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
How RISC-V, the US-developed, open-source chip instruction set architecture, became a central tool for Chinese companies and governments, leading to US concerns
A U.S.-born chip technology called RISC-V has become critical to China's ambitions. Washington is debating whether and how to limit the technology. X: @basche42 and @anaswanson . ...
Sources: Mark Zuckerberg is using his Instagram to promote an edgier image to court the “tech bros” captivated by Musk's online antagonism and offline antics
Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has been trying to appear more relevant among the tech elite
To protest Reddit's API pricing for third-party apps, r/videos, r/reactiongifs, r/earthporn, and other big subreddits plan to go private on June 12 for 48 hours
Some of Reddit's biggest communities including r/videos, r/reactiongifs, r/earthporn, and r/lifeprotips are planning to set themselves …
OpenAI launches a free ChatGPT app for iOS in the US, offering the web version's features plus history sync across devices and speech input via OpenAI's Whisper
App brings popular AI assistant to an official mobile client app for the first time. — On Thursday, OpenAI released …
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the “technology is not yet good enough that people can be full remote forever, particularly on startups”
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman isn't averse to change—he helped kickstart the current A.I. race with chatbot ChatGPT, after all, threatening …
Solana-based NFT projects DeGods and Y00ts plan to leave the SOL ecosystem for Ethereum and Polygon, respectively; DeGods had asked for $5M to stay on SOL
DeGods will bridge over to Ethereum while its sister project Y00ts will move to Polygon with a grant from the layer 2's partnership fund.
The SEC charges ex-Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison and ex-FTX CTO Gary Wang for their role in defrauding FTX's investors at SBF's direction between 2019 and 2022
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Caroline Ellison, the former CEO of Alameda Research, and Zixiao (Gary) …
The SDNY says ex-Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison and FTX CTO Gary Wang pleaded guilty to federal charges, both are cooperating, and releases them on a $250K bond
Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang helped disgraced crypto mogul divert funds and are now aiding prosecutors
Telegram partners with Fragment to let users create an anonymous phone number to join the service, removing the need for a SIM card, and adds security features
For years, apps like Telegram and Whatsapp have restricted access to users who could sign up using a SIM card and phone number.
Sam Bankman-Fried admits involvement in two of Alameda's largest uses of funds: spending $3B to buy out Binance's FTX stake and pouring $4B into venture capital
Exchange's former CEO says he was close to key decisions at nominally separate trading firm — Speaking from his bed in Nassau …
An interview with YouTuber Christopher Slayton, aka ChrisDaCow, on building the entire observable universe in Minecraft over nearly two months
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Google says it has not yet approved Truth Social's Play Store app due to insufficient content moderation; CEO Devin Nunes said the decision “is up to Google”
Google says it has yet to approve Truth Social's app for the Play Store due to insufficient content moderation; CEO Nunes said the decision was “up to Google”
Google hasn't yet approved Truth Social's Android app for distribution via its Play Store because of insufficient content moderation …
Oracle begins “regular vetting and validation” of TikTok's algorithms and content moderation models to ensure they aren't manipulated by Chinese authorities
Oracle has begun vetting TikTok's algorithms and content moderation models to ensure they aren't manipulated by Chinese authorities, Axios has learned.
Tether plans to launch a stablecoin pegged to the British pound in July, dubbed GBPT, initially available on Ethereum, its fifth fiat-pegged stablecoin
- Tether has launched a new stablecoin pegged 1:1 to the British pound. — It will be initially available on Ethereum.
Nothing confirms phone (1) will not be available widely in the US and might not work well on some carriers, as it focuses on “home markets” in the UK and Europe
It looks like Americans and Canadians are getting ... nothing. — Carl Pei's buzzy phone firm …
Some Ethereum miners express reservations about the planned shift to a proof-of-stake model, arguing it makes expensive mining equipment useless
The Ethereum mining community is a diverse bunch, geographically and demographically. There's a 28-year-old translator in Ukraine …
Google stops businesses from using RCS for promotions in India, following reports that top banks and other companies are abusing the feature to send spam
Google stops businesses from using RCS for promotions in India, following reports that top banks and other companies are abusing the feature to send spam
Google has disabled businesses ability to use RCS for promotion in India, the company's biggest market by users …