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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6aebbaad2e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Microsoft says it will shut down Skype on May 5 and directs users to migrate all their contacts and chat data to Teams; Skype had 36M+ DAUs in 2023</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=15694b49bb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Starting in May 2025, Skype will no longer be available. Over the coming days you can sign in to Microsoft Teams Free with your Skype account to stay connected with all your chats and contacts. Thank you for being part of Skype [video]</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6d302d12eb&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">The real story here is that we are at the point that an app with 36M+ DAUs is worthless / easier to shut down than to sell / try to do anything with. Hyperscale puts everything in perspective. [image]</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=b32552861b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">I remember when investing in Discord in 2015 how Skype was the juggernaut that gamers used to connect around live gaming. Between Skype, TeamSpeak and Mumble many gamers told me Discord would never have much chance. Less than a decade later.</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2183aadde8&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Intel delays the opening of its first Ohio chip factory to 2030 due to financial struggles; the $28B project was originally scheduled to begin operating in 2025</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Max Filby / </span><span class="pub_name">The Columbus Dispatch</span>)</span>
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<span class="excerpt">Intel's promised $28 billion semiconductor project in central Ohio has been delayed again, this time by several years.</span>
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<a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=60d0906512&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@katewsyx6:</a>
<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=31faec3d7b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">INBOX: @SenJonHusted reacts to Intel project delay. [Image: “We need to build chips in America, and this site is going to be instrumental to the Made in America strategy. The market and geopolitical events can always impact the timing, but with over $6 billion already invested in this site, it's going to happen."]</a>
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<a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=475163cd71&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@jake_zuckerman:</a>
<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=d80cc1fbf4&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">By the time it opens, Intel's first factory will have faced at least five or six years of delays, as it was originally scheduled to begin operating in 2025. Intel's second Ohio factory won't be completed until at least 2031 and will begin running in 2032</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=308210d4d3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Intel delays its Ohio chip factory to 2030 @pstAsiatech This has been clear for some time. So Raimondo's CHIPS Act goal of 20 percent end to end capacity for advanced nodes on-shored by 2030 crashes and burns rather badly.... </a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 24px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f4e79cf7e2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Memo: Sergey Brin says Google could reach AGI if employees worked harder and were in the office more, saying “60 hours a week is the sweet spot of productivity”</a></span>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1af2c5dfa0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Employee: I see. What do we get for killing ourselves in that fashion? Brin: We'll fire you because AI can do your job.</a>
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<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=09f62aae82&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">here's Google co-founder Sergey Brin's full note to the AI org saying that they need to stop building “nanny products” and work 60 hours a week </a>
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<a class="tweet_cite" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f3cb417ee2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">@cramforce:</a>
<a class="tweet_body" href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=37f8037195&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: black;">Google's key weakness when I was there was lack of intensity. It's hard to escape from that as a large organization. In fact, to get from weak to normal you have to massively oversteer. Glad to see the company at least trying [image]</a>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=57e94aad23&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the US Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=458d564d3b&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Experts say stopping North Korean thefts will require higher security spending by crypto exchanges, more stringent rules, and better government cooperation</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=eb1ecb33a0&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sources: General Catalyst is in the very early stages of considering an IPO, which would make it first US VC firm to go public</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dan Primack / </span><span class="pub_name">Axios</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=bfb5cd56a1&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Consensys founder Joseph Lubin says the SEC has agreed “in principle” to end its securities enforcement case against Consensys' MetaMask, filed in June 2024</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Cheyenne Ligon / </span><span class="pub_name">CoinDesk</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=1636651351&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">When asked about UK's order for an iCloud backdoor, Trump says he told PM Keir Starmer that UK “can't do this” and it is something “you hear about with China”</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Chance Miller / </span><span class="pub_name">9to5Mac</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=cd33908932&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Sundar Pichai says Waymo logs 200K+ weekly paid robotaxi rides, doubling in a year and 20x in two; Waymo says its self-driving system logs 1M+ miles per week</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Kirsten Korosec / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f6b78d83a3&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Documents: Tesla applied late last year for a transportation permit in California that suggests it's working to launch a ride-hailing business in the near term</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dana Hull / </span><span class="pub_name">Bloomberg</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=6940dfd200&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">OpenAI says Sora is now available to ChatGPT Plus and Pro users in the EU, the UK, Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Iceland</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Dan Milmo / </span><span class="pub_name">The Guardian</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=f118702458&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">The product lead for Sora, Rohan Sahai, says OpenAI plans to integrate Sora into ChatGPT, but it may not offer the same level of control as Sora's web app</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Maxwell Zeff / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=e0082513d7&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Microsoft releases Copilot for Mac, including a shortcut command to open the app, in the US, UK, and Canada, and adds a split screen mode to the iPad version</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Tom Warren / </span><span class="pub_name">The Verge</span>)</span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Aarian Marshall / </span><span class="pub_name">Wired</span>)</span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=c29010b34e&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Reports of Meta launching standalone Meta AI and Reels apps aren't surprising, as the company has a history of repeatedly bundling and unbundling its products</a></span>
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<span class="title" style="font-size: 18px;"><a href="https://techmeme.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=94ccd3ae223561415b05892ab&id=2aae13cdd2&e=06cea4a9e4" style="text-decoration: none;color: #004860;font-weight: bold;">Chainalysis estimates $40B worth of illicit crypto transactions took place in 2024; criminals shifted from mostly using bitcoin in 2021 to using stablecoins now</a></span>
<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Oliver Knight / </span><span class="pub_name">CoinDesk</span>)</span>
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<span class="cite" style="color: #888;display: inline-block;white-space: nowrap;">(<span class="author">Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / </span><span class="pub_name">TechCrunch</span>)</span>
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