft has backed out of plans to build data centers in Licking County, Ohio.
More: Windows Central, The Register, The Columbus Dispatch, Boing Boing, The Decoder, Daily Mail, and WSYX
| Canalys: |
Global shipments of personal computers rose 9.4% YoY in Q1, driven by OEMs ramping up US deliveries in anticipation of the first round of Trump's tariffs — According to the latest data from Canalys, now part of Omdia, total shipments of desktops, notebooks and workstations grew 9.4% to 62.7 million units in Q1 2025.
More: Reuters, IDC, ComputerWeekly.com, Cult of Mac, and Patently Apple
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google rolls out Loss of Pulse Detection to the Pixel Watch 3 in the US after getting FDA clearance in February 2025; the feature rolled out in Europe in 2024 — Following the April 2025 OTA update and Scam Detection yesterday, Google is now rolling out Loss of Pulse Detection in the US.
More: T3, Engadget, Google Help Center, Mashable, Chrome Unboxed, Neowin, PhoneArena, Android Police, CNET, Digital Trends, and Android Authority
| Vikram Dodd / The Guardian: |
Statewatch and FOI documents: the UK government is developing a “murder prediction” tool that uses personal data of those known to police to find likely killers — Exclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’
More: Statewatch, The Register, GB News, Telegraph, The Decoder, KnowTechie, The Overspill, Artificial Lawyer, Digital Trends, and Engadget
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Forums: r/singularity, r/boringdystopia, r/LabourUK, r/worldnews, r/technology, r/europe, r/unitedkingdom, r/ukpolitics, and Slashdot
| Reuters: |
At an NRCC event, President Trump says he told TSMC it would pay a tax of up to 100% if it didn't build US plants; in March, TSMC said it would invest $100B — President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he told the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which has pledged to build new factories … | Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: |
The EU unveils its AI Continent Action Plan to catch up with the US and China, and says it wants to build “AI gigafactories” with ~100K of the latest AI chips — The bloc has been lagging behind since OpenAI's 2022 release of ChatGPT — The European Union said it would focus …
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