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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 …
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| Reuters: |
President Trump told reporters he would announce the tariff rate on imported semiconductors over the next week, giving some flexibility to certain companies — U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said he would be announcing the tariff rate on imported semiconductors over the next week …
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| Keith Bradsher / New York Times: |
China suspends exports of a wide range of rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for making semiconductors, robots, drones, cars, and other products — Beijing has suspended exports of certain rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for the world's car, semiconductor and aerospace industries.
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X: @garymarcus, @rakeshsfnyc, @ericmgarcia, @esaagar, @pitdesi, @mikeisaac, @spencerhakimian, @charliekirk11, and @justinwolfers. LinkedIn: Nicholas Myers
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple is working on a lighter and cheaper Vision Pro and a Mac-tethered model with ultra-low latency; an overhaul will make iPadOS 19 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.
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Forums: r/ipad, r/apple, Ars OpenForum, and MacRumors Forums
| Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
A look at “slopsquatting”, a supply chain attack where threat actors make 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 …
More: The Register, Socket, arXiv, arXiv.org e-Print archive, Hackaday, and AI Weirdness
Bluesky: @spavel, @seldo.com, @allytibbitt.me, @en.sitnik.ru, and @sethmlarson.dev. Mastodon: @andrewnez@mastodon.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/netsec, and r/programming
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
A recently published support page says OpenAI may soon require organizations to complete an ID verification process to access new advanced AI models — OpenAI may soon require organizations to complete an ID verification process in order to access certain future AI models …
More: OpenAI, The Economic Times, Tech in Asia, and Breitbart
Bluesky: @rebeccawilliams.info and @rebeccawilliams.info
Forums: Hacker News and r/artificial
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Jack Dorsey says “delete all IP law” in an X post and Musk says “I agree”; Dorsey says current models “take way too much” from creators and “only rent-seek” — Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter (now X) and Square (now Block) …
More: Notes From The Circus and Crypto Briefing
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| Politico: |
A French law requiring adult websites to run age checks and block under-18 users became applicable to sites based in France and outside of the EU on April 11 — A new law requires porn sites to check the age of users in France. — This article is also available in: French
More: Hindustan Times
| Financial Times: |
Dealroom: UK-based startups raised £16.2B in 2024, the lowest amount since 2020, as several consider moving their headquarters to the US in search of capital — Leading British tech groups explore moving headquarters in effort to tap deep-pocketed American investors| VentureBeat: |
A look at the limits of large context LLMs, as their increased latency, higher costs, and reduced usability result in diminishing returns for enterprises — Rahul Raja, LinkedIn, Advitya Gemawat, Microsoft — The race to expand large language models (LLMs) beyond the million-token threshold …
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| 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 …
More: CNET, Livemint, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, Trak.in, TED on YouTube, TechSpot, The Decoder, and Exponential View
X: @futurejurvetson and @chrisfralic
| David Yaffe-Bellany / New York Times: |
US lawmakers who benefited from crypto super PACs are advancing crypto priorities in Congress, like the Genius Act to establish rules for stablecoin issuers — At the end of a three-hour hearing last month, Senator Ruben Gallego, Democrat of Arizona, sided with a group of Republicans in a hotly contested debate.
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