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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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| 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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| 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 …
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| Bloomberg: |
Trump's 90-day tariff pause gives Nintendo, whose stock closed up 11.7% on April 10, time to prep the Switch 2's US launch on June 5 and lifts pricing pressure — For now. — The 90-day reprieve on heightened tariffs for most US trading partners gives the Japanese company a chance to ramp … | 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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| 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 — Former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams tells US senators that Meta targeted teens with ads based on their emotional state, identified via their online activity — Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, the former Director of Global Public Policy for Facebook and author of the recently released tell …
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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 …
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
SentinelLabs: AkiraBot spammers exploited OpenAI's gpt-4o-mini-based API to generate unique messages, bypassing spam filters to blast 80K+ sites in four months — Spammers used OpenAI to generate messages that were unique to each recipient, allowing them to bypass spam-detection filters …
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
Report details the internal chaos behind Apple's Siri failure, in part due to poor leadership, with John Giannandrea's AI/ML group dubbed “AIMLess” internally — A new report from The Information today reveals much of the internal turmoil behind Apple Intelligence's revamped version of Siri.
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| 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: |
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| Anna Tong / Reuters: |
OpenAI countersues Elon Musk, claiming harassment and asking a US federal judge to stop Musk from any further attacks in the 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 …
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| 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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| Alexey Shabanov / TestingCatalog: |
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| IEA: |
Data centers' global electricity demand could jump 100%+ to ~945TWh by 2030, and data centers are set to account for nearly 50% of US electricity demand growth — Major new IEA report brings groundbreaking data and analysis to one of the most pressing and least understood energy issues today …
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| Bloomberg: |
Annual shareholder letter: Andy Jassy says Amazon has to operate like the “world's largest startup” and generative AI will reinvent “every customer experience” — “If your customer experiences aren't planning to leverage these intelligent models …
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| 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 will add support for Anthropic's Model Context Protocol to its Gemini models and SDK, but did not give a timeline — 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.| Will Knight / Wired: |
Q&A with CMU professor and OpenAI board member Zico Kolter on CMU's partnership with Google, the dangers of AI agents interacting with one another, and more — Zico Kolter, a Carnegie Mellon professor and board member at OpenAI, tells WIRED about the dangers of AI agents interacting with one another …
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| 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 …
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| 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 … | Julie Bort / TechCrunch: |
Artisan, which is building AI sales development representatives, raised a $25M Series A led by Glade Brook Capital, after raising $12M in September 2024 — It's been a tough but exciting year for 23-year-old Jaspar Carmichael-Jack, founder and CEO of AI sales agent startup Artisan.
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| Sarah Wynn / The Block: |
Block reaches a $40M settlement with NYDFS for critical gaps in its AML program, particularly concerning risk-based controls and customer due diligence — - Block, Inc. had AML gaps including failing to have risk-based controls to prevent money laundering and illicit activity as well as insufficient customer due diligence, NYDFS said.Sponsor Posts
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