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Financial Times:
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says consumer electronics exempt from tariffs may be included in semiconductor tariffs likely coming in “a month or two”  —  Commerce secretary says products given reprieve will fall under separate regime  —  US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick …
Bloomberg:
The Trump administration exempts smartphones, laptops, hard drives, processors, memory chips, and machines used to make semiconductors from “reciprocal tariffs”  —  President Donald Trump's administration exempted smartphones, computers and other electronics from its so-called reciprocal tariffs …
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Ari Hawkins / Politico:
Source: Trump plans to instruct the Commerce Department to launch a Section 232 national security probe into chip imports, which could lead to new tariffs  —  The investigation could lead to new tariffs on semiconductors in a move that would have sweeping implications for Asian countries and the tech sector.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a lighter and cheaper Vision Pro and a Mac-tethered model with ultra-low latency; iPadOS 19 overhaul will make it more like macOS  —  Also: company prepares more macOS-like features for iPadOS 19.  —  Apple is readying two new Vision Pro headsets, but glasses have become a bigger goal in the long run.
Ben Jiang / South China Morning Post:
Alibaba's AI assistant Quark surpassed ByteDance's Doubao to become China's most popular AI app in March, with ~150M and ~100M MAUs globally, respectively  —  Quark's rapid ascent comes as Alibaba has transformed the app from a cloud storage and search service into an ‘AI super assistant’
More: Tech in Asia
Richard A. Webster / ProPublica:
A 2024 Louisiana parole law cedes much of the parole board's power to TIGER, an algorithm with immutable risk scores, blocking thousands from early release  —  A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release.
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Jack Dorsey says “delete all IP law” in an X post and Musk says “I agree”; Dorsey says current models “take way too much” from creators and “only rent-seek”  —  Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (now Block) …
Washington Post:
Arguments start Monday in the FTC's antitrust suit targeting Meta's acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, amid reports Zuckerberg asked Trump to intervene  —  Arguments start Monday in the FTC's blockbuster antitrust suit targeting Facebook's purchases of Instagram and WhatsApp, as Zuckerberg pleads for the White House to intervene.
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
A look at Bitcoin Commons, a coworking hub in Austin where ex-staffers of companies like Apple are building crypto startups, as Trump rolls back regulations  —  WATCH NOW  —  AUSTIN — On a Friday morning last spring, Mark Suman called out sick from his job as a senior engineering project manager …
More: Tech in Asia
David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times:
Lawmakers who benefited from crypto super PACs are advancing crypto priorities in Congress, like the Genius Act, which establishes rules for stablecoin issuers  —  At the end of a three-hour hearing last month, Senator Ruben Gallego, Democrat of Arizona, sided with a group of Republicans in a hotly contested debate.
Bloomberg:
Analysis: paper gains from the Trump family's investments in various crypto projects, including NFTs, DeFi, Bitcoin mining, and memecoins, are approaching $1B  —  President Donald Trump and his family have taken a interest in just about every corner of the crypto industry.
More: Benzinga, Cryptopolitan, and crypto.news
Bluesky: @bloomberg.com.  Mastodon: @KimPerales@toad.social.  Forums: r/Buttcoin and r/politics

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Kate O'Keeffe / Bloomberg:
US investigators are probing whether the China ties of TP-Link Systems Inc., the US-based business of Wi-Fi router giant TP-Link, pose an “unacceptable risk”
Bluesky: @awssnarkitect.  X: @tomcottonar, @business, @marksimonhk, @kate_okeeffe, and @dnvolz.  LinkedIn: Woo Jin Ho.  Forums: Slashdot
Makena Kelly / Wired:
Sources: Palantir is helping DOGE build an API layer above all IRS databases; DOGE wants Palantir's Foundry software to be the “read center of all IRS systems”
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