Techmeme: SEMI: US chip fab investment to outpace China, Taiwan, and South Korea from 2027, driven by AI demand and US policies, rising from $21B in 2025 to $43B in 2028 (Nikkei Asia)

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Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk:

Crypto markets crashed after Trump threatened an extra 100% tariff on China, triggering $19.1B+ in liquidations, 10x+ the liquidations during the FTX crash — Trump's 100% tariff warning on China ignited a global sell-off that wiped out $16 billion in leveraged crypto longs and pushed Ethena's USDe to a rare sub-$1 print.

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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple discontinues Clips, a video editing app it launched in 2017, removing it from the App Store for new users, and says Clips will no longer be updated — Apple has essentially discontinued Clips, its video-editing app designed to allow users to combine video clips, images …

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Bluesky: @petersterne.com, @eshumarneedi.com, @snell.zone, @sifill, and @dysamoria.com

Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums

Wall Street Journal:

Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Andrew Tulloch has left to join Meta; he reportedly declined Zuckerberg's offer of a $1.5B+ package in August — Andrew Tulloch is the latest big-name AI researcher to join the social-media giant — A co-founder of Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab …

More: TechCrunch, The Economic Times, Channel NewsAsia, and Reuters

X: @emostaque, @dorialexander, @_arohan_, @keachhagey, and @andrewcurran_. Bluesky: @taumuyi

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Google adds a Chrome feature that automatically disables browser notifications from websites users haven't interacted with recently, on Android and desktop — Google's Chrome web browser is about to become much less noisy. — On Friday, the technology giant announced a new feature …

More: Chromium Blog, Thurrott, The Verge, Android Central, KnowTechie, Forbes, 9to5Google, Neowin, Livemint, Engadget, BleepingComputer, Android Authority, and Android Police. Forums: r/Android

Laura Noonan / Bloomberg:

In a report, the G20's Financial Stability Board says regulators are in the early stages of tracking risks posed to the financial system by AI's rapid adoption — Regulators are still at an “early stage” in their efforts to track the risks posed to the financial system by the rapid adoption …

More: Reuters, Financial Stability Board, Investment Executive, PYMNTS.com, and PaymentsJournal

Billy Perrigo / Time:

A look at Figure AI's new robot, Figure 03, which the company claims will be its first mass-producible humanoid capable of domestic chores and industrial labor — A dozen or so young men and women, eyes obscured by VR headsets, shuffle around a faux kitchen inside a tech company's Silicon Valley headquarters.

More: Dexerto, The Robot Report, Inc.com, and Analytics India Magazine

X: @kylebrussell. LinkedIn: Pete Randaccio. Bluesky: @prietschka. Forums: r/Futurology and r/singularity

Linda Yulisman / Rest of World:

Indonesia's film industry is embracing AI tools to produce Hollywood-style movies at a significantly lower cost; the average local film budget is about $602,500 — Generative AI video and text tools are transforming some of the labor-intensive parts of filmmaking, and are largely welcomed in Indonesia's homegrown industry.

More: Los Angeles Times. X: @alexnguyen65 and @rinachandran

Threads: @ben.makinen, @rebeltechx, and @restofworld

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Mike Isaac / New York Times:

How TBPN's daily livestream became the preferred news show of tech insiders, as it taps into the “who's up, who's down” part of Silicon Valley culture — Inside a film studio lot in Hollywood on a Tuesday morning in August, Jordi Hays, a 29-year-old entrepreneur, ran into the frame of a live shot, waving a giant red flag.

Stephen Witt / New York Times:

Interviews with security researchers about AI's potential for large-scale destruction, as experts remain divided and global regulatory frameworks lag — How much do we have to fear from A.I., really? It's a question I've been asking experts since the debut of ChatGPT in late 2022.

X: @unplugaiuk, @dw2, @janzilinsky, @robinhanson, @yoshua_bengio, and @stephenwitt

LinkedIn: Alec Crawford, Yoshua Bengio, and Jaime Yassif, Ph.D.

Bluesky: @taumuyi, @amirattaran, @yoshuabengio, @dbcurren, @danieldrepper, @jasonrosenbaum, @dw-2, and @thecursingpoet. Threads: @fil.menczer. Mastodon: @DavidSteele@mastodon.social

Nikkei Asia:

SEMI: US chip fab investment to outpace China, Taiwan, and South Korea from 2027, driven by AI demand and US policies, rising from $21B in 2025 to $43B in 2028 — PHOENIX, Arizona — U.S. semiconductor investment is set to outpace that of major chip economies China, Taiwan and South Korea …

More: Motley Fool. X: @drikramulhaq and @charlesmok. Threads: @charlespmok

Edward Ludlow / Bloomberg:

Analysis: in 2025, tech companies have raised about $157B in the US bond markets, up 70% from last year, as debt seeps into every corner of the AI economy — Welcome to Tech In Depth, our daily newsletter about the business of tech from Bloomberg's journalists around the world.

LinkedIn: Edward Ludlow. Bluesky: @3fecta

Jeanny Yu / Bloomberg:

An index of Chinese chip stocks is outperforming global peers, surging 50% since the end of June, amid rising investor caution about soaring valuations — China's chip stocks have staged a world-beating rally in the past few months on the nation's self-sufficiency push …

More: Bloomberg Law

Nathan Lambert / Interconnects:

Thoughts on The Curve conference, where prominent figures debated about AI progress, and why automating research engineers is plausible within years — I spent the weekend debating AI timelines, among other things, at The Curve conference. This translates as spending the weekend thinking …

More: LessWrong, Transformer, and Don't Worry About the Vase

X: @shakeelhashim and @natolambert

David Shepardson / Reuters:

FCC Chair Brendan Carr says major US online retailers have removed several million listings for prohibited Chinese electronics as part of the agency's crackdown — - FCC says millions of listings for Chinese electronics on U.S. online retailer websites have been removed

More: Benzinga, DroneXL.co, and NewsMax.com. LinkedIn: Chris Krebs

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