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April 8, 2024, 7:10 PM

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Bloomberg:
The US awards TSMC $6.6B in grants and up to $5B in loans to build a third Arizona fab, slated to make 2nm chips by 2030, alongside TSMC's $65B+ investment  —  - World's top chipmaker to add capacity with third fab in state  — Raimondo says latest US package aimed at AI, national security
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Jez Corden / Windows Central:
Emails: Xbox President Sarah Bond forms a game preservation team, and reiterates that the next Xbox should be “the biggest technical leap ever in a generation”  —  The backward compatibility program will continue to future Xbox hardware.  —  What you need to know
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Sources: Microsoft is confident upcoming Windows laptops with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chips will beat an M3-powered MacBook Air in CPU and AI performance  —  Microsoft is getting ready to fully unveil its vision for “AI PCs” next month at an event in Seattle.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify debuts AI Playlist in beta for its Premium users in the UK and Australia, letting Android and iOS users generate and revise playlists using text prompts  —  Spotify already found success with its popular AI DJ feature, and now the streaming music service is bringing AI to playlist creation.
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft announces Microsoft AI London, a new hub for its consumer AI division led by former Inflection AI and DeepMind engineer Jordan Hoffmann  —  Microsoft has announced a new London hub for its recently unveiled consumer AI division.  It will be fronted by Jordan Hoffmann …
Vishal Chawla / The Block:
Solana grapples with network congestion issues, leading to delays in transaction processing and dropped transactions, due to spam transactions and memecoins  —  - The Solana network is facing congestion, attributed to spam transactions.  — Solana developers are working on solutions, including software patches and updates.
Nico Grant / New York Times:
Docs: after months of staffers sniping about the war in Gaza, Google is tweaking its internal message board Memegen, removing “thumbs down”, post metrics, more  —  The company is making changes to a popular message board called Memegen that some employees say sounds a lot like censorship.
More: Gizmodo and TIME
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Jaspreet Singh / Reuters:
IDC: the PC market grew 1.5% YoY in Q1 with 59.8M shipments, despite weaker demand in China, following two years of decline  —  Global shipments of personal computers returned to growth in the first quarter after two years of decline, according to preliminary results from market research …
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Model N, a public company focusing on helping health companies automate pricing and compliance decisions, is being acquired by Vista Equity Partners for $1.25B  —  Model N, a platform used by companies such as Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca, and AMD to automate decisions related to pricing …
Haleluya Hadero / Associated Press:
A look at the Amazon Labor Union, two years after its victory at an NYC facility, as the group is divided, running out of funds, and faces a leadership election  —  Two years after clenching a historic victory at a warehouse in New York City, the first labor union for Amazon workers …
Forbes:
Sources and filings: Sam Altman's net worth is ~$1B, driven by investments in Reddit, Stripe, Helion, YC startups, and others, despite having no OpenAI equity  —  CEO Sam Altman famously has no equity in OpenAI, but startup bets like Reddit, Stripe and Helion have made him a billionaire anyway, a Forbes investigation found.

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