|
April 10, 2025, 10:00 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Dan Mangan / CNBC: |
President Trump pauses tariffs on most countries for 90 days, setting a 10% “lowered Reciprocal Tariff”, and sets 125% tariffs on China “effective immediately” — - President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on the full effect of his new tariffs for at least some countries.
More: New York Times, Yahoo Finance, The Irish Times, 9to5Mac, NBC News, Reuters, AppleInsider, Axios, Benzinga, Blockonomi, Cointelegraph, Foreign Affairs, One America News Network, CNN, Hardcore Software, Poynter, Washington Post, CNBC, 9to5Mac, The Block, Fortune, Fortune, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, and 9to5Mac
Bluesky: @craigipedia. Truth Social: @realDonaldTrump …, @realDonaldTrump …, @realDonaldTrump …, and @realDonaldTrump …. Threads: @chancehmiller
X: @howardlutnick, @rapidresponse47, @secscottbessent, @stephenm, @alexberenson, @whitehouse, @rapidresponse47, @patrickmcgee_, @whitehouse, @byzgeneral, @tszzl, @stevesi, @oren_cass, @greg_ip, @repcarlos, @chamath, @rohanspatel, @walshfreedom, @speakerjohnson, @pattymurray, @mattbruenig, @kasparov63, @stephenm, @richardhanania, @jamie1coutts, @kidehen, @maggienyt, @gopmajoritywhip, @noahpinion, @krassenstein, @rabois, @jamessurowiecki, @charliekirk11, @nntaleb, @whitehouse, @rapidresponse47, @rapidresponse47, @acyn, @billackman, @mattyglesias, @thestalwart, @spectatorindex, @jasonfurman, @secscottbessent, @annaeconomist, @patrickmoorhead, @whitehouse, @billackman, @emeriticus, @afneil, @drjstrategy, @cgasparino, @rapidresponse47, @howardlutnick, @whitehouse, @cliffordasness, @whitehouse, @bernstein, @cgasparino, @atabarrok, @jamessurowiecki, @justinwolfers, @thestalwart, @elerianm, @mattyglesias, @modeledbehavior, @byrnehobart, @justinwolfers, @justinwolfers, @chadbown, @billackman, @johnedeaton1, @billackman, @mattyglesias, @adamscochran, @tier10k, @danprimack, @teroterotero, @danprimack, @paulg, @levie, @chamath, and @atabarrok
Forums: Hacker News, r/allinspanish, r/USNEWS, r/LibertarianUncensored, r/ThePeoplesPress, r/bangalore, r/internationalpolitics, r/CustomsBroker, r/DJTSTOCK, r/China_irl, r/PoliticalOptimism, r/InternationalNews, r/politics, r/China, r/TheSecondTerm, r/thedavidpakmanshow, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/PrepperIntel, r/robursa, r/VietNam, r/Economics, r/Law_and_Politics, r/neoliberal, r/AMD_Stock, r/centrist, r/politics, r/MarchAgainstTrump, r/moderatepolitics, r/USNewsHub, r/AnythingGoesNews, r/news, and r/ukpolitics
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
The Nasdaq jumped 12%+ after Trump paused tariffs for 90 days; Nvidia closed up 18.7%, Apple 15.5%, Meta 14.8%, Amazon 12%, Microsoft 10.1%, and Alphabet 9.9% — The Nasdaq Composite climbed more than 12% for its second best day ever as markets clawed back after a rocky few trading sessions spurred …
More: Macworld, MacRumors, MacRumors, CNBC, TechRadar, TrendForce News, Motley Fool, Le Monde, CNBC, MarketScreener, Wall Street Journal, AppleInsider, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, and New York Times
Bluesky: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @agiletortoise@mastodon.social. X: @senadamschiff, @thestalwart, @apompliano, @jamessurowiecki, @ojblanchard1, @morningbrew, @jamessurowiecki, @adamscochran, @timsteno, @jimcramer, @ronfilipkowski, @hblodget, @richardhanania, @thestalwart, @marcofoster_, @coffeebreak_yt, @rephorsford, @thestalwart, @morningbrew, and @conorsen
Forums: Slashdot and MacRumors Forums
| Reuters: |
Sources: Apple chartered cargo flights to ferry 600 tons of iPhones, or up to 1.5M units, to the US from India; a source says Apple “wanted to beat the tariff” — Tech giant Apple chartered cargo flights to ferry 600 tons of iPhones, or as many as 1.5 million …
More: The Sun, BBC, Quartz, Hindustan Times, Patently Apple, ZeroHedge News, MacDailyNews, Reuters, The Economic Times, and Silicon UK
X: @richisunak and @adityakalra
Forums: r/politics and r/worldnews
| Bloomberg: |
