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Trump Ends Tariff Exemption for Small Packages

wired.com Zeyi Yang 2025-12-21 08:17:11

US President Donald Trump just dealt another blow to the embattled ecommerce industry, which is still reeling from sweeping tariffs Trump announced in the spring. On Wednesday, Trump signed an executive order widening the impact of those tariffs and making it more expensive for Americans to buy foreign products on sites like eBay, Etsy, and Amazon. The order eliminates the so-called “de minimis” provision, a long-standing policy that allowed people in the US to import packages valued at less th

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Elon Musk Is So Unpopular, He May Be Hurting the Entire EV Industry

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-12-21 17:20:18

Elon Musk’s increasingly controversial reputation among U.S. liberals has become so polarizing that it’s turning some away not just from Tesla, but from electric vehicles altogether. A new study published this week in the journal Nature examined whether perceptions of Musk have made Teslas more polarizing than other EVs. The researchers conducted a series of surveys starting in November 2023 up until March 2025. In each, participants were asked whether they would consider purchasing either a Te

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Will online safety laws become the next tariff bargaining chip?

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-12-22 22:49:31

is a senior policy reporter at The Verge, covering the intersection of Silicon Valley and Capitol Hill. She spent 5 years covering tech policy at CNBC, writing about antitrust, privacy, and content moderation reform. President Donald Trump and other Republicans have railed for years against foreign regulation of US tech companies, including online safety laws. As the US fights a global tariff war, it may bring those rules under fire — just as some of them are growing teeth. Over the past weeks

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The Download: how to store energy underground, and what you may not know about Trump’s AI Action Plan

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-12-23 15:10:00

Texas-based startup Quidnet Energy just completed a test showing it can store energy for up to six months by pumping water underground. Using water to store electricity is hardly a new concept—pumped hydropower storage has been around for over a century. But the company hopes its twist on the technology could help bring cheap, long-duration energy storage to new places. Read the full story. —Casey Crownhart What you may have missed about Trump’s AI Action Plan The executive orders and anno

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Apple Is Opening a Manufacturing Academy in Detroit

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2025-12-24 17:10:06

Apple just announced plans to open a manufacturing academy in Detroit this August, as the company faces pressure from President Donald Trump to build iPhones in the U.S. Starting August 19, Apple will partner with Michigan State University to host free workshops for small and mid-sized businesses, aimed at helping American companies adopt artificial intelligence and smart manufacturing techniques. “Apple works with suppliers in all 50 states because we know advanced manufacturing is vital to A

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DOJ Has a Copy of the Epstein Jail Video With the ‘Missing Minute’: Report

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-12-24 22:00:24

When the U.S. Department of Justice released a nearly 11-hour video in early July that purported to show the last time Jeffrey Epstein was seen alive, people couldn’t help but notice that there was a full minute missing. Attorney General Pam Bondi insisted there was a simple explanation: That’s just how the jail’s antiquated camera systems work. But a new report claims Bondi isn’t telling the truth. The report from CBS News cites a “government source familiar with the investigation” who told th

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Former NASA Boss Says We May Be Destroying America’s Only Shot at Space

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-25 02:13:31

One of the driving personalities behind the Hubble Space Telescope is sounding the alarm on president Donald Trump's disastrous space policy. That former NASA associate administrator for spaceflight is Joe Rothenberg, who warns that the agency's current predicament — mass layoffs and deferred resignations resulting in a loss of 20 percent of its workforce and a complete overhaul of agency culture — may already be too bad to fix. "What is happening at NASA has long term and potentially unrecove

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Trump caving on Nvidia H20 export curbs may disrupt his bigger trade war

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-24 03:04:07

The next front in Donald Trump's trade war will be chip tariffs—which could come by next month—but national security experts are warning that the president may have already made a huge misstep that threatens to disrupt both US trade and national security. In a letter Monday to Department of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, 20 policymakers and professionals with a background in national security policy urged Trump to reverse course and block exports of Nvidia's H20 chips to China. In April, t

