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| Financial Times: |
The US awards Intel $8.5B in CHIPS Act funding and $11B in loans to expand in Arizona, Ohio, New Mexico, and Oregon; Intel plans to spend $100B over five years — Preliminary agreement under US Chips Act also includes $11bn loan as company expands capacity in Arizona and other states
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Forums: r/Columbus, r/technology, r/technology, r/technews, r/Ohio, r/wallstreetbets, and Ars OpenForum
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Meta, Microsoft, X, and Match Group file an amicus brief in Epic v. Apple protesting Apple's plan to charge a commission for payments made outside the App Store — Four tech companies object to Apple's new app store policies related to payment for services| Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: |
France fines Google €250M for not keeping its 2022 pledge on fair deals with media outlets, including training Gemini on articles without notifying publishers — - Firm also accused of breaking other commitments in news case — Watchdog levies €250 million penalty in latest escalation
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Forums: r/technology and r/ArtistHate
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Epic plans to release the Epic Games Store on iOS and Android later this year, with the same terms as the ones for PC, including a 12% commission on sales — With plans to launch its own game store on iOS, it's now been announced that the Epic Games Store is coming to Android.| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager warns Apple over its Core Technology Fee, saying the EU plans to investigate, and Meta over its planned subscription fees — EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager on Tuesday warned Apple (AAPL.O) and Meta Platforms (META.O) on their new fees for their services …
More: Thurrott, TechCrunch, PYMNTS.com, 9to5Mac, WinBuzzer, iMore, MacRumors, Spyglass, Supercharged, and Daring Fireball
Threads: @parkert, @timothybucksf, and @documentingmeta
| Tim Copeland / The Block: |
A commit in Ethereum Foundation's GitHub repository shows the foundation has received a voluntary and confidential enquiry from an unspecified state authority — - The Ethereum Foundation has received a voluntary and confidential inquiry from an unspecified state authority, according to the foundation's GitHub repository.| Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the White House is considering blacklisting some Huawei-linked Chinese chip companies, after the Mate 60 Pro from August 2023 used an advanced 7nm chip — - Huawei last year revealed an advanced 7-nm chip in a new phone — Raimondo has vowed ‘strongest’ action to protect US security
More: The Register, TechRadar, The Information, South China Morning Post, CCN.com, and Benzinga
Forums: r/Android and r/Economics
| Camilla Hodgson / Financial Times: |
After its OpenAI bet, Microsoft hiring Mustafa Suleyman and most Inflection staff continues its strategy of developing ties with the most prominent names in AI — Satya Nadella's appointment of Mustafa Suleyman continues strategy of developing ties with fledging AI companies
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| Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
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| Business Insider: |
Sources: OpenAI plans to release GPT-5 in mid-2024, likely during the summer, and some enterprise customers have recently received demos of the latest model — - OpenAI's main product is the popular generative AI tool ChatGPT. — Since its last major model upgrade to GPT-4, the tool has run into performance issues.
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| Forbes: |
Sources: Stability AI CEO Emad Mostaque told staff last week that Robin Rombach and his team of researchers who helped develop Stable Diffusion, have resigned — Robin Rombach and a group of key researchers that helped develop the Stable Diffusion text-to-image generation model have left the troubled generative AI startup.
More: Sifted. Bluesky: @zitron.bsky.social. X: @kenrickcai and @kylebrussell
Forums: Hacker News, r/aiwars, and r/StableDiffusion
| Steven Levy / Wired: |
An in-depth look at the 2017 “Attention Is All You Need” paper, a big breakthrough in AI, and profiles of the eight Google researchers who co-authored the paper — They met by chance, got hooked on an idea, and wrote the “Transformers” paper—the most consequential tech breakthrough in recent history.
