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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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| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI makes ChatGPT Plus free for college students in the US and Canada until the end of May 2025, 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 …
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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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| Washington Post: |
US officials say NSA director and Cyber Command head Timothy Haugh was fired on April 3, along with his civilian deputy Wendy Noble and at least five aides — The director of the NSA, the powerful wiretapping and cyber espionage service, was fired Thursday, according to U.S. officials. — just now
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| Pew Research Center: |
Survey: 35% of US adults say they think AI's impact on the US will be negative over the next 20 years, while 56% of AI experts say AI's impact will be positive — The public and experts are far apart in their enthusiasm and predictions for AI. But they share similar views in wanting …
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| Annmarie Hordern / Bloomberg: |
President Trump reiterates he's open to tariff relief for China if it approves the sale of TikTok's US operations; the app faces an April 5 divestment deadline — President Donald Trump said he was open to reducing his tariffs if other nations were able to offer something “phenomenal,” … | Euractiv: |
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| 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.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Midjourney debuts V7 in alpha, its first new AI image model in nearly a year with a “totally different architecture”, a week after OpenAI's new image generator — Midjourney, one of the first AI-based image generators on the web, has released its first new AI image model in nearly a year.
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| 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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| Financial Times: |
The Meta antitrust case is the first big test of President Trump's FTC and its chair Andrew Ferguson, a Big Tech critic; Meta seems to be exploring a settlement — Mark Zuckerberg steps up lobbying effort with antitrust regulator set to signal its approach to Big Tech| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
A researcher says changes in X's web app suggest that X plans to let Verified Organizations bid on abandoned X handles, with prices ranging from $10K to $500K+ — X's plan to boost revenue by selling off dormant usernames on its service is starting to shape up.| Foreign Affairs: |
Big Tech risks losing access to Europe by embracing Trump, pushing Europe to build its own companies and platforms and letting Chinese companies expand access — How Silicon Valley Got Entangled in Geopolitics—and Lost — Technology companies such as Alphabet, Meta, and OpenAI need to wake up to an unpleasant reality.
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| 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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