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April 8, 2024, 1:10 PM

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Bloomberg:
The US awards TSMC $6.6B in grants and up to $5B in loans to build a third Arizona fab, slated to make 2nm chips by 2030, alongside TSMC's $65B+ investment  —  - World's top chipmaker to add capacity with third fab in state  — Raimondo says latest US package aimed at AI, national security
Jez Corden / Windows Central:
Emails: Xbox President Sarah Bond forms a game preservation team, and reiterates that the next Xbox should be “the biggest technical leap ever in a generation”  —  The backward compatibility program will continue to future Xbox hardware.  —  What you need to know
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Spotify debuts AI Playlist in beta for its Premium users in the UK and Australia, letting Android and iOS users generate and revise playlists using text prompts  —  Spotify already found success with its popular AI DJ feature, and now the streaming music service is bringing AI to playlist creation.
Orion Donovan Smith / The Spokesman-Review:
US lawmakers post a draft of the American Privacy Rights Act, which would create a data broker registry, let consumers opt out of some data collection, and more  —  WASHINGTON - Since the dawn of the internet age, tech companies have developed increasingly sophisticated ways to collect …
Paul Sawers / TechCrunch:
Microsoft announces Microsoft AI London, a new hub for its consumer AI division led by former Inflection AI and DeepMind engineer Jordan Hoffmann  —  Microsoft has announced a new London hub for its recently unveiled consumer AI division.  It will be fronted by Jordan Hoffmann …
Tom Warren / The Verge:
Sources: Microsoft is confident upcoming Windows laptops with Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chips will beat an M3-powered MacBook Air in CPU and AI performance  —  Microsoft is getting ready to fully unveil its vision for “AI PCs” next month at an event in Seattle.
More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, and Gizchina
Threads: @tomwarrenukX: @markhachmanForums: r/hardware and r/apple
Vishal Chawla / The Block:
Solana grapples with network congestion issues, leading to delays in transaction processing and dropped transactions, due to spam transactions and memecoins  —  - The Solana network is facing congestion, attributed to spam transactions.  — Solana developers are working on solutions, including software patches and updates.
Forbes:
Sources and filings: Sam Altman's net worth is ~$1B, driven by investments in Reddit, Stripe, Helion, YC startups, and others, despite having no OpenAI equity  —  CEO Sam Altman famously has no equity in OpenAI, but startup bets like Reddit, Stripe and Helion have made him a billionaire anyway, a Forbes investigation found.
Washington Post:
Internal Kremlin documents from May 2022 to August 2023 show an ongoing campaign to promote US isolationism via fabricated news articles and social media posts  —  When President Biden proposed an additional $24 billion in supplemental funding for Ukraine in August, Moscow spin doctors working …
Anthony Boadle / Reuters:
Elon Musk says X is “lifting all restrictions” in Brazil after a court ruling to block certain accounts, which X is defying, and calls on the judge to resign  —  Elon Musk is challenging a decision by a Supreme Court justice in Brazil who ordered his social media platform X …
Anthony Boadle / Reuters:

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