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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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| 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.
More: New York Post. X: @aaronandml, @garrett_archer, @freightalley, @eigenrobot, and @jigarshahdc. Forums: r/politics
| 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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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
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| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
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| 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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| 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.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google Cloud Next: Google updates Gemini Code Assist to add agentic capabilities, including creating apps from product specifications in Google Docs, in preview — Gemini Code Assist, Google's AI coding assistant, is gaining new “agentic” capabilities in preview.
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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.| The Information: |
Source: Instagram is working on an iPad app, and Adam Mosseri told staff to be willing to assume more “risk” to take advantage of a TikTok US ban or disruption — Meta Platforms has put the turmoil around TikTok to good use. Amid a barrage of headlines about the White House's efforts …
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Bluesky: @martinsfp and @seanhodgdon.com
| 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 …
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| 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’
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| 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: The Columbus Dispatch, The Decoder, Daily Mail, and WSYX
| 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
More: Android Authority, Google Cloud, The Keyword, The Hindu, Neowin, SiliconANGLE, What's Trending, and Variety
X: @vegasrevealed, @lorrainetwohill, and @sundarpichai
| 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 …
More: The Guardian, Euractiv, European Commission, European Commission, CNBC, and European Commission. Bluesky: @mgsiegler.com
| Wall Street Journal: |
X's merger with xAI before Trump's tariffs caps a yearslong turnaround push; sources say X's revenue fell from ~$4.6B in 2022 to $3B in 2023 and ~$2.6B in 2024 — xAI merger capped social-media company's yearslong turnaround push — A crowd of investors gathered at Morgan Stanley's … | 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.
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