Alexa+ will start rolling out to users today; sources: some features demoed in February are slated to arrive in two months, while others will take longer (Caroline O’Donovan/Washington Post)

Caroline O’Donovan / Washington Post:
Alexa+ will start rolling out to users today; sources: some features demoed in February are slated to arrive in two months, while others will take longer  —  Alexa+, Amazon’s AI-enhanced voice assistant, will launch to some customers Monday, though not every feature will be available right away

Retym, which aims to bring its first AI data center chip to market this year, raised a $75M Series D led by Spark Capital, bringing its total funding to $180M (Max A. Cherney/Reuters)

Max A. Cherney / Reuters:
Retym, which aims to bring its first AI data center chip to market this year, raised a $75M Series D led by Spark Capital, bringing its total funding to $180M  —  Chip startup Retym has raised $75 million this year as part of $180 million in total funding the company is using to pursue networking chips …

Sources: GlobalFoundries mulls merging with UMC, Taiwan’s 2nd-largest chipmaker, to form a bigger, US-based company with production in Asia, the US, and Europe (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)

Cheng Ting-Fang / Nikkei Asia:
Sources: GlobalFoundries mulls merging with UMC, Taiwan’s 2nd-largest chipmaker, to form a bigger, US-based company with production in Asia, the US, and Europe  —  TAIPEI — U.S. contract chipmaker GlobalFoundries and United Microelectronics Corp., Taiwan’s No. 2 chipmaker …

Cerebras says it has resolved “all open issues” with the CFIUS, as it prepares for an IPO; the AI startup filed a notice about its ties to Abu Dhabi’s G42 (Ian King/Bloomberg)

Ian King / Bloomberg:
Cerebras says it has resolved “all open issues” with the CFIUS, as it prepares for an IPO; the AI startup filed a notice about its ties to Abu Dhabi’s G42  —  G42 also planned to buy more than 22 million shares in Cerebras.  The Sunnyvale, California-based company had said the arrangement …

Amazon’s AGI Lab unveils Nova Act, a general purpose AI agent to control a web browser and independently perform some simple actions, and a Nova Act SDK (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)

Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch:
Amazon’s AGI Lab unveils Nova Act, a general purpose AI agent to control a web browser and independently perform some simple actions, and a Nova Act SDK  —  Amazon on Monday unveiled Nova Act, a general-purpose AI agent that can take control of a web browser and independently perform some simple actions.

Oracle is using very specific words to avoid responsibility for an Oracle Cloud breach, after a report on March 21 that a threat actor claimed responsibility (Kevin Beaumont/DoublePulsar)

Kevin Beaumont / DoublePulsar:
Oracle is using very specific words to avoid responsibility for an Oracle Cloud breach, after a report on March 21 that a threat actor claimed responsibility  —  Being a provider of cloud SaaS (Software-as-a-service) solutions requires certain cybersecurity responsibilities — including being transparent and open.