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White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says Amazon reportedly adding tariff pricing to each product on its site “is a hostile and political act by Amazon” — WATCH NOW — The White House on Tuesday slammed Amazon for reportedly planning to display the cost …
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LinkedIn: Casey Golden and Chris Van Nuys
| Fortune: |
Amazon says Amazon Haul “considered the idea of listing import charges on certain products”, but “this was never a consideration for the main Amazon site” — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt holds a news article on Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos as she speaks during …
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| CNN: |
Sources: President Trump called Jeff Bezos on Tuesday morning to complain about reports that Amazon was adding tariff prices to listings — President Donald Trump called Amazon founder Jeff Bezos this morning to complain about reports that his company was considering displaying the cost …
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| Rafe Uddin / Financial Times: |
Sources: Amazon is seeking steep supplier discounts and setting tough terms to protect margins amid US tariffs, following its playbook from Trump's first term — Trade war leads ecommerce group to seek steep discounts from sellers, particularly from China — Amazon is seeking steep discounts …
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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Meta launches the Meta AI app, a standalone ChatGPT competitor featuring a Discover feed, where users can see AI interactions that friends have chosen to share — The new Meta AI app puts a twist on social media. … Meta's standalone ChatGPT competitor is mostly what you'd expect from an AI assistant.
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| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
The US House passes the Take It Down Act to criminalize posting nonconsensual intimate imagery, including deepfakes, and require online platforms to remove them — Trump is expected to sign into law a bill that would force online platforms to quickly take down nonconsensual intimate images.
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Forums: r/politics, r/politics, and r/technology
| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
Critics fear the Trump administration could weaponize the Take It Down Act, one of the few online safety bills to pass in years, against content it dislikes — Critics warn it could have grave consequences for online speech and encryption. … The Take It Down Act is heading …
More: Ars Technica and Electronic Frontier Foundation
| Google Cloud Blog: |
Google tracked 75 zero days exploited in the wild in 2024, down from 98 in 2023 but up from 63 in 2022; state-sponsored threat groups led in zero-day exploits — Google Threat Intelligence — Visibility and context on the threats that matter most. — Executive Summary| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn says the company will “gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can handle”, as part of an announcement to be “AI-first” — The company is going to be ‘AI-first,’ says its CEO. … Duolingo will “gradually stop using contractors …
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Alibaba debuts its Qwen3 family of open-weight “hybrid” AI reasoning models, including Qwen3-235B-A22B, with 235B total parameters and 22B activated parameters — Chinese tech company Alibaba on Monday released Qwen3, a family of AI models the company claims matches …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/LocalLLaMA
| Wired: |
Oligo researchers detail AirBorne, a set of vulnerabilities in Apple's AirPlay SDK that could affect 10M+ third-party devices; Apple has patched its own devices — Researchers reveal a collection of bugs known as AirBorne that would allow any hacker on the same Wi-Fi network …
More: Oligo security, Computerworld, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and Cyber Security News
| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Sources: Scattered Spider conducted a ransomware attack on UK retailer M&S, which employs 64,000 in 1,400+ stores, causing widespread disruption from April 22 — Ongoing outages at British retail giant Marks & Spencer are caused by a ransomware attack believed to be conducted …
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| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Spotify reports Q1 revenue up 15% YoY to €4.2B, operating income of €509M, below its €548M forecast, Q2 MAUs forecast below analysts' estimates; SPOT drops 8%+ — Spotify Technology SA shares tumbled on Tuesday after the streaming company gave a muted outlook for profit and subscriber growth in the current quarter.| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
OpenAI starts rolling out product recommendations in ChatGPT, including Plus, Pro, Free, and logged-out users, with buy buttons that link to merchants' websites — OpenAI is launching a shopping experience inside of ChatGPT, complete with product picks and buy buttons.
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X: @openai, @openai, @openai, @openai, @841io, @adamhfry, @andrewcurran_, @annetgriffin, and @paul__walsh. LinkedIn: Jim Amos. Forums: r/technews
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