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Nasdaq jumps 12% after Trump announced a 90-day tariff pause, with Nvidia up 19%, Apple up 15%, Meta up 15%, Amazon up 12%, Microsoft up 10%, Alphabet up 10% (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
2025-04-09 20:39 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
President Trump directs the DOJ to investigate former CISA director Chris Krebs, who was fired after he contradicted Trump's baseless 2020 election fraud claims (David DiMolfetta/Nextgov/FCW)
2025-04-09 23:41 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The UK's BoE plans to track AI use by banks and hedge funds, saying their risk managers may not fully understand the AI being run, which may threaten markets (Bloomberg)
2025-04-09 20:39 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sen. Ron Wyden plans to block the nomination of Sean Plankey to head CISA until the agency releases a 2022 report about security flaws at US telecom companies (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
2025-04-09 19:39 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Italy is seeking €1.2B from fintech group ION following a probe by prosecutors in Bologna into alleged tax evasion over the 2013-2023 period (Reuters)
2025-04-09 19:39 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
YouTube expands its pilot to some top creators of tech that detects the AI-generated likenesses of famous people and declares support for the US' NO FAKES ACT (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
2025-04-09 18:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google announces Agent2Agent, an open interoperability protocol to enable seamless collaboration between AI agents across diverse frameworks and vendors (Alexey Shabanov/TestingCatalog)
2025-04-09 18:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Trump announces a 90-day tariff pause for some countries and a "lowered Reciprocal Tariff during this period, of 10%", but raises tariffs on China to 125% (Dan Mangan/CNBC)
2025-04-09 18:38 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Anthropic debuts Claude's Max plan, with 5x the usage limits of Pro for $100/month or 20x the usage for $200/month, plus early access to new models and features (Hayden Field/CNBC)
2025-04-09 17:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Global shipments of personal computers rose 9.4% YoY in Q1, driven by OEMs ramping up US deliveries in anticipation of the first round of Trump's tariffs (Canalys)
2025-04-09 16:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: after Jensen Huang went to Mar-a-Lago last week, the White House reversed course on Nvidia H20 export restrictions to China, in the works for months (NPR)
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Adobe outlines agentic AI features coming to Photoshop, Acrobat, Premiere Pro, and more, including one-click context-aware edits and agents to analyze documents (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET)
2025-04-09 17:37 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Source: Nintendo has decided to postpone the Switch 2's release in China, an apparent response to the country's tight controls targeting the gaming industry (Nikkei Asia)
2025-04-09 15:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Autonomous delivery startup Nuro raised a $106M Series E at a $6B valuation, down from $8.6B in 2021 after its $600M Series D, taking its total funding to $2.2B (Rebecca Bellan/TechCrunch)
2025-04-09 15:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
WordPress.com launches an AI tool to help users build simple websites using a chat interface, available to users for free, to compete with Squarespace and Wix (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
2025-04-09 15:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources and a document: Amazon canceled orders for multiple products made in China and other Asian countries after Trump's April 2 global tariffs announcement (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
2025-04-09 15:36 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on Google Cloud Next, AI, DeepMind, AWS, hosting 200 models, training and inference costs, model training, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
2025-04-09 14:35 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: Amazon is considering a $15B warehouse expansion plan for nearly 80 new US logistics facilities, reversing its post-pandemic construction slowdown (Bloomberg)
2025-04-09 14:35 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Samsung and Google plan to launch Ballie, a soccer-ball-shaped home robot that uses AI and can project video onto walls "like a personal BB-8", in summer 2025 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
2025-04-09 14:35 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
PE firm EQT sells a €3B stake in Swedish enterprise software company IFS to investors including the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, valuing IFS at €15B (Ivan Levingston/Financial Times)
2025-04-09 13:34 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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