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SK Hynix plans to spend ~$3.86B to build a new DRAM chip facility in South Korea, starting construction this month and aiming for completion by November 2025 (Joyce Lee/Reuters)
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Biden signing the TikTok divestment bill starts a 270-day countdown for a sale or a US prohibition; sources say ByteDance sees a divestiture as a last resort (Alex Barinka/Bloomberg)
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An interview with Apple Arcade Senior Director Alex Rofman: the service hit record highs on all "critical metrics" in 2023 and will feature Vision Pro games (Keith Stuart/The Guardian)
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The US OFAC sanctions four Iranian nationals over cyberattacks on the US government, defense contractors, and private companies, and the DOJ unseals indictments (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
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An interview with Embracer Group CEO Lars Wingefors on criticism over mass layoffs and studio closures, splitting the company into three, rising debt, and more (James Batchelor/GamesIndustry.biz)
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How Palantir, which doesn't have a traditional salesforce, is using software boot camps to attract customers, hosting an average of about five per day in 2024 (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)
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A look at the restaurant reservation ecosystem in New York City, where new apps have sprung up to help diners book a table at buzzy restaurants for a price (Adam Iscoe/New Yorker)
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A deep dive into how Bluesky is built, including its growth from three engineers to 12 in just over two years and its infrastructure move from AWS to on-prem (The Pragmatic Engineer)
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Microsoft must take security seriously again by being transparent about breaches and no longer charging its subscribers extra for must-have security features (Mary Jo Foley/Directions on Microsoft)
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Paris-based FlexAI, which is developing an on-demand cloud service for AI training, emerges from stealth with $30M in seed funding (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)
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Mobvoi, a Google-backed Chinese smartwatch and AI company, fell as much as 22% in its first day of trading, after raising $41M in its Hong Kong IPO (Filipe Pacheco/Bloomberg)
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Emails released as part of US vs. Google show how Google's finance and ad teams led by Prabhakar Raghavan made Search worse to make the company more money (Edward Zitron/Ed Zitron's Where's ...)
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China approves the US listing of self-driving startup Pony.ai, which plans to sell up to 98M shares and list on Nasdaq or NYSE, signaling an easing crackdown (Bloomberg)
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Huawei unveils Qiankun, a new business unit focused on providing self-driving systems, marking the company's latest push to become a major EV industry player (Reuters)
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SenseTime's stock rises 30%+ after the company unveiled the latest version of its SenseNova AI model; its stock is down 80%+ since its 2021 Hong Kong IPO (Bloomberg)
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Samsung starts mass production of its 9th-generation 286-layer 3D NAND memory chips, which increases data I/O speeds by 33% compared to 8th-gen 236-layer chips (Nami Matsuura/Nikkei Asia)
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Paris-based Payflows, whose automated financial management SaaS could be deployed on top of existing ERP systems, raised a €25M Series A led by Balderton (Tom Matsuda/Sifted)
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NYC-based Campus, which is building an online alternative to traditional community colleges, raised a $23M Series A extension, following a $29M Series A in 2023 (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
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Legal scholars discuss how the TikTok divestment bill could survive a First Amendment challenge and why the US will likely rely on a national security argument (Casey Newton/Platformer)
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The US Senate passes the TikTok divestment bill by a margin of 79-18; the legislation now heads to President Biden, who has committed to sign the bill into law (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
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Xaira Therapeutics, which aims to use AI models to find new drugs to treat diseases, emerged from stealth with $1B in commitments from Sequoia and others (Sarah McBride/Bloomberg)
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As software gets better at labeling photos, CAPTCHA designers are adopting more difficult logic-based prompts to thwart nefarious bots (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal)
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Block says it has finished the development of its own 3nm bitcoin mining chip and is working through the design with a "leading global semiconductor foundry" (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
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Letter: the US Department of Commerce is reviewing the national security implications of China's work in open-source RISC-V chip technology (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
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Tesla teases a ridehailing function in its app and says its robotaxi will be "purpose-built", suggesting it will be built from the ground up to be self-driving (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
