Apple sends urgent warning to iPhone users
Apple has sent a notice to iPhone users in 92 countries about the risk of becoming the target of attacks by "mercenary