Financial Times: Chipmakers TSMC, Samsung, Intel, Micron, Applied Materials, IBM, and Rapidus announce plans to increase manufacturing and deepen tech partnerships in Japan  —  Seven of the world’s largest semiconductor makers have set out plans to increase manufacturing and deepen tech partnerships in Japan … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Harris / TechCrunch: An investigation finds ~$15M in donations to OpenAI when the company was a nonprofit are definitively traceable to Elon Musk, below his claims of $50M and $100M  —  Years of tax filings give the most complete picture yet of OpenAI’s early finances  —  It’s no secret that Elon Musk … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, who won the 2018 Turing Award alongside Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, says governments need to act quickly to “protect the public”  —  Computer science professor becomes latest expert to voice concerns over rapid rollout of large language models Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Record: Q&A with the FBI’s Bryan Smith on how the agency generated 300+ decryption keys from Hive’s servers and gave them to victims, avoiding ~$130M in ransom payments  —  While there was excitement when they actually got that access, there was no time to kind of enjoy that moment … Lees verder op Tech Meme