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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=257ea50c58&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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%</a></span>
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<span class="excerpt">- President Donald Trump announced a 90-day pause on the full effect of his new tariffs for at least some countries.</span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=06c01fc572&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">President Trump recognizes that economic security is national security. We must reclaim control of the manufacturing, production and supply chains of critical supplies and resources to finally put America First after decades of abuse. [video]</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a00ca951aa&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Trade wars often turn into real wars. I wonder if this is the point where China blockades Taiwan.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=05fa06790f&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Big question right now: Trump post says the 90-day pause is for countries that haven't retaliated. Does that include EU? Canada?</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=7e2712125b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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%</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Samantha Subin / </span><span class="pub_name">CNBC</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=96b862cfd7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The US plans to increase the tax on imports of parcels priced up to $800 from 30% to 90% of their value, targeting Chinese retailers like Temu and Shein</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Karthikeyan Sundaram / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=679c5ac4ed&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">BTC jumped 7%+ to ~$83K, while ETH, DOGE, XRP, and SOL gained over 12% as Trump paused some tariffs; Strategy closed up 25%, Robinhood up 24%, Coinbase up 17%</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2147b4339a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Google unveils Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU and the first optimized for inference, coming later in 2025 in a 256-chip cluster or a 9,216-chip cluster</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kyle Wiggers / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="excerpt">During its Cloud Next conference this week, Google unveiled the latest generation of its TPU AI accelerator chip.</span>
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<a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=0784840d19&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@officiallogank:</a>
<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3423e2b8e8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Introducing Ironwood, the first TPU built for the age of inference, and the timing could not be better : ) - Ironwood perf/watt is 2x relative to Trillium, 6th gen TPU - Ironwood offers 192 GB per chip, 6x that of Trillium - 4.5x faster data access </a>
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<a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=115b873bf9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@maxwinebach:</a>
<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b6d11c1753&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">DeepSeek R1 (any model tbh) on TPU v7 is gonna RIP 192GB HBM @ 7.4TB/s per chip, 256 chip node, 4614 peak TFLOPS Given cost advantage and GCP scale to zero, I don't see how using any other cloud host for LLMs makes sense if you're self hosting and not using an API.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1e746bc19e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Google “Ironwood” TPU v7 is a 10x jump in compute over the last generation, and it has vastly more memory. Can anyone even compete with Google's AI hardware at this point? [image]</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b76c5b4b08&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=4cd7f6dd20&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">I said this would happen. Dissent isn't unlawful. It certainly isn't treasonous. America is headed down a dark path. Never has a man so inelegantly proved another man's point.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=9d71cbab5a&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">.@SarahLongwell25 on Trump ordering the DOJ to investigate Miles Taylor and Chris Krebs via executive order: “This is some of the most insane authoritarian stuff we've seen out of him.” [video]</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5bc416f66e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">This is madness. Chris Krebs was a public servant, a GOP appointee, who *did his job* ensuring the 2020 election was secure. For our government to target him like this is appalling & Stalinesque. Any person who reveres our constitutional republic should speak out against it.</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=21b568a6c9&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2c98935608&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Call transcript: Luxshare Chair Wang Laichun says the iPhone and AirPods maker is in talks with clients to move more production from China, including to the US</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=73cdaa8769&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5d61edcecc&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: to avoid tariffs, Apple, Dell, Microsoft, Lenovo, and others pressed suppliers to fly as many $3,000+ devices as possible to the US before April 9</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=bab8bf77b8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Microsoft backs out of its October 2024 plan to invest $1B in three Ohio data center campuses, the latest in a series of its data center project cancellations</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Georgia Butler / </span><span class="pub_name">DatacenterDynamics</span>)</span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kyle Wiggers / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kyle Wiggers / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Lauren Forristal / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Taryn Plumb / </span><span class="pub_name">VentureBeat</span>)</span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mark Gurman / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Mauro Orru / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3b9b74949b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sarah Perez / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f3c8e90b85&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Adobe outlines agentic AI features coming to Photoshop, Acrobat, Premiere Pro, and more, including one-click context-aware edits and agents to analyze documents</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Sabrina Ortiz / </span><span class="pub_name">ZDNET</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=5b9a4a7aac&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=a9301088d8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Isabelle Bousquette / </span><span class="pub_name">Wall Street Journal</span>)</span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Will Canny / </span><span class="pub_name">CoinDesk</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=3cad1e86be&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Private equity firm EQT sells a €3B stake in Swedish enterprise software company IFS to investors like the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, valuing IFS at €15B</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Ivan Levingston / </span><span class="pub_name">Financial Times</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=ebbb0f7771&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">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</a></span>
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