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The Download: how Trump’s tariffs will affect US manufacturing, and AI architecture

Rhiannon Williams

created: April 25, 2025, 12:10 p.m. | updated: May 1, 2025, 5:50 p.m.

In fact, the high and crudely designed tariffs set out by the administration could damage a recent rebound in US manufacturing. Meanwhile, tariffs have the immediate impact of boosting costs for critical supplies, many of which come from overseas—helping to raise prices and, in turn, slowing demand. —David RotmanAI is pushing the limits of the physical worldArchitecture often assumes a binary between built projects and theoretical ones. That imagination has long been supported and enabled by design technology, but the latest advancements in artificial intelligence have prompted a surge in the theoretical. —Allison ArieffThis story is from the most recent edition of our print magazine, which is all about how technology is changing creativity.

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