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Nintendo delays preorders for the Switch 2 from April 9, 2025 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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| Wall Street Journal: |
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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| 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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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft brings Copilot Vision feature to Windows and its iOS and Android apps, letting it analyze real-time video from a mobile camera, and more — Copilot Vision on Windows will be able to see your screen and guide you through apps. … Microsoft is bringing its Copilot Vision feature … | 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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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
How Trump's tariffs affect Meta, which relies heavily on SMBs around the world for ad revenue; 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: |
Despite a tariff exemption on direct chip imports for now, the semiconductor industry faces challenges as higher prices for end products may hurt demand — Higher prices for the many products that contain chips threaten to hit demand — It sounded like a welcome reprieve.| 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,” … | Reuters: |
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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Google releases API pricing for Gemini 2.5 Pro: $1.25 per 1M input tokens and $10 for 1M output tokens for prompts up to 200K tokens, its priciest model yet — On Friday, Google released API pricing for Gemini 2.5 Pro, an AI reasoning model with industry-leading performance on several benchmarks measuring coding, reasoning, and math.| 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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| 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 …
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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 … | 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 …
More: Computerworld and GeekWire
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Vimeo launches Vimeo Streaming, letting creators launch subscription streaming services without any coding experience and offering features like AI translations — The video tech platform is launching Vimeo Streaming, a product that lets creators spool up their own subscription services and apps.| Financial Times: |
The Meta antitrust case is the first big test of President Trump's FTC and its chair Andrew Ferguson, a Big Tech critic; Meta seems to be exploring a settlement — Mark Zuckerberg steps up lobbying effort with antitrust regulator set to signal its approach to Big TechSponsor Posts
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