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CNET’s Daily Tariff Price Tracker: Xbox Up $100 and Other Recent Increases
Check out CNET’s price tracker for details on how things are shaping up for several popular products, including recent jumps for Xbox Series X and AirPods Pro 2.

The Trump administration on Monday announced a temporary easing of its tariffs against China, dropping them from 145% to 30% for 90 days — Aug. 10 — while deeper trade negotiations continue. While this move did show some progress toward averting economic war, the rates against China are still historically high and likely to cause painful price hikes for everyday consumers.
CNET has been covering the fallout of President Donald Trump’s contentious tariff agenda extensively, and with this page we’re aiming to keep track of prices for a variety of popular products you might want or need to buy, whether it be a new phone, laptop or even your daily coffee. So far, we’ve seen notable price hikes for the flagship Xbox game console, as well as upward fluctuations for the AirPods Pro 2 and a popular Samsung TV. Prices for the rest of the products currently on the list have otherwise remained steady, but that’s far from a guarantee moving forward.
The China agreement is the second «deal» touted by the White House, coming on the heels of a trade agreement with the UK that was scant on details and unlikely to affect the prices most relevant to everyday shoppers. Alongside the US deescalating rates against them, Beijing has also agreed to drop its rates against the US from 115% to 10% for the 90-day period. Whether or not continued negotiations will bring more meaningful changes remains to be seen, and the 30% rate against Chinese imports is still likely to cause major financial strains.
On this page, we’ll be tracking the impacts of tariffs on 11 specific products and how their prices evolve over the course of 2025. Mostly, they’re electronics and digital items that CNET covers in depth, like iPhones and affordable 4K TVs. We’ll also track a typical bag of coffee, a more humble product that isn’t produced in the US to any significant degree.
We’ll be updating this article regularly as prices change. It’s all in the name of helping you make sense of things so be sure to check back every so often. For more, check out CNET’s guide to whether you should wait to make big purchases or buy them now and get experts tips about how to prepare for a recession.
Methodology
In most cases, the price stats used in these graphs were pulled from Amazon using the historical price tracker tool Keepa. For the iPhones, the prices come from Apple’s official materials and are based on the 128-gigabyte base model of the latest offering for each year: the iPhone 14, iPhone 15 and iPhone 16. For the Xbox Series X, the prices were sourced from Best Buy using the tool PriceTracker. If any of these products happen to be on sale at a given time, we’ll be sure to let you know and explain how those price drops differ from longer-term pricing trends that tariffs can cause.
We are checking prices daily and will update the article and the relevant charts right away to reflect any changes. The following charts show a single bullet point for a each month, with the most recent one labeled «Now» and showing the current price. For the past months, we’ve gone with what was generally the most common price point for each item in the given month.
The 11 products we’re tracking
The products featured were chosen for a few reasons: Some of them are popular and/or affordable representatives for major consumer tech categories, like smartphones, TVs and game consoles. Others are meant to represent things that consumers might buy more frequently, like printer ink or coffee beans. Some products were chosen over others because they are likely more susceptible to tariffs. Some of these products have been reviewed by CNET or have been featured in some of our best lists.
- iPhone 16, 128GB
- Duracell AA batteries, 24-pack
- Samsung DU7200 65-inch TV
- Xbox Series X
- Apple AirPods Pro 2 with USB-C case
- HP 962 CMY Printer Ink
- Anker 10,000-mAh, 30-watt power bank
- Bose TV speaker
- Oral-B Pro 1000 electric toothbrush
- Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5i Chromebook, 256GB
- Starbucks 28-ounce ground dark roast coffee
Below, we’ll get into more about each individual product.
iPhone 16
The iPhone is the most popular smartphone brand in the US so this was a clear priority for price tracking. The iPhone has also emerged as a major focal point for conversations about tariffs, given its popularity and its susceptibility to import taxes given its overseas production, largely in China. Trump has reportedly been fixated on the idea that the iPhone can and should be manufactured in the US, an idea that experts have dismissed as a fantasy. Estimates have also suggested that a US-made iPhone would cost as much as $3,500.
