Amazon is testing a new “Buy for Me” button that will let you purchase products from third-party websites without leaving the e-commerce giant’s mobile app. The feature is powered by agentic AI, allowing the company to purchase items on your behalf.
Last month, Amazon rolled out a test that directs you to other brands’ websites for products it doesn’t sell. But now, instead of directing you to the website to fill out your payment details and shipping address, “Buy for Me” is supposed to do all the work for you. The feature runs on Amazon’s Nova AI system, which now includes a new model capable of performing actions within your browser, along with Anthropic’s Claude.
When you tap on an item that supports the feature, you’ll see all the product details directly within the Amazon app. Pressing the “Buy for Me” button will bring up an Amazon checkout page, where you can verify your payment information.
Amazon will then use AI to “securely” provide your “encrypted name, address, and payment details to complete the checkout process on the brand’s website.” The company says it can’t view previous or separate orders from third-party sites. Even though you’ll be able to track your orders directly on Amazon, you’ll have to visit the other brand’s site for customer service and returns.
Amazon doesn’t say whether it will get a cut of a “Buy for Me” purchase but notes that third-party companies can opt out. “Buy for Me” is currently available to a “subset” of users in the US on iOS and Android devices. Amazon is also testing it with a limited number of brands and products for now, but it plans to expand it in the future.
Even with all the self-induced turmoil that Sonos has been through over the last year, if you’ve been eyeing any of the company’s products, it might be wise to buy sooner than later. In an email, spokesperson Erin Pategas tells me that Sonos is “closely monitoring developments related to the proposed tariffs and actively assessing potential implications for our business, customers, and supply chain. At this time our focus remains on delivering the best audio experiences for our customers.” That’s less optimistic framing than the company gave only a couple months ago, but for good reason.
Like many other tech companies, Sonos thought it would be in a good position after mixing up its supply chain beyond China to other production hubs. On the company’s most recent earnings call, chief financial officer Saori Casey said the following:
“You may recall we underwent a significant effort to diversify our supply chain a few years ago, which resulted in a manufacturing of nearly all of our U.S.-bound products shifting to Malaysia and Vietnam. As a result, we expect tariffs to have a minimal impact to our gross margin in Q2 based on what we know today.”
So much for that.
The sweeping proposals announced yesterday by President Trump place a 46 percent tariff on Vietnam and 24 percent on Malaysia, making this strategy far less effective than Sonos likely hoped. The Santa Barbara-based brand is a relatively small company that already operates on thin hardware margins, so it can’t afford to simply absorb the cost of these tariffs. Sonos’ stock slid 15 percent on news of Trump’s far-reaching plans. “Our inventory consists of $117 million of finished goods and $24 million of components,” Casey said in February.
Just this week, Sonos lowered the price of two products, the Era 100 soundbar and Ray soundbar, to $199. Should Trump’s tariffs actually go into effect, it’s not unthinkable that those cuts could be reversed in the not-too-distant future. Sonos last raised prices across its product lineup in 2021 amid a global supply chain crunch.
But for now, as Pategas’ statement underlines, the company is concentrating its focus on improving its core user experience — and that mobile app.
As TikTok’s fate in the United States remains uncertain, the tech giant has quietly started testing a new “TikTok for Artists” insights platform that is designed to help artists build their careers, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The platform will provide artists with tools to promote their songs, understand performance metrics, and engage with fans. […]
Cognition, the startup behind the viral AI programming tool Devin, has introduced a new low-cost plan to incentivize sign-ups. When Cognition released Devin last year, the tool quickly blew up on social media for its ability to perform certain software development tasks autonomously. It quickly became apparent that Devin struggled with more complex coding work. […]
There's no denying that billionaire Elon Musk has been the most visible member of President Donald Trump's administration during Trump's first ten weeks back in the White House. But with familiarity can come contempt, as recent polling shows the DOGE point man underwater with approval ratings.
Musk, the world's richest person and the chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, has grabbed outsized attention as he's steered DOGE, the acronym for Trump's recently created Department of Government Efficiency, which has swept through federal agencies, rooting out what the White House argues was billions in wasteful federal spending.