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What you may have missed about Trump’s AI Action Plan

technologyreview.com James O'Donnell 2025-12-25 11:00:00

But if you dig deeper, certain parts of the plan that didn’t pop up in any headlines reveal more about where the administration’s AI plans are headed. Here are three of the most important issues to watch. Trump is escalating his fight with the Federal Trade Commission When Americans get scammed, they’re supposed to be helped by the Federal Trade Commission. As I wrote last week, the FTC under President Biden increasingly targeted AI companies that overhyped the accuracy of their systems, as we

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Apple opens manufacturing academy in Detroit as Trump ramps up pressure to invest in U.S.

cnbc.com Kif Leswing 2025-12-25 22:00:01

US President Donald Trump (R) and Apple CEO Tim Cook (2nd L), with Senior Advisor to the President Ivanka Trump (L) and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, tour the Flextronics computer manufacturing facility where Apple's Mac Pros are assembled in Austin, Texas, on November 20, 2019. Faced with intensifying pressure from President Donald Trump to bring more jobs to the U.S., Apple is opening a manufacturing program in downtown Detroit. The Apple Manufacturing Academy, which is being administer

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Josh Hawley Wants to Send Out Rebate Checks So Americans Can ‘Benefit’ From Trump’s Tariffs

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-25 22:05:54

President Trump’s tariffs have generated around 20 billion dollars in revenue for the U.S. government, although it’s worth noting that a vast majority of this wealth has been derived from import duties on American businesses. In other words, Americans are paying the federal government (many critics have noted that tariffs are just taxes by another name) for the pleasure of doing business with foreign exporters. For the fiscally confused, the New York Times recently wrote an explainer on tariffs

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Trump Organization says Amazon, Walmart, eBay sellers are hawking knockoff shirts, hats, mugs

cnbc.com Annie Palmer 2025-12-27 12:50:47

The Trump Organization is seeking to prevent some online businesses from hawking counterfeit merchandise promoting President Donald Trump. In a lawsuit filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Florida, the company accused unnamed merchants of selling "inferior imitations" of Trump-branded products on several online marketplaces, including Amazon , Walmart and eBay . The Trump Organization company, which is owned by Trump, sells a variety of branded merchandise through its website, including a go

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Trump unveils aggressive AI plan focused on deregulation, dismisses copyright payments for AI training

techspot.com Skye Jacobs 2025-12-24 00:25:00

What just happened? President Donald Trump has taken a firm stance on one of the most contentious questions in artificial intelligence: whether companies developing AI should be required to pay for the copyrighted content used to train their systems. Speaking at an AI Summit in Washington, Trump dismissed the idea as unworkable. He argued that requiring AI firms to compensate for every book, article, or piece of media used in training their models would stifle innovation and risk leaving the Uni

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Trump temporarily drops export controls to smooth negotiations with China

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-28 22:00:21

After previously saying that the US would block exports of key AI chips to China, Donald Trump's administration may have backtracked. The US will now temporarily block restriction on exports of chips and other technology to China, the Financial Times reported. The aim is to help Trump book a meeting with China President Xi Jinping later this year in order to strike a trade deal, according to people familiar with the matter. Export controls are dictated by the US Commerce Department, which was r

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Elon Musk Swipes Back at Trump After Apparent Peace Offering

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-30 08:20:05

Yesterday, President Trump seemed to offer an olive branch to his former “first buddy,” Elon Musk, amidst their ongoing spat. In a post made to Truth Social, Trump claimed that he didn’t wish any harm on Elon or his businesses. “Everyone is stating that I will destroy Elon’s companies by taking away some, if not all, of the large-scale subsidies he receives from the U.S. Government. This is not so! I want Elon, and all businesses within our Country, to THRIVE, in fact, THRIVE like never before!”

