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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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| 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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| 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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| 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.
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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
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| 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 …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Cruise plans to resume its robotaxi service with safety drivers in Phoenix as early as April 9; Cruise says it “had not set a timeline for deployment” — - Big step for Cruise after its fleet was grounded last year — Company is said to start testing as early as Tuesday
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| Financial Times: |
Interviews with 12+ former and current employees: ByteDance faces backlash from its US TikTok staff over large tax bills on stock shares they are unable to sell — Current and former employees of video app's Chinese parent ByteDance in outcry over stock award liabilities| Heather Landi / Fierce Healthcare: |
Grow Therapy, which provides services like patient-provider matching and EHR to help therapists run their own practices, raised an $88M Series C led by Sequoia — mental health funding round venture capital (VC) Sequoia Capital — Grow Therapy, a mental health technology startup … | 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 … | Mishaal Rahman / Android Authority: |
A look at Android 15's Private Space feature, similar to Samsung's Secure Folder, which creates a separate profile for hiding apps and data — With Private Space in Android 15, you can hide your most sensitive apps and data from other people. — • — TL;DR| 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.
More: TechCrunch and The Verge
| 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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| Shira Stein / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Sources: Applied Materials may scale back or cancel plans to open a $4B R&D facility in Silicon Valley due to a lack of government funding — WASHINGTON — Applied Materials, the largest U.S. maker of semiconductor equipment, may scale back or cancel plans to open a $4 billion 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 …
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