Sources: TSMC plans to move chipmaking tools into its second Arizona fab in summer 2026, in line with its push to accelerate US production by "several quarters" (Cheng Ting-Fang/Nikkei Asia)
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TSMC to install cutting-edge 3-nm chip tools in Arizona next summer
Advanced chip production on track to start by 2027, ahead of the original schedule
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Sources: TSMC plans to move chipmaking tools into its second Arizona fab in summer 2026, in line with its push to accelerate US production by “several quarters”
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China issues new rules letting online merchants set their own prices across platforms for goods and services they sell, effective April 10, 2026, for five years (Bloomberg)
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China Tightens Oversight of Internet Platform Pricing Practices
China issued rules for governing pricing-related practices of internet platform operators to safeguard the interests of consumers and merchants, te...
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China issues new rules letting online merchants set their own prices across platforms for goods and services they sell, effective April 10, 2026, for five years
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Sources: Resolve AI, which is developing an autonomous site reliability engineering tool, raised a Series A at multiple valuation tiers, including at $1B (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
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Ex-Splunk execs' startup Resolve AI hits $1B valuation with Series A | TechCrunch
The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to people familiar with the deal.
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Sources: Resolve AI, which is developing an autonomous site reliability engineering tool, raised a Series A at multiple valuation tiers, including at $1B
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Google plans to charge developers $2.85/app and $3.65/game if a US user follows a link that takes them outside of the Play Store to install it within 24 hours (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
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Want to link from Google’s app store to your app? That’ll be $2–4 per install
Epic claims it’ll fight the fees.
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Google plans to charge developers $2.85/app and $3.65/game if a US user follows a link that takes them outside of the Play Store to install it within 24 hours
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OpenAI rolls out an update to let users adjust ChatGPT's characteristics, including how warm or enthusiastic it is, and its use of headers, lists, and emojis (Emma Roth/The Verge)
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ChatGPT will now let you pick how nice it is
OpenAI is making it easier to edit emails with ChatGPT, too.
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OpenAI rolls out an update to let users adjust ChatGPT
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Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras plans to file for a US IPO as soon as next week, targeting a Q2 2026 listing, after withdrawing its prior IPO filing in October (Echo Wang/Reuters) https://www.reuters.com/business/ai-chip-firm-cerebras-set-file-us-ipo-after-delay-sources-say-2025-12-19/
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Sources: AI chipmaker Cerebras plans to file for a US IPO as soon as next week, targeting a Q2 2026 listing, after withdrawing its prior IPO filing in October
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs the RAISE Act into law; the AI safety bill's text was modified earlier to more closely resemble California's SB 53 (Ashley Gold/Axios) https://www.axios.com/2025/12/19/new-york-ai-safety-bill-hochul
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signs the RAISE Act into law; the AI safety bill
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Source: Tencent has secured access to Nvidia's Blackwell chips through a cloud service operated by Tokyo-based Datasection (Jacob Adelman/Barron's Online) https://www.barrons.com/articles/china-tencent-nvidia-blackwell-chips-cloud-9d5e5998?st=8Mssvc&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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Source: Tencent has secured access to Nvidia
By Jacob Adelman / Barron
Meta board member Dina Powell McCormick, an ex-top adviser to Trump, steps down after joining in April; source: she is considering retaining an advisory role (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)
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Meta Board Member Powell McCormick Resigns After Eight Months
Dina Powell McCormick, a former top adviser to President Donald Trump, is stepping down from the board of Meta Platforms Inc. just eight months aft...
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Meta board member Dina Powell McCormick, an ex-top adviser to Trump, steps down after joining in April; source: she is considering retaining an advisory role
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Sequoia's Shaun Maguire speculated in an X post that a Palestinian student was behind the Brown University shooting; the post was later deleted (Chris Stokel-Walker/Fast Company) https://www.fastcompany.com/91463942/sequoia-shaun-maguire-brown-university-shooter-palestine
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