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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says that President Trump believes the US has the resources and workforce to build iPhones in the US — Trump's massive 104% tariffs on China are set to go into effect at midnight tonight, a move that will have a major impact on Apple and its supply chain.
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Bluesky: @carnage4life, @samleecole, @dylanonchips, @mgsiegler.com, @chancemiller.me, and @ernie.tedium.co
Mastodon: @jasonkoebler@mastodon.social and @juandesant@astrodon.social
Threads: @joannastern and @chancehmiller
| Elisabeth Buchwald / CNN: |
The White House says that tariffs on China are set to rise to 104% at 12:01am ET on April 9 after China missed Trump's deadline to remove its reciprocal tariffs — President Donald Trump is set to impose an astounding 104% in levies across all Chinese imports on Wednesday …
More: Reuters, CryptoPotato, CNBC, USA Today, The White House, HuffPost, The Hollywood Reporter, Yahoo Finance, The Crypto Times, Watcher Guru, crypto.news, Crypto Briefing, Cryptopolitan, CoinGape, Benzinga, and WISH-TV
X: @mrbeast, @presssec, @atrupar, @josephpolitano, @harryjsisson, @rbreich, @adamscochran, @levie, @patrickmoorhead, @zhugeex, @liqian_ren, @adamscochran, @yashar, @rapidresponse47, @rapidresponse47, @zerohedge, @graphcrimes, @iamdcinvestor, @krassenstein, @atabarrok, @levie, @jessicatarlov, @ianbremmer, @rapidresponse47, @macaesbruno, @apompliano, and @robin_j_brooks
| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
Razer pauses direct sales of its upcoming Blade 16 and other laptops in the US as new tariffs loom, leaving only skins and accessories available for purchase — With tariffs set to kick in tonight, Razer's new Blade 16 and other laptops are no longer available to purchase directly.
More: Razer Newsroom, PCWorld, XDA Developers, PCMag, Tom's Guide, How-To Geek, Engadget, Android Headlines, Windows Central, Tom's Hardware, CNET, and Game Rant
Forums: r/Games, r/technology, r/razer, and Slashdot
| Reuters: |
More: Reuters, The Information, Quartz, How-To Geek, ZeroHedge News, Proactive, and Benzinga
| Ben Weiss / Fortune: |
Internal memo: the US DOJ disbands the National Cryptocurrency Enforcement Unit, established by Biden in 2021, as the agency is “not a digital assets regulator” — The U.S. Department of Justice notified staff on Monday evening that the agency was disbanding a unit dedicated to crypto-related investigations.
More: Washington Post, Reuters, ABC News, Protos, Washington Post, Associated Press, Deseret News, Bitcoin Insider, Engadget, The Guardian, Decrypt, New Republic, The Daily Hodl, Quartz, Bitcoin Magazine, Futurism, The Crypto Basic, Benzinga, CNBC, The Coin Republic, The Independent, Crypto Briefing, The Crypto Times, Cointelegraph, crypto.news, The Block, CryptoSlate, and Coinpedia Fintech News
Bluesky: @paulginva, @seancasten, @zangerliberia, @willoremus.com, @jaredlholt, @frank-bowman, @mehdirhasan, and @robertscotthorton
Mastodon: @lauren@mastodon … and @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social
X: @timodc, @diaryofamademan, @eoinhiggins_, @jonahdispatch, @bdanweiss, @natesibley, @kfaulders, @molly0xfff, @dkavanaugh, @iampaulgrewal, @krystalball, @darrigomelanie, @silvermanjacob, @fpwellman, @molly0xfff, and @matthewboedy
Forums: r/politics, r/politics, r/politics, and r/Bitcoin
| Kylie Robison / The Verge: |
LMArena says it is updating its leaderboard policies after a Llama 4 Maverick version, which Meta said in fine print is not public, secured the number two spot — With Llama 4, Meta fudged benchmarks to appear as though its new AI model is better than the competition.
More: InfoWorld, Sherwood News, TechCrunch, InfoRiskToday.com, The Register, Gizmodo, Platformer, and The Decoder
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Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/theprimeagen, r/singularity, r/artificial, r/LocalLLaMA, r/OpenAI, Beehaw, and Slashdot
| The Information: |
Source: Instagram is working on an iPad app, and Adam Mosseri told staff to be willing to assume more “risk” to take advantage of a TikTok US ban or disruption — Meta Platforms has put the turmoil around TikTok to good use. Amid a barrage of headlines about the White House's efforts …
More: 9to5Mac, Build Your Tribe on YouTube, The Verge, Social Media Today, Engadget, MacRumors, and WeRSM
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google says Gemini Advanced subscribers can now use Deep Research with Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, vs. Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental at March launch — Gemini Advanced subscribers can now perform Deep Research with Google's most intelligent 2.5 Pro (experimental) model.
