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A look at the race between China and the US to build truly useful humanoid robots, as China lists “embodied” AI as a priority for a $138B state investment fund (Wall Street Journal) 31-03-2025

Wall Street Journal: A look at the race between China and the US to build truly useful humanoid robots, as China lists “embodied” AI as a priority for a $138B state investment fund  —  U.S. and China are racing to build a truly useful humanoid worker.  Whoever wins could gain a huge edge in countless industries. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Chinese startup Manus, whose AI agent service is still in the beta testing phase, announces a $39/month Manus Starter plan and an upgraded $199/month Pro tier (Bloomberg) 31-03-2025

Bloomberg: Chinese startup Manus, whose AI agent service is still in the beta testing phase, announces a $39/month Manus Starter plan and an upgraded $199/month Pro tier  —  The Beijing-based startup behind Manus has set up a $39-per-month tier and a $199 upgraded option, the latter in line with OpenAI’s ChatGPT Pro. Lees verder op Tech Meme

South Korea-based Wrtn, a free-to-use AI platform with 5M+ users aggregating LLMs like GPT-4, Stable Diffusion 3, and Claude 3, raised a $56M Series B extension (Yoolim Lee/Bloomberg) 31-03-2025

Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: South Korea-based Wrtn, a free-to-use AI platform with 5M+ users aggregating LLMs like GPT-4, Stable Diffusion 3, and Claude 3, raised a $56M Series B extension  —  Existing backers BRV Capital Management and Capstone Partners participated in the so-called extension round … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Report: 79% of 475 AI experts believe current public perceptions of AI do not match R&D realities, while 76% said scaling current approaches will not yield AGI (Isaac Schultz/Gizmodo) 31-03-2025

Isaac Schultz / Gizmodo: Report: 79% of 475 AI experts believe current public perceptions of AI do not match R&D realities, while 76% said scaling current approaches will not yield AGI  —  An extensive report on the future of AI research indicated that there’s skepticism about current approaches to AGI. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Japan earmarks up to ~$5.4B in additional aid for chipmaker Rapidus, which aims to begin mass production of 2nm chips in 2027, a highly ambitious target (Bloomberg) 31-03-2025

Bloomberg: Japan earmarks up to ~$5.4B in additional aid for chipmaker Rapidus, which aims to begin mass production of 2nm chips in 2027, a highly ambitious target  —  Japan is preparing as much as ¥802.5 billion ($5.4 billion) in additional aid for chip startup Rapidus Corp. … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources detail tensions between Apple and Elon Musk's SpaceX over efforts to expand satellite cellphone services (Wall Street Journal) 31-03-2025

Wall Street Journal: Sources detail tensions between Apple and Elon Musk’s SpaceX over efforts to expand satellite cellphone services  —  The iPhone maker and SpaceX are competing in the race to eliminate cellphone dead spots, a rift that is set to intensify  —  Apple is clashing with Elon Musk in its push … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Sources: Foxconn plans to assemble 25M to 30M iPhones in India in 2025, up from ~12M in 2024, and is conducting production trials at its new Bengaluru plant (Dia Rekhi/The Economic Times) 31-03-2025

Dia Rekhi / The Economic Times: Sources: Foxconn plans to assemble 25M to 30M iPhones in India in 2025, up from ~12M in 2024, and is conducting production trials at its new Bengaluru plant  —  Foxconn has also been conducting limited trials at its Bengaluru campus in the last three-four months, signalling swift progress … Lees verder op Tech Meme

After Trump signed an EO to end the government's DEI programs, tech firms like Google are rebranding DEI efforts, using terms like “learning” or “hiring” (CNBC) 31-03-2025

CNBC: After Trump signed an EO to end the government’s DEI programs, tech firms like Google are rebranding DEI efforts, using terms like “learning” or “hiring”  —  After Google scrapped its diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, hiring aspirations in February … Lees verder op Tech Meme