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TSMC is one of the companies expecting subsidies from the CHIPS Act.
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As Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House, several major chip companies are scrambling to finalize deals under the CHIPS Act of 2022, which aimed to boost US semiconductor manufacturing with $39 billion in grants. President-elect Trump was critical of the act during the campaign, and Republicans are proposing reforms to it. As a result, the Biden administration is rushing to finalize subsidy contracts with giants such as Intel and Samsung, Bloomberg exhibitions.
There are still more than 20 companies still in the process of finalizing deals, including Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and GlobalFoundries, which have reportedly completed negotiations and are awaiting final announcements. The deals must be completed in the next two months before the Trump administration takes over.
Now let’s get into the headlines.
BIG GAME
Waymo, the driverless car company owned by Google parent Alphabet is now open for business to anyone in Los Angeles, removing the waiting list previously required to download the app; Forbes exhibitions. This enables anyone to second largest city in the USA to book rides, with one caveat: the service is only available in an 80-square-mile area that stretches from downtown Los Angeles to Santa Monica.
With the expanded rollout, LA joins San Francisco and Phoenix as markets where the service is widely available. Austin will launch this year and Atlanta in early 2025.
REPRODUCTION OF TALENTS
After three months leave, OpenAI President Greg Brockman returned to the company, Bloomberg exhibitions. Brockman, a co-founder and key member of the company’s leadership, is said to be working with CEO Sam Altman on creating a new role to focus on “significant technical challenges”.
Its return marks a victory for OpenAI, which has seen it several executive departures in the last year, including CTO Mira Muratiwho abruptly left the company in September.
AI DEAL OF THE WEEK
Authoran AI startup, has raised $200 million at a $1.9 billion valuation, Forbes was mentioned. The Series C – co-led by AI-focused venture capital firm Radical Ventures, Iconiq Capital and Premji Invest, a private equity firm owned by billionaire Azim Premji – brings the company’s total funding to $320 million.
The new cash flow will help Writer to broadens its scope in addition to helping companies quickly create blogs, summaries and product descriptions. Now, the company’s AI will work across all departments for a wide range of tasks such as building applications, analyzing documents and ensuring corporate compliance.
DEEP DIVING
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As Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House, artificial intelligence executives and investors in Silicon Valley expect the new administration to facilitate construction — and profitably sell — AI startups.
In public posts on social media and in private conversations, AI leaders have said they are preparing for relaxed regulatory mandates and more extensive export controls on chips — as well as the return of full buyouts of AI startups by tech giants, which has largely limited due to antitrust fears.
Co-founders from OpenAI and Humanetwo of the leading AI research labs behind the popular GPT-4 and Claude 3 models have gone to X, the social networking site owned by billionaire whistleblower Trump Elon Muskto recognize the victory in the election, together with the CEOs of companies with important artificial intelligence divisions such as Google and After.
“It is critically important that the US maintains its lead in AI development with democratic values,” said OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. was posted. “Anthropic will work with the Trump administration and Congress to advance U.S. leadership in artificial intelligence and discuss the benefits, capabilities, and potential security issues of border systems.” was posted Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark.
One of the frameworks that Trump will inherit — and has pledged to immediately undo — is President Biden’s landmark executive order on artificial intelligence. “We will repeal Joe Biden’s dangerous executive order that blocks AI Innovation and imposes Radical Leftist ideas on the development of this technology.” Trump said in his election platform. “In its place, Republicans support the Development of Artificial Intelligence rooted in Free Speech and Human Flourishing.”
Read the full story at Forbes.
AI INDEX
33%
The percentage of US workers who said they use artificial intelligence at work, according to a new study assignment from Looseness. The figure represents a leveling of adoptionit was up just one percentage point from the company’s previous survey. The study, says Axiosalso found that almost half the workers, 48%, were uncomfortable telling their managers they used AI. They said the main reason was the fear of looking like they were lazy, incompetent or cheaters.
EXAMINATION
This is the percentage of women in the AI workforce.
- 52%
- 29%
- 74%
- 16%
Check if you got it right.
STANDARD BEHAVIOR
An AI chatbot named “FungiFriend” may not really be your friend. The bot was added by After in a popular mushroom identification Facebook group when he immediately started suggesting tips for cooking dangerous mushrooms, 404 references. Rick Claypool, director of research for Public Citizen’s office of the president’s consumer safety group, which reported the 404 about FungiFriend, said it’s “really dangerous and reckless” for Meta to add AI chatbots to these kinds of groups .
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