August 8, 20230CommentsQ&A with Grimes on her “c” persona, letting people use her voice in their music, AI, social media, Elon Musk, NFTs, a stronger sense of ethics in tech, and more (Steven Levy/Wired)
August 8, 20230CommentsAfter countless examples of Elon Musk walking back announcements, the business media must rethink its coverage of X, Musk, and the fight with Mark Zuckerberg (Casey Newton/Platformer)
August 8, 20230CommentsTSMC agrees to build a €10B plant in Germany’s Dresden, owning 70% of the facility with Infineon, NXP, and Bosch each holding 10% stake, set to open in 2027 (Bloomberg)
August 8, 20230CommentsSource: Apple, Samsung, Nvidia, and Intel plan to invest in Arm’s US IPO as soon as shares are listed in September; SoftBank owns 75% of Arm and Vision Fund 25% (Nikkei Asia)
August 8, 20230CommentsThe Philippines races to defend its share of the ~$300B global business process outsourcing market, battling deteriorating talent, rising competition, and AI (Bloomberg)
August 8, 20230CommentsTikTok unveils Gimme the Mic, a music competition hosted on livestreams where the US winner receives 50K Diamonds, the USD conversion rate for which is unclear (Mia Sato/The Verge)
August 8, 20230CommentsAn author finds multiple “garbage books” uploaded to Amazon under her name, most likely AI-generated, and on Goodreads, which removed them after her complaint (Jane Friedman)
August 8, 20230CommentsSoftBank reports ~$426M profit for Vision Fund in Q1, up from a ~$16.4B loss in Q1 2022 and ~$30B in FY2022; Vision Fund invested $1.6B in Q1; Arm lost ~$66.4M (Bloomberg)
August 8, 20230CommentsMatter’s biggest problem is that companies can’t agree on how to support Thread, a protocol Matter picked, especially for border routers joining mesh networks (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)