The unit has also taken a meat cleaver to the federal workforce, resulting in a massive exodus of employees. The controversial moves by Musk and DOGE have triggered a slew of lawsuits in response.
But it's becoming increasingly clear that a majority of Americans are far from happy with Musk's moves. And two new national public opinion polls released this week offer further proof.
According to a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted March 31-April 2, Musk's favorable rating stands at 39% among Americans, with 57% viewing him in an unfavorable light.
And only 36% of respondents said the Trump administration was doing a competent job in reducing the number of federal employees. Even fewer — 31% — offered that the Trump administration was competently downsizing the federal government without affecting vital services.
According to a Marquette Law School national survey, 41% approve of the job Musk is doing at DOGE, with 58% giving him a thumbs down.
And Musk's favorable rating was in negative territory — at the 38% to 60% — in the poll, which was conducted March 17 through 24.
The two surveys are the latest to indicate Musk's poll numbers deeply underwater.
A majority — 54% — questioned in a Quinnipiac University survey conducted early last month said that Musk and DOGE are hurting the country, with just four in ten saying their efforts are helping the country.
And according to a Fox News national poll conducted in mid-March, Musk's approval of his work at DOGE was in negative territory, at 40% approval and 58% disapproval.
While nearly six in 10 questioned in the Fox News poll felt that a great deal or almost all of government spending is wasteful and inefficient, 51% opposed substantially shrinking the number of government employees, 56% disapproved of the job the Trump administration is doing identifying and reducing wasteful spending, and another 65% worried that not enough thought and planning has gone into the cuts.
While Trump continues to praise Musk's efforts with DOGE, some Republicans are starting to voice concerns about Musk's political liabilities.
Democrats have increasingly spotlighted and targeted Musk in their political attacks. And that was before he inserted himself front-and-center in this week's high-profile and historically expensive state supreme court election in Wisconsin.
With a massive infusion of money from Democrat- and Republican-aligned groups from outside Wisconsin, which turned the race into the most expensive judicial election in the nation's history, the contest partially transformed into a referendum on Trump's sweeping and controversial moves during the opening months of his second tour of duty in the White House, and on Musk's efforts.
Dane County Circuit Court Judge Susan Crawford, the liberal-leaning candidate, ended up defeating Brad Schimel, the conservative-leaning Trump-backed candidate, a former state attorney general who currently serves as a state circuit court judge in Waukesha County, by roughly ten points.
The large margin was not expected, in a race that was expected to be close, in a state that last November had an extremely tight margin in the presidential race.
Musk, who last year was Trump's top donor, dished out roughly $20 million in the Wisconsin race through aligned groups in support of Schimel.
In a controversial move, Musk handed out $1 million checks at a rally in Green Bay on Sunday evening to two Wisconsin voters who had already cast ballots in the contest and had signed a petition to stop "activist judges."
Musk's lighting rod efforts in Wisconsin are being blamed for partially contributing to the 10-point shellacking Schimel suffered.
The White House confirmed to Fox News on Wednesday that Musk will exit his role with DOGE on schedule later this spring, once his efforts are complete.
The White House, pushing back against reporting by Politico that Trump had told his inner circle and cabinet members that Musk would be "stepping back in the coming weeks from his current role," said that Musk had long been anticipated to step back from DOGE when his 130 days as a "special government employee" run out in May.
Two senior lawmakers have introduced a bipartisan bill that would reassert Congress' powers over U.S. tariffs, a day after President Donald Trump announced a new wide-ranging tariff strategy during his "Liberation Day" speech on Wednesday.
Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., on Thursday introduced the Trade Review Act of 2025, which would require the president to notify Congress about any new tariffs within 48 hours of imposition.
The bill also requires that Trump provide an explanation of the rationale along with an analysis of the tariffs’ potential impact on the U.S. economy. Congress would have to approve the new tariffs within 60 days or allow them to expire.
If enacted, the bill would shift certain trade policymaking powers from the executive branch to the Congress.
"For too long, Congress has delegated its clear authority to regulate interstate and foreign commerce to the executive branch," Grassley, a Trump ally who's skeptical of tariffs, said in a statement.
