IN THE RUN-UP to the Switch 2 launch, part of Nintendo’s focus has been on ensuring it can meet the demands of an audience hungry for a new console. And that new system comes with a hefty price—$450—which could go up even more due to President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs announced last week.

But in an interview a day after Trump’s announcement, Nintendo of America president Doug Bowser told WIRED the tariffs “weren’t factored into the pricing” of the console.

Apple has been told it is allowed to keep the TikTok app in the App Store, following a US government assurance that no action should be taken for another 75 days.

US Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a letter to Apple and Google on Friday, April 4, requesting that the company follow the new executive order from President Trump. That executive order further extended a previous reprieve from a threatened US ban of TikTok.

President Trump initially gave the Chinese-owned ByteDance until April 5 to sell the service to an American company, or be banned from use in the US. The new extension sets a new deadline for compliance to June 18.

The Trump administration has reportedly made clear that it wants Europe to drop content moderation requirements for US tech giants. Vice President JD Vance offered hints of the crusading approach at the February AI summit in Paris, where he denounced two European laws: the privacy-focused GDPR (“endless legal compliance costs”) and the Digital Services Act (“policing so-called misinformation”), and negotiators have followed up. The big US platforms are likely to win these fights, the German legislator and Big Tech critic Franziska Brantner told me. The companies “do not pretend any more that they want to comply,” and the Digital Services Act depends on their compliance, while her government has more urgent priorities, like auto exports.

iOS 18.4 launched this week, bringing a variety of new features—including some small enhancements to the Apple TV app worth noting. Here are three nice updates that just hit your iPhone.

Updates give TV app fresh UI elements in iOS 18.4

Apple’s TV app has very likely been getting more use lately than it ever has before. That’s all thanks to Severance, which became the most viewed Apple TV+ series ever, plus the new hit comedy The Studio.

Installing iOS 18.4 and opening the TV app will reveal some subtle but welcome changes to the app.

Sam Altman’s OpenAI has discussed acquiring Altman and Jony Ive’s startup firm that is designing at least one household AI device.

Jony Ive left Apple in 2019 to found his own design company, LoveFrom, and has since hired many ex-Apple staff, including his own replacement, Evans Hankey. Ive also hired ex-Apple design lead Tang Tan specifically to work on the AI startup collaboration with Sam Altman.

Now according to The Information, this startup is called ”io Projects,” and OpenAI has discussed buying it outright for at least $500 million. If this happens, OpenAI would acquire the AI designs plus the engineers who are working on it.

The box office blues have been banished in historic fashion.

Warner Bros.’ A Minecraft Movie, made with help from Legendary Pictures, struck gold with a record-shattering $163 million opening domestically and $150.7 million overseas for a global start of $313.2 million, according to final weekend numbers. Thanks to a huge Sunday, that’s up more than $12 million from Sunday’s domestic estimate of $157 million and $144 million overseas for a global haul of $301 million.

The film came in tens of millions ahead of expectations to score the top start ever for a video game adaptation, besting the $146.4 million three-day launch of Universal Pictures’ The Super Mario Bros. Movieover Easter weekend in 2023. (Opening on a Wednesday, Mario Bros.earned $204 million through Easter Sunday.)