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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Tech stocks fall after President Trump announced new global tariffs: Meta drops as much as ~8%, Amazon drops ~7%, Nvidia ~5%, Alphabet ~4%, and Microsoft ~3% — Apple slid more than 6% in late trading Wednesday and led a broader decline in tech stocks after President Donald Trump announced …
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| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
Apple shares drop 7%+ 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.
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
The White House says de minimis tariff exemptions for up to $800 packages from China and Hong Kong will end on May 2, affecting marketplaces like Temu and Shein — De minimis tariff exemptions, which currently allow packages worth as much as $800 from China and Hong Kong to enter the US duty free …
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| 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.| New York Times: |
Sources: Amazon has put in a bid to acquire all of TikTok, but various parties involved do not appear to be taking it seriously, ahead of the April 5 deadline — The e-commerce giant put in a last-minute offer for the popular video app, according to three people familiar with the talks.
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| Kaya Yurieff / The Information: |
Source: President Trump plans to announce TikTok America, a company that is ~50% owned by US investors and 19.9% by ByteDance, which would license the algorithm — President Donald Trump plans to announce later on Wednesday his plan for a new company called TikTok America … | Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
Circle's S-1 shows that it is a fintech and that, as of December 31, 2024, ~85% of USDC reserves were in a BlackRock-managed money market fund only for Circle — Circle, slangy wealth management chatbots, private credit runs, SEC climate rules and OCC desk space.| The Information: |
Sources: Google is in advanced talks to rent Nvidia Blackwell chips from CoreWeave, highlighting how Nvidia customers are struggling with AI chip availability — Google is in advanced talks to rent state-of-the-art Nvidia Blackwell chips for running artificial intelligence from CoreWeave …
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| Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer: |
Europol says German and Dutch authorities shut down Kidflix, a CSAM dark web streaming platform with 1.8M users between April 2022 and March 2025, on March 11 — Kidflix, one of the largest platforms used to host, share, and stream child sexual abuse material (CSAM) on the dark web … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google unveils a NotebookLM “Discover sources” feature, which searches the web and recommends up to 10 “relevant sources” for users to add to their notebooks — To date, NotebookLM works by having you manually add files and links, with Google now introducing a … | 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 …
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| Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Q&A with Christopher Bishop on leading Microsoft's AI for Science lab, why scientific discovery will be AI's single most important application, and more — The AI for Science lab director discusses the technology's capability to accelerate time-consuming research| Financial Times: |
Samsung has turned to Chinese customers like Baidu to prop up its ailing chip business; SemiAnalysis says Samsung is the “biggest supplier of HBM into China” — Deals with Chinese tech giant Baidu come as South Korean giant loses ground in US and navigates Washington's curbs| Bloomberg: |
AI video startup Runway raised $308M led by General Atlantic, sources say at a $3B+ valuation, and plans to hire more filmmakers, screenwriters, and others — The deal, which is set to be announced Thursday, pushes Runway's value to just over $3 billion, according to people familiar … | Joey Roulette / Reuters: |
Amazon plans to launch the first 27 satellites for its Project Kuiper internet network on April 9, after launching two prototype satellites in October 2023 — Amazon.com said on Wednesday it plans to launch the first 27 satellites for its Project Kuiper internet network next week … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Automattic lays off 16% of its staff, CEO Matt Mullenweg says to become “more agile and responsive”; ahead of the layoffs, its website listed 1,744 employees — Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, Tumblr, WooCommerce, and a range of other online services, is reducing its workforce.
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Forums: r/technology and r/Wordpress
| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Unframe, which lets companies deploy tailored AI products for any use case within hours, comes out of stealth with $50M in funding from Bessemer, TLV, others — Enterprise artificial intelligence platform startup Unframe Inc. launched today with an announcement that it has raised $50 million …
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| 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.| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
Netscout: DDoS attacks rose from 13M+ in 2023 to almost 17M in 2024, becoming a staple of geopolitical conflict as new tech like AI supercharges their power — A type of cyberattack that was once the preserve of petty criminals is becoming a staple of geopolitical conflict as new technology supercharges …
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| Jessica Testa / New York Times: |
Spotify debuts new ad tools, including an AI tool in the US and Canada that generates scripts and voiceovers, and pitches itself to advertisers as “nutritional” — After finally achieving profitability, the streaming platform wants to be a healthy alternative to “doom scrolling.”
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