"Building on my previous efforts as Finance Committee Chairman, I’m joining Senator Cantwell to introduce the bipartisan Trade Review Act of 2025 to reassert Congress’ constitutional role and ensure Congress has a voice in trade policy," he continued.
Cantwell said in a statement that Trump’s tariffs would hurt sectors such as agriculture, manufacturing and technology and have reverberating effects on consumers.
"Ultimately, consumers will pay the price," Cantwell said in a statement. "It's time for Congress to take action to counter the president's trade war."
Grassley's home state of Iowa heavily relies on farm crop exports, while Cantwell's Washington state is home to many export-heavy companies such as Boeing.
Trump on Thursday compared the tariffs to a medical operation, and said the "patient lived, and is healing." "The prognosis is that the patient will be far stronger, bigger, better, and more resilient than ever before," he wrote on Truth Social.
Thursday's bill was introduced after four Republican senators joined Democrats in approving a separate resolution Wednesday that would repeal Trump's emergency declaration levying tariffs on Canadian imports. Grassley was not one of the Republican defectors. The resolution is likely dead on arrival in the House.
A delegation of House Democratic lawmakers will visit a portion of the southern border on Friday to conduct oversight of the Trump administration's border policies "firsthand" as authorities continue the president's mass deportation program.
Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-MS., the ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee, will lead the delegation.
Also going will be Reps. Lou Correa and Sara Jacobs, both of California; Delia Ramirez of Illinois; LaMonica McIver and Nellie Pou, both of New Jersey; and Tim Kennedy of New York.
Fox News Digital has reached out to Thompson's office. The lawmakers will visit the U.S. Border Patrol's San Diego Sector.
San Diego County Supervisor Jim Desmond, who has called for greater border security in the past, criticized the timing of the visit.
"For years, I invited leaders from both parties to witness the crisis at our Southern Border," he wrote on X. "Few listened. Now—just one month into the new administration—border crossings are down 95%. Now the Democrats want to come see it? The invasion is over. The border is secure."
The Trump administration has deported more than 100,000 illegal migrants in the weeks since Trump returned to the White House on Jan. 20, according to a New York Post report citing a Department of Homeland Security official.
"He’s doing what he was voted in to do. Point blank!" a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) source told the outlet.
Trump’s second term, much like his first, has consisted of executive orders, enforcing current laws and hard-line messaging to clamp down on illegal crossings. On his first day back in office, he declared a national emergency at the southern border.
Fox News Digital's Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.
Musk attended the Army-Navy football game alongside Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance.
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Vice President JD Vance said Elon Musk will remain a key voice for the White House.
"He's going to continue to be an advisor," Vance said, adding, "work of DOGE is not even close to done."
The White House said Musk would leave the administration "when his work is complete."
Vice President JD Vance on Thursday said that Elon Musk will always have a place in President Donald Trump's orbit.
"Of course, he's going to continue to be an advisor," Vance told "Fox and Friends" Thursday morning of Musk's status. "And by the way, the work of DOGE is not even close to done. The work of Elon is not even close to done."
Musk and his super PAC spent at least $20 million on the race, which the billionaire said was central to the survival of "Western civilization."
Some Republican lawmakers have also chafed at the White House DOGE office's sweeping firings amid pushback from their constituents. Musk is considered to be the DOGE office's de facto leader.
Vance's comments underline how central Musk has become to Trump's orbit. The world's richest man spent over $291 million on Republican candidates ahead of the 2024 election, mostly focused on helping Trump reclaim the White House. Musk also owns X, which has positioned itself as the leading social media platform for conservatives. Musk also reportedly pushed Trump to pick Vance, who has a background in venture capital, as his running mate.
"Fundamentally, Elon is going to remain a friend and an advisor of both me and the president, and he has done a lot of good things," Vance said.
Musk, Vance said, signed up for a roughly six-month commitment. It's unclear what the vice president meant, given that Musk faces a 130-day deadline as a special government employee. The 130-day period would end in either late May or early June, though there's little teeth to the actual deadline beyond the possibility of a lawsuit.
On Wednesday, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt downplayed a Politico report that said Trump had told members of his inner circle that Musk would leave the administration soon. Musk also called the report "fake news."
