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You Might Like - The top 25 stories read by CXOs! Editor's Pick A.I. Is Quietly Powering a Revolution in Weather Prediction The new A.I. forecasts are, by leaps and bounds, easier, faster, and cheaper to produce than the non-A.I. variety, using 1,000 times less computational energy. And, in most cases, these A.I. forecasts, powered by machine learning, are more accurate, too. “Right now the machine learning model is producing better scores,” says Peter Dueben, a model developer at ECMWF in Bonn, who helped to develop the center’s Artificial Intelligence Forecasting System (AIFS). The improvement is hard to quantify, but the ECMWF says that for some weather phenomena, the AIFS is 20 percent better than its state-of-the-art physics-based models. Andrew Charlton-Perez, a meteorologist at the University of Reading who also heads up that institution’s school of computational sciences, expects plenty more operational A.I. forecasts to follow — from both national weather agencies and companies like Google. “This field is just moving at a ridiculous speed,” he says. Continued here Work UAE Sees Progress on AI Chips Access After $1.4 Trillion Pledge - Bloomberg (No paywall) The United Arab Emirates is optimistic about securing access to cutting-edge chips currently under US export restrictions, after pledging $1.4 trillion to strengthen ties with Washington. Work Amazon is better prepared for the trade war than investors think - WSJ (No paywall) This is the case for Amazon.com and its stable of businesses. These include a cloud-computing operation, a streaming platform and an online retail business with a globe-spanning supply chain and hundreds of millions of customers. Work Now streaming on Netflix: A show where profits Trump the trade war - WSJ (No paywall) The streaming giant reported first-quarter results late Thursday that could end up being the high point in a tumultuous earnings season. As companies across the board grapple with the deep levels of uncertainty raised by tariffs, trade wars and the possibility of a looming recession, Netflix solidly beat its revenue and earnings targets and even maintained the full-year projection it gave three months agoin what seemed a different world. Work OpenSeas Devin Finzer Wants to Help Regulate Crypto. Like Many in the Industry, Hes Light on Specifics - Inc (No paywall) Donald Trump stormed back into the White House with a campaign fueled by crypto dollars. Now, the industry plans to convert that support to a regulatory structure that will saturate the financial system with digital currencies. Work A very good day for Lilly, and a bad day for Novo - STAT (No paywall) From my colleague Elaine Chen: Eli Lillys stock shot up 14% yesterday, after the pharma giant reported the first Phase 3 results of its GLP-1 pill orforglipron. The small molecule helped patients with type 2 diabetes improve their blood sugar levels and shed weight, results that were nearly comparable to the benefits of available injectable GLP-1 drugs. Work We had to buy them: old emails haunt Mark Zuckerberg in high-stakes trial - FT (No paywall) Meta founders antitrust defence rests on showing that TikTok is rapidly expanding in his main market Work China move could send US mortgages climbing Giulia Carbonaro is a Newsweek reporter based in London, U.K. Her focus is on the U.S. economy, housing market, property insurance market, local and national politics. She has previously extensively covered U.S. and European politics. 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The Nightfall EV9 will be manufactured at Kia’s West Point, Georgia assembly plant and is expected to be available in the US in the second quarter of 2025. Work Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders open April 24 in the US starting at $450, plus everything else you need to know The Switch 2 has a number of accessories that you'll be able to purchase separately as well. Those are the accessories that Nintendo stated will receive price adjustments — otherwise known as price increases. The new Switch 2 camera will now cost $55, instead of the original $50 price tag; the new Switch 2 Pro controller will be $85 instead of $80; an extra pair of Joy-Con 2 controllers will set you back $95 instead of $90 and a Joy-Con charging grip will go for $40 instead of $35. Check out Nintendo's official statement for all of the accessory price adjustments. Work The Morning After: Crosswalks are being hacked to imitate tech billionaires Physical editions of the iconic shooters Doom and Doom II are on their way, and the highlight is something called the Will It Run Edition. This comes with a game box that actually runs the original Doom itself. All you have to do is connect a controller as the box also has a port. It’s an expensive gimmick: The copies cost $666 and are being kept to a limited run of 666. Because hell. There’s also the usual special edition content inside, including a soundtrack (on cassette), trading cards and a handheld cacodemon handheld console that also plays Doom. Work Wife of Kilmar brego Garca speaks as White House defiant over US return Meanwhile, federal judge Brian Murphy on Friday barred the Trump administration from implementing a new policy allowing it to rapidly deport hundreds if not thousands of migrants to countries other than their own without giving them a chance to show they fear being persecuted, tortured or killed there. Work Two Britons among four killed in cable car crash near Naples Giorgia Meloni, the prime minister, was informed of Thursday’s crash during a summit in Washington with the US president, Donald Trump. She expressed her “deepest condolences” to the families of those killed and injured. Work German police crack down on illegal street car tuning as season begins The car-tuning scene began in the US in the 1990s, spurred on by cult films such as 2001’s The Fast and the