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| Qianer Liu / The Information: |
Sources: Intel and TSMC have reached a preliminary agreement for a joint venture to operate Intel's chipmaking facilities, with TSMC taking a 20% stake — Intel's financial crisis may be over—with support from its biggest rival. — Executives from Intel and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Tech stocks fall after President Trump announced new global tariffs: Meta drops as much as ~8%, Amazon drops ~7%, Nvidia ~5%, Alphabet ~4%, and Microsoft ~3% — Apple slid more than 6% in late trading Wednesday and led a broader decline in tech stocks after President Donald Trump announced …
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| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
Apple shares drop 9%+ after President Trump announced new tariffs, including 46% on Vietnam and 26% on India, where Apple has been moving production from China — The iPhone maker spent years trying to move production of some products out of China to avoid tariffs. But now that may not matter.
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Forums: r/technology, r/apple, r/geopolitics, and MacRumors Forums
| Euractiv: |
France says a second EU response to Trump's tariffs will cover digital services, including those provided by Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft — “We won't stand idly by, should we be unable to reach a fair deal,” EU trade chief Maroš Šefčovič said.| Dominic Preston / The Verge: |
The White House appears to have used an oversimplified calculation that several major AI chatbots recommend to calculate reciprocal tariffs — ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Claude all recommend the same “nonsense” tariff calculation. … When President Donald Trump began yesterday's announcement …
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| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: |
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| 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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| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Nvidia says its custom processor for Nintendo's Switch 2 has “dedicated RT Cores and Tensor Cores,” enabling DLSS support and real-time ray tracing on Switch 2 — 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/NintendoSwitch and r/nintendo
| Jake Bleiberg / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Oracle told some clients this week that hackers 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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| Matthias Bastian / The Decoder: |
Google DeepMind outlines its approach to AGI safety in four key areas of risk: misuse, misalignment, mistakes, and structural risks, focusing 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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| 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.
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Bluesky: @xenago. X: @bradlightcap, @kevinweil, @romainhuet, @joshuakushner, @gdb, and @cybersphere_ai
| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
Microsoft releases its $350 enterprise Windows 365 Link mini PC in the US, Canada, the UK, Germany, and other countries, after unveiling it in November 2024 — The $350 thin client-like device lets you connect to a Windows machine running on the cloud.| Ryan Weeks / Bloomberg: |
President Trump's tariffs are set to disrupt the Bitcoin mining sector, as many of the largest miners are based in the US and the supply chain is rooted in Asia — Lauren Lin is in a hurry. She has less than 48 hours to ship about 5,600 Bitcoin mining machines from Thailand to the US …
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| Tanaya Macheel / CNBC: |
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| Jessica Testa / New York Times: |
Spotify debuts new ad tools, including an AI tool in the US and Canada that generates scripts and voiceovers, and pitches itself to advertisers as “nutritional” — After finally achieving profitability, the streaming platform wants to be a healthy alternative to “doom scrolling.”| 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.| 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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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Nintendo Switch 2 hands-on: larger than the Switch but not uncomfortable, flagship games show off the system well, and the Joy-Con's mouse-like mode is precise — The value proposition of the Nintendo Switch 2 may seem pretty clear, but it's much more obvious when you use one.
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| Anton Shilov / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel unveils a new slogan, “That's the power of Intel Inside”, bringing back its Intel Inside theme from 1991; its current marketing focuses on its Core series — From inside to outside? — Ever since Intel launched its ‘Intel Inside’ campaign in 1991, its brand identity … | Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
Q&A with Christopher Bishop on leading Microsoft's AI for Science lab, why scientific discovery will be AI's single most important application, and more — The AI for Science lab director discusses the technology's capability to accelerate time-consuming research| The Information: |
Sources: Google is in advanced talks to rent Nvidia Blackwell chips from CoreWeave, highlighting how Nvidia customers are struggling with AI chip availability — Google is in advanced talks to rent state-of-the-art Nvidia Blackwell chips for running artificial intelligence from CoreWeave …
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| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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