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Larry Ellison says Oracle is moving its world headquarters from Austin to Nashville to be closer to a major healthcare epicenter (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
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For the third time, Google delays the deprecation of third-party cookies in Chrome, pushing back its plans to early 2025 amid regulatory scrutiny (Seb Joseph/Digiday)
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OpenAI announces new enterprise-grade features for API customers, including enhanced security, administrative controls, and new Assistants API capabilities (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
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The European Parliament adopts right-to-repair rules clarifying manufacturer obligations to provide repair services, consumer access to spare parts, and more (Jacob Ridley/PC Gamer)
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Taser company Axon launches an AI tool that turns body cam audio into police reports to save time; critics worry it will introduce errors into crucial evidence (Forbes)
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The FTC bans noncompete clauses that restrict job switching, the first time in 50+ years that the FTC has issued a regulation mandating an economy-wide change (Wall Street Journal)
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The US Senate advances the bill forcing a sale or ban of TikTok, preparing for a final vote on the bill as soon as Tuesday evening (Sara Dorn/Forbes)
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Sources: IBM is nearing an acquisition of HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, in the coming days; HashiCorp's stock jumps 22%+ (Wall Street Journal)
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Apptopia: Threads is now consistently surpassing X in US DAUs, up to ~28M in April, after it first began eclipsing X in Dec. 2023, but X still has more US MAUs (Kali Hays/Business Insider)
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Interviews with 20+ current and former TSMC staff at its Arizona plant finds struggles over bridging Taiwanese and US norms, rigid hierarchies, and other issues (Viola Zhou/Rest of World)
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Not only has GM sold driving data to insurers without telling users, but a GM app "bug" meant users who were enrolled in Smart Driver were told they weren't (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
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Microsoft took down its WizardLM 2 LLM after it reportedly missed "toxicity testing", but people already downloaded and re-uploaded it to GitHub, Hugging Face (Emanuel Maiberg/404 Media)
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Taylor Swift's new album smashed streaming records; Spotify says it had 300M+ streams on launch day and became 2024's most-streamed album within just 12 hours (Chris Morris/Fortune)
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Sources: Apple cut 2024 Vision Pro shipments to 400K-450K units, vs. a 700K+ market consensus, and US demand has "fallen sharply beyond expectations" (Ming-Chi Kuo)
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Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses get support for video calling via WhatsApp and Messenger, hands-free Apple Music controls, and a new frame style (Victoria Song/The Verge)
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Sources: AI search engine Perplexity is raising $250M+ at a $2.5B to $3B valuation; previous backers NEA and IVP are among those looking to invest (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
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Repairable laptop maker Framework Computer raised a $17M Series A-1, after an $18M Series A in early 2022, to expand into new product categories (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)
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Meta rolls out multimodal AI in early access for the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, mainly to help identify objects, translate signs, and write Instagram captions (Victoria Song/The Verge)
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Apple schedules a "special Apple Event" for May 7 at 10am ET, where new iPads are expected; rumors suggest the iPad Pro will get an OLED display and an M3 chip (Quentyn Kennemer/The Verge)
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As Congress' TikTok bill moves ahead, US lawmakers must show on what grounds they are forcing a sale or ban of the popular and culturally significant platform (Dave Lee/Bloomberg)
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Meta, Google, OpenAI, child safety group Thorn, nonprofit All Tech Is Human, and other AI groups sign on to an initiative to add new child safety measures (Deepa Seetharaman/Wall Street Journal)
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Sonos updates its Android and iOS apps, rebuilding them to become more reliable, and plans to discontinue its Windows and macOS apps in favor of web apps (Chris Welch/The Verge)
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Perplexity AI, which offers an AI chatbot that summarizes search results, raised ~$63M led by Daniel Gross at a $1B+ valuation, up from $520M in January 2024 (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
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Analysis of pinyin keyboard apps from Baidu, Honor, Huawei, iFlytek, OPPO, Samsung, Tencent, Vivo, and Xiaomi: flaws reveal keystrokes to network eavesdroppers (The Citizen Lab)
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Google fires ~20 more staff the company says participated in protests denouncing an Israeli cloud contract; an activist workers' group says the total is now 50+ (Washington Post)
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