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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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| 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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| 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 … | 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’
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| 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.
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| Kate Pickert / Bloomberg: |
AI could transform medicine by helping doctors and medical students improve their empathy and bedside manner before they interact with real patients — The hope is that artificial intelligence will eventually do much of the work that makes it difficult for doctors to spend enough time with patients.| 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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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
LiveKit, which offers open-source tools for building apps to transmit real-time audio and video, raised a $45M Series B; LiveKit also powers ChatGPT Voice Mode — A challenge for many tech companies is delivering high-bandwidth, multimodal data — for example, simultaneous audio and video …
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| 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.
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| Vishal Singh / Silicon Canals: |
Copenhagen-based Sparrow Quantum, which is developing photonic quantum chips based on research conducted at the Niels Bohr Institute, raised a €21.5M Series A — Last update: — LinkedInFacebookWhatsAppXTelegramShare — Copenhagen-based Sparrow Quantum, a supplier of photonic quantum chips … | Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the US Energy Department's Argonne National Lab, whose AI-based PRO-AID tool assists in nuclear reactor design and helps operators run nuclear plants — Argonne National Lab has an AI-based tool that can help design and operate nuclear reactors—at a time when AI itself is feeding a power frenzy.| James O'Donnell / MIT Technology Review: |
How the Pentagon uses AI tools from Vannevar Labs, which got a DOD deal worth up to $99M, to scan open-source intelligence, write intelligence reports, and more — For much of last year, about 2,500 US service members from the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit sailed aboard three ships throughout the Pacific … Sponsor Posts
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