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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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Forums: Hacker News, r/hardware, and MacRumors Forums
| Jez Corden / Windows Central: |
Emails: Xbox President Sarah Bond establishes a game preservation team, and reiterates plans for the next Xbox to aim for the “biggest technical leap ever” — The backward compatibility program will continue to future Xbox hardware. — What you need to know
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify launches AI Playlist in beta for its Premium users in the UK and Australia, letting users generate playlists using a text prompt — Spotify already found success with its popular AI DJ feature, and now the streaming music service is bringing AI to playlist creation.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Thoughts on Apple's search for a new growth engine, Spatial Personas, and Kevin Lynch's move to the AI group; sources say new iPads may launch the week of May 6 — Apple's search for a bold new product category is back on, and it includes a foray into robots.
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Forums: r/apple and MacRumors Forums
| Anthony Boadle / Reuters: |
Elon Musk says X is “lifting all restrictions” imposed in Brazil after a court ruling to block “certain popular accounts”, and X is defying the court's ruling — Elon Musk is challenging a decision by a Supreme Court justice in Brazil who ordered his social media platform X …
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Forums: r/worldnews, r/news, r/EnoughMuskSpam, r/elonmusk, and r/worldnews
| Mathieu Dion / Bloomberg: |
Canada unveils a CA$2.4B fund to boost its AI sector by giving access to computing capabilities and technical infrastructure and creates its AI Safety Institute — - The centerpiece is money for ‘technological infrastructure’ — Canada has yet to pass law regulating artificial intelligence
More: Prime Minister of Canada, CBC News, BetaKit, Android Central, Cryptopolitan, Canadian Press, Reuters, and The Crypto Times
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Forums: Hacker News, r/wallstreetbets, r/worldnews, r/canada, and r/artificial
| Orion Donovan Smith / The Spokesman-Review: |
Lawmakers share 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 …
More: Wired, Washington Post, U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation, Silicon Republic, House Committee on Energy …, Reuters, Associated Press, The Hill, International Business Times, Benzinga, PCMag, PC Gamer, R Street Institute, Democrats …, Axios, The Verge, and CircleID
Forums: r/neoliberal and r/law
| 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 …
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| Joanna S Kao / Financial Times: |
How company websites using unreliable AI accessibility widgets, often for blind users, to comply with regulations has prompted thousands of lawsuits globally — Unreliable software installed to comply with rules to help disabled people navigate online has prompted thousands of lawsuits
Forums: Hacker News
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Sources: Pegatron is in advanced talks to hand over its only iPhone plant in India to the Tata Group, which will hold a 65%+ stake; Apple supports the move — Pegatron (4938.TW) is in advanced talks to hand over control of its only iPhone manufacturing facility in India to the Tata Group …
X: @munsifv and @adityakalra
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Web Summit co-founder Paddy Cosgrave confirms returning as Web Summit CEO; Cosgrave resigned in October 2023 over controversial comments on the Israel-Hamas war — Paddy Cosgrave, the co-founder of the Web Summit tech conference, is returning to his role as CEO after resigning in October …
More: Bloomberg, CTech, Reuters, Al Jazeera, The Irish Times, and Business Post
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| Hannah Miller / Bloomberg: |
PitchBook: VC investment in crypto startups rose 32% QoQ to $2.5B in Q1 2024, down from $2.6B in Q1 2023, after a brutal year for crypto and blockchain startups — Venture capitalists are wading back into blockchain. — Crypto startup deals are back. After a brutal year for crytpocurrency …
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