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Talks kick off Monday between U.S. and Mexican trade officials.
The North American economies could agree to renew the
US-Mexico-Canada Agreement,
or USMCA as it is for another 16 years
— a prospect that appears unlikely.
Or they could keep working on ways to improve it;
Under a convoluted renewal process, they have until 2036 to reach an agreement
Much of this bustling cross-border commerce is duty-free, thanks to the US-Mexico-Canada Agreement, that Do…

Tricky negotiations begin Monday to renew a trade pact between the United States, Mexico and Canada — The Associated Press
Every day more than $4 billion worth of goods cross the United States’ borders with Canada and Mexico – U.S. auto parts headed for car factories in northern Mexico, cartons of Mexican avocados bound for California supermarkets, Canadian aluminum destined to become cans of Campbell Soup.

Directors from some of the UK's top shows sign a letter calling on streaming platforms to agree to a deal on establishing a royalty or residual scheme (K.J. Yossman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/directors-uk-streamers-royalties-1236722155/

U.K. Directors Confront Streamers Over 'Slow Pace' of Royalties Talks
U.K. directors have written an open letter to streaming platforms calling out the 'slow pace' of royalties negotiations.

Sources: Amazon is in advanced talks to acquire satellite operator Globalstar in a deal that could be announced as soon as Tuesday; GSAT jumps 15% pre-market (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-14/am…

The Pentagon has met with senior executives of Ford Motor and General Motors
to gauge whether the auto industry could help the military acquire vehicles, munitions or other hardware more quickly and at lower costs.
The conversations are in the very early stages, and relate to the possible production of components by the companies, not entire weapons systems.
No specific projects are currently being negotiated, the people said.
The discussions with automakers underscore …

Pentagon Seeks Help From Ford and G.M.
Concerned about the slow pace and high cost of weapons production, Pentagon officials have begun talks with General Motors and Ford Motor about producing certain parts.

Iran-US talks: no deal reached. One of the key sticking points was the US refusal to agree anything on halting the Israeli attacks in Lebanon.
https://aje.news/x545rk

Iran war live: Vance says no deal reached, US has made ‘best, final offer’
Iranian media say the US was looking for an excuse to leave the talks and that the ‘ball is in America’s court’.

@… I talk about it in context of feedback loops. The sooner you can get feedback from your team, the sooner you can stop yourself potentially wasting time doing something the team doesn’t agree we should be doing in the first place.
It’s much easier to hear “Whoa hold up, that’s not what we agreed on” when you’ve spent an hour than a week.

Iran War Live Updates: U.S. And Iran Fail to Agree on Peace Deal After 21 Hours of Talks, Vance Says (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04/11/world/iran-war-trump-talks-pakistan
http://www.memeorandum.com/260411/p57#a260411p57

Speicherkrise: PC-Hersteller erwägen chinesischen Speicher
HP, Dell, Acer und Asus sollen teilweise schon DRAM aus China zertifizieren, um den Liefermangel möglicherweise abzufedern.
https://www.

Great piece of writing : “Let’s talk about LLMs” https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2026/apr/09/llms/
It reminds me of a time when software development meant that some people had the role of “analyst” and others the role of “programmer”. The expected increase in the volume of generated…

Sources: Cisco is in talks to acquire Tel Aviv-based Astrix Security, which sells software to monitor and secure AI agents, for between $250M and $350M (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/cisco-talks-buy-ai-security-s…

Cisco in Talks to Buy AI Security Startup Astrix for at Least $250 Million
Cisco Systems is in talks to acquire Astrix Security, a five-year-old Israeli cybersecurity startup that sells software to monitor and secure AI agents, for between $250 million and $350 million, according to people with knowledge of the deal. That would represent at least a 25% premium to the ...