It was a big weekend for
Personally, we're not huge fans of live-action adaptations of anime or maybe we just haven't seen any good ones (yet!), and the
However, the
Another big one from Netflix's
For all you gamers, Netflix announced that the
All this news had Netflix buzzing, helping it rank #1 on this week's
Intel Dishes Out Billions to Expand Outside of U.S. 🇪🇺
A trio of investment announcements by
The company, the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturer by revenue, said it would invest more than €30 billion to build two chip-making plants in Magdeburg, Germany. Intel acquired the land for the project in November 2022, and the first facility is expected to enter production in four to five years following the European Commission’s approval, the company said in a
Intel had initially intended to invest
Germany isn't the only European country Intel is investing in. In neighboring Poland, Intel said it would invest
Intel is planning to invest as much as €80 billion in the EU over the next decade as part of its decision to bolster its production capacity across the bloc; other regions that are expected to see investments include France, Italy, and Spain.
A bit to the south east of the EU, and Intel is also planning to
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In Other News.. 📰
- Crypto bros, rejoice! A
new agreement betweenBinance and the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission means customers no longer need to move their assets outside the U.S. until alawsuit pending in court is resolved. - The U.K. government
tapped Ian Hogarth to head the country's AI Foundation Model Taskforce, a working group charged with looking "at the risks surrounding AI." Described as a tech investor, entrepreneur and AI specialist, Hogarth is the co-author of the highly influential annual State of AI report and the founder of the start-up Songkick and the venture capital fund Plural. - Bill Gates is '
friends ' with Chinese president Xi Jinping. - AI is
helping The Beatles create its final record. Google hasasked its employees to refrain from using chatbots, includingits own . Google ranked #55 on HackerNoon's Tech Company Rankings.- A ransomware group has
threatened to release 80 gigs of data it stole from Reddit, unless the company pays $4.5 million in ransom and changes its controversial API pricing.
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