"Elon Musk and President Trump have both publicly stated that Elon will depart from public service as a special government employee when his incredible work at DOGE is complete," Leavitt wrote on X.
Trump's executive order setting up the DOGE office envisioned it ending by the 250th anniversary of US independence, July 4, 2026. In the past, the White House has also been murky about the 130-day timeline.
Telsa shares went up after the Politico report, illustrating hopes that Musk will return his focus to the automaker, which has borne the brunt of the backlash to the billionaire's time in the Trump administration.
Swiss watches may increase prices due to a new 31% tariff by the US, analysts say.
Rolex, a leading Swiss brand, faces challenges in offsetting these increased costs.
The tariffs, imposed by Donald Trump, affect Swiss and European Union watch imports.
If you're thinking of buying a Rolex watch, you might want to act now to avoid potential price increases.
The biggest names in luxury watches mostly hail from Switzerland — a country that just got hit with Donald Trump's new tariffs. The reciprocal tariff rate is 31% for Switzerland and 20% for the European Union.
Rolex, a privately held company, produces its watches in Switzerland and ships them out to customers across the globe. It's one of the most sought-after luxury watch brands, with pieces that start at over $5,000 and which can reach over $50,000 depending on the material and exclusivity of the timepiece.
JPMorgan analysts said they see potentially the "most pressure on the Swiss watchmakers," including the owners of Cartier, a Rolex rival in the watch space.
With a 31% tariff rate, Rolex, along with its Swiss competitors, will be faced with few options to offset the cost of selling their products to the US. Like many retailers finding out about the official Trump tariffs, it'll have to adapt swiftly.
The levy, if fully passed on to customers, could mean that a $10,000 brand-new Rolex in the US could cost an extra $3,100 if tariffs are upheld. With additional sales tax — about 8% in many states — the final price could reach over $14,000, Paul Altieri, CEO of Bob's Watches, said.
Representatives for Rolex didn't immediately respond to a message left by Business Insider requesting a comment.
If Rolex raises its prices in June, it'll be the second time the watches have gone up in 2025. As the price of gold surged, certain Rolex models made of gold increased in price by as much as 8% on January 1.
In anticipation of tariffs, I made a hasty last-minute panic buy at Temu.
Donald Trump has said he'll close the loophole that lets Temu and Shein ship directly to customers without duties.
Will American consumers like me be able to break their addiction to cheap foreign goods? Who knows!
Last night, as "Liberation Day" was taking effect and the tariffs on imports were being revealed, I did what any American might do in a crisis: I panic-shopped.
I hit up what I thought might be most likely to go extinct: the sweet, sweet low prices on fast fashion and junky plastic that comes straight from China. So, as I read over tweets that were speculating that the tariff rates were determined by ChatGPT, I went onto Temu and frantically placed an order. One last hurrah.
As I placed an order for several bubble wands and machines (I have a child's birthday coming up, so this was a somewhat intentional shop, admittedly), I couldn't help but wonder: Wow, is this it?
I checked the prices of the items I bought late Wednesday again on Thursday morning, post-tariff announcement. (It's not clear when exactly each tariff will start to take effect.) So far, no change in prices. The Temu website had no pop-ups or banners or warnings that prices might change due to the new tariffs.
Temu is in a bit of a unique position compared to other consumer goods you might buy that were made in China. Temu and fast-fashion retailer Shein's whole business is shipping your order directly from China, using the de minimus exemption — an old law that allows items under $800 to be shipped to the US duty-free.
Basically, if Walmart imports T-shirts made in China, it has to pay tariffs, which will likely be passed onto me in the price tag when I buy one at the store. But if I order a single T-shirt from Shein, it ships directly to me with no duty taxes at all — which is one of the ways Temu and Shein were able to keep prices so low.
So, you might think that Temu would be uniquely spared from the tariffs. But Trump just signed an executive order that would close that de miminis loophole, and add on either a 30% duty or a flat $25 fee (which would go up to $50 by June 1).
