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April 9, 2025, 9:30 AM
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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 …
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says that President Trump “believes” the US has the labor, workforce, and resources 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.
Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge:
Razer pauses direct sales of its upcoming Blade 16 and other laptops in the US as new tariffs take effect, leaving only skins and accessories available to buy
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Cloud Next: Google unveils Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU and the first for inference, coming later in 2025 in a 256-chip cluster or a 9,216-chip cluster  —  During its Cloud Next conference this week, Google unveiled the latest generation of its TPU AI accelerator chip.
Will Canny / CoinDesk:
Ripple agrees to acquire prime brokerage Hidden Road for $1.25B; Hidden Road plans to use Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin as collateral across its platform  —  Among other things, the deal is expected to strengthen Ripple's stablecoin ambitions.  —  What to know:
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 …
Reuters:
At an NRCC event, President Trump says he told TSMC it would pay a tax of up to 100% if it didn't build its US plants; in March, TSMC said it would invest $100B  —  President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he told the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which has pledged to build …
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
Vikram Dodd / The Guardian:
Statewatch and FOI documents: the UK government is developing a “murder prediction” tool to use personal data of those known to police to find likely killers  —  Exclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’
Georgia Butler / DatacenterDynamics:
Microsoft is backing away from its October 2024 plan to invest $1B in three Ohio data centers, the latest in a string of its data center project cancellations  —  Another data center project bites the dust  —  Microsoft has backed out of plans to build data centers in Licking County, Ohio.
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google rolls out Loss of Pulse Detection to the Pixel Watch 3 in the US after getting FDA clearance in February 2025; the feature rolled out in Europe in 2024  —  Following the April 2025 OTA update and Scam Detection yesterday, Google is now rolling out Loss of Pulse Detection in the US.
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google says Gemini Advanced subscribers can now use Deep Research with Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental, up from Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental in March 2025  —  Gemini Advanced subscribers can now perform Deep Research with Google's most intelligent 2.5 Pro (experimental) model.
Wall Street Journal:
X's merger with xAI caps its yearslong turnaround push; sources say X's revenue fell to $2.6B in 2024, down from $3B in 2023 and about $4.6B in 2022  —  xAI merger capped social-media company's yearslong turnaround push  —  A crowd of investors gathered at Morgan Stanley's New York office …

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
Memo: Business Insider is cutting staff by 21% to “endure extreme traffic drops outside of our control” and “exiting the majority of our Commerce business”

Nikita Mazurov / The Intercept:
PBS station WNET removed at least three educational TV episodes that discuss transgender identity and drag expression, following a DOGE subcommittee hearing

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