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.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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.
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 …
Meta whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams tells US senators that Meta targeted teens with ads based on their emotional state, identified via their online activity
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Trump's tariffs are an opportunity for the EU to bolster its tech sector via strategic investments, streamlining regulations, and deepening its single market
Parmy Olson / Bloomberg :
A deep dive into what Trump's Liberation Day tariffs mean for AI infrastructure: how the tariffs work, the USMCA's GPU loophole, GPU/XPU global trade, and more
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Meta says LLMs have historically leaned left and wants to remove that bias with Llama 4 to “understand and articulate both sides of a contentious issue”
Bias in artificial intelligence systems, or the fact that large language models, facial recognition, and AI image generators … Bluesky: @imnoexpert.com , @philipberne.com , and @caliban10 . X: @ericge...
Annual shareholder letter: Andy Jassy says Amazon has to operate like the “world's largest startup” and generative AI will reinvent “every customer experience”
Powerbeats Pro 2 Review: Best Workout Earbuds Still Lag on Audio Quality
Google Pixel 9a review: a great display, battery life, and cameras, a sleek design, and IP68, but slow charging, no Pixel Screenshot, and a finicky Macro Focus
here's how it compares to the best cheap phones Jonathan Lamont / MobileSyrup : Google Pixel 9a Review: The obvious choice Spencer Hart / Stuff : The Google Pixel 9a is my perfect entry-level phone Iy...
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.
A look at the internal chaos behind Apple's Siri failure, in part due to poor leadership, with John Giannandrea's AI/ML group dubbed “AIMLess” internally
Last June, at Apple's annual developers conference, the company offered a dazzling demonstration of how artificial intelligence …
Docs: NSO Group, which is still on the US Commerce Department's Entity List, has hired Vogel Group, a lobbying firm with direct ties to the Trump administration
www.wired.com/story/nso-gr... Vas Panagiotopoulos / @vaspanagiotopoulos.com : 1/5 NSO Group is paving a path back Into Trump's 🇺🇸America. — The 🇮🇱Israeli #spyware maker, still on the US Commerce Dep...
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 …
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.
Block reaches a $40M settlement with NYDFS for “critical gaps” in its anti-money laundering program, including 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 …
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.
Ziroh Labs and the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras launch Kompact AI, which they say is an affordable AI system that can run large AI models on CPUs
Ziroh Labs, an artificial intelligence startup operating in India, collaborated with researchers at the country's premier technology school …
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 …
Kevin Rose and Alexis Ohanian's Digg launches a $5 early-access program called Groundbreakers, giving a “front-row seat to how Digg is being rebuilt”
The reboot of early-internet social news site Digg is underway. Original founder Kevin Rose and Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian …
Yield Sec: US online gross gambling revenue hit $90.1B in 2024, of which 74% went to illegal casinos; unlicensed operators in California made $5.5B in revenue
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SILQ, a B2B e-commerce platform formed by the merger of Bangladesh-based ShopUp and Saudi Arabia-based Sary, raised $110M co-led by Sanabil and Valar Ventures
now the largest B2B commerce platform across the Gulf and Emerging Asia. …
Austin-based network security startup Portnox, which develops zero-trust access control tools, raised a $37.5M Series B, taking its total funding to $59.5M
Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE :
Incident.io, which streamlines incident management for organizations with 200+ users, raised a $62M Series B led by Insight, sources say at a ~$400M valuation
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Source: ByteDance's revenue from international operations, which are primarily TikTok, rose 63% to $39B in 2024; overall revenue grew 29% to $155B
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Senator Ron Wyden plans to block Sean Plankey's nomination to head CISA until the agency releases a 2022 report detailing security flaws at US telecom companies
Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch :
Greenpeace: emissions from AI chip production grew 357% in 2024, driven by a heavy reliance on fossil fuels, outpacing a 351% rise in electricity consumption
Aaron Clark / Bloomberg :
Analysis: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan and his VC firms invested in 600+ Chinese tech companies including at least eight with military ties; a source says Tan divested
Tessell, which offers a multi-cloud database-as-a-service, raised a $60M Series B led by WestBridge and plans an AI conversational database management service
joining as the first GTM Solution Architect and building our presence from 0 to 1 across India and EMEA has been an incredible ride. …
TSMC reports Q1 revenue up 42% YoY to ~$25.5B, above est. and its fastest revenue growth since 2022, as electronics makers stockpiled chips ahead of US tariffs
Jane Lanhee Lee / Bloomberg :
Tel Aviv-based Anecdotes, which helps automate governance, risk management, and compliance processes, raised a $30M Series B extension, taking the round to $55M
Sophie Shulman / CTech :
xAI launches an API for Grok 3 and Grok 3 Mini with “reasoning” capabilities; Grok 3 costs $3/$15 per million input/output tokens, Grok 3 Mini costs $0.30/$0.50
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch :
A look at Isomorphic Labs, a life sciences startup spun out of Google DeepMind, both led by Demis Hassabis, aiming to “solve all disease” via AI drug discovery
They recently raised $600 million in external funding. Today, they made AlphaFold3 available to the scientific community. www.cnbc.com/2025/04/09/i... LinkedIn: Hayden Field : On a rare sunny day in ...
Solid, which offers APIs for banking, payments, cards, and crypto products and had raised nearly $81M, files for Chapter 11 after a “costly” FTV Capital lawsuit
Mary Ann Azevedo / 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
Julie Bort / TechCrunch :
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