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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 …
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| 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.
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| Karthikeyan Sundaram / Bloomberg: |
White House document: the US will tax imports of items priced up to $800 at the rate of 90% of their value, up from a planned 30%, targeting Chinese retailers — The escalating trade war between the US and China saw President Donald Trump raise tariffs even further on small parcels that were until now exempt from taxes.
More: New York Post. X: @eigenrobot, @garrett_archer, @jigarshahdc, @aaronandml, and @freightalley. Forums: r/politics
| Nikkei Asia: |
Sources: to offset tariffs, Apple, Dell, and others pressed suppliers to fly as many premium devices as possible to the US, especially those priced above $3,000 — TAIPEI/PALO ALTO, California — Ever since Donald Trump was elected president back in November, the world's biggest electronics brands … | 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 — With tariffs set to kick in tonight, Razer's new Blade 16 and other laptops are no longer available to purchase directly.
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Forums: r/Games, r/razer, r/technology, Slashdot, and Slashdot
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google Cloud Next: Google unveils Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU and the first optimized for inference, available in a 256-chip or a 9,216-chip cluster — During its Cloud Next conference this week, Google unveiled the latest generation of its TPU AI accelerator chip.
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| 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:
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| 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 …
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Bluesky: @martinsfp and @seanhodgdon.com
| BBC: |
Ofcom opens an investigation into a pro-suicide forum, its first using the Online Safety Act; the BBC linked the unnamed forum to 50+ deaths in the UK — A pro-suicide forum is under investigation by the UK's online regulator - its first using new powers under the Online Safety Act.| 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.
More: The Columbus Dispatch, The Decoder, WinBuzzer, Daily Mail, WSYX, and Columbus Business Journal
| 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’
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Forums: r/boringdystopia, r/LabourUK, r/worldnews, r/technology, r/europe, r/unitedkingdom, r/ukpolitics, and Slashdot
| 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.
More: The Keyword, Android Police, and Neowin
X: @officiallogank, @altryne, @sundarpichai, and @geminiapp
Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| 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.
More: Google Help Center, Neowin, PhoneArena, Android Police, CNET, Digital Trends, Android Authority, Android Central, Android Headlines, Droid Life, and The Verge. Forums: r/PixelWatch
| Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal: |
The EU unveils its AI Continent Action Plan, seeking to compete with the US and China, and says it wants to build “AI gigafactories” with ~100K AI chips — The bloc has been lagging behind since OpenAI's 2022 release of ChatGPT — The European Union said it would focus … | 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 …
| 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 … | Daniele Lepido / Bloomberg: |
Italy says it is withdrawing its support for STMicro CEO Jean-Marc Chery and his management team as chip demand slumps; Italy and France own nearly 28% — The Italian government is withdrawing its support for STMicroelectronics NV Chief Executive Officer Jean-Marc Chery and his management team … Sponsor Posts
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