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April 10, 2025, 7:55 AM

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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.
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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 …
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 …
David DiMolfetta / Nextgov/FCW:
President Trump directs the DOJ to investigate former CISA Director Chris Krebs, who was fired after he contradicted Trump's baseless 2020 election fraud claims  —  President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday night directing the Justice Department to investigate former top …
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 …
Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press:
Senate testimony: Sarah Wynn-Williams alleged Meta briefed China on US AI efforts, ignored warnings on China potentially accessing US user data, and more  —  Former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday, accusing the social media company …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog:
Google announces Agent2Agent, an open interoperability protocol to enable seamless collaboration between AI agents across diverse frameworks and vendors  —  Google has announced the launch of Agent2Agent (A2A), an open interoperability protocol designed to enable seamless collaboration between …
Taryn Plumb / VentureBeat:
Google introduces Firebase Studio, an AI-powered platform that lets users create custom mobile and web apps, APIs, backends, and frontends from 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.
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:
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.
Anna Tong / Reuters:
OpenAI countersues Elon Musk, claiming harassment and asking a federal judge to stop Musk from any further attacks in a 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 …
IEA:
Data centers' global electricity demand will exceed 945 TWh by 2030, and US data centers are set to account for nearly 50% of electricity demand growth by 2030  —  Major new IEA report brings groundbreaking data and analysis to one of the most pressing and least understood energy issues today …

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