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Apple promises to spend $500B, hire 20K over 4 years to swerve Trump import tariffs

2 months 2 weeks ago
Sorry, that should read: Boost US manufacturing and R&D, believe in the American people, etc etc

As computer makers grapple with Trump's tariffs, Apple is doubling down on US manufacturing and research-and-development investments, announcing plans to spend $500 billion and hire 20,000 people over the next four years in America to support these efforts.…

Tobias Mann

Dutch Software Firm Bird To Leave Europe Due To Onerous Regulations

2 months 2 weeks ago
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Cloud communications software firm Bird, one of the Netherlands' most prominent tech startups, plans to move most of its operations out of Europe, its CEO said, citing restrictive regulations and difficulties hiring skilled technology workers. "We are mostly leaving Europe as it lacks the environment we need to innovate in an AI-first era of technology," CEO Robert Vis told Reuters on Monday. "We foresee that regulations in Europe will block true innovation in a global economy moving extremely fast to AI," he said in a text message response to Reuters queries. Bird's operations in future will be mostly split between New York, Singapore and Dubai, he said. Vis first announced the move abroad in a LinkedIn post over the weekend. Bird, formerly known as Message Bird, was founded in Amsterdam in 2011. It is a competitor of U.S.-based Twilio in the market for helping companies manage their communications with consumers across digital mediums such as messaging, email and video apps. It says it has developed an AI-powered platform that automates and streamlines business operations across entire organizations including tech leaders.

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Perplexity Teases AI Web Browser Called Comet

2 months 2 weeks ago
AI-powered search engine Perplexity is developing its own web browser named Comet. "Just like Perplexity reinvented search, we're also reinventing the browser," a Perplexity spokesperson told TechCrunch. "Stay tuned for updates." From the report: In a post on X on Monday, the company launched a sign-up list for the browser, which isn't yet available. It's unclear when it might be -- or what the browser will look like, even. But we do have a name: Comet. [...] Perplexity may be betting that it can leverage its search engine user base to quickly ramp up and make some sort of a dent in the space with Comet.

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Intel cranks up accelerators in Xeon 6 blitz to outgun AMD

2 months 2 weeks ago
But you're probably not cool enough for Chipzilla's 288-core monster

Facing stiff competition from its long-time rival AMD and the ever-present specter of custom Arm silicon in the cloud, Intel on Monday emitted another wave of Xeon 6 processors.…

Tobias Mann