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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
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| 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
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| 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.
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google debuts its Find My Device network in the US and Canada, initially to find Android phones and tablets; support for 3rd-party tracker tags is coming in May — Google is launching its new Find My Device (FMD) network in the US and Canada starting today.
More: The Keyword, Android Police, Engadget, Google Online Security Blog, TechCrunch, The Verge, Droid Life, and Pocket-lint. Forums: r/Android
| 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 …
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| 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
| 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.
More: Finbold, CryptoSlate, CCN.com, Bitcoin Insider, and Cryptopolitan
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| Bloomberg: |
Nielsen data from 2021 to 2023: nine of the 10 most-watched streaming programs are reruns, but a majority of the 100 most popular titles are original series — Netflix isn't the most-watched streaming service in the US. But it does have the most hit shows. — We are inching closer to Paramount having a new owner.| 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.
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| 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 …
More: Metro. X: @jason, @catherinebelton, @johnjharwood, and @catherinebelton
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| Dana Hull / Bloomberg: |
Tesla faces a trial in San Jose this week over Apple engineer Walter Huang's fatal Autopilot crash in 2018; Tesla prevailed in two previous California trials — - Driver's family blames swerve on defect in Tesla technology — Company claims Walter Huang was distracted with video game
More: Ars Technica, CCN.com, Business Insider, Benzinga, and Washington Post
| 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 …
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