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Qianer Liu / The Information:
Sources: Intel and TSMC have reached a preliminary agreement for a joint venture to operate Intel's chipmaking facilities, with TSMC taking a 20% stake  —  Intel's financial crisis may be over—with support from its biggest rival.  —  Executives from Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing …
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Tech stocks fall after President Trump announced new global tariffs: Amazon closed down 9%, Meta 9%, Nvidia 7.8%, Alphabet 3.9%, and Microsoft 2.4%  —  Apple slid more than 6% in late trading Wednesday and led a broader decline in tech stocks after President Donald Trump announced new tariffs of between 10% and 49% on imported goods.
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Tripp Mickle / New York Times:
Apple shares drop 9.3% after President Trump announced new tariffs, including 46% on Vietnam and 26% on India, where Apple has been moving production from China  —  The iPhone maker spent years trying to move production of some products out of China to avoid tariffs.  But now that may not matter.
Dominic Preston / The Verge:
The White House appears to have used an oversimplified calculation that several major AI chatbots recommend to calculate reciprocal tariffs
Bloomberg:
The US announces a 34% “reciprocal” tariff hike on China; some banks say this brings average US tariffs on China to 65%+, when counting pre-existing duties
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Nvidia says its custom processor for Nintendo's Switch 2 has “dedicated RT Cores and Tensor Cores,” enabling DLSS support and real-time ray tracing on Switch 2  —  Nintendo hasn't revealed the full Switch 2 specs, but Nvidia is providing a few more details about the power of this new console.
Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg:
President Trump's tariffs are set to disrupt the Bitcoin mining sector, as many of the largest miners are based in the US and the supply chain is rooted in Asia  —  Lauren Lin is in a hurry.  She has less than 48 hours to ship about 5,600 Bitcoin mining machines from Thailand to the US …
Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
Bitcoin fell ~5% to ~$81K, ether dropped 7%, and Solana fell 13% after President Trump unveiled new tariffs; Coinbase's and MicroStrategy's shares are down 6%+  —  Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were under pressure Thursday after President Donald Trump's big tariffs reveal jolted the stock market.
Bloomberg:
Sources: Microsoft has halted talks for, or delayed development of, data center projects in Indonesia, the UK, Australia, Illinois, North Dakota, and Wisconsin  —  The software company has recently halted talks for, or delayed development of, sites in Indonesia, the UK, Australia, Illinois …
Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg:
Sources: Oracle told some clients this week that hackers stole old login credentials, the second breach that Oracle acknowledged to clients in the past month  —  - FBI investigating the breach, software company told clients  — Oracle informed health-care customers of separate March hack
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder:
Google DeepMind outlines its approach to AGI safety in four key areas of risk: misuse, misalignment, mistakes, and structural risks, focusing on the first two  —  Google Deepmind has published a comprehensive strategy paper detailing its approach to developing safe artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Umar Shakir / The Verge:
Microsoft releases its $350 enterprise Windows 365 Link mini PC in the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, and other countries, after unveiling it in November 2024  —  The $350 thin client-like device lets you connect to a Windows machine running on the cloud.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says 130M+ ChatGPT users have generated 700M+ images since the feature's March 25 launch, and India is now the fastest-growing ChatGPT market  —  OpenAI's new image-generation feature is on track to be one of the company's most popular product launches ever.
Taylor Lorenz / User Mag:
YouTube quietly removed “gender identity” from its hate speech policy after Trump took office; Google says enforcement of the policy remains unchanged  —  TariffTokers, Gen Z's ‘it couple’, Easter potatoes, anti-MAGA hats, Zuck's D.C. mansion, Amazon's TikTok bid, Silicon Valley's cupid …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
A researcher says changes in X's web app show X plans to let Verified Organizations bid on abandoned X handles with prices ranging from $10,000 to $500,000+  —  X's plan to boost revenue by selling off dormant usernames on its service is starting to shape up.
Andrew Webster / The Verge:
Nintendo Switch 2 hands-on: larger than the Switch but not uncomfortable, flagship games show off the system well, and the Joy-Con's mouse-like mode is precise  —  The value proposition of the Nintendo Switch 2 may seem pretty clear, but it's much more obvious when you use one.

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Andrew Goudsward / Reuters:
A US judge orders the White House to lift access restrictions imposed on the AP while the AP's lawsuit moves forward

Josh Xiao / Bloomberg:
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