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April 14, 2025, 1:30 AM

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Financial Times:
US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says consumer electronics exempt from tariffs may be included in semiconductor tariffs likely coming in “a month or two”  —  US president says products given reprieve will fall under separate regime  —  Donald Trump signalled on Sunday …
Keith Bradsher / New York Times:
China has suspended exports of a wide range of rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for making semiconductors, robots, drones, cars, and more  —  Beijing has suspended exports of certain rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for the world's car, semiconductor and aerospace industries.
Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer:
A look at slopsquatting, a supply chain attack where threat actors create malicious packages on indexes using AI-hallucinated names resembling popular libraries  —  A new class of supply chain attacks named ‘slopsquatting’ has emerged from the increased use of generative AI tools for coding …
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple is working on a lighter and cheaper Vision Pro and a Mac-tethered model with ultra-low latency; iPadOS 19 overhaul will make it more like macOS  —  Also: company prepares more macOS-like features for iPadOS 19.  —  Apple is readying two new Vision Pro headsets, but glasses have become a bigger goal in the long run.
Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:
Martine Paris / Forbes:
Sam Altman says ChatGPT users had doubled in the past few weeks and that “10% of the world uses our systems”, which would peg the number closer to 800M users  —  Martine Paris is a San Francisco-based reporter covering trends in AI  —  OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman might …
Richard A. Webster / ProPublica:
A 2024 Louisiana parole law cedes much of the parole board's power to TIGER, an algorithm with immutable risk scores, blocking thousands from early release  —  A Louisiana law cedes much of the power of the parole board to an algorithm that bars thousands of prisoners from a shot at early release.
Bloomberg:
Analysis: paper gains from the Trump family's investments in various crypto projects, including NFTs, DeFi, Bitcoin mining, and memecoins, are approaching $1B  —  President Donald Trump and his family have taken a interest in just about every corner of the crypto industry.

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