Mon. 04/21 – Trump Helps Zuck Get A Reprieve In Europe
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Meta and Apple were about to go to the woodshed in Europe, but it looks like Trump’s tariffs have run interference for them. Everyone wants in on stablecoins, example number 23. Beware of phishing emails from Google.com. And are OpenAI’s latest models good, bad, or just “jagged”?
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- EU Delayed Punishing Apple, Meta Just Before Trade Talks Started (WSJ)
- Crypto Knocks on the Door of a Banking World That Shut It Out (WSJ)
- Phishers abuse Google OAuth to spoof Google in DKIM replay attack (Bleeping Computer)
- Coinbase in hot water over $12 million ‘content coin’—but exec tells haters to lean in (Fortune Crypto)
- OpenAI’s new reasoning AI models hallucinate more (TechCrunch)
- On Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after (Ethan Mollick)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Tech meme right home from Monday, April 21st, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today. Meta and Apple were about to go to the woodshed in Europe, but it looks like Trump's tariffs have run interference for them. Everyone wants in on stable coins example number 23. Beware of phishing emails from Google.com, and are opening eyes latest |
| 0:22.8 | models good, bad, or just jagged? Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. |
| 0:32.6 | I think we quoted from a piece last week about how metaETA has been attempting to cozy up to the Trump |
| 0:38.2 | administration in hopes that they will make the antitrust trial here in the U.S. go away. |
| 0:42.6 | That hasn't borne fruit yet, but apparently that doesn't mean the Trump administration |
| 0:47.2 | can't shield them from some regulatory battles. |
| 0:51.1 | Sources are telling the journal that the EU planned to penalize META and Apple on April 15th, |
| 0:57.2 | but delayed the announcement of any sort of punishment to avoid conflict with the Trump |
| 1:02.5 | administration before trade and tariff talks. Quote, the decision to postpone the announcement |
| 1:08.3 | was made shortly before EU Trade Commissioner Maros |
| 1:11.7 | Sevkovich met with U.S. officials in Washington on Monday for his first in-person talk |
| 1:16.7 | since President Trump announced a 90-day pause on some tariffs. In addition, this week, |
| 1:21.5 | Italian Prime Minister Georgia Maloney met with Trump, who said he would have very little |
| 1:26.4 | problem making a trade deal with the EU. |
| 1:28.8 | The rulings are still expected to go ahead, and it isn't immediately clear how long the delay may |
| 1:33.2 | last. The delay represents a brief reprieve for meta-chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. |
| 1:38.7 | The Wall Street Journal reported last month that meta-executives had pressed U.S. trade officials |
| 1:43.2 | to fight the expected order. |
| 1:45.4 | Trump has complained about EU tech regulations and threatened earlier this year to respond with |
| 1:49.1 | tariffs. Zuckerberg defended the company this past week in a U.S. Federal Trade Commission trial |
| 1:53.4 | that could end up forcing META to sell valuable pieces of its business empire. European officials |
| 1:58.3 | say they won't water down their tech regulations in response to |
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