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Reuters U.S. Reps. John Moolenaar, Republican chair of the U.S. House Committee on China, and Raja Krishnamoorthi, the committee’s top-ranking Democrat, told the CEOs of Alphabet and Apple to prepare for the Jan. 19 removal of TikTok from their U.S. app stores. The lawmakers also wrote to TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, calling for the […]

Reuters The U.S. Commerce Department finalized a $6.165-billion government subsidy for Micron Technology, in support of Micron’s long-term plan to invest around $100 billion in manufacturing in New York and $25 billion in Idaho. The funding, under the $52.7-billion 2022 CHIPS and Science Act, will help the U.S. grow its share of advanced memory chip […]

Reuters Meta’s Nick Clegg said his company’s apps saw a low amount of AI-generated misinformation related to global elections this year, and such content was removed or labeled quickly. Clegg said around 20 covert influence operations were removed from Meta’s platforms in 2024, adding that Meta “probably overdid it a bit” when describing content moderation […]

Reuters South Korea intends to ramp up support for its chip industry next year by offering 14 trillion won ($10 billion) of low-interest loans. The funding will include 1.8 trillion won (around $1.3 billion) to finance power line installations at a chip complex under construction in Yongin and Pyeongtaek, touted as the world’s largest high-tech […]

Reuters China has overtaken Germany in the use of robots in industry, a report by the International Federation of Robotics (IFR) revealed. South Korea is the world leader in industrial robot density with 1,012 robots per 10,000 employees, up 5% since 2018, reported the IFR. Singapore comes next, followed by China with 470 robots per […]

Reuters The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on Tuesday proposed a Manhattan Project-style initiative to fund the development of AI systems as smart as (or smarter than) humans, amid intensifying competition with China over advanced technologies. The commission stressed that public-private partnerships are key in advancing artificial general intelligence (AGI), but did not offer […]

Reuters Amazon Web Services (AWS) will offer computing power to researchers who want to use its custom AI chips. AWS said Tuesday it will provide credits to use its cloud datacenters to researchers who want to tap Trainium, its chip for developing AI models. AWS said researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of […]

Reuters Under a plan announced by Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, the Japanese government will provide at least ¥10 trillion ($65 billion) in subsidies and financial incentives to bolster the nation’s AI and chip industries by fiscal 2030. The plan, which will be submitted to the next parliament session, will target chip foundry venture Rapidus and […]

Reuters Silicon Valley AI chip startup Tenstorrent will train as many as 200 Japanese chip designers at its U.S. offices over five years, as part of a deal with the Japanese government to bolster its lagging semiconductor industry. The effort is intended to jumpstart business for Japan’s Rapidus chip factory, which is slated to begin […]