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that their architectural license agreement will be cancelled according to
Bloomberg based on alleged trademark infringement and breach of contract in
2022 the loss of this license would be potentially devastating for Qualcomm
which uses ARM architecture in almost
all of their products shares for both companies fell in response to the news
Qualcomm by 3% and ARM by 6.4% indicating that people watching the
market are nervous that this escalation could cause harm on both sides if you
didn't know ARM was already suing Qualcomm over this issue and in fact
their trial is coming up on December 16th only 53 days from now and only a
handful of days before arms deadline they can start the trial I guess and
then see what happens L by year it's a
bit of a weird time to send a 60-day notice at the heart of the disagreement
is qualcomm's 2021 acquisition of server CPU startup nuvia at the time both
Qualcomm and nuvia had separate licenses from ARM but ARM contended that novia's
license and the chip designs based on that license were non-transferable and
that Qualcomm had a duty to renegotiate its contract upon acquisition of nuvia
Qualcomm of course went ahead and incorpor at nuvia Tech into its latest
Snapdragon X series of laptop chips the suspicious timing of this most recent
threat has led commenters Who quote weren't born yesterday to speculate that
ARM is trying to force nay strong ARM a
resolution in his own favor just like
they like a certain kind of limb according to Korean news Outlet MK Intel
has proposed a Foundry alliance with their Foundry rival Samsung so they can
come together in their fight against industry-leading semiconductor Foundry
tsmc there's a lot of drama in The Foundry world it's kind of a the enemy
of my enemy is also getting his ass beat kind of situation classic Samsung is
doing somewhat better than Intel's struggling Foundry division with a
Foundry market share of 11.5% but tsmc has a
62.3% share of The Foundry market and a 92% share of advanced semiconductors
there's plenty of ways that an Intel Samsung team up could help both
companies such as sharing facilities or R&D collaborations which isn't to say
that tsmc's situation is all roses the
company recently notified the US government that some of their chips
wound up in high-end Huawei devices which would violate us imposed export
restrictions of course that's only if tsmc knew about the diversion of its
chips which I don't we just put them out
the door we don't know where they go both companies deny working with each
other and there's some indication that tsmc identified the client they produced
these specific chips for and halted shipments to them in mid October which
is right now it's exactly how somebody not guilty
might act in these circumstances but it wouldn't be the first time a major
company intentionally violated a trade ban with China the Opium Wars for
one in AI news anthropic has released a
new new tool called computer use that allows their chatbot Claude to follow
multi-step instructions and complete basic tasks by taking control of a
user's mouse and keyboard while in the grand scheme of things it's a somewhat
minor and obvious progression in AI ability it also feels like foreshadowing
from a Black Mirror episode despite these kinds of new and unnerving
advances Microsoft and open AI have announced that they will be giving a
small group of local media organizations $10 million to have their newsrooms try
using AI tools because this is a technology so valuable you have to
literally bribe businesses to use it it'll help you we swear just try it the
AI isn't making us do this but trust me well there's probably some value in
local news outlets getting access to high-tech resources we should probably
be relatively cautious about introducing computers who lie into the news there
may be some hope for the concept of reality though as Google is now making
synth ID its developer tool that watermarks AI content more widely
available even without a watermark however Alcon entertainment is pretty
sure that Tesla used an AI generated image based on Blade Runner 2049 at a
promotional event for the Cyber Cab in part it's because Tesla approached elcon
to lease the rights and the entertainment company refused which is
why elcon is now suing see how that works honestly it's like yesterday your
co-worker's dog went missing and then you show up with an almost identical dog
dog in a fake mustache this is Alberto he's has nothing to do with your dog but
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called quick bits some of them are friendly a lawsuit
has been filed in Norfolk Virginia over a network of 172 AI powered cameras that
track what cars are driving by using license plate recognition the cameras
are sold by flock who has sold similar networks to more than 5,000 other
communities in the United States Theos claims that police can track citizens
daily habits and routines using the cameras cuz they got nothing else to do
it argues that police can infer where one of the plaintiffs Lee Schmidt is
going based on where he turns at a monitored intersection near his house
and Schmid essentially can't leave his neighborhood without being caught on
camera and since he's always on camera he always looks 10 lbs heavier than he
is this is an issue they don't even get his good side apple is reportedly
working on a new dedicated game store and social app for iPhone according to a
report from 9 to-5 Mac sources tell the outlet that the app will feature game
suggestions and tabs for friends and challenges apparently apple is even
experimenting with FaceTime and iMessage integration to help Gamers connect with
each other the timing is a little suspect seeing as epic just won the
right to put their game store on iOS in the EU if apple is copying epic I really
want to see Tim Cook promote a fortnite clone at WWDC all right Squad where are
we dropping I will end you a proposed FCC
rule that would require carriers to unlock phones for use on other networks
60 days after activation is shockingly
unpopular with the AFF forementioned carriers in a filing with the FCC
T-Mobile who locks their phones for up to a year said that mandating earlier
unlocks would mean that consumers risk
losing access to the benefits of free or heavily subsidized handsets a risk that
T-Mobile would be powerless to do anything about AT&T agrees saying such a
policy would harm consumers by creating upward pressure on handset prices
why why do quarks spin because little
tiny overpaid Executives make them obviously fun fact in Canada phones are
legally required to be unlocked and it's okay it's fine Tik tok's stem tab which
shows curated educational material is now enabled by default on the app
meaning that it's now just as easy to Fat figure your way into an explanation
of the Doppler effect as it is somebody's sleep stream the tab itself
isn't new it was added on March 14th AKA
Pi Day last year its increased prominence is probably an attempt by
bite dance to convince lawmakers that an app as addictive as heroin is somehow
educational hold on there's something there maybe we should give students
heroin and a satellite designed and built by Boeing of course mysteriously
shattered oh God this company I don't understand and a satellite
designed and built by Boeing mysteriously shattered into at least 57
separate pieces did they start building their things with paper glue or
something what's going on just slam dunked it like Grandma ear this is while
two astronauts sent into space by Boeing's Starliner in June are still
stranded on The Intern space station it's not going that much better for the
company on land either as Boeing is trying to convince its workers not to
strike please for a sixth week of course
there was also the cabin panel blowout of a Boeing Max jet back in January so
space air and land are losing fronts
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