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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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| 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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| Punchbowl News: |
Source: Amazon plans to soon show how much President Trump's tariffs are adding to the price of each product, right next to its total listed price — Amazon doesn't want to shoulder the blame for the cost of President Donald Trump's trade war. So the e-commerce giant will soon show …
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| Meta Developers on YouTube: |
Livestream of Meta's LlamaCon 2025 keynote — Join us as we dive into the world of AI at LlamaCon 2025. This session features a keynote presentation with Chief Product Officer Chris Cox, VP of Llama Manohar Paluri, and Llama Researcher Angela Fan. Together, they will explore the importance …
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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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| 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| 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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| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
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| 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 … | 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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| 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.| 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
| Bloomberg: |
The UK government publishes draft legislation on cryptoassets, set to be finalized later in 2025, and says it will work with US officials on crypto regulation — The UK government will collaborate with US officials on plans to regulate the burgeoning crypto industry, distancing itself …
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI says users made 1B+ web searches in ChatGPT last week, adds trending searches, and lets WhatsApp users chat 1-800-ChatGPT for up-to-date search results — OpenAI is updating ChatGPT search, its web search tool in ChatGPT, to give users an improved online shopping experience, the company announced Monday.
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X: @openai, @openai, @openai, @openai, @paul__walsh, @841io, @adamhfry, @annetgriffin, and @andrewcurran_. LinkedIn: Jim Amos. Forums: r/technews
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