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Qianer Liu / The Information:
Sources: Intel and TSMC have reached a preliminary agreement to form a joint venture that will operate Intel's chipmaking facilities; TSMC will take a 20% stake  —  Intel's financial crisis may be over—with support from its biggest rival.  —  Executives from Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor …
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
Dominic Preston / The Verge:
The White House appears to have used an oversimplified calculation that several major AI chatbots recommend to calculate reciprocal tariffs
Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
Sources: Ireland's DPC will fine TikTok €500M+ before the end of April for illegally shipping European users' data to China, after a lengthy GDPR investigation  —  The penalty is likely to be the third highest ever penalty under the GDPR following earlier fines of €1.2 billion …
Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg:
Sources: Oracle told some clients this week that a hacker 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
Adam Satariano / New York Times:
Sources: the EU is preparing penalties against X for breaking the DSA, including demands for product changes and a fine that a source says could surpass $1B  —  European regulators are considering fining X more than $1 billion, after weighing the risks of further antagonizing Mr. Musk and President Trump.
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 …
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.
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.
Will Oremus / Washington Post:
An increasingly vocal contingent of GOP leaders, some of whom attended Y Combinator's Little Tech Competition Summit, call for antitrust action against Big Tech  —  Just now  —  The Washington Post's essential guide to tech policy news  —  Happy Thursday!
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 …

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Josh Xiao / Bloomberg:
Two influential Chinese bloggers say China is considering a ban on Hollywood movies as part of a set of measures to retaliate against Trump's tariffs

Bloomberg:
The US stock market briefly surged on April 7 after CNBC, Reuters, and others picked up an erroneous X post that Trump was considering a 90-day pause on tariffs

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