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Sources: Klarna has halted its planned IPO in the wake of Trump's tariffs turmoil; StubHub has also delayed its IPO plans — Klarna, the specialty lending and online payments provider, has halted its planned initial public offering, the latest IPO casualty in the wake of Trump administration's sweeping tariff announcement.
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| Reuters: |
China places export restrictions on key rare earth elements as part of its response to President Trump's tariffs and an extra 34% retaliatory tariff on US goods — China placed some rare earth elements under export restrictions on Friday as part of its sweeping response …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Trump's tariffs may reduce ad spending on Meta platforms, which rely heavily on SMBs globally; 10% of Meta's 2023 revenue was from Chinese advertisers like Temu — Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, would not seem to be in the line of fire from tariffs.
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| Asa Fitch / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
Trump says he will sign an EO to keep TikTok running for an additional 75 days, as a deal “requires more work to ensure all necessary approvals are signed” — President Donald Trump on Friday extended a deadline requiring China-based ByteDance to sell the U.S. operations of TikTok …
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| Annmarie Hordern / Bloomberg: |
President Trump reiterates he's open to tariff relief for China if Beijing approves the sale of TikTok's US operations — President Donald Trump said he was open to reducing his tariffs if other nations were able to offer something “phenomenal,” indicating that the White House was open …
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Nintendo delays Switch 2 preorders that were set for April 9 due to concerns about Trump's tariffs but the June 5 launch date remains unchanged — Nintendo says preorders will no longer start on April 9th, but the console's June 5th release date is unchanged.
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
Microsoft Copilot adds support for memory, personalization, web-based actions, podcast creation, camera and screen analysis, deep research, and more — The AI assistant adds personalization, web actions, podcast creation, and more. … As it marks its 50th anniversary …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Sam Altman says OpenAI plans to release o3 and o4-mini “after all” and GPT-5 “in a few months”, citing challenges in “smoothly integrating everything” — After effectively cancelling the consumer release of its o3 reasoning model, OpenAI now says that it plans …
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| Washington Post: |
US officials say NSA director and Cyber Command head Timothy Haugh was fired on April 3, along with his civilian deputy Wendy Noble and at least five aides — The director of the NSA, the powerful wiretapping and cyber espionage service, was fired Thursday, according to U.S. officials. — just now
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| RT Watson / The Block: |
The US SEC says that “covered” US dollar stablecoins like USDT and USDC are not securities, and registration is not required for minting or redeeming them — - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said “covered” U.S. dollar stablecoins — basically USDT and USDC … | Pew Research Center: |
Survey: 35% of US adults say they think AI's impact on the US will be negative over the next 20 years, while 56% of AI experts say AI's impact will be positive — The public and experts are far apart in their enthusiasm and predictions for AI. But they share similar views in wanting …
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| Issie Lapowsky / Politico: |
Investors, founders, and others detail a culture of fear around criticizing Elon Musk or DOGE; some are appalled he is seen as a reflection of the tech industry — A huge swath of Silicon Valley is horrified by what Elon Musk is doing — but they're increasingly afraid to say so.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
On Microsoft's 50th anniversary, company executives reflect on its history and how it responds to challenges and evolves — In 2005, Microsoft's leaders were starting to get worried. Windows and Office were doing well, but the company's lead software architect, Ray Ozzie …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Midjourney debuts V7 in alpha, its first new AI image model in nearly a year with a “totally different architecture”, a week after OpenAI's new image generator — Midjourney, one of the first AI-based image generators on the web, has released its first new AI image model in nearly a year.
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| Kalley Huang / The Information: |
Sources: Meta aims to launch Llama 4 later in April after pushing back its release at least twice due to benchmark underperformance in reasoning and math tasks — Last spring, Meta Platforms was on a tear. It had just released Llama 3, a new generation of its large language model … | Foreign Affairs: |
By embracing Trump, Big Tech risks losing access to Europe, pushing Europe to build its own companies and platforms as Chinese companies try to expand to Europe — How Silicon Valley Got Entangled in Geopolitics—and Lost — Technology companies such as Alphabet, Meta, and OpenAI need to wake up to an unpleasant reality.
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