Mia Sato

The marketplace runs on small businesses all over the world — but Donald Trump’s tariffs are causing uncertainty. In a blog post today, Etsy CEO Josh Silverman said the company will add features like shopping pages surfacing domestic sellers, which could be useful for shoppers who want to avoid tariffs.

At least somewhat. Media Matters analyzed top podcasters aligned with Donald Trump and found that while most covered his tariff policy positively, there are signs of fracturing. Ben Shapiro and Joe Rogan are among the right wing influencers who’ve criticized Trump’s trade war in recent weeks.

China is an essential part of the world’s supply chains — just ask small businesses who’ve tried to make products in the US. Earlier this year a family-run company told me how it was impossible to manufacture certain playing cards domestically. Wired spoke with small businesses about the skill, machinery, factories, and expertise that only exist in China.

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon was on a panel to discuss artificial intelligence in the workforce — and pronounced “AI” as “A1” — like the steak sauce — when talking about teaching methods. That is all.

The YouTuber’s line of chocolate bars are getting hit by new taxes on imports. MrBeast said on X that for products sold outside the US, it would be cheaper to produce them abroad given the trade war Trump created.

Donald Trump’s tariffs threaten to blow up Shein’s supply chain, which heavily depends on Chinese manufacturing. Bloomberg reports that the Chinese government didn’t like Shein’s plans to move some of its manufacturing out of China — Shein wants to avoid tariffs as much as it can, and the Chinese government reportedly is looking to minimize manufacturing job losses.

Here at The Verge we’ve extensively covered how Google giveth and Google taketh away — website traffic, that is. Independent sites in particular are vulnerable to traffic dips that they may never recover from, and Google’s constantly shifting search algorithms mean website operators are forced to play a game of cat and mouse. Now they’re up against AI search results.