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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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Annmarie Hordern / Bloomberg:
President Trump reiterates he's open to tariff relief for China if it approves the sale of TikTok's US operations; the app faces an April 5 divestment deadline  —  President Donald Trump said he was open to reducing his tariffs if other nations were able to offer something “phenomenal,” …
Euractiv:
France says the EU's second response to President Trump's tariffs will cover digital services, like those provided by Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft
Adam Satariano / New York Times:
Sources: the EU is preparing to penalize X this summer for breaking the DSA, including via product change demands and a fine that a source says could be $1B+  —  European regulators are considering fining X more than $1 billion, after weighing the risks of further antagonizing Mr. Musk and President Trump.
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!
Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat:
OpenAI makes ChatGPT Plus free for college students in the US and Canada until the end of May 2025, intensifying competition with Anthropic in higher education  —  OpenAI has made its premium ChatGPT Plus subscription free for all college students in the United States and Canada through the end of May …
Emma Roth / The Verge:
Amazon is testing a “Buy for Me” button powered by agentic AI that will let users purchase products from third-party websites without leaving Amazon's app  —  Amazon wants to use agentic AI to provide third-party websites with your payment information and shipping details.
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
Umar Shakir / The Verge:
Microsoft starts selling its $350 Windows 365 Link mini PC in the US, Canada, Australia, the UK, Germany, Japan, and New Zealand, after its November 2024 debut  —  The $350 thin client-like device lets you connect to a Windows machine running on the cloud.
Matthias Bastian / The Decoder:
Google DeepMind outlines its approach to AGI safety in four key risk areas: misuse, misalignment, mistakes, and structural risks, with a focus on the first two  —  Google Deepmind has published a comprehensive strategy paper detailing its approach to developing safe artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Jay Peters / The Verge:
Nvidia says its custom processor for Nintendo's Switch 2 has a GPU with “dedicated RT Cores and Tensor Cores”, enabling real-time ray tracing and DLSS upscaling  —  Nintendo hasn't revealed the full Switch 2 specs, but Nvidia is providing a few more details about the power of this new console.
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 …
Tanaya Macheel / CNBC:
BTC fell 5% to ~$81K, ETH dropped 7%, and SOL fell 13% after Trump unveiled new tariffs; Coinbase closed down 6.7% and Michael Saylor's Strategy fell 9.7%  —  Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were under pressure Thursday after President Donald Trump's big tariffs reveal jolted the stock market.
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
Filipe Espósito / 9to5Mac:
Report: Brazil's antitrust regulator is investigating Apple over ATT, saying Apple collects user data “under more favorable conditions”, after Meta complained  —  As we have reported in recent months, Apple has been facing scrutiny in Brazil over accusations of anti-competitive practices with the App Store.

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From Mediagazer

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Some experts weigh in on how President Trump's trade policy could impact the entertainment industry: ad budgets may shrink, Netflix could be shielded, and more

Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
A Minecraft Movie collects $157M at the US box office in its opening weekend, the biggest domestic debut of 2025 and best in history for a video game adaptation

New York Times:
A majority of 300+ WaPo tech workers sign union cards and plan to formally request recognition, WaPo's first public union drive since Bezos' 2013 acquisition

More News

Washington Post:
US officials say NSA director and Cyber Command head Timothy Haugh was fired on April 3, along with his deputy Wendy Noble
Taylor Lorenz / User Mag:
YouTube quietly removed “gender identity” from its hate speech policy after President Trump took office; Google says enforcement of the policy hasn't changed
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI says 130M+ ChatGPT users have generated 700M+ images since GPT‑4o's image generation debut on March 25, and India is now ChatGPT's fastest-growing market

Earlier Picks

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
Financial Times:
Plaid raised $575M at a $6.1B valuation, below its peak $13B+ valuation in 2021, mostly to cover employees' tax bills for those converting RSUs to common stock
Bloomberg:
Sources: Microsoft has halted talks for, or delayed development of, data center projects in Indonesia, the UK, Australia, Illinois, North Dakota, and Wisconsin
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