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Trump threatens 50% tariffs on Brazil if it doesn’t stop the Bolsonaro ‘witch hunt’ trial
Elon Musk tells Tesla analyst to 'shut up' over suggestions to limit his political activities Musk announced his intent to create an America Party over the weekend, which sent Tesla stock plunging. ......... "Shut up, Dan," Musk replied on X that was posted Wednesday morning. ........ Tesla is down over 1.1% on Wednesday following the post and has declined more than 5.6% in the past five days ......... Tesla's stock is down over 22% year to date due to slow EV sales as well as political blowback over Musk's support for President Donald Trump. .......... In Ives' full investor note, he warned that Musk's antagonism of Trump and GOP lawmakers is "exactly the opposite of what Tesla shareholders want to see with a very important autonomous regulatory framework now on the horizon during the Trump administration."

'Disgrace': Trump mocked over letter that 'reads as if it was written by a fifth grader' On Wednesday, President Donald Trump wrote a letter to Brazilian President Luiz Ignacio Lula de Silva announcing that the U.S. was imposing a 50% tariff on all imported goods from the South American country – and revealed that his reason for doing so was more political than economic. ............ In the letter — which was written in Trump's signature style of randomly capitalized letters and all-caps adjectives – Trump began by attacking the ongoing trial of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is being charged with attempting a coup to stay in power after losing his reelection bid. He called the trial "an international disgrace" and a "Witch Hunt that should end IMMEDIATELY" before pivoting to the tariff announcement. ........... "In addition, we have had years to discuss our Trading Relationship with Brazil, and have concluded that we must move away from the longstanding, and very unfair trade relationship engendered by Brazil's Tariff, and Non-Tariff, Policies and Trade Barriers," the letter read. "Our relationship has been, unfortunately, far from Reciprocal. Please understand that the 50% number is far less than what is needed to have the Level Playing Field we must have with your Country. And it is necessary to have this to rectify the grave injustices of the current regime." ............ Bespoke Investment micro strategist George Pearkes debunked Trump's claims about the United States' trade relationship with Brazil, pointing out that the U.S. actually has a trade surplus with the G20 economy. He further opined that the letter was an attempt "to steal the sovereignty of Brazil." .............. "[T]here's really no other way to describe this," Pearkes wrote. "It's an effort to overthrow their domestic political institutions." ........... Progressive organizer Murshed Zaheed lamented on Bluesky that Trump was using "CAPS LOCK in official White House letter[head]" while "also interfering with domestic affairs of a democratically elected government of a sovereign nation." Film editor Michael Sweeney commented that the letter was "barely literate," while author Bea Caicoya commented that Trump's letter "reads as if it was written by a fifth grader high on [1990s cartoon] Pinky and the Brain." ............. "Lawless authoritarianism at home. Stealing sovereignty abroad. But only for this One Special Boy, because we've decided nothing matters & no one else who swore oaths needs to do their damn jobs," wrote University of Wisconsin-Madison political science professor Mark Copelovitch. "It's maddening & unserious & we should stop it."

ChatGPT owner OpenAI expected to release web browser — here’s why Google should be worried OpenAI is close to releasing an AI-powered web browser that will challenge Alphabet’s market-dominating Google Chrome ........... The browser is slated to launch in the coming weeks, three of the people said, and aims to use artificial intelligence to fundamentally change how consumers browse the web. It will give OpenAI more direct access to a cornerstone of Google’s success: user data. .......... If adopted by the 500 million weekly active users of ChatGPT, OpenAI’s browser could put pressure on a key component of rival Google’s ad-money spigot. ........... Chrome is an important pillar of Alphabet’s ad business, which makes up nearly three-quarters of its revenue, as Chrome provides user information to help Alphabet target ads more effectively and profitably, and also gives Google a way to route search traffic to its own engine by default. ......... OpenAI’s browser is designed to keep some user interactions within a ChatGPT-like native chat interface instead of clicking through to websites ............. The browser is part of a broader strategy by OpenAI to weave its services across the personal and work lives of consumers ............. In May, OpenAI said it would enter the hardware domain, paying $6.5 billion to buy io, an AI devices startup from Apple’s former design chief, Jony Ive. ............ A web browser would allow OpenAI to directly integrate its AI agent products such as Operator into the browsing experience, enabling the browser to carry out tasks on behalf of the user ............ Google Chrome, which is used by more than 3 billion people, currently holds more than two-thirds of the worldwide browser market ........... Apple’s second-place Safari lags far behind with a 16% share. Last month, OpenAI said it had 3 million paying business users for ChatGPT. .............

Perplexity, which has a popular AI search engine, launched an AI browser, Comet, on Wednesday, capable of performing actions on a user’s behalf. Two other AI startups, The Browser Company and Brave, have released AI-powered browsers capable of browsing and summarizing the internet.

........... Chrome’s role in providing user information to help Alphabet target ads more effectively and profitably has proven so successful that the Department of Justice has demanded its divestiture after a US judge last year ruled that the Google parent holds an unlawful monopoly in online search. .............. OpenAI’s browser is built atop Chromium, Google’s own open-source browser code, two of the sources said. Chromium is the source code for Google Chrome, as well as many competing browsers including Microsoft’s Edge and Opera. ............. Last year, OpenAI hired two longtime Google vice presidents who were part of the original team that developed Google Chrome. ............ An OpenAI executive testified in April that the company would be interested in buying Chrome if antitrust enforcers succeeded in forcing the sale.