In April, Apple flew bulk shipments of iPhones into the US to get a stockpile here ahead of tariffs kicking in. In recent weeks, reports have indicated that the company is working on moving all manufacturing of US-bound iPhones out of China to India to evade the worst of Trump’s tariff agenda. However, it’s also been reported that the iPhone 19, planned for release in 2027, will need to stay in China, because of the level of complexity planned for its design, tied to the iPhone line’s 20th anniversary. On May 12, further reports emerged suggesting that Apple plans to raise the price of the iPhone with the forthcoming iPhone 17 line, but that it also plans to avoid attributing this to Trump’s tariffs.
Duracell AA batteries
A lot of the tech products in your home might boast a rechargeable energy source but individual batteries are still an everyday essential and I can tell you from experience that as soon as you forget about them, you’ll be needing to restock. The Duracell AAs we’re tracking are some of the bestselling batteries on Amazon.
Samsung DU7200 TV
Alongside smartphones, televisions are some of the most popular tech products out there, even if for any given household, they’re an infrequent purchase. This particular product is a popular entry-level 4K TV and was CNET’s pick for best overall budget TV for 2025. Unlike a lot of tech products that have key supply lines in China, Samsung is a South Korean brand so it might have some measure of tariff resistance. This model recently saw a spike on Amazon from $400 to $470, so we’ll be keeping on an eye on things to see if the change sticks around.
Xbox Series X
Video game software and hardware are a market segment expected to be hit hard by the Trump tariffs. Microsoft’s Xbox is the first console brand to see price hikes — the company cited «market conditions» along with the rising cost of development. Most notably, this included an increase in the price of the flagship Xbox Series X, up from $500 to $600. Numerous Xbox accessories were also affected, and the company also said that «certain» games will eventually see a price hike from $70 to $80.
Initially, we were tracking the price of the much more popular Nintendo Switch as a representative of the gaming market. Nintendo has not yet hiked the price of its handheld-console hybrid and stressed that the $450 price tag of the upcoming Switch 2 has not yet been inflated because of tariffs. Sony, meanwhile, has so far only increased prices on its PlayStation hardware in markets outside the US.
AirPods Pro 2
The latest iteration of Apple’s wildly popular true-wireless earbuds are here to represent the headphone market. Much to the chagrin of the audiophiles out there, a quick look at sales charts on Amazon shows you just how much the brand dominates all headphone sales. While the AirPods Pro 2 have hovered steadily around $200 on Amazon in 2025, they recently jumped to $240 after briefly going on sale for $170. This is still notably below its $250 suggested list price, which you can see from other vendors, so it is unlikely that this is due to tariffs for the time being.
HP 962 CMY Printer Ink
This HP printer ink includes cyan, magenta and yellow all in one product and recently saw its price jump from around $72 — where it stayed for most of 2025 — to $80, which is around its highest price point over the last five years. We will be keeping tabs to see if this a long-term change or a brief uptick.
This product replaced Overture PLA Filament for 3D printers in this piece, but we are still tracking it and might add it back in the near future.
Anker 10,000-mAh, 30-watt power bank
Anker’s accessories are perennially popular in the tech space and the company has already announced that some of its products will get more expensive as a direct result of tariffs. This specific product has also been featured in some of CNET’s lists of the best portable chargers.
Bose TV speaker
Soundbars have become important purchases, given the often iffy quality of the speakers built into TVs. While not the biggest or the best offering in the space, the Bose TV Speaker is one of the more affordable soundbar options out there, especially hailing from a brand as popular as Bose.
Oral-B Pro 1000 electric toothbrush
They might be a lot more expensive than their traditional counterparts, but electric toothbrushes remain a popular choice for consumers because of how well they get the job done. I know my dentist won’t let up on how much I need one. This particular Oral-B offering was CNET’s overall choice for the best electric toothbrush for 2025.
