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The Information: Sources: cloud security startup Wiz is in advanced talks to acquire competitor Lacework for $150M-$200M; Lacework raised $1.8B and was valued at $8.3B in 2021  —  Cybersecurity startup Wiz is in advanced talks to acquire Lacework, one of… Read More »Sources: cloud security startup Wiz is in advanced talks to acquire competitor Lacework for $150M-$200M; Lacework raised $1.8B and was valued at $8.3B in 2021 (The Information)

Alex Heath / The Verge: Meta details Llama 3: 8B or 70B parameters and a focus on reducing false refusals; an upcoming large Llama 3 model trained on 15T tokens and has 400B parameters  —  Meta’s AI assistant is being… Read More »Meta details Llama 3: 8B or 70B parameters and a focus on reducing false refusals; an upcoming large Llama 3 model trained on 15T tokens and has 400B parameters (Alex Heath/The Verge)

New York Times: Meta plans to add its Meta AI chatbot to Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook in 12+ countries, expanding on the US, powered by its new Llama 3 models  —  Users of Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Messenger will… Read More »Meta plans to add its Meta AI chatbot to Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Facebook in 12+ countries, expanding on the US, powered by its new Llama 3 models (New York Times)

Reuters: TSMC says the earthquake that hit Taiwan on April 3 caused ~$92.44M in estimated losses in Q2 and there were no power outages or structural damage to its fabs  —  Taiwan chipmaker TSMC (2330.TW) said the biggest earthquake in… Read More »TSMC says the earthquake that hit Taiwan on April 3 caused ~$92.44M in estimated losses in Q2 and there were no power outages or structural damage to its fabs (Reuters)

David Pierce / The Verge: Google unveils internal reorganizations, including an AI-focused Platforms and Devices group overseeing Pixel, Android, Chrome, and more, led by Rick Osterloh  —  AI is taking over at Google, and the company is changing in big… Read More »Google unveils internal reorganizations, including an AI-focused Platforms and Devices group overseeing Pixel, Android, Chrome, and more, led by Rick Osterloh (David Pierce/The Verge)

Bloomberg: US House Speaker plans to bundle the TikTok divestiture bill, with a revised proposal, in a Ukraine and Israel aid bill expected to clear the Senate on April 20  —  – Johnson to include measure in aid package for… Read More »US House Speaker plans to bundle the TikTok divestiture bill, with a revised proposal, in a Ukraine and Israel aid bill expected to clear the Senate on April 20 (Bloomberg)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Brave Search introduces Answer with AI, which shows answers synthesized from multiple sources for informational queries, appearing above organic search results  —  Privacy-focused search engine Brave announced Wednesday that it is revamping its answer engine to… Read More »Brave Search introduces Answer with AI, which shows answers synthesized from multiple sources for informational queries, appearing above organic search results (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Paul Alcorn / Tom’s Hardware: Intel Foundry completes the assembly of the first commercial High-NA EUV chipmaking tool, a day after ASML set an EUV system record by printing 10nm dense lines  —  Transistor shrinking intensifies.  —  Intel Foundry announced… Read More »Intel Foundry completes the assembly of the first commercial High-NA EUV chipmaking tool, a day after ASML set an EUV system record by printing 10nm dense lines (Paul Alcorn/Tom’s Hardware)

Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Spend management startup Ramp raised a $150M Series D extension at a $7.65B valuation, up from $5.8B after raising $300M in 2023 but down from $8.1B in 2022  —  Spend management startup Ramp has raised… Read More »Spend management startup Ramp raised a $150M Series D extension at a $7.65B valuation, up from $5.8B after raising $300M in 2023 but down from $8.1B in 2022 (Mary Ann Azevedo/TechCrunch)

New York Times: US court documents, mistakenly made public, reveal ByteDance and TikTok’s complex origin story, spawning from GOP donor Jeff Yass’ failed real estate venture  —  Court records, mistakenly made public, tell a story about the birth of ByteDance,… Read More »US court documents, mistakenly made public, reveal ByteDance and TikTok’s complex origin story, spawning from GOP donor Jeff Yass’ failed real estate venture (New York Times)