Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Samsung and Google plan to launch Ballie, a soccer-ball-shaped home robot that uses AI and can project video onto walls “like a personal BB-8”, in summer 2025  —  Samsung Electronics Co. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google are partnering to launch the Ballie, a soccer-ball-shaped home robot … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: At an NRCC event, President Trump says he told TSMC it would pay a tax of up to 100% if it didn’t build US plants; in March, TSMC said it would invest $100B  —  President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he told the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which has pledged to build new factories … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Italy says it is withdrawing its support for STMicro CEO Jean-Marc Chery and his management team as chip demand slumps; Italy and France own nearly 28%  —  The Italian government is withdrawing its support for STMicroelectronics NV Chief Executive Officer Jean-Marc Chery and his management team … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Alex Kantrowitz / Big Technology: Q&A with Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian on Google Cloud Next, AI, DeepMind, AWS, hosting 200 models, training and inference costs, model training, and more  —  “We’ve been working on contingency plans for quite a while,” Kurian says on Tariffs.  —  ∙ Paid Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Amazon is considering a $15B warehouse expansion plan for nearly 80 new US logistics facilities, reversing its post-pandemic construction slowdown  —  The e-commerce company is asking potential capital partners to submit proposals, the people said, asking not to be identified citing private information. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Google Cloud Next: Google unveils Gemini 2.5 Flash, a reasoning model ideal for “high-volume, cost-sensitive” and “real-time” apps, launching soon in Vertex AI  —  Google is releasing a new AI model designed to deliver strong performance with a focus on efficiency. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Cloud Next: Google unveils Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU and the first for inference, coming later in 2025 in a 256-chip cluster or a 9,216-chip cluster  —  During its Cloud Next conference this week, Google unveiled the latest generation of its TPU AI accelerator chip. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: US ITC data: in 2024, China’s share of US imports was 86% for US game consoles, 79% for PC monitors, 73% for smartphones, 70% for batteries, and 66% for laptops  —  China will be a hard habit to kick even for a US president seemingly bent on obliterating all of its imports. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Reuters: At an NRCC event, President Trump says he told TSMC it would pay a tax of up to 100% if it didn’t build its US plants; in March, TSMC said it would invest $100B  —  President Donald Trump on Tuesday said he told the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, which has pledged to build … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Isabelle Bousquette / Wall Street Journal: How Google used new AI techniques to enhance 90%+ of The Wizard of Oz, released in 1939, to show on the Las Vegas Sphere’s giant screen from August 28, 2025  —  Google invented new techniques to enhance resolution and generated new character performances to bring the 1939 film to the giant screen Lees verder op Tech Meme