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At an NRCC event, President Trump says he told TSMC it would pay a tax of up to 100% if it didn't build its US plants; in March, TSMC said it would invest $100B (Reuters)
2025-04-09 13:34 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Reddit integrates Gemini into its conversational AI search tool Reddit Answers, in beta since December 2024, to improve search relevance and give quick answers (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)
2025-04-09 12:34 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
How Google used new AI techniques to enhance 90%+ of The Wizard of Oz, released in 1939, to show on the Las Vegas Sphere's giant screen from August 28, 2025 (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
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Google Cloud Next: Google unveils Gemini 2.5 Flash, a reasoning model ideal for "high-volume" and "real-time" applications, launching soon in Vertex AI (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
2025-04-09 12:34 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google launches Workspace Flows, an AI tool to automate multi-step processes, in alpha, and new Google Docs, Sheets, Meet, and Chat features like audio in Docs (Abner Li/9to5Google)
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Google Cloud Next: Google unveils Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU and the first optimized for inference, available in a 256-chip or a 9,216-chip cluster (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
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Google Cloud launches Unified Security, integrating security operations, cloud security, threat intelligence, secure enterprise browsing, and Mandiant expertise (Taryn Plumb/VentureBeat)
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US ITC data: in 2024, China accounted for 86% of US game console imports, 79% of PC monitor imports, 73% of smartphone imports, and 66% of laptop imports (Bloomberg)
2025-04-09 11:33 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google Cloud Next: Google updates Gemini Code Assist to add agentic capabilities, including creating apps from product specifications in Google Docs, in preview (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
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UK-based high-end fashion marketplace Lyst agrees to a $154M acquisition by Japan-based fashion and e-commerce company Zozo; Lyst was valued at $700M+ in 2021 (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
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Italy says it is withdrawing its support for STMicro CEO Jean-Marc Chery and his management team as chip demand slumps; Italy and France own nearly 28% (Daniele Lepido/Bloomberg)
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Call transcript: Luxshare Chair Wang Laichun says the iPhone and AirPods maker is in talks with customers to move production from China, including to the US (Reuters)
2025-04-09 11:33 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Germany says Google will change how it offers its Maps and Automotive Services to car makers in Europe, including letting them choose rival infotainment options (Edith Hancock/Wall Street Journal)
2025-04-09 11:33 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The UK, the US, and other governments publish advisories on China-linked spyware families BadBazaar and Moonshine and highlight legitimate-looking Android apps (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
2025-04-09 11:33 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
White House document: the US will tax imports of items priced up to $800 at the rate of 90% of their value, up from a planned 30%, targeting Chinese retailers (Karthikeyan Sundaram/Bloomberg)
2025-04-09 10:32 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Google rolls out Loss of Pulse Detection to the Pixel Watch 3 in the US after getting FDA clearance in February 2025; the feature rolled out in Europe in 2024 (Abner Li/9to5Google)
2025-04-09 10:32 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
The EU unveils its AI Continent Action Plan, seeking to compete with the US and China, and says it wants to build "AI gigafactories" with ~100K AI chips (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal)
2025-04-09 10:32 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
X's merger with xAI caps its yearslong turnaround push; sources say X's revenue fell to $2.6B in 2024, down from $3B in 2023 and about $4.6B in 2022 (Wall Street Journal)
2025-04-09 07:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Docs: Canadian telecom Bell is lobbying to block Starlink subsidies, as Canada-US tensions and Musk's Trump ties put his satellite business under more scrutiny (Ilya Gridneff/Financial Times)
2025-04-09 06:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
Sources: to offset tariffs, Apple, Dell, and others pressed suppliers to fly as many premium devices as possible to the US, especially those priced above $3,000 (Nikkei Asia)
2025-04-09 06:30 - https://www.techmeme.com/feed.xml
 
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