What I Read This Week…

President Trump announces 90-day pause on proportional tariffs, companies are developing the infrastructure for multi-agent AI systems, and airborne microplastics enter our food supply through plants

Watch All-In Episode 223 Read our Short Dive: The Trump Administration’s Fiscal Strategy Caught My Eye… Last week, President Trump maintained the baseline 10% tariff on all imports and announced a 90-day pause on his country-specific tariff increases, with the exception of China where he punitively raised tariffs to 145% (combining a new 125% proportional tariff on top of the existing 20% baseline). After those actions, the President announced that he was carving out exemptions for semiconductors and certain electronics that were critical to U.S. technology supply chains. China responded…

related reading

• What I Read This Week…chamath.substack.com
• Reciprocal Tariffs: Weird Science - by Glenn Reynolds, CFAmacro4micro.com
• America’s AI Action Planwhitehouse.gov
• What Happened In 2025avc.xyz
• Semafor - An intelligent, transparent global news platform for breaking stories, analysis and videosemafor.com
• Everything we know about Trump’s policies on tariffs, trade, and taxes | Fortunefortune.com
• Trump tariffs: US president says foreign movies may be hit with 100% leviesbbc.com
• Liberation Day tariffs - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org
• TRANSCRIPT: President Trump Delivers an ... | The Senate Democratic Caucusdemocrats.senate.gov
• Q1 2025 State of Venture Updatealexkolicich.com
• Analysis: Why China’s Xi Jinping is not backing down on US-China trade escalation that has no end in sight | CNN Businessedition.cnn.com
• America's plan to control global AIsubstack.com