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The US announces a new 34% "reciprocal" tariff rate on almost all products imported from China, going into effect from April 9, 2025 (Bloomberg)
Key parts of the US Social Security site have crashed in the past week, as phone support is reduced; report: SSA's site was down four times in 10 days in March (Lucas Ropek/Gizmodo)
The White House says "de minimis" exemptions for packages under $800 from China and Hong Kong will end on May 2, affecting Temu, Shein, and other marketplaces (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
Apple shares drop 7%+ after hours after President Trump announced new tariffs, including 46% on Vietnam and 26% on India, where Apple has been moving production (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)
Tech stocks fall in late trading after President Trump announced new tariffs: Amazon drops as much ~7%, Meta ~5%, Nvidia ~5%, Alphabet ~4%, and Microsoft ~3% (Kif Leswing/CNBC)
Source: Scale AI generated ~$870M in 2024 revenue, with its annualized run rate reaching $1.5B by the end of 2024, and expects to generate $2B in 2025 revenue (Bloomberg)
Google unveils a NotebookLM "Discover sources" feature, which searches the web and recommends up to 10 sources for users to add to their notebooks (Abner Li/9to5Google)
Amazon plans to launch the first 27 satellites for its Project Kuiper internet network on April 9, after launching two prototype satellites in 2023 (Joey Roulette/Reuters)
Europol says German and Dutch authorities shut down Kidflix, a CSAM streaming platform with 1.8M+ users between April 2022 and March 2025, on March 11 (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
Siemens agrees to acquire Boston-based R&D scientific software company Dotmatics from Insight Partners for $5.1B, and expects the deal to close in H1 2026 (Bloomberg)
Source: President Trump plans to announce TikTok America, a company that is ~50% owned by US investors and 19.9% by ByteDance, which would license the algorithm (Kaya Yurieff/The Information)
Sources: Zuckerberg is lobbying Trump for a settlement that would prevent Meta from facing an antitrust trial later this month; he visited the White House today (Wall Street Journal)
Automattic lays off 16% of staff, CEO Matt Mullenweg says to become "more agile and responsive"; Automattic website listed 1,744 employees ahead of the layoffs (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
Sources: AppLovin has made a bid for TikTok and talked to casino magnate Steve Wynn about backing it; a source says AppLovin pitched itself as a job creator (Wall Street Journal)
Adobe updates Premiere Pro with AI features like Generative Extend, which lets users extend clips by up to two seconds in 4K quality and with background audio (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
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