Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal: Sources: TSMC is pushing back on some “unacceptable” conditions the US imposed on chip-factory subsidies, as the company seeks up to $15B in government support  —  With construction under way in Arizona, Taiwanese semiconductor maker calls some aid terms unacceptable Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: some US tech companies push to narrow the scope of a Senate bill meant to ban TikTok over worries the bill may expose them to national security reviews  —  US tech companies are pushing to narrow the scope of legislation that could ban TikTok in the US, creating new obstacles … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: Some iPhone users say Apple’s policies made it harder to regain access to their accounts after thieves used the optional 28-digit recovery key to lock them out  —  The recovery key was designed to make Apple IDs safer.  Instead, these victims permanently lost family photos and other precious digital possessions. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jane Lee / Reuters: GlobalFoundries sues IBM for allegedly sharing confidential IP and trade secrets with Rapidus, a Japanese chip consortium working with IBM to produce 2nm chips  —  Chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries Inc (GFS.O) said on Wednesday it had filed a lawsuit against International Business Machines Corp … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Ditto, which offers a database to let developers sync data P2P across mobile and edge devices, emerges from stealth with a $45M Series A led by Acrew Capital  —  Many apps today assume that data lives in only one location, typically a single cloud database.  But the reality is more complex. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Sources: Google released Bard despite staff concerns; one employee called the chatbot “a pathological liar” and one said its answers may cause “injury or death”  —  Shortly before Google introduced Bard, its AI chatbot, to the public in March, it asked employees to test the tool. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Stability AI debuts StableLM, its first suite of instruction-following LLMs, in alpha, starting with 3B and 7B parameters, with 15B to 65B versions to follow  —  Stability AI, the startup behind the generative AI art tool Stable Diffusion, today open-sourced a suite of text-generating AI models intended … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Amanda Silberling / TechCrunch: Snap expands its revenue share program to add creators with 50K+ followers and 25M+ monthly views, and says its TikTok rival Spotlight has 350M monthly users  —  Snapchat is rolling out additional features to help creators get noticed and make a living.  —  Over a year ago … Lees verder op Tech Meme