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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump announces a 90-day tariff pause for some countries and a “lowered Reciprocal Tariff during this period, of 10%”, but raises tariffs on China to 125%  —  - President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on the full effect of his new tariffs for at least some countries.
Samantha Subin / CNBC:
Nasdaq jumps 12% after Trump announced a 90-day tariff pause, with Nvidia up 19%, Apple up 15%, Meta up 15%, Amazon up 12%, Microsoft up 10%, Alphabet up 10%  —  The Nasdaq Composite climbed more than 12% for its second best day ever as markets clawed back after a rocky few trading sessions spurred …
Karthikeyan Sundaram / Bloomberg:
The US plans to increase the tax on imports of parcels priced up to $800 from 30% to 90% of their value, targeting Chinese retailers like Temu and Shein
Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog:
Google announces Agent2Agent, an open interoperability protocol to enable seamless collaboration between AI agents across diverse frameworks and vendors  —  Google has announced the launch of Agent2Agent (A2A), an open interoperability protocol designed to enable seamless collaboration between …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Google unveils Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU and the first optimized 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.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Samsung and Google plan to launch Ballie, a soccer-ball-shaped home robot “like a personal BB-8” that uses AI and can project video onto walls, in summer 2025
NPR:
Sources: after Jensen Huang went to Mar-a-Lago last week, the White House reversed course on Nvidia H20 export restrictions to China, in the works for months  —  When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attended a $1 million-a-head dinner at Mar-a-Lago last week, a chip known as the H20 may have been on his mind.
Spencer Soper / Bloomberg:
Sources and a document: Amazon canceled orders for multiple products made in China and other Asian countries after Trump's April 2 global tariffs announcement  —  The orders for beach chairs, scooters, air conditioners and other merchandise from multiple Amazon vendors were halted …
Reuters:
Call transcript: Luxshare Chair Wang Laichun says the iPhone and AirPods maker is in talks with clients to move more production from China, including to the US  —  Apple (AAPL.O) supplier Luxshare (002475.SZ) is in talks with customers on ways to respond to U.S. tariffs by shifting …
Nikkei Asia:
Sources: to avoid tariffs, Apple, Dell, Microsoft, Lenovo, and others pressed suppliers to fly as many $3,000+ devices as possible to the US before April 9
David DiMolfetta / Nextgov/FCW:
President Trump directs the DOJ to investigate former CISA director Chris Krebs, who was fired after he contradicted Trump's baseless 2020 election fraud claims  —  Krebs previously led the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and contradicted baseless claims President Donald Trump …
Hayden Field / CNBC:
Anthropic debuts Claude's Max plan, with 5x the usage limits of Pro for $100/month or 20x the usage for $200/month, plus early access to new models and features  —  Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup backed by Amazon, on Wednesday introduced Claude Max, a new subscription tier …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
YouTube expands its pilot to some top creators of tech that detects the AI-generated likenesses of famous people and declares support for the US' NO FAKES ACT  —  YouTube on Wednesday announced an expansion of its pilot program designed to identify and manage AI-generated content that features the …
Mauro Orru / Wall Street Journal:
The EU unveils its AI Continent Action Plan to catch up with the US and China, and says it wants to build “AI gigafactories” with ~100K of the latest AI chips  —  The bloc has been lagging behind since OpenAI's 2022 release of ChatGPT  —  The European Union said it would focus …
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Framework opens Laptop 12 preorders in the UK, Europe, and Canada starting at €569, £499, and CA$719; US preorders are delayed due to Trump's tariffs  —  More than we were hoping to pay, but less than previous machines. … Earlier this year, modular computer company Framework began …
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:
Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal:
How Google used new AI techniques to enhance 90%+ of The Wizard of Oz, released in 1939, to show on the Las Vegas Sphere's giant screen from August 28, 2025  —  Google invented new techniques to enhance resolution and generated new character performances to bring the 1939 film to the giant screen

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Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
A look at some of the projects looking to raise money from Democratic megadonors as party strategists try to “find the next Joe Rogan”

Matt Stevens / New York Times:
LA mayor Karen Bass issues an executive directive to streamline city processes, lower filming costs, and ease shoots at well-known city-owned locations

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The Chicago Sun-Times and the Philadelphia Inquirer ran a supplement featuring an AI-generated guide to summer books that do not exist

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Vas Panagiotopoulos / Wired:
Docs: NSO Group, which is still on the US Commerce Department's Entity List, has hired Vogel Group, a lobbying firm with direct ties to the Trump administration
Reuters:
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Vikram Dodd / The Guardian:
Statewatch: the UK is developing a “murder prediction” tool that uses personal data to find likely killers; the government says the project is for research only
Georgia Butler / DatacenterDynamics:
Microsoft backs out of its October 2024 plan to invest $1B in three Ohio data center campuses, the latest in a series of its data center project cancellations
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