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Abner Li / 9to5Google:
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.
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
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.
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 …
Sylvia Varnham O'Regan / The Information:
Source: Meta plans to launch two small non-multimodal versions of Llama 3 next week; the biggest Llama 3 model will be multimodal and is expected this summer  —  Meta Platforms is planning to launch two small versions of its forthcoming Llama 3 large-language model next week, according to a Meta employee.
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
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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, Business Insider, and TIME
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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.
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.
Kate Knibbs / Wired:
The Internet Archive is hosting the new Aruba Collection, which contains 100K+ items from Aruba's National Library, National Archives, and other institutions  —  By becoming the official custodian of an entire nation's history for the first time, the Internet Archive is expanding …
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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David Shepardson / Reuters:
The US FCC officially orders early license reviews of eight Disney-owned ABC stations, in LA, Chicago, San Francisco, New York, Philadelphia, Houston, and more

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
Sources: Disney CEO Josh D'Amaro has decided to keep ESPN within Disney for now, rather than spinning it off

Brian Morrissey / The Rebooting:
Guardian US MD Steve Sachs says the paper has a larger audience than WaPo, and 700K paid supporters, with reader revenue up 35% per year for the past two years

More News

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
Washington Post:
Internal Kremlin documents from May 2022 to August 2023 show an ongoing campaign to promote US isolationism via fabricated news articles and social media posts
Reuters:
Sources: Pegatron is in advanced talks to hand over its only iPhone plant in India to the Tata Group, which would hold a 65%+ stake, a move that Apple supports

Earlier Picks

TechCrunch:
Web Summit co-founder Paddy Cosgrave confirms returning as Web Summit's CEO; Cosgrave resigned in October 2023 over his controversial Israel-Hamas war comments
Natasha Singer / New York Times:
Maryland's legislature passed two privacy bills, one restricting data collection practices and the other focused on minors' safety on social platforms
Orion Donovan Smith / The Spokesman-Review:
US lawmakers post a draft of the American Privacy Rights Act, which would create a data broker registry, let consumers opt out of some data collection, and more
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