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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
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Google debuts its Find My Device network in the US and Canada, initially to find Android phones and tablets; support for 3rd-party tracker tags is coming in May — Google is launching its new Find My Device (FMD) network in the US and Canada starting today.
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| 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
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| 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.
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| 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.
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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 …
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| 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.
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| 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.| Bloomberg: |
Nielsen data from 2021 to 2023: nine of the 10 most-watched streaming programs are reruns, but a majority of the 100 most popular titles are original series — Netflix isn't the most-watched streaming service in the US. But it does have the most hit shows. — We are inching closer to Paramount having a new owner.| 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 …
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| 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 …
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| 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 … | Trisha Thadani / Washington Post: |
Filing: Tesla settles a lawsuit over Apple engineer Walter Huang's 2018 fatal Autopilot crash a day before the trial was set to begin; details are not disclosed — The settlement amount was not disclosed, court documents say. — SAN FRANCISCO — Tesla settled a long-running lawsuit … | Kaya Yurieff / The Information: |
TikTok expands TikTok Lite, which gives people financial incentives to watch its videos, to Spain and France, amid growth struggles in Europe — TikTok's growth in Europe has slowed down so much that it's rolling out a new app that gives people financial incentives to watch its videos.| Kyle Bradshaw / 9to5Google: |
Google rebrands Studio Bot, its AI-powered app development chatbot for Android Studio, to “Gemini in Android Studio”, and upgrades its model to Gemini 1.0 Pro — Initially launching last year as “Studio Bot,” Google is renaming its AI-powered app development assistant to “Gemini in Android Studio.”
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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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