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Tue. 04/29 – OpenAI Shopping?

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Tech News, News, Technology

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🗓️ 29 April 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Is Amazon about to start showing tariff prices in listings? Armageddon has finally come for Temu and Shein. Is OpenAI getting into the shopping game because their web search usage is exploding? And Project Kuiper finally gets off the ground in a literal and meaningful way. Links: 042925 (PunchBowl News AM) Kickstarter Introduces ‘Tariff Manager Tool’ to Add Charges to Already Fully Funded Projects (404 Media) Temu adds ‘import charges’ of about 145% after Trump tariffs, more than doubling price of many items (CNBC) Congress passes bill to fight deepfake nudes, revenge porn (Washington Post) Alibaba unveils Qwen3, a family of ‘hybrid’ AI reasoning models (TechCrunch) OpenAI Adds Shopping to ChatGPT in a Challenge to Google (Wired) Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI (The Verge) Amazon launches first Kuiper internet satellites, taking on Starlink (Reuters) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Tech meme right home for Tuesday, April 29th, 2025. I'm Brian McCalla. Today is Amazon about to start showing tariff prices in listings.

0:12.8

Armageddon has finally come for Temu and Sheehan. Is Open AI getting into the shopping game because their web search usage is exploding.

0:21.4

And Project Kuiper finally gets off the ground in a literal and meaningful way.

0:25.3

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

0:33.1

A source says that Amazon plans to soon show shoppers how much President Trump's tariffs

0:39.2

are adding to the price of each product right next to its total listed price, quoting

0:44.9

Punch Bowl news. Amazon doesn't want to shoulder the blame for the cost of President Donald

0:49.4

Trump's trade war, so the e-commerce giant will soon show how much Trump's tariffs are adding

0:53.9

to the price of each

0:54.6

product. According to a person familiar with the plan, the shopping site will display how much

0:58.9

of an item's cost is derived from tariffs right next to the product's total listed price, end

1:04.3

quote. Now, as we discussed before, people are afraid to go first on stuff like this because they

1:10.7

don't want to catch strays.

1:12.5

Strays like this. A White House spokesperson this morning already said Amazon doing this is, quote,

1:17.8

a hostile and political act. So we will see where that goes. But it should be noted that

1:23.1

Amazon technically isn't the first to do this. Kickstarter has introduced a tariff manager tool that

1:28.6

lets creators add extra charges for backers on projects that were already fully funded to address

1:35.0

U.S. tariffs, quoting 404 media. Over the past few weeks, we've been hard at work developing

1:39.9

tariff relevant resources to support our community, from guidance to help creators navigate

1:44.8

rapidly changing policies to tips on shipping logistics and even information to help backers

1:49.5

better understand the challenges creators are facing. Our focus has been supporting you through

1:54.7

uncertain times, but we also know that information alone isn't always enough. Kickstarter said

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