Yang Jie / Wall Street Journal: TSMC says its Arizona factory will miss its target of mass production of 4nm chips by 2024 due to US skilled worker shortages, aiming instead for 2025  —  Taiwanese semiconductor maker forecasts sales drop this year but predicts boom in AI-related business  —  The world’s top contract chip maker … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Sources: Google tests an AI tool to produce news stories, pitching the service to the NYT, WaPo, News Corp, and other outlets as a helpmate for journalists  —  The product, pitched as a helpmate for journalists, has been demonstrated for executives at The New York Times, The Washington Post and News Corp … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Benj Edwards / Ars Technica: A study claims GPT-4’s outputs became worse between March and June 2023, but some experts are not convinced and urge OpenAI to be less opaque with its AI models  —  Either way, experts think OpenAI should be less opaque about its AI model architecture.  —  On Tuesday, researchers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Manish Singh / TechCrunch: Netflix brings its password-sharing crackdown to India and other markets and says an “extra member” option won’t be offered in places with its new restrictions  —  Netflix is bringing password-sharing crackdown to consumers in India and every other market starting today … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Fanny Potkin / Reuters: Silicon Box, created by Marvell’s co-founders and CEO BJ Han, plans to spend $2B to build a Singapore-based chip foundry for chiplets, creating 1,000+ jobs  —  Singapore-based Silicon Box opened a $2 billion advanced semiconductor manufacturing foundry in the city-state on Thursday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

New York Times: Used car retailer Carvana reaches a deal to restructure its debt to lower interest payments and reports a $105M loss in Q2, down from a $439M loss in Q2 2022  —  Most of the company’s bondholders have agreed to accept bonds that are worth less than what they were owed but that are secured against real estate and other assets. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Wall Street Journal: A US House committee plans to investigate GGV, GSR, Walden International, and Qualcomm Ventures over their VC investments in China in AI, chips, and quantum  —  House select committee says American firms’ investments contributed to China’s military buildup and rights abuses Lees verder op Tech Meme