Trump Denies Tariff ‘Exception’ for Electronics, Promises New Electronics Tariffs Soon

Late Friday news broke that U.S. President Trump’s new tariffs included exemptions for smartphones, computer monitors, semiconductors, and other electronics. But Sunday morning America’s commerce secretary insisted “a special-focus type of tariff” was … Continue reading Trump Denies Tariff ‘Exception’ for Electronics, Promises New Electronics Tariffs Soon

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Palantir’s ‘Meritocracy Fellowship’ Urges High School Grads to Skip College’s ‘Indoctrination’ and Debt

Stanford law school graduate Peter Thiel later co-founded Facebook, PayPal, and Palantir. But in 2010 Thiel also created the Thiel Fellowship, which annually gives 20 to 30 people under the age of 23 $100,000 “to encourage students to not stick around … Continue reading Palantir’s ‘Meritocracy Fellowship’ Urges High School Grads to Skip College’s ‘Indoctrination’ and Debt

Hackaday Links: April 13, 2025

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It’s been a while since we’ve dunked on an autonomous taxi foul-up, mainly because it seemed for a while there that most of the companies field testing driverless ride-sharing services …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: April 13, 2025

After Meta Cheating Allegations, ‘Unmodified’ Llama 4 Maverick Model Tested – Ranks #32

Remember how last weekend Meta claimed its “Maverick” AI model (in the newly-released Llama-4 series) beat GPT-4o and Gemini Flash 2 “on all benchmarks… This thing is a beast.”
And then how within a day several AI researchers pointed out that even M… Continue reading After Meta Cheating Allegations, ‘Unmodified’ Llama 4 Maverick Model Tested – Ranks #32