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Skydance deal allows Trump’s FCC to “censor speech” and “silence dissent” on CBS

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-30 17:20:34

The Federal Communications Commission has approved Skydance's $8 billion acquisition of Paramount, which owns CBS. But the agency's approval drew fiery dissent from the only Democratic commissioner, Anna Gomez, after requiring written commitments from Skydance that allow the government to influence editorial decisions at CBS. Gomez accused the FCC of "imposing never-before-seen controls over newsroom decisions and editorial judgment, in direct violation of the First Amendment and the law." Und

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Breaking down Trump’s big gift to the AI industry

theverge.com Lauren Feiner 2025-12-30 22:35:40

President Donald Trump’s plan to promote America’s AI dominance involves discouraging “woke AI,” slashing state and federal regulations, and laying the groundwork to rapidly expand AI development and adoption. Trump’s proposal, released on July 23rd, is a sweeping endorsement of the technology, full of guidance that ranges from specific executive actions to directions for future research. Some of the new plan’s provisions (like promoting open-source AI) have garnered praise from organizations t

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The Download: saving the US climate programs, and America’s AI protections are under threat

technologyreview.com Rhiannon Williams 2025-12-31 08:10:00

Nonprofits are trying to preserve a US effort to modernize greenhouse-gas measurements, amid growing fears that the Trump administration’s dismantling of federal programs will obscure the nation’s contributions to climate change. The Data Foundation, a Washington, DC, nonprofit, is fundraising for an initiative that will coordinate efforts among nonprofits, technical experts, and companies to improve the accuracy and accessibility of climate emissions information. It will build on an effort to

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Trump Says He Didn't Even Know What Nvidia Was

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-31 02:24:37

While announcing his new so-called "AI Action Plan," which is primarily designed to eliminate regulatory hurdles for the industry, president Donald Trump made some baffling remarks. While standing next to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, whose chipmaker leads the S&P 500 Top 10 Index with a multi-trillion-dollar market cap, Trump admitted he had no idea what Nvidia was, as Tom's Hardware noticed. Due to the president's garbled communication style, it's unclear at what point he was unaware of what is c

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Trump's AI plan pushes AI upskilling instead of worker protections - and 4 other key takeaways

zdnet.com Radhika Rajkumar 2025-12-31 20:30:16

Douglas Rissing/Getty The Trump administration published its AI Action Plan, a 28-page document outlining proposed policies for everything from data center construction to how government agencies will use AI, Wednesday. As expected, the plan emphasizes deregulation, speed, and global dominance while largely avoiding many of the conflicts plaguing the AI space, including debates over copyright, environmental protections, and safety testing requirements. Also: How the Trump administration change

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Is Trump Trying to Get Back in Elon Musk’s Good Graces?

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2025-12-31 10:10:01

Elon Musk and Donald Trump joined forces before the 2024 presidential election to help each other out. Trump needed Musk’s money to buy votes and Musk needed Trump to decimate the federal government while making sure contracts with his own companies remained untouched. But the two men had a very messy falling out back in late May, when Musk departed his government role with DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency. But no matter how much the men may bicker in public, they keep trying to si

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Paramount Has a $1.5 Billion ‘South Park’ Problem

wired.com Manisha Krishnan 2025-12-31 22:13:39

In an interview with Vanity Fair in September, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone all but swore off satirizing Donald Trump, with Parker noting, “I don’t know what more we could possibly say.” We found out what more they could say yesterday, in brutal fashion. The same day Paramount announced a five-year streaming deal with South Park, including 50 new episodes, the show’s 27th season premiere mercilessly mocked both President Trump and the network for capitulating to his demands, s

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Mysterious Whale Makes a 17,000,000% Profit on a 14-Year-Old Bitcoin Bet

gizmodo.com Bruce Gil 2026-01-01 12:20:37

Several Bitcoin whales—investors who hold large amounts of the cryptocurrency — have recently started cashing out after leaving their Bitcoin untouched for more than a decade. Last week, one anonymous whale sold 80,000 Bitcoin for a whopping $9.5 billion. A user on X (formerly Twitter) first flagged the massive transaction, which was later reported by Tom’s Hardware. The seller had originally purchased the Bitcoin in 2011 for just $54,000, netting a staggering return of more than 17 million per