Lenovo IdeaPad Flex 5i Chromebook
Lenovo is notable among the big laptop manufacturers for being a Chinese company making its products especially susceptible to Trump’s tariffs.
Starbucks Ground Coffee (28 oz. bag)
Coffee is included in this tracker because of its ubiquity —I’m certainly drinking too much of it these days —and because it’s uniquely susceptible to Trump’s tariff agenda. Famously, coffee beans can only be grown within a certain distance from Earth’s equator, a tropical span largely outside the US and known as the «Coffee Belt.»
Hawaii is the only part of the US that can produce coffee beans, with data from USAFacts showing that 11.5 million pounds were harvested there in the 2022-23 season — little more than a drop in the mug, as the US consumed 282 times that amount of coffee during that period. Making matters worse, Hawaiian coffee production has declined in the past few years.
All that to say: Americans get almost all of their coffee from overseas, making it one of the most likely products to see price hikes from tariffs.
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OpenAI Launches HealthBench, a Dataset That Benchmarks Health Care AI Models
This is a major leap by the ChatGPT creator into health care.
OpenAI, the creator of artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT, has a new open-source large language model called HealthBench that lets the health care industry benchmark AI models, the company said in a blog post on Monday.
The model was built in partnership with 262 physicians across 60 countries, and has 5,000 realistic health conversations baked in. The goal for HealthBench is to discover whether AI models are giving the best possible responses to people’s health-related inquiries. Each response is measured against a physician-written rubric criterion, with each criterion weighted to match the physician’s judgement. The rubric is scored by GPT-4.1.
OpenAI’s o3 reasoning model performs the best, according to HealthBench, with a score of 60%, followed by Elon Musk’s Grok at 54% and Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro at 52%.
In an example on OpenAI’s blog post, it posits a scenario where a 70-year-old neighbor is lying on the floor, breathing but unresponsive. The person asks AI what should be done. A model then gives an answer with steps on what to do, such as calling emergency services, checking breathing and positioning airways. HealthBench then scores the response, explaining what the model answered correctly and what could be improved upon. It then gives a final score, in this case, 77%.
The model can handle 49 languages, including Amharic and Nepali, and includes 26 medical specialties, such as neurological surgery and ophthalmology.
OpenAI didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for May 13, #232
Hints and answers for the NYT Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, No. 232, for May 13.
Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today’s Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles.
Connections: Sports Edition has a fun mix of categories. As a Minnesotan, I was pleased to see my home state on there, though it took me awhile to figure out where it went. Read on for hints and the answers.
Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That’s a sign that the game has earned enough loyal players that The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by the Times, will continue to publish it. It doesn’t show up in the NYT Games app but now appears in The Athletic’s own app. Or you can continue to play it free online.
Read more: NYT Connections: Sports Edition Puzzle Comes Out of Beta
Hints for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups
Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.
Yellow group hint: Nowhere near the top.
Green group hint: Mock, at a sporting event.
Blue group hint: Odd team names.
Purple group hint: Not silver, but…
Answers for today’s Connections: Sports Edition groups
Yellow group: In the lowest position.
Green group: Heckle.
Blue group: NBA teams with singular nicknames.
Purple group: Teams with «Golden» nicknames.
Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words
What are today’s Connections: Sports Edition answers?
The yellow words in today’s Connections
The theme is in the lowest position. The four answers are bottom, cellar, last and worst.
The green words in today’s Connections
The theme is heckle. The four answers are boo, hiss, jeer and taunt.
The blue words in today’s Connections
The theme is NBA teams with singular nicknames. The four answers are Miami, Oklahoma City, Orlando and Utah.
The purple words in today’s Connections
The theme is teams with «Golden» nicknames. The four answers are Cal, Minnesota, Tulsa and Vegas.
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