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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says Amazon reportedly adding tariff pricing to each product on its site “is a hostile and political act by Amazon” — WATCH NOW — The White House on Tuesday slammed Amazon for reportedly planning to display the cost …
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Source: Amazon plans to soon show how much President Trump's tariffs are adding to the price of each product, right next to its total listed price — Amazon doesn't want to shoulder the blame for the cost of President Donald Trump's trade war. So the e-commerce giant will soon show …
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| Jeff Stein / @jstein_wapo: |
Amazon says showing tariff prices on the main Amazon site was never under consideration, but Amazon Haul has considered showing import duties on some products — New — Amazon Spox now saying this was never under consideration for the main Amazon website. Says Amazon Haul has considered listing import price duties on certain products
| Rafe Uddin / Financial Times: |
Sources: Amazon is seeking steep supplier discounts and setting tough terms to protect margins amid US tariffs, following its playbook from Trump's first term — Trade war leads ecommerce group to seek steep discounts from sellers, particularly from China — Amazon is seeking steep discounts …
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| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
The US House passes the Take It Down Act to criminalize posting nonconsensual intimate imagery, including deepfakes, and require online platforms to remove them — Trump is expected to sign into law a bill that would force online platforms to quickly take down nonconsensual intimate images.
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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
Critics fear the Trump administration could weaponize the Take It Down Act, one of the few online safety bills to pass in years, against content it dislikes — Critics warn it could have grave consequences for online speech and encryption. … The Take It Down Act is heading …
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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn says the company will “gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can handle”, as part of an announcement to be “AI-first” — The company is going to be ‘AI-first,’ says its CEO. … Duolingo will “gradually stop using contractors …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Alibaba debuts its Qwen3 family of open-weight “hybrid” AI reasoning models, including Qwen3-235B-A22B, with 235B total parameters and 22B activated parameters — Chinese tech company Alibaba on Monday released Qwen3, a family of AI models the company claims matches …
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| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
OpenAI starts rolling out product recommendations in ChatGPT, including Plus, Pro, Free, and logged-out users, with buy buttons that link to merchants' websites — OpenAI is launching a shopping experience inside of ChatGPT, complete with product picks and buy buttons.
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Sources: Scattered Spider conducted a ransomware attack on UK retailer M&S, which employs 64,000 in 1,400+ stores, causing widespread disruption from April 22 — Ongoing outages at British retail giant Marks & Spencer are caused by a ransomware attack believed to be conducted …
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| Google Cloud Blog: |
Google tracked 75 zero days exploited in the wild in 2024, down from 98 in 2023 but up from 63 in 2022; state-sponsored threat groups led in zero-day exploits — Google Threat Intelligence — Visibility and context on the threats that matter most. — Executive Summary| Joey Roulette / Reuters: |
Amazon launches 27 satellites for its Project Kuiper broadband internet program, the first batch of 3,236 satellites that it plans to send into low-Earth orbit — The first 27 satellites for Amazon's Kuiper broadband internet constellation were launched into space from Florida on Monday …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources detail tensions between Sam Altman and Satya Nadella, whose partnership began after a summer 2018 meeting; Microsoft can block OpenAI's for-profit move — The OpenAI and Microsoft CEOs helped each other become power players in generative AI but are now preparing for independent futures
More: Spyglass, TechSpot, The Economic Times, StrictlyVC, and StartupNews.fyi
| Wired: |
Oligo researchers detail AirBorne, a set of vulnerabilities in Apple's AirPlay SDK that could affect 10M+ third-party devices; Apple has patched its own devices — Researchers reveal a collection of bugs known as AirBorne that would allow any hacker on the same Wi-Fi network …
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