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| Dan Mangan / CNBC: |
President Trump pauses tariffs on most countries for 90 days, setting a 10% “lowered Reciprocal Tariff”, and sets 125% tariffs on China “effective immediately” — - 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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Forums: Hacker News, r/allinspanish, r/USNEWS, r/LibertarianUncensored, r/ThePeoplesPress, r/bangalore, r/internationalpolitics, r/CustomsBroker, r/DJTSTOCK, r/China_irl, r/PoliticalOptimism, r/InternationalNews, r/politics, r/China, r/TheSecondTerm, r/thedavidpakmanshow, r/LeopardsAteMyFace, r/PrepperIntel, r/robursa, r/VietNam, r/Economics, r/Law_and_Politics, r/neoliberal, r/AMD_Stock, r/centrist, r/politics, r/MarchAgainstTrump, r/moderatepolitics, r/USNewsHub, r/AnythingGoesNews, r/news, and r/ukpolitics
| Samantha Subin / CNBC: |
The Nasdaq jumped 12%+ after Trump paused tariffs for 90 days; Nvidia closed up 18.7%, Apple 15.5%, Meta 14.8%, Amazon 12%, Microsoft 10.1%, and Alphabet 9.9% — The Nasdaq Composite climbed more than 12% for its second best day ever as markets clawed back after a rocky few trading sessions spurred …
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Bluesky: @carnage4life. Mastodon: @agiletortoise@mastodon.social. X: @senadamschiff, @thestalwart, @apompliano, @jamessurowiecki, @ojblanchard1, @morningbrew, @jamessurowiecki, @adamscochran, @timsteno, @jimcramer, @ronfilipkowski, @hblodget, @richardhanania, @thestalwart, @marcofoster_, @coffeebreak_yt, @rephorsford, @thestalwart, @morningbrew, and @conorsen
Forums: Slashdot and MacRumors Forums
| Reuters: |
Sources: Apple chartered cargo flights to ferry 600 tons of iPhones, or up to 1.5M units, to the US from India; a source says Apple “wanted to beat the tariff” — Tech giant Apple chartered cargo flights to ferry 600 tons of iPhones, or as many as 1.5 million …
More: Hindustan Times, Patently Apple, ZeroHedge News, Reuters, Silicon UK, and The Economic Times
X: @richisunak and @adityakalra
Forums: r/politics and r/worldnews
| David DiMolfetta / Nextgov/FCW: |
President Trump directs the DOJ to investigate former CISA Director Chris Krebs, who Trump fired for contradicting Trump's baseless 2020 election fraud claims — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday night directing the Justice Department to investigate former top …
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| Jesse Hamilton / CoinDesk: |
The US Senate confirms former SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins as SEC chair, succeeding Gary Gensler; Atkins is widely expected to support crypto-friendly policies — Paul Atkins is just one oath away from taking over the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as President Donald Trump's pick … | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch: |
US court document: NSO Group's Pegasus was used to target 1,223 WhatsApp users in 51 countries in a 2019 attack; Mexico led with 456 victims and India had 100 — NSO Group's notorious spyware Pegasus was used to target 1,223 WhatsApp users in 51 different countries during a 2019 hacking campaign, according to a new court document.| Vas Panagiotopoulos / Wired: |
Bluesky: @jigamathingy, @vaspanagiotopoulos.com, and @couts. Mastodon: @KimPerales@toad.social. Forums: r/TrueReddit
| Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog: |
Google launches Agent2Agent, an open interoperability protocol designed 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 …
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Forums: Hacker News and r/mcp
| Taryn Plumb / VentureBeat: |
Google introduces Firebase Studio, an AI-powered IDE that lets developers create custom mobile and web apps, APIs, backends, and frontends in their browser — Google has heated up the app-building space, today rolling out a generative AI-powered end-to-end app platform that allows users to create custom apps in minutes.
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| Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press: |
Senate testimony: Sarah Wynn-Williams alleges that Meta briefed China on US AI efforts, “ignored warnings” on China potentially accessing US user data, and more — “Throughout those seven years, I saw Meta executives repeatedly undermine U.S. national security and betray American values.
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Forums: r/facebook and Slashdot
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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Bluesky: @hypervisible. X: @hawleymo, @tech_oversight, @ttp_updates, and @ttp_updates. Forums: r/france
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
SentinelLabs: AkiraBot spammers exploited OpenAI's gpt-4o-mini-based API to create unique messages, bypassing spam filters to target 80K+ sites in four months — Spammers used OpenAI to generate messages that were unique to each recipient, allowing them to bypass spam-detection filters … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI launches the Pioneers Program, which aims to work with “multiple companies” to design tailored AI benchmarks for specific domains like legal and finance — OpenAI, like many AI labs, thinks AI benchmarks are broken. It says it wants to fix them through a new program.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis says Google would add support for Anthropic's Model Context Protocol to its Gemini models and SDK, but offered no timeframe — Just a few weeks after OpenAI said it would adopt rival Anthropic's standard for connecting AI models to the systems where data resides, Google is following suit.| 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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Bluesky: @zacheverson.com and @bobbyallyn
X: @kyleichan, @emilyzfeng, @teddyschleifer, @miles_brundage, @mattinthemittel, @mattsheehan88, @mattyglesias, @kevinbankston, @bobbyallyn, and @rwang07
Forums: r/singularity, r/politics, r/NPR, r/neoliberal, and r/technology
| IEA: |
Data centers' global electricity demand will exceed 945 TWh by 2030, and US data centers are set to account for nearly 50% of electricity demand growth by 2030 — Major new IEA report brings groundbreaking data and analysis to one of the most pressing and least understood energy issues today …
More: Reuters, IEA, AI News, Capitol News Illinois, Agence France-Presse, Bloomberg, IEA, The Guardian, and CleanTechnica
| Anna Tong / Reuters: |
OpenAI countersues Elon Musk, claiming harassment and asking a federal judge to stop Musk from any further attacks in a case over OpenAI's future structure — OpenAI countersued Elon Musk on Wednesday, citing a pattern of harassment by Musk and asking a federal judge to stop Musk from any … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Sen. Ron Wyden plans to block the nomination of Sean Plankey to head CISA until the agency releases a 2022 report about security flaws at US telecom companies — Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden has put a hold on the Trump administration's nomination of Sean Plankey to head the federal government's …
More: Reuters, Nextgov/FCW, Federal News Network, and The Hill
| Reuters: |
Analysis: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and his VC firms invested in 600+ Chinese tech companies including 8+ with military ties; a source says he divested the positions — Lip-Bu Tan, the man chosen to lead Intel, the U.S.'s largest chip maker, has invested in hundreds of Chinese tech firms …
More: TechCrunch
| Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Ziroh Labs and the Indian Institute of Technology partner to launch Kompact AI, which they say is an affordable AI system to run large models on standard CPUs — Ziroh Labs, an artificial intelligence startup operating in India, collaborated with researchers at the country's premier technology school … | Aaron Clark / Bloomberg: |
Greenpeace: emissions from AI chip production rose 357% in 2024, driven by a heavy reliance on fossil fuels, outpacing a 351% rise in electricity consumption — Emissions generated from the production of semiconductors that underpin AI services grew more than fourfold in 2024 …
More: South China Morning Post, Livemint, and Greenpeace East Asia
| Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter: |
In an interview with Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, James Cameron says he is cautiously optimistic about generative AI's role in filmmaking, including cutting costs — In an interview with Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth, the filmmaker weighs in on Stability AI and VFX, “in the style of” prompts …
More: Variety, MIXED Reality News, Daily Mail, The Wrap, and Meta on YouTube
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