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🇺🇸 Apple announces $100 billion US manufacturing plan
💥 Trump announces 100% semiconductor tariffs
🗣️ Trump calls for Intel CEO to resign over China ties
🤖 Universal adds 'no AI training' warning to movies
🏛️ US agencies get ChatGPT Enterprise for $1 a year
👻 Instagram launches a new Snapchat-like feature
🎁 + 13 other news you might like
🔮 + 6 handpicked research papers and tools
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| 🇺🇸 Apple announces $100 billion US manufacturing plan LINK
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- Apple is adding $100 billion to expand US manufacturing, which includes a new American Manufacturing Program to bring more of its supply chain and advanced manufacturing to the country.
- The company will make all iPhone and Apple Watch cover glass with Corning in Kentucky and work with Samsung on new chip technology at its Austin, Texas chip fab.
- This investment also covers a Houston server factory beginning mass production in 2026, an expanded data center in North Carolina, and a new Michigan manufacturing academy for training.
| 💥 Trump announces 100% semiconductor tariffs LINK
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- Donald Trump announced a new 100 percent tariff on all imported chips and semiconductors, a measure intended to force companies to bring silicon manufacturing back to the United States.
- However, the import tax will not apply to companies building or that have made a commitment to build in the United States, a condition Apple has already met.
- It's unclear who this charge would impact since chipmakers like TSMC have US investments, and the administration has previously threatened similar taxes on chips without enacting them.
| 🗣️ Trump calls for Intel CEO to resign over China ties LINK
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- Donald Trump has publicly demanded the immediate resignation of Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan on Truth Social, citing national security risks from the executive's alleged past business ties with China.
- The controversy began with a letter from U.S. Senator Tom Cotton to the board, questioning Tan's suitability due to a report alleging his investments in firms linked to the People's Liberation Army.
- The inquiry also examines Tan's previous role as CEO of Cadence Design Systems, which illegally exported technology to Chinese military entities, though Intel's board has expressed "full confidence" in him.
| 🤖 Universal adds 'no AI training' warning to movies LINK
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- Universal Pictures now includes a new message in the credits of its movies, like Jurassic World Rebirth, which clearly states the motion picture "may not be used to train AI."
- Outside the US, the company supports its warning by citing a 2019 European Union copyright law that lets creators opt out of having their productions used for scientific research.
- This message aims to stop AI models from being fed the films as training data and then being able to reproduce a studio's unique visual style without getting permission first.
| 🏛️ US agencies get ChatGPT Enterprise for $1 a year LINK
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- OpenAI reached an agreement with the U.S. General Services Administration to offer ChatGPT Enterprise to federal agencies for only one dollar per agency for the first year of service.
- The partnership follows OpenAI's approval as a federal vendor alongside Google and Anthropic, placing pressure on rivals to offer their own AI tools at a similarly discounted government rate.
- Federal employees will also get unlimited use of advanced models for 60 days, plus access to a new government user community and tailored introductory training resources for the tools.
| 👻 Instagram launches a new Snapchat-like feature LINK
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- Instagram is launching a new "Instagram Map" that is very similar to Snapchat's Snap Map, allowing you to find your friends and view content they have posted from various locations.
- This location sharing feature is off by default, but you can choose to share with people who follow you back, your Close Friends, or a list of specifically selected friends.
- On the map, you can browse location-tagged content like Reels and posts from people you follow, and you can see this content even if you do not share your own location.
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Gleam: a friendly and type-safe programming language for building reliable software systems. LINK
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A candidate giant planet imaged in the habitable zone of α Cen A: astronomers may have directly photographed a giant planet candidate in the habitable zone of the star Alpha Centauri A. LINK
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Git-fetch-file: a utility to import and sync specific files from other Git repositories into your project, while tracking their original source and protecting your local changes. LINK
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Laptop Support and Usability (LSU) Report: a document by the FreeBSD Foundation outlining improvements for using the FreeBSD operating system on laptops. LINK
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Solving the compute crisis with physics-based ASICs: the paper proposes creating specialized chips that use natural physical processes to perform calculations and overcome the limits of traditional computing. LINK
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