Category: Consumer Assistance
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Trump’s chip tariffs may lead to even more overseas manufacturing to offset costs, not creating self-sufficiency; the US should focus on China’s chip subsidies (Chris Miller/Financial Times)
Chris Miller / Financial Times: Trump’s chip tariffs may lead to even more overseas manufacturing to offset costs, not creating self-sufficiency; the US should focus on China’s chip subsidies — A component levy on foreign-made semiconductors would function as a major tax increase on electronics sold in America
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Geoffrey Hinton, other AI experts, and 10 former OpenAI staff, write to the CA and DE AGs opposing OpenAI’s for-profit restructure, echoing Elon Musk’s concerns (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: Geoffrey Hinton, other AI experts, and 10 former OpenAI staff, write to the CA and DE AGs opposing OpenAI’s for-profit restructure, echoing Elon Musk’s concerns — Former employees and figures such as Geoffrey Hinton warn of dangers of allowing start-up to make corporate switch
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Samsung resumes rolling out One UI 7, per users on Reddit, X, and forums, after pausing it earlier in April, bringing new icons, a new camera UI, and more (Hadlee Simons/Android Authority)
Hadlee Simons / Android Authority: Samsung resumes rolling out One UI 7, per users on Reddit, X, and forums, after pausing it earlier in April, bringing new icons, a new camera UI, and more — – Samsung has resumed the One UI 7 update. — Users in Africa, the US, and several other locales have…
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The EU Commission fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M under the DMA and issues cease-and-desist orders; Apple says it will appeal, and Meta says it likely would (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street Journal: The EU Commission fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M under the DMA and issues cease-and-desist orders; Apple says it will appeal, and Meta says it likely would — Fines come as European officials pursue trade talks with the Trump administration — BRUSSELS—The European Union fined Apple …
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Trump Media partners with Crypto.com and Florida-based Yorkville America Digital to launch ETFs by the end of 2025, as it moves into financial services (Matthew Goldstein/New York Times)
Matthew Goldstein / New York Times: Trump Media partners with Crypto.com and Florida-based Yorkville America Digital to launch ETFs by the end of 2025, as it moves into financial services — The agreement will allow the president’s social media company to market investment products, including crypto, to retail investors through a series of exchange-traded funds.
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Nari Labs unveils Dia, a 1.6B parameter text-to-speech model designed to produce naturalistic dialogue directly from text prompts, built with “zero funding” (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: Nari Labs unveils Dia, a 1.6B parameter text-to-speech model designed to produce naturalistic dialogue directly from text prompts, built with “zero funding” — A two-person startup by the name of Nari Labs has introduced Dia, a 1.6 billion parameter text-to-speech (TTS) …
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How Nike and US manufacturer Flex’s plan to automate sneaker production in Guadalajara ran into trouble, with factory robots struggling to handle soft materials (Jon Emont/Wall Street Journal)
Jon Emont / Wall Street Journal: How Nike and US manufacturer Flex’s plan to automate sneaker production in Guadalajara ran into trouble, with factory robots struggling to handle soft materials — Trump sees tariffs as a way to boost U.S. manufacturing, but Nike’s struggle to move production from Asia is a cautionary tale
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Noxtua, which develops AI tech to research, analyze, and draft legal documents, raised an €80.7M Series B led by C.H. Beck, Germany’s leading legal publisher (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)
Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: Noxtua, which develops AI tech to research, analyze, and draft legal documents, raised an €80.7M Series B led by C.H. Beck, Germany’s leading legal publisher — Back in 2020, Xayn was a privacy-based, on-device AI startup designed specifically for smartphones.
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A look at New Mexico’s efforts to become a quantum computing hub through partnerships between the state, its universities, and national labs and companies (Belle Lin/Wall Street Journal)
Belle Lin / Wall Street Journal: A look at New Mexico’s efforts to become a quantum computing hub through partnerships between the state, its universities, and national labs and companies — Partnerships between the state, its universities and its national labs demonstrate the Mountain West’s ambitions in quantum technology
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Study: models like OpenAI’s o3 outperform expert virologists in wet lab problem-solving, which might accelerate research but could also be abused by bad actors (Andrew R. Chow/Time)
Andrew R. Chow / Time: Study: models like OpenAI’s o3 outperform expert virologists in wet lab problem-solving, which might accelerate research but could also be abused by bad actors — A new study claims that AI models like ChatGPT and Claude now outperform PhD-level virologists in problem-solving in wet labs …
