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US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says consumer electronics exempt from tariffs may be included in semiconductor tariffs likely coming in “a month or two” — US president says products given reprieve will fall under separate regime — Donald Trump signalled on Sunday …
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| Keith Bradsher / New York Times: |
China has suspended exports of a wide range of rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for making semiconductors, robots, drones, cars, and more — Beijing has suspended exports of certain rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for the world's car, semiconductor and aerospace industries.
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| 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.
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
A look at slopsquatting, a supply chain attack where threat actors create malicious packages on indexes using AI-hallucinated names resembling popular libraries — A new class of supply chain attacks named ‘slopsquatting’ has emerged from the increased use of generative AI tools for coding …
More: The Register, Socket, arXiv, arXiv.org e-Print archive, and Hackaday
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| Martine Paris / Forbes: |
Sam Altman says ChatGPT users had doubled in the past few weeks and that “10% of the world uses our systems”, which would peg the number closer to 800M users — Martine Paris is a San Francisco-based reporter covering trends in AI — OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman might …
More: PYMNTS.com, CNET, SiliconANGLE, TED on YouTube, TechSpot, Trak.in, The Decoder, and Exponential View
X: @futurejurvetson and @chrisfralic
| 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) …
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| Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple produced $22B worth of iPhones in India in the 12 months ended March 2025, up nearly 60% YoY, and now makes 20% of its iPhones in the country — The Cupertino, California-headquartered company now makes 20%, or one in five, of its prized iPhones in the South Asian country …
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| 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.
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Forums: Hacker News and r/Longreads
| 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
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
According to a recently published support page, OpenAI may soon require organizations to complete an ID verification process to access new advanced AI models — OpenAI may soon require organizations to complete an ID verification process in order to access certain future AI models … | Politico: |
A French law requiring adult sites to run age checks and block users under 18 became applicable to sites based in France and outside of the EU on April 11 — A new law requires porn sites to check the age of users in France. — This article is also available in: French| 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.
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