Trump's 90-day tariff pause gives Nintendo, whose stock closed up 11.7% on April 10, time to prep the Switch 2's US launch on June 5 and lifts pricing pressure — For now. — The 90-day reprieve on heightened tariffs for most US trading partners gives the Japanese company a chance to ramp … | David DiMolfetta / Nextgov/FCW: |
President Trump directs the DOJ to investigate former CISA Director Chris Krebs, who Trump fired for contradicting Trump's baseless 2020 election fraud claims — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday night directing the Justice Department to investigate former top …
More: The White House, CyberScoop, Computerworld, ZERO DAY, The White House, TechCrunch, CSO, Axios, USA Today, Help Net Security, Politico, Cyber Daily, HuffPost, CRN, The Register, Mediaite, Breitbart, The Guardian, The Record, and ABC News
Bluesky: @noupside, @justinling.ca, @noupside, @chrisbing, @joeuchill, @patrickhowelloneill.com, @pylos.co, @tomjoscelyn, and @noupside
Mastodon: @briankrebs@infosec.exchange and @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
Threads: @renee.diresta, @hollymatheson, @oliviaoftroye, @hollymatheson, and @leslieamathews
X: @acyn, @milestaylorusa, @hfields47, @stephenfhayes, @nicoleperlroth, @sarahamatthews1, @tvietor08, @greggnunziata, @rohanspatel, @larrysabato, @greggnunziata, @bulwarkonline, @juliaioffe, @leoknyc777, @behizytweets, @kimzetter, @timodc, @emeraldrobinson, @ddimolfetta, @danielsgoldman, @meidastouch, and @rapidresponse47
Forums: r/technology, r/AntiTrumpAlliance, and r/politics
| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The US Senate confirms former SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins as SEC chair, succeeding Gary Gensler; Atkins is widely expected to support crypto-friendly policies — Paul Atkins is just one oath away from taking over the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as President Donald Trump's pick …
More: The Block, United States Committee …, Reuters, Fox Business, Bitcoin Magazine, Coinmonks, ZyCrypto, Coinpedia Fintech News, crypto.news, The Crypto Times, CryptoNinjas, Coinspeaker, Axios, CoinGape, Washington Examiner, Cointelegraph, Decrypt, The Block, Crypto Briefing, Bloomberg, and Cryptopolitan
| Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press: |
Senate testimony: Sarah Wynn-Williams alleges that Meta briefed China on US AI efforts, “ignored warnings” on China potentially accessing US user data, and more — “Throughout those seven years, I saw Meta executives repeatedly undermine U.S. national security and betray American values.
More: The Hill, The Verge, Tech Policy Press, TechCrunch, The Gateway Pundit, Beyond Search, Fox Business, Washington Post, The Independent, Bloomberg, New York Post, Vanity Fair, CBS News, and Bloomberg
Bluesky: @amanda.omg.lol, @amanda.omg.lol, and @stevenlevy
Threads: @chancehmiller and @judiciarydems
X: @jason_kint, @senhawleypress, @offthepress1, @tech_oversight, @hawleymo, @chuckgrassley, @sachalouise, @realdcochrane, @hudson_crozier, @jason_kint, @zamaan_qureshi, @jason_kint, @senhawleypress, @senhawleypress, @jason_kint, and @judiciarydems
Forums: Hacker News and r/facebook
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
More: GreenBot, MEDIANAMA, Associated Press, KEYE, BBC, Washington Times, Digit, SFGATE, The Economic Times, and The Daily Caller
Bluesky: @hypervisible. X: @hawleymo, @tech_oversight, @ttp_updates, and @ttp_updates. Forums: r/france
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
US court document: NSO Group's Pegasus was used to target 1,223 WhatsApp users in 51 countries in a 2019 attack; Mexico led with 456 victims and India had 100 — NSO Group's notorious spyware Pegasus was used to target 1,223 WhatsApp users in 51 different countries during a 2019 hacking campaign, according to a new court document.| Vas Panagiotopoulos / Wired: |
Bluesky: @jigamathingy, @vaspanagiotopoulos.com, and @couts. Mastodon: @KimPerales@toad.social. Forums: r/TrueReddit
| Taryn Plumb / VentureBeat: |
Google introduces Firebase Studio, an AI-powered IDE that lets developers create custom mobile and web apps, APIs, backends, and frontends in their browser — Google has heated up the app-building space, today rolling out a generative AI-powered end-to-end app platform that allows users to create custom apps in minutes.
