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| Qianer Liu / The Information: |
Sources: Intel and TSMC have reached a preliminary agreement to form a joint venture that will operate Intel's chipmaking facilities; TSMC will take a 20% stake — Intel's financial crisis may be over—with support from its biggest rival. — Executives from Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor …
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Threads: @sung.kim.mw. X: @patrickmoorhead, @amir, @caro_milanesi, @rwang07, @wallstengine, @benbajarin, @benbajarin, and @luke_metro
Forums: Slashdot and MacRumors Forums
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Tech stocks fall after President Trump announced new global tariffs: Amazon closed down 9%, Meta 9%, Nvidia 7.8%, Alphabet 3.9%, and Microsoft 2.4% — Apple slid more than 6% in late trading Wednesday and led a broader decline in tech stocks after President Donald Trump announced new tariffs of between 10% and 49% on imported goods.
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| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
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Bluesky: @stevequick, @xiane, @jakelahut.writes.news, @fluffybottomedboy, @blackballer, @michaelmartinez.co, @jbakcoleman, @dude.computer, @mgearsolidarity, @lama-j, @seaks, @hongpong, @meanmeanie, and @sanktmaxtci
Mastodon: @PaulSchleifer@mastodonapp.uk and @ZhiZhu@newsie.social
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Forums: r/offbeat, r/NewsOfTheStupid, r/technology, r/artificial, r/politics, r/ArtificialInteligence, r/politics, and r/europe
| Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Oracle told some clients this week that a hacker stole old login credentials, the second breach that Oracle acknowledged to clients in the past month — - FBI investigating the breach, software company told clients — Oracle informed health-care customers of separate March hack
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| Adam Satariano / New York Times: |
Sources: the EU is preparing to penalize X this summer for breaking the DSA, including via product change demands and a fine that a source says could be $1B+ — European regulators are considering fining X more than $1 billion, after weighing the risks of further antagonizing Mr. Musk and President Trump.
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| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Ireland's DPC will fine TikTok €500M+ before the end of April for illegally shipping European users' data to China, after a lengthy GDPR investigation — The penalty is likely to be the third highest ever penalty under the GDPR following earlier fines of €1.2 billion …
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X: @samuelstolton, @boweschay, and @adrianweckler. LinkedIn: Itxaso Domínguez …. Forums: r/neoliberal
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI makes ChatGPT Plus free for college students in the US and Canada through the end of May, intensifying competition with Anthropic in higher education — OpenAI has made its premium ChatGPT Plus subscription free for all college students in the United States and Canada through the end of May …
More: The Verge, XDA Developers, Toronto Star, Anthropic, The Sun, eWeek, CNBC, ZDNET, Forbes, Digital Trends, London School of Economics …, Inc, and TechCrunch
X: @santa_kaus, @siobhanbrett, @gdb, @xprunie, and @sama
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Amazon is testing a “Buy for Me” button powered by agentic AI that will let users purchase products from third-party websites without leaving Amazon's app — Amazon wants to use agentic AI to provide third-party websites with your payment information and shipping details.
More: About Amazon, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, 9to5Mac, MediaPost, and NVIDIA
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft has halted talks for, or delayed development of, data center projects in Indonesia, the UK, Australia, Illinois, North Dakota, and Wisconsin — The software company has recently halted talks for, or delayed development of, sites in Indonesia, the UK, Australia, Illinois …
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X: @techfund1, @thestalwart, @johnmoz, @jimcramer, @_rotimia, @matthewstoller, @brodyford_, @jaguaranalytics, and @mackhawk
Forums: r/wallstreetbets and r/technology
| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
BTC fell 5% to ~$81K, ETH dropped 7%, and SOL fell 13% after Trump unveiled new tariffs; Coinbase closed down 6.7% and Michael Saylor's Strategy fell 9.7% — Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies were under pressure Thursday after President Donald Trump's big tariffs reveal jolted the stock market.
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| Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg: |
| Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
Google DeepMind outlines its approach to AGI safety in four key risk areas: misuse, misalignment, mistakes, and structural risks, with a focus on the first two — Google Deepmind has published a comprehensive strategy paper detailing its approach to developing safe artificial general intelligence (AGI).
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Bluesky: @blackamazon. X: @emollick, @googledeepmind, @patloeber, @kimmonismus, @akshitjindal01, @s_oheigeartaigh, @neelnanda5, @emollick, @rohinmshah, @kimmonismus, and @newsfromgoogle. LinkedIn: Saeed Al Dhaheri
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Nvidia says its custom processor for Nintendo's Switch 2 has a GPU with “dedicated RT Cores and Tensor Cores,” enabling DLSS support and real-time ray tracing — Nintendo hasn't revealed the full Switch 2 specs, but Nvidia is providing a few more details about the power of this new console.
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Forums: r/nintendo, r/NintendoSwitch, and r/nintendo
| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Microsoft starts selling its $350 Windows 365 Link mini PC in the US, Canada, Australia, the UK, Germany, Japan, and New Zealand, after its November 2024 debut — The $350 thin client-like device lets you connect to a Windows machine running on the cloud.
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Mastodon: @jbcrawford@hachyderm.io. X: @windowsblog, @tomwarren, @mswindowsitpro, and @tomhickling. LinkedIn: Jeff Strasser. Forums: Slashdot
| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
An increasingly vocal contingent of GOP leaders, some of whom attended Y Combinator's Little Tech Competition Summit, call for antitrust action against Big Tech — Just now — The Washington Post's essential guide to tech policy news — Happy Thursday!
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
A researcher says changes in X's web app show X plans to let Verified Organizations bid on abandoned X handles with prices ranging from $10,000 to $500,000+ — X's plan to boost revenue by selling off dormant usernames on its service is starting to shape up.
X: @nima_owji, @autismcapital, @nima_owji, @nima_owji, and @nima_owji
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI says 130M+ ChatGPT users have generated 700M+ images since the feature's March 25 launch, and India is now the fastest-growing ChatGPT market — OpenAI's new image-generation feature is on track to be one of the company's most popular product launches ever.
More: The Economic Times, Techstrong.ai, MakeUseOf, and The Decoder
Bluesky: @xenago. X: @bradlightcap, @nickadobos, @jasonkwon, @kantrowitz, @morqon, @eliza_luth, @sama, @cybersphere_ai, @kevinweil, @romainhuet, @joshuakushner, and @gdb
| Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: |
TikTok tests TikTok for Artists, which provides musicians with analytics and fan engagement tools, in Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and Indonesia — - Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) — Music Ally NEXT 2025: Early Bird tickets on sale now - at a special discounted rate for a limited time!| Taylor Lorenz / User Mag: |
YouTube quietly removed “gender identity” from its hate speech policy after Trump took office; Google says enforcement of the policy remains unchanged — TariffTokers, Gen Z's ‘it couple’, Easter potatoes, anti-MAGA hats, Zuck's D.C. mansion, Amazon's TikTok bid, Silicon Valley's cupid …
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Bluesky: @taylorlorenz, @literalgrill.com, @aridrennen, @pupamp, and @tranniehathaway
| Bloomberg: |
AI video startup Runway raised $308M led by General Atlantic, sources say at a $3B+ valuation, and plans to hire more filmmakers, screenwriters, and others — The deal, which is set to be announced Thursday, pushes Runway's value to just over $3 billion, according to people familiar …
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| Jessica Testa / New York Times: |
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