It couldn’t ship $2.5B in H20 sales to China due to new rules — implying >$7B in sales that quarter. If sales rebound, the U.S. gov could rake in ~$1B per quarter from the deal.

tariffs on U.S. top trading partners

New US Reciprocal Tariff Rates

OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome(Reuters)
OpenAI is close to releasing an AI-powered web browser that will challenge Alphabet's market-dominating Google Chrome, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

New Tariffs for Aug. 1

US Landfills Have Consolidated, Exploding in Size
Landfill waste, in tons

A United Nations study found a sharp global divide on attitudes toward artificial intelligence, with trust strongest in low-income countries and skepticism high in wealthier ones.

Illustration of a demi goddess playing a fiddle. She has hair made of leaves that are flowering. She is wearing multiple layers of muse-like clothing with stripey patterns. There are sprouts of hyssop at her feet. Drawn by gdbeeart/prinnay, paint tool sai June 2025

Nature + Fiddle

Farewell, Bill Atkinson, a true pioneer of the personal computer age. your genius made computers more human.
#Macintosh #Pioneer and Inventor #Apple

Privately held technology companies valued over $1 billion, by select country/region.
A risk-averse business culture and complex regulations have stifled innovation

ship crashed into Brooklyn Bridge in New York

Brooklyn Bridge ...

His friends dared him to touch a human

What’s a super “normal” thing in your country that would completely confuse or shock someone visiting for the first time?

Major breakthrough in cancer treatment
A new study published Sunday in the New England Journal of Medicine reveals just how effective immunotherapy is at battling cancer, eliminating the need for surgery in some patients.

If you won the lottery and never had to work anymore, what would you say when someone asked you what you do for a living?

Apple aims to source all US iPhones from India in pivot away from China. plans to shift assembly as soon as next year in response to Donald Trump’s trade war

A spectacular looking murmuration filmed in Italy

Squirrel fighting a snake to save another squirrel

This had me at first.

Maybe if I stay still he won't see me.

What Americans think of Trump's new tariffs

Google is gifting a year of Gemini Advanced to every college student in the US