Furious and its many sequels, and is celebrated in everything from video games to toy lines. Work Hamas rejects Israels latest ceasefire proposal over impossible conditions "Hamas's comments demonstrate they are not interested in peace but perpetual violence," said the US national security council spokesperson James Hewitt. "The terms made by the Trump administration have not changed: release the hostages or face hell." Work Techstars increases startup funding to $220,000, mirroring YC structure | TechCrunch So, which accelerator is offering a better deal for startups? The answer largely depends on the company’s capital needs. Compared to Techstars, startups going through YC get more than double the funding but give up more equity. Work LatAm startups are winning big in Startup Battlefield | TechCrunch Founders join a dynamic community of fellow entrepreneurs, mentors, and industry leaders. The program fosters organic connections that often lead to partnerships, guidance, and long-term support. Work Startups Weekly: Mixed messages from venture capital | TechCrunch Welcome to Startups Weekly -- your weekly recap of everything you can't miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here. Work Trump EPA targets two-man geoengineering startup for 'polluting the air' | TechCrunch The agency’s efforts to boost coal are likely to generate far more sulfur dioxide pollution than Make Sunsets will release with its balloons. A Make Sunsets balloon released on November 15, 2024, released 1,715 grams of sulfur dioxide. In 2023, U.S. power plants released 650,000 tons into the atmosphere, the majority of which came from coal. That’s approximately the same amount as 343,900,000 of the startup’s balloons. Work Is the SPAC back? Anthony Ha is TechCrunch’s weekend editor. Previously, he worked as a tech reporter at Adweek, a senior editor at VentureBeat, a local government reporter at the Hollister Free Lance, and vice president of content at a VC firm. 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Work Invention Probes the American Mind in the Post-Truth Era - The New Yorker (No paywall) Whether a film is a documentary or a fictional drama, all modern cinema is in a sense docu-fictional, because most viewers know that a documentary is carefully crafted to yield a narrative and that the making of a fictional film is often as good a story as the one in the script. In the new docu-fiction Invention, directed by Courtney Stephens and starring Callie Hernandezwho shares the by credit with Stephens and whose actual family history provides the films premisefiction and nonfiction overlap and intertwine to vertiginous effect. Yet this distinctive form is only one aspect of the films modernity. Invention proves to be nothing less than an up-to-the-minute report on the American state of mindon the epidemic inability to distinguish fact from fiction. Work Ecuadors Election Surprise - Foreign Policy (No paywall) Latin America Brief: Ecuadors Election Surprise Work Appeals Court Denies Trump Administration's Bid to End Deportation Protections for Venezuelans The case is one of several challenging moves by the Trump administration to cancel the temporary legal status of hundreds of thousands of people. Work Trump Administration Bolsters Putin With Hint of Abandoning Ukraine Talks President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio both suggested Friday that the United States might wash its hands of the peace effort. Work Riding Paul Revere's Route 250 Years Later, Here's What We Saw We followed the route of Revere’s famous midnight ride. Along the way we spoke to many Americans who felt a sense of wonder about that April night. Work Under Trump, National Security Guardrails Vanish America’s adversaries have more room to operate, at least in the disinformation space, cybersecurity experts say. Work Eli Lilly promises to make new weight-loss pill in the U.S. “We want to work with the administration and others who want to ‘Make America Healthy Again’ and get these medicines to more patients,” he said. “It’s an invention from an American company, made here in America. What could be better?” Work DOGE is gutting the watchdog created to protect consumers from financial fraud Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who helped form the CFPB, said in a statement that Trump was preventing the agency from doing “its job of helping Americans who get scammed by big banks and giant corporations.” She referred to the move as “yet another assault on consumers and our democracy by this lawless administration,” adding “we will fight back with everything we’ve got.” Work U.S. Adds Fees for Chinese Ships in Effort to Boost Shipbuilding The new fees are aimed at countering China’s dominance of the shipbuilding industry, but critics say they will simply raise prices for American consumers. 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Work Read Hertz CEO's letter to employees about Bill Ackman's 'significant' stake in the rental car firm Finally, to those observing Passover or Easter this weekend, I wish you a happy and healthy holiday. And to those in the field supporting our customers during this busy holiday season, thank you for your continued hard work and dedication. Work The Women Who Think the World Needs More Babies At a convention of the pronatalist movement, the relatively few women in attendance agreed: Motherhood needs a rebrand. TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 100,000 Industry Executives About Us  |  Advertise  |  Privacy Policy Unsubscribe (one-click) You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs. Our mailing address is 3110 Thomas Ave, Dallas, TX 75204, USA Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) Followers Blog Archive ▼  2025 (46) ►  November (2) ►  October (11) ►  May (8) ▼  April (21) Fact-checking Trump's rally on his first 100 days.... 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