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Trump’s order to make chatbots anti-woke is unconstitutional, senator says

arstechnica.com Unknown 2026-01-01 10:21:52

The CEOs of every major artificial intelligence company received letters Wednesday urging them to fight Donald Trump's anti-woke AI order. Trump's executive order requires any AI company hoping to contract with the federal government to jump through two hoops to win funding. First, they must prove their AI systems are "truth-seeking"—with outputs based on "historical accuracy, scientific inquiry, and objectivity" or else acknowledge when facts are uncertain. Second, they must train AI models to

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America’s AI watchdog is losing its bite

technologyreview.com James O'Donnell 2026-01-01 16:59:09

It found that the security giant Evolv lied about the accuracy of its AI-powered security checkpoints, which are used in stadiums and schools but failed to catch a seven-inch knife that was ultimately used to stab a student. It went after the facial recognition company Intellivision, saying the company made unfounded claims that its tools operated without gender or racial bias. It fined startups promising bogus “AI lawyer” services and one that sold fake product reviews generated with AI. These

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Trump says he won't 'destroy' Musk's companies by taking away subsidies

cnbc.com Samantha Subin 2026-01-02 08:14:28

Elon Musk receives a golden key from U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., May 30, 2025. REUTERS/Nathan Howard President Donald Trump on Thursday denied claims that he wants to wreck Elon Musk's companies and their work with the U.S. government. "Everyone is stating that I will destroy Elon's companies by taking away some, if not all, of the large scale subsidies he receives from the U.S. Government," he said in a post to Truth Social. "Th

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Jeff Bezos Reportedly Eyes Purchase of CNBC as Tech Billionaires Gobble Up Media

gizmodo.com Matt Novak 2026-01-02 12:40:48

Jeff Bezos is thinking about buying the financial news network CNBC, according to a new report from the New York Post, which cites anonymous sources. Given the damage Bezos has already done to the Washington Post, anyone who values the information they get from CNBC should probably be worried. An unnamed source told the New York Post that Bezos buying CNBC would “align well with his interests,” and it would remain a “neutral voice.” CNBC is being offloaded by its parent company, Comcast, into a

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The GOP's Message for Tech Billionaires: Be Like Peter Thiel

wired.com Jake Lahut 2026-01-01 14:00:00

The unholy alliance between Silicon Valley and the Republican Party is no longer new. Between Elon Musk’s descent upon Washington, the number of Big Tech billionaires flying in to kiss President Donald Trump’s ring, and the expansion of the role of companies like Palantir in the US government, former president Joe Biden’s warning about the impending oligarchy has certainly borne out. All of this raises a question: Six months into Trump’s presidency, just how important are Silicon Valley billion

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No ‘woke AI’ in Washington, Trump says as he launches American AI action plan

cnbc.com Dylan Butts 2026-01-03 15:28:22

U.S. President Donald Trump holds an executive order related to AI after signing it during the "Winning the AI Race" Summit in Washington D.C., U.S., July 23, 2025. U.S. President Donald Trump has vowed to keep "woke AI" models out of Washington and to turn the country into an "AI export powerhouse" through the signing of three artificial intelligence-focused executive orders on Wednesday. The phasing out of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives — an umbrella term encompassing vari

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Trump Says He’s ‘Getting Rid of Woke’ and Dismisses Copyright Concerns in AI Policy Speech

wired.com Kate Knibbs 2026-01-03 16:11:07

President Trump announced that the United States’ stance on intellectual property and AI would be a “commonsense application” that does not force AI companies to pay for each piece of copyrighted material used in training frontier models. “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book, or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for,” Trump said. “We appreciate that, but just can't do it— because it's not doable.” The president al

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