More: The Keyword and Neowin
X: @altryne, @sundarpichai, @officiallogank, and @geminiapp
Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| Reuters: |
Sources: US officials say DOGE is using AI to surveil at least one federal agency's communications for anti-Trump talk; a source says DOGE is also using Signal — Trump administration officials have told some U.S. government employees that Elon Musk's DOGE team of technologists …
More: Rolling Stone, The Daily Caller, The Barbed Wire, FedScoop, Raw Story, WinBuzzer, Metacurity, and New Republic
Bluesky: @accountabletech, @auntie-grizelda, @noahshachtman, @metacurity.com, @seanokane, @nukestrat, and @petertl. LinkedIn: Alexandra Ulmer
Forums: Hacker News, r/artificial, r/somethingiswrong2024, r/foreignservice, r/news, r/FedEmployees, r/fednews, and r/politics
| Theo Wayt / The Information: |
Amazon expands Haul, its Temu competitor, to offer name-brand items from Amazon's US inventory, as the US plans to end de minimis tariff exemptions on May 2 — Amazon is broadening its Temu bargain shopping competitor, Haul, to offer a wider variety of goods, including name-brand items …
More: The Verge and Cord Cutters News
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: hackers accessed 150K+ emails from ~103 bank regulators from May 2023 to early 2025 at the US Treasury's OCC, which on February 26 disclosed a breach — - Attackers lurked within OCC email accounts since 2023 — Chinese state hackers previously targeted Treasury files
More: OCC.gov, BleepingComputer, CSO, PYMNTS.com, and Finextra
| Bradly Shankar / MobileSyrup: |
Nintendo says Switch 2 pre-orders in Canada “will not start on April 9, 2025 in order to align with the timing of pre-orders to be determined in the US” — The pre-orders were originally set to go live on April 9 — Nintendo has confirmed that pre-orders for the Nintendo Switch 2 …
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Forums: r/NSCollectors and r/NintendoSwitch
| Darryn Bonthuys / GameSpot: |
More: iPhone in Canada Blog, Mashable, HotHardware, VICE, Gamereactor UK, GreenBot, and Financial Times
Bluesky: @loganjplant. LinkedIn: Gareth Sutcliffe. Forums: r/gamingnews, r/Switch, r/gaming, and r/Games
| Karen Freifeld / Reuters: |
Sources: TSMC could face a $1B+ penalty to settle a US Commerce Department export control investigation over a chip it made that is in Huawei's Ascend 910B chip — Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (2330.TW) could face a penalty of $1 billion or more to settle a U.S. export control investigation …
More: Reuters, Rest of World, The Register, CyberScoop, Barron's Online, WinBuzzer, and Tom's Hardware
Forums: r/hardware and r/taiwan
| Aisha Malik / TechCrunch: |
Meta rolls out Teen Accounts to Facebook and Messenger, automatically enrolling users and adding built-in protections, in the US, the UK, Australia, and Canada — Meta is introducing Teen Accounts to Facebook and Messenger. The feature, which automatically enrolls young users …
More: Meta, The Guardian, BBC, Social Media Today, 9News, WhoWhatWhy, New York Post, Android Police, ZDNET, iPhone in Canada Blog, Techpoint Africa, PCMag, Neowin, 9to5Google, Cryptopolitan, Nairametrics, nextpit, UPI, The Daily Caller, Thurrott, Digital Trends, Times of India, The Verge, and Engadget
Threads: @andymstone. X: @_andyburrows, @fairplayforkids, @metanewsroom, and @zamaan_qureshi. LinkedIn: Joel Kaplan
| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Nova Sonic, which can generate natural-sounding speech and that it claims is “the most cost-efficient” AI voice model on the market, via Bedrock — On Tuesday, Amazon debuted a new generative AI model, Nova Sonic, capable of natively processing voice and generating natural-sounding speech.
More: About Amazon, Neowin, Inc, About Amazon, Luiza's Newsletter, WinBuzzer, Benzinga, Analytics India Magazine, Digit, The Verge, VentureBeat, GeekWire, and The Decoder
| Ryan Naraine / SecurityWeek: |
Aurascape, which offers enterprise security tools to mitigate risks from third-party AI apps, emerges from stealth with $50M from Menlo, Mayfield, and others — Silicon Valley startup secures big investment from Menlo Ventures and Mayfield Fund to solve the “shadow AI” security problem.| The Verge: |
A look at the rise of “Frankenstein” laptops in India, made by salvaging parts from multiple brands and sold to students, gig workers, and small businesses — In a dimly lit, cluttered workshop in Delhi's Nehru Place, the air hums with the sound of whirring drills and the crackle of soldering irons.
Bluesky: @caseynewton. Mastodon: @njoseph@social.masto.host. X: @sasank51 and @uglyresearch
Forums: Hacker News, r/solarpunk, r/india, Beehaw, and Slashdot
| David Prosser / Forbes: |
London-based NexGen Cloud, which offers a GPU-as-a-service cloud for clients that need flexible access to train AI, raised a $45M Series A at a $354M valuation — As the artificial intelligence (AI) boom has swept round the world over the past two years, the space has largely been dominated by US technology businesses.
More: SiliconANGLE, Tech.eu, NexGen Cloud, FinSMEs, Silicon Canals, DatacenterDynamics, and EU-Startups. X: @cloudnexgen
| Cameron Emanuel-Burns / FinTech Futures: |
Munich-based Hawk, which offers AI-powered anti-money laundering services, raised a $56M Series C led by One Peak and says it has 80+ customers worldwide — The Series C round builds on Hawk's $17 million Series B in 2023, which was extended twice the following year.| Cecilia Kang / New York Times: |
Tech CEOs who spent big on Trump's inauguration have yet to see the investment pay off; Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are down 22% since January 20 — With inauguration donations and Mar-a-Lago visits, leaders of the biggest tech companies sought favor with the president …
More: Business Insider, Sherwood News, Yahoo Finance, Semafor, and Macworld
Bluesky: @paulthedogman and @stevekovach
X: @mattyglesias and @ericgeller
| Reuters: |
Sources: a16z seeks to raise a $20B megafund for growth-stage investments in AI companies; global LPs see it as a way to invest in US firms without restrictions — Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz is seeking to raise about $20 billion in what will be the largest fund in its history … Sponsor Posts
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