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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Blake Montgomery and Johana Bhuiyan

Tech giants beat quarterly expectations as Trump’s tariffs hit the sector

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Customers shop electronics at an Apple store on 14 April in Chicago, Illinois. Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images

Hello, and welcome to TechScape. I’m your host, Blake Montgomery, and this week in tech news: Trump’s tariffs hit tech companies that move physical goods more than their digital-only counterparts. Two stories about AI’s effect on the labor market paint a murky picture. Meta released a standalone AI app, a product it claims already has a billion users through enforced omnipresence. OpenAI dialed back an obsequious version of ChatGPT. And we look back at Elon Musk’s first term.

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