Threads: @vthallam. X: @amasad, @stevenlevy, @jsmarr, @mgalle, @sandraupson, @hkanji, @aravsrinivas, @webbarr, @ylecun, and @ylecun. LinkedIn: Ben Jones. Forums: Hacker News
| Sarah Nassauer / Wall Street Journal: |
Marc Lore's food delivery startup Wonder raised $700M from NEA, GV, and others, taking its total funding to $1.5B, and aims to open nearly 100 NYC locations — Company plans to open nearly 100 restaurant locations around New York City area over next two years
More: LinkedIn and The Information
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
A review of OpenAI's GPT Store finds many GPTs offer bizarre services, potentially infringe on copyright laws, impersonate people, jailbreak ChatGPT, and more — When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPTs, custom chatbots powered by OpenAI's generative AI models, onstage at the company's … | Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer: |
Trend Micro researchers detail Earth Krahang, a China-linked APT campaign that has breached 70 organizations in 23 countries and is potentially linked to I-Soon — A sophisticated hacking campaign attributed to a Chinese Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group known as 'Earth Krahang …
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| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
SteamDB: after releasing its massive 1.6 update, Stardew Valley hit 146,159 concurrent players on Steam, a new record and above Palworld's stats this week — The cozy farming simulator hit 146,159 concurrent players on Steam according to SteamDB data, smashing the game's previous record …
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Robinhood rolls out its Robinhood Wallet app on Android, after launching the iOS app in March 2023 — - The Android app of Robinhood's crypto wallet has officially launched. — Last month, Robinhood said its crypto revenue jumped 10% year over year to $43 million in Q4 of 2023.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
GitHub releases code scanning autofix, powered by Copilot and CodeQL, in public beta for GitHub Advanced Security customers, to help them fix vulnerabilities — It's a bad day for bugs. Earlier today, Sentry announced its AI Autofix feature for debugging production code and now … | Niamh Rowe / Fortune: |
Morph, an Ethereum Layer 2 network that uses a combination of optimistic and zero-knowledge rollup technologies, raised a $19M seed led by DragonFly Capital — Morph, a layer-2 Ethereum Virtual Machine, today announced a $19 million seed round led by DragonFly Capital.
More: Morph, The Block, SiliconANGLE, FinSMEs, The Crypto Times, and NFTgators
| Muyao Shen / Bloomberg: |
Filing: MicroStrategy bought 9,245 bitcoin for $623M between March 11 and 18, taking its total holdings to 214,246 bitcoin, worth ~$14B, or 1%+ of all bitcoin — - Purchase were made with proceeds from a convertible note sale … The enterprise software maker, whose corporate strategy includes buying …
More: Inside Bitcoins, CCN.com, CoinJournal, and MicroStrategy
| Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica: |
Glassdoor users complain after the service added their real names to their profiles without their consent; Glassdoor cross-populates data between its services — Anonymous review site Glassdoor now consults public sources to identify users. — Glassdoor, where employees go to leave anonymous reviews …
More: Wired, New York Post, ExtremeTech, Mashable, and Engadget
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X: @eff, @dosnostalgic, @lenubienne, @laughingcorvus, and @davidgerard
LinkedIn: Howard Holton, Ray Everett, and Stephanie Lucas
Forums: Hacker News, Blind, r/UKJobs, r/antiwork, r/privacy, r/technology, Beehaw, Slashdot, and Ars OpenForum
| Liz Alderman / New York Times: |
France is seeking “a national solution” to protect IT giant Atos, which manages nuclear data and cybersecurity, after Airbus talks failed; ATO.PA fell 20%+ — The French government said it would seek “a national solution” to protect Atos, a debt-burdened company that serves nuclear programs and the military.
More: Reuters, CIO.com, Tech Monitor, Silicon Republic, Bloomberg, The Register, and Financial Times
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
India appoints the government-run Press Information Bureau's fact checking unit to monitor and fact check government-related content on social media — In India, a government-run agency will now monitor and undertake fact-checking for government related matters on social media …
More: The Economic Times, Inc42 Media, The Indian Express, Hindustan Times, Times of India, CNBC-TV18, and Livemint. Bluesky: @chirag.bsky.social
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
In a brief demo, Meta shows how Threads could handle turning on fediverse sharing, including waiting five minutes before sending a Threads post to the fediverse — Threads is coming to the fediverse — and we just got our first official look at how that might work from Meta itself.
More: Engadget, 9to5Mac, Thurrott, FediForum on YouTube, Social Media Today, Fortune, Android Central, and Android Police
Forums: r/technology, r/fediverse, and Beehaw
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