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WSJ Tech News Briefing

TNB Tech Minute: Trump Halts Canada Trade Talks Over New Tax on American Tech Companies

WSJ Tech News Briefing

The Wall Street Journal

News, Tech News

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Plus: Supreme Court upholds Texas law requiring age verification for adult content online. And, New York orders local governments to report cyberattacks within 72 hours. Victoria Craig hosts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Here's your TNB Tech Minute for Friday, June 27th.

0:34.9

I'm Victoria Craig for the Wall Street Journal.

0:37.3

President Trump today terminated

0:38.8

all trade talks with Canada, partly over a new digital services tax on American tech companies.

0:44.8

The president said the U.S.'s northern neighbor has been, quote, a very difficult country to trade with.

0:50.6

Trade negotiations have been taking place between the two sides for months. Meanwhile, the Trump

0:55.1

administration is also considering executive orders aimed at increasing power generation to meet

1:00.5

AI demand, according to people familiar with the matter. That could include giving federal land to

1:05.5

tech companies to build data centers and expediting grid connections and permitting for advanced

1:10.7

power generation projects.

1:12.9

Elsewhere, in a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court upheld a Texas law requiring certain websites

1:18.2

that host sexual content to verify viewers' ages. The Texas law requires websites that contain

1:24.6

more than one-third sexual material harmful to minors to use what it calls reasonable age verification methods to determine those visitors are at least 18 years old.

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