The White House's official announcement of the order, which is set to go into effect May 2, says that this is to stop the flow of illegal synthetic opioids like fentanyl that are shipping into the US from China through the mail. I don't know all that much about the illegal drug trade, but I always assumed the margins are fairly healthy; it may be an industry able to absorb a tariff.
Hopefully, my Temu order will arrive before May, and I'll have been able to sneak under the wire with my last reckless sprint of consumerist impulse. Am I proud of this? Absolutely not. Trust me, I feel as bad as I should.
I have no idea what will happen with Temu and Shein or other retailers that have transformed their industries in the last few years by offering unbeatable prices. Will consumers finally kick their habit of hyperconsumption? Will it put these companies out of business if shoppers have to pay big duty fees? No clue!
Right now, we're in a weird moment where it's not totally clear what's going to happen (although it seems … probably "bad.") I only tell you how I feel:
Yes, you've heard all of this before: In January, the enormously popular video app was slated to go dark in the US — and in fact, did go offline for a few hours — because of a law forcing the Chinese-owned company to shut down or find new owners for its US operations.
In the newest version of the story, the most likely outcome is a deal where a coalition of US investors, including Andreessen Horowitz, Blackstone, and Silver Lake, buys a 50% stake in TikTok's US operations; in that proposal, some of the existing investors in ByteDance, TikTok's current owner, keep a stake as well. We've also heard about a flurry of last-minute bids from Amazon and other players. Vice President JD Vance says there will be some kind of deal announced before the deadline.
A TikTok sale needs one big sign-off
The problem with any of these would-be solutions: It's entirely unclear whether ByteDance would agree to divest its US operations, and/or whether the Chinese government would allow it. Without those sign-offs, it doesn't matter what kind of deal structure Trump and US investors would like.
Trump has previously said he might convince Chinese officials to OK a deal by reducing tariffs on China. But as of Thursday, we have no idea if those negotiations are happening; Dan Primack, the well-sourced Axios finance reporter, says his sources say "they've still not heard of direct discussions between the US and Chinese governments on a particular proposal." I've asked TikTok and the White House for comment.
So it's entirely possible that on Saturday, there still won't be an actual deal — as opposed to a proposal — in place to transfer majority ownership of TikTok's US operations to non-Chinese owners, which was the thrust of the law passed by Congress, signed by Joe Biden, and upheld by the Supreme Court.
And If that's the case, what happens on Saturday?
My hunch: Nothing.
Or, to be more specific: Trump announces that the proposal he's announced is a deal, regardless of the facts. And TikTok keeps operating as normal, and the can keeps getting kicked down the road.
After all, we've already seen Trump ignore a TikTok deadline in the past.
In January, even before he was president, Trump was telling various technology companies to ignore the TikTok law that went into effect on January 19. And his executive order specifically instructs the US attorney general not to enforce the law "even after the expiration" of the 75-day extension Trump granted himself.
And just to keep repeating this: While the existing TikTok law does allow the president to grant a one-time, 90-day extension before TikTok is banned, that's only supposed to happen if there is an actual plan to divest, and there is "evidence of significant progress" toward making that happen, and there are "relevant binding agreements" in place.
But obviously none of that was happening on January 20, when Trump signed his executive order pushing the ban back. And it doesn't seem to be happening yet this time around.
We're in Trump's world now
In a normal, pre-Trump world, you'd expect someone — perhaps a TikTok rival like Meta, perhaps a member of Congress who signed the TikTok sell-or-ban bill last year — to raise serious objections to the fact that the Trump administration appears to be ignoring a law. Perhaps someone might have even challenged the White House in court.
But in the world we live in today, it looks like TikTok will be in the US for some time to come. No matter who owns it.
Four days after he suffered an elbow injury in Auburn's Elite Eight win over Michigan State, Johni Broome said he'll be ready to go with "no limitations" on Saturday for the Final Four.
Intel Unison was a strong tool for Android and iOS users that wanted to share files, check messages, and more. Now, it seems like Intel is shutting that app down, leaving some users without a strong option for PC connection.
With the introduction of new, increased tariffs on incoming goods into the US, things are likely to get much more expensive. Using a price tracking tool online can help you determine what has and hasn’t increased in price. Here are some of our favorites.
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