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Matthew Gault / 404 Media:
Framework pauses sales of its six lowest-priced laptops in the US, saying the models would sell at a loss due to the 10% tariff that went into effect on April 5  —  Framework—a company that makes upgradeable and repairable laptops—has said it will pause sales on several versions …
Samantha Subin / CNBC:
Tech stocks teetered in volatile trading on April 7: AAPL closed down 3.67% and MSFT closed down 0.55%, while Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Nvidia closed up
Ben Berkowitz / Axios:
President Trump posts that the US “will impose additional tariffs on China of 50%”, effective April 9, “if China does not withdraw” its 34% retaliatory tariffs
Vlad Savov / Bloomberg:
Nintendo's and Sony's stocks closed down 7.85% and 10.04% on April 7 amid a Japan selloff driven by US tariffs; most Switches are assembled in China and Vietnam
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Meta VP of Generative AI Ahmad Al-Dahle denies a rumor that the company trained Llama 4 Maverick and Scout on test sets, saying that Meta “would never do that”  —  A Meta exec on Monday denied a rumor that the company trained its new AI models to present well on specific benchmarks while concealing the models' weaknesses.
Kylie Robison / The Verge:
LMArena says it is updating its leaderboard rules after Meta secured the second spot with a Llama 4 Maverick version Meta noted in fine print was not public  —  With Llama 4, Meta fudged benchmarks to appear as though its new AI model is better than the competition.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Apple plans to send more iPhones to the US from India to offset the China tariffs, but the situation is too uncertain to upend supply chain investments  —  Apple plans to send more iPhones to the U.S. from India to offset the high cost of China tariffs, people familiar with the matter said.
Bloomberg:
Apple Store employees say the past few days have felt like the busy holiday season, as the threat of tariffs and potential price hikes sparked a shopping frenzy  —  - Store sales were higher this past weekend than in prior years  — Employees say the frenzy has felt like holiday shopping season
Times of India:
Indian officials: Apple sent five planes full of iPhones and other products from India to the US in just three days in March's final week to avoid US tariffs
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
Memo: Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke says using AI is now a “fundamental expectation” and that teams asking for more resources must first show why AI can't do the job  —  Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke is changing his company's approach to hiring in the age of artificial intelligence.
Bloomberg:
Publishers say site traffic has plummeted since Google rolled out AI Overviews; sources say Google acknowledged the drop in an October 2024 publisher meeting  —  In March 2024, website owner Morgan McBride was posing for photos in her half-renovated kitchen for a Google ad celebrating the ways …
Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica:
Google rolls out Search's AI Mode feature to millions more Labs users in the US with multimodal capabilities, letting users ask complex questions about pictures  —  Google started cramming AI features into search in 2024, but last month marked an escalation.
Eliza Strickland / IEEE Spectrum:
A look at the state of AI in 2025 across training and inference costs, carbon footprint, investment activity, bills proposed in the US, and more  —  Stanford's AI Index tracks performance, investment, public opinion, and more  —  If you read the news about AI, you may feel bombarded with conflicting messages: AI is booming.
Will Knight / Wired:
Stanford's 2025 AI index: China files more AI patents than the US, but US companies produced 40 frontier models, compared to 15 from China and three from Europe
Nico Grant / New York Times:
Memo: Google tells staff they can discuss the US DOJ's antitrust case, rescinding an earlier command, as part of a settlement with the Alphabet Workers Union  —  The Silicon Valley giant had ordered employees to stay silent on the landmark case before reaching a settlement with a workers' union over the issue.
Logan Plant / IGN:
Q&A with Nintendo of America VP of Product Bill Trinen on pricing first-party games like Mario Kart World at $80, Joy-Con 2 and using it as a mouse, and more  —  On price, mouse controls, and a lot more. … Nintendo has finally pulled back the curtain on Nintendo Switch 2 …
Megan Farokhmanesh / Wired:
Nintendo of America President Doug Bowser says the company is “actively assessing” the impact of US tariffs, which “weren't factored into” its Switch 2 pricing

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Bloomberg:
Paramount reaches a settlement with the US states suing to block its WBD acquisition, after four states that opposed a deal conceded over the weekend

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