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Apple contracted at least five emergency air freight shipments of iPhones and other products from India and China to the U.S., aiming to avoid new tariffs following President Trump's "Liberation Day" blitz last Wednesday.

"Factories in India and China and other key locations had been shipping products to the US in anticipation of the higher tariffs," The Times of India reported, citing a source familiar with the situation. 

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In March 2024, Morgan McBride stood in her half-renovated kitchen posing for a photo shoot. The images were for a new Google ad campaign, a celebration of the ways the search engine had empowered her family’s do-it-yourself home improvement site, Charleston Crafted, to flourish. Just weeks later, she said, traffic from Google dropped more than 70%.

Morgan McBrideSource: Morgan McBride (via Bloomberg)

McBride had weathered Google algorithm changes before. But this time, the recovery never came. She suspects that more of her readers are getting advice from Google’s AI-generated summaries, which now appear prominently atop many search results  – sometimes giving renovation tips that she says are incorrect or potentially unsafe. “You can’t just sit around waiting for things to turn around,” she said. Advertising revenue on her site has since dropped by 65%, costing her tens of thousands of dollars.

These summaries often draw directly from websites – like Charleston Crafted – but don’t send users to them, according to a report by Bloomberg. That’s left publishers like Gisele Navarro, managing editor of HouseFresh, watching as her content appears in summaries without translating into clicks or revenue. Internal analytics, which she shared with Bloomberg, show a growing share of impressions without traffic.

Across the web, independent publishers are reporting similar experiences. The rise of Google’s AI Overviews – which (more…)

New photos reveal that Tesla's 1950s-inspired drive-in Supercharger station, currently under construction at 7001 Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood, is nearing completion. This station could serve as a prototype for a nationwide rollout, offering Tesla drivers a massive upgrade over existing, dull Supercharger stations. The drive-in Supercharger concept can be likened to a 'Buc-ee's' for electric vehicles. 

The West Hollywood Supercharger station is the next (more…)