More: BleepingComputer, Digital Trends, Maginative, Cyber Security News, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Big Technology, and TechCrunch. X: @firebase
| Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog: |
More: Google Developers Blog, Forbes, ZDNET, Google, Tech in Asia, VC Cafe, MarkTechPost, and VentureBeat
Bluesky: @timkellogg.me. X: @levie, @cedric_chee, @testingcatalog, @intuitmachine, @solomonstre, @ai_for_success, @legit_api, @ishitajindal17, @altryne, @omarsar0, @omarsar0, @thomasortk, @googlecloudtech, @alxfazio, @jerryjliu0, @googlecloud, @unwind_ai_, @rseroter, @wey_gu, and @danbri
Forums: Hacker News and r/mcp
| Anna Tong / Reuters: |
OpenAI countersues Elon Musk, claiming harassment and asking a US federal judge to stop Musk from any further attacks in the case over OpenAI's future structure — OpenAI countersued Elon Musk on Wednesday, citing a pattern of harassment by Musk and asking a federal judge to stop Musk from any …
More: TechCrunch, The Verge, Fox Business, Engadget, Computerworld, AI News, TechSpot, TVNewsCheck, Business Today, The Crypto Times, City A.M., StrictlyVC, Mashable, Business Insider, Decrypt, Blockonomi, The Information, Tech in Asia, Digit, Benzinga, Axios, NBC Bay Area, Bloomberg, SFist, and New York Times
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
SentinelLabs: AkiraBot spammers exploited OpenAI's gpt-4o-mini-based API to generate unique messages, bypassing spam filters to blast 80K+ sites in four months — Spammers used OpenAI to generate messages that were unique to each recipient, allowing them to bypass spam-detection filters … | Bloomberg: |
Annual shareholder letter: Andy Jassy says Amazon has to operate like the “world's largest startup” and generative AI will reinvent “every customer experience” — “If your customer experiences aren't planning to leverage these intelligent models …
More: About Amazon, Investor's Business Daily, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, GeekWire, Sherwood News, and CNBC
| IEA: |
Data centers' global electricity demand could jump 100%+ to ~945TWh by 2030, and data centers are set to account for nearly 50% of US electricity demand growth — Major new IEA report brings groundbreaking data and analysis to one of the most pressing and least understood energy issues today …
More: Silicon Republic, Axios, IEA, Reuters, TNW, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, AI News, Bloomberg, IEA, CleanTechnica, and Tech Xplore
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches the Pioneers Program, which aims to work with “multiple companies” to design tailored AI benchmarks for specific domains like legal and finance — OpenAI, like many AI labs, thinks AI benchmarks are broken. It says it wants to fix them through a new program.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says Google will add support for Anthropic's Model Context Protocol to its Gemini models and SDK, but did not give a timeline — Just a few weeks after OpenAI said it would adopt rival Anthropic's standard for connecting AI models to the systems where data resides, Google is following suit.| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
In an interview with Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, James Cameron says he is cautiously optimistic about generative AI's role in filmmaking, including cutting costs — In an interview with Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, the filmmaker weighs in on Stability AI and VFX, “in the style of” prompts …
More: Variety, MIXED Reality News, Daily Mail, The Wrap, and Meta on YouTube
X: @id_aa_carmack, @boztank, and @cixliv
Forums: r/Corridor and r/entertainment
| Will Knight / Wired: |
Q&A with CMU professor and OpenAI board member Zico Kolter on CMU's partnership with Google, the dangers of AI agents interacting with one another, and more — Zico Kolter, a Carnegie Mellon professor and board member at OpenAI, tells WIRED about the dangers of AI agents interacting with one another …
More: Developer Tech News
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Incident.io, which streamlines incident management for organizations with 200+ users, raised a $62M Series B led by Insight, sources say at a ~$400M valuation — In the world of tech, some might argue that the term of the decade is AI, but in the bigger scheme of things beyond this single sector …
More: The incident.io Blog
| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Ziroh Labs and the Indian Institute of Technology partner to launch Kompact AI, which they say is an affordable AI system to run large models on standard CPUs — Ziroh Labs, an artificial intelligence startup operating in India, collaborated with researchers at the country's premier technology school … | Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Artisan, which is building AI sales development representatives, raised a $25M Series A led by Glade Brook Capital, after raising $12M in September 2024 — It's been a tough but exciting year for 23-year-old Jaspar Carmichael-Jack, founder and CEO of AI sales agent startup Artisan.
More: FinSMEs
| Aaron Clark / Bloomberg: |
Greenpeace: emissions from AI chip production rose 357% in 2024, driven by a heavy reliance on fossil fuels, outpacing a 351% rise in electricity consumption — Emissions generated from the production of semiconductors that underpin AI services grew more than fourfold in 2024 …
More: South China Morning Post, Livemint, and Greenpeace East Asia
Sponsor Posts
Google:
Try Gemini 3 Pro — Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Try Gemini 3 Pro — Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Shopify:
Shopify's new AI commerce stack — Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Shopify's new AI commerce stack — Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Zoho:
Zoho People in 2025: A year in review — As we wrap up 2025, we're taking a moment to look back on a year filled with progress and transformation at Zoho People. Our team has been constantly pushing boundaries …
Zoho People in 2025: A year in review — As we wrap up 2025, we're taking a moment to look back on a year filled with progress and transformation at Zoho People. Our team has been constantly pushing boundaries …
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Hard Fork:
Why Roomba Died + Tech Predictions for 2026 + A Hard Forkin' Xmas Song
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
Big Technology Podcast:
Sam Altman: How OpenAI Wins, AI Buildout Logic, IPO in 2026?
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Access:
Betting on reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour
A show about the tech industry's inside conversation, hosted by tech reporter Alex Heath and founder whisperer Ellis Hamburger.
Subscribe to Access.
Lenny's Podcast:
The new AI growth playbook for 2026: How Lovable hit $200M ARR in one year | Elena Verna (Head of Growth)
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
"Neither Side Is Used to Losing." Lucas Shaw on What's Next for Netflix and Paramount in the Battle for Warner Bros.
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Ted Sarandos: Netflix and how tech changed storytelling
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 10:00 AM ET, April 10, 2025.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Paul Glynn / BBC:Ken Vogel / @kenvogel:
Nicholas Henriquez / New Yorker:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Sam Rutherford / Engadget: |
More: Tech Advisor, HotHardware, Android Police, How-To Geek, Android Authority, ZDNET, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, New York Times, CNET, Business Insider, 9to5Google, The Verge, Tom's Guide, TechRadar, Forbes, Android Central, PhoneArena, PCMag, Wired, Tom's Guide, Expert Reviews, The Shortcut, Digital Trends, SlashGear, BGR, The Keyword, and Android Headlines
X: @madebygoogle and @345triangle
Earlier Picks
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
More: Framework Blog, Phoronix, Liliputing, The Verge, The Verge, and How-To Geek
| NPR: |
More: Tom's Hardware, Ars Technica, Fortune, Reuters, TechCrunch, Tech in Asia, Gulf News, TipRanks Financial, Benzinga, TrendForce News, Sinocism, Fresno Bee, The Register, Patently Apple, Nikkei Asia, and Bloomberg
Bluesky: @zacheverson.com and @bobbyallyn
X: @kyleichan, @emilyzfeng, @teddyschleifer, @miles_brundage, @mattinthemittel, @mattsheehan88, @mattyglesias, @kevinbankston, @bobbyallyn, and @rwang07
Forums: r/singularity, r/politics, r/NPR, r/neoliberal, and r/technology