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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.
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| 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.
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| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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 — TAIPEI/PALO ALTO, California — Ever since Donald Trump was elected president back in November, the world's biggest electronics brands …
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| Karthikeyan Sundaram / Bloomberg: |
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| 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.
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| 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 … | 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 — Samsung Electronics Co. and Alphabet Inc.'s Google are partnering to launch the Ballie, a soccer-ball-shaped home robot … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google launches Workspace Flows, an AI tool to automate multi-step processes, in alpha, and new Docs, Sheets, Meet, Chat, and Vids features, like audio in Docs — Besides new Gemini features in Google Docs, Sheets, Meet, Chat and Vids, Cloud Next 2025 saw the announcement of Google Workspace Flows.
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| 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 …
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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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| 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 … | 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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| Canalys: |
Global shipments of personal computers rose 9.4% YoY in Q1, driven by OEMs ramping up US deliveries in anticipation of the first round of Trump's tariffs — According to the latest data from Canalys, now part of Omdia, total shipments of desktops, notebooks and workstations grew 9.4% to 62.7 million units in Q1 2025.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
WordPress.com launches an AI tool to help users build simple websites using a chat interface, available to users for free, to compete with Squarespace and Wix — Hosting platform WordPress.com on Wednesday launched a new AI website builder that allows anyone to create a functioning website using an AI chat-style interface.
More: The Verge, WordPress.com News, Security Boulevard, and Matt Mullenweg
| Sabrina Ortiz / ZDNET: |
Adobe outlines agentic AI features coming to Photoshop, Acrobat, Premiere Pro, and more, including one-click context-aware edits and agents to analyze documents — Agentic AI is the hottest AI topic because it takes AI assistance as we know it a step further, actually carrying out tasks for users.
More: Forbes, The Adobe Blog, FinTech Futures, and RCR Wireless News
| BBC: |
Ofcom opens an investigation into a pro-suicide forum with 10K+ members, its first using the Online Safety Act; the BBC links the unnamed forum to 50+ UK deaths — A pro-suicide forum is under investigation by the UK's online regulator - its first using new powers under the Online Safety Act.| 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: Engadget, T3, Google Help Center, Neowin, Mashable, and Chrome Unboxed
| 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 — Another data center project bites the dust — Microsoft has backed out of plans to build data centers in Licking County, Ohio.
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