Q&A with Arm CEO Rene Haas on changing Arm's culture, working with Arm owner SoftBank, developing Arm's AGI CPU data center chip fabricated by TSMC, and more
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Inside Intel's 700-acre Fab 52 in the Arizona desert, which cost $32B and is starting large-scale 18A chip production, as the company seeks to impress customers
the Arizona mega foundry building the future of 2nm chips Ian King / Bloomberg : Over three days in Arizona, Intel executives repeatedly asserted that its 18A process is the most advanced chip product...
OpenAI unveils the Apps SDK in preview, built on MCP, to let developers build ChatGPT apps, and says that it will begin accepting app submissions later in 2025
Expedia, Spotify, Canva, Zillow, Others Now Available Tech Xplore : OpenAI unveils ChatGPT app integration feature OpenAI : App developer guidelines Zillow MediaRoom : Zillow debuts the only real esta...
Anthropic plans to debut new rate limits for Claude Pro and Max on August 28, likely curbing <5% of users, saying some run Code “continuously in the background”
It's Bad Business Bluesky: Ed Zitron / @edzitron.com : That is not what is happening here, this is not Anthropic “doing the drug dealer model” — www.wheresyoured.at/anthropic- is... [embedded post]...
Trump says Elon Musk “went CRAZY” and that canceling his government contracts is “the easiest way to save money”, as their One Big Beautiful bill feud escalates
Musk has gone to war with Donald Trump. What happens next? Dan Milmo / The Guardian : Elon Musk signals he may back down in public row with Donald Trump Wired : Elon Musk's Feud With President Trump ...
Some developers say OpenAI's GPT Store is a mixed bag, with revenue sharing reserved for a tiny number of GPT creators in an invite-only pilot program in the US
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Meta unveils an Orion prototype, its first AR glasses, with a 70-degree FoV, a wireless neural input wristband, silicon carbide lenses, and micro-LED projectors
they could put the iPhone on notice Peter Kafka / Business Insider : I tried out Meta's Orion computer glasses. I'd buy them in a heartbeat — if they were actually for sale. Jon Keegan / Sherwood News...
Google says it will remove Showcase.apk from Pixel devices “out of an abundance of precaution”, after iVerify said hackers could use the dormant app to spy
'Dangerous' New Spyware Warning Issued Vinayak Guha / Android Authority : Flaw in Verizon Pixel's firmware poses serious security threat (Update: Google statement) Threads: Lauren Goode / @laurengoode...
Kamala Harris, who began her career in the Bay Area and was involved in Biden's pro-tech actions like the CHIPS Act, sees a surge of support from tech donors
who respects the rule of law—is better for business and the economy, among many other things. @rsafian and I got into this and Silicon Valley politics on the Rapid Response pod. ⬇️ Lauren Goode / @lau...
FTC's Lina Khan says open-weights AI models can promote competition and “liberate startups from the arbitrary whims of closed developers and cloud gatekeepers”
noting that the FTC has now banned non-competed. The crowd of founders started clapping in Lauren Goode / @laurengoode : FTC Chair @linakhanFTC, and earlier, Asst Attorney General Jonathan Kanter, hav...