The Information: Sources: a Huawei led consortium, backed by Chinese government funding, aims to compete with Nvidia by making high bandwidth memory chips, used in GPUs, by Huawei Technologies is leading a group of Chinese semiconductor companies seeking memory chip breakthroughs ...

   Tom Warren The Verge: Sources: Microsoft has scrambled to respond to new attacks from the Russia linked SolarWinds hackers, as its engineers prioritize security over new features The world’s largest tech company has a security problem. A series of high profile security incidents have rocked...

   The Information: Sources: ByteDance is exploring scenarios for selling a majority stake in TikTok US, preferably to non tech companies, and without the recommendation algorithm ByteDance is internally exploring scenarios for selling a majority stake in TikTok’s U.S. business, preferably to...

   Abner Li to Google: Google Meet rolls out an update to let users seamlessly transfer calls between devices without hanging up and rejoining via its Android, iOS, and web apps Let’s say you start a call on your phone because you’re not at your desk yet. Once you get to a computer ...

   Andy Chalk PC Gamer: Garry’s Mod is removing all Nintendo related stuff from its Steam Workshop, covering years of uploads , after receiving a takedown request from Nintendo Fans aren’t happy, as you can imagine. Following a takedown request issued by Nintendo ...

   Financial Times: Interviews with current and ex ByteDance staff: the Beijing based company has increasingly taken a grip over TikTok’s operations, leading to a culture clash Insiders say ByteDance exerting increasing influence over platform despite US pressure over ownership

   Melissa Heikkilä MIT Technology Review: A look at AI video startup Synthesia, whose avatars are more human like and expressive than predecessors, raising concerns over the consequences of realistic AI I’m stressed and running late, because what do you wear for the rest of eternity This...

   Jillian Deutsch Bloomberg: Franco Italian chip company STMicro reports Q revenue down YoY to . B, below . B est., and expects Q sales down YoY to . B, below . B est. Chipmaker says slower automotive demand hurt recent sales Full year forecast lowered to billion...

   Ben Glickman Wall Street Journal: The US awards Micron up to . B under the CHIPS Act, to support an up to B investment to build a megafab in New York and Idaho over the next years Micron Technology MU . decrease; red down pointing triangle is receiving up to . billion from...

   Vlad Savov Bloomberg: Lenovo survey of CIOs: expect increased AI investment in the next months and don’t expect to show return on AI investments for the next two years Lenovo survey of CIOs reveals biggest pain points for AI use Many don’t expect return on AI investment for...

   New York Times: A look at Saudi Arabia’s spending blitz to become an AI superpower, which has put the kingdom in the middle of an escalating global competition over AI More than , people converged on the Leap tech conference in the desert outside Riyadh in March.Iman Al Dabbagh for The...

   Manish Singh TechCrunch: Filing: Swiggy, which has a . share of the Indian food delivery market, secures shareholder approval for a potential . B IPO, slated for later in Swiggy plans to raise . billion in an initial public offering and has secured approval from its...

   Wall Street Journal: Sources: ByteDance executives have previously considered TikTok’s global operations to be worth of the company’s overall value, or above B The answer depends partly on whether TikTok bundles the U.S. and international businesses, and if it includes its coveted...

   Financial Times: K Krithivasan, the CEO of Indian IT giant TCS, says there will be minimal need for call centers in as soon as one year, due to AI chatbots taking on the work Chatbots will soon take over much of the work of human agents, forecasts chief of Indian IT group

   Karissa Bell Engadget: On Meta’s Q earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg said Threads now has more than M MAUs, up from M in February Mark Zuckerberg has speculated it could be Meta’s next billion user app. Meta’s Threads app now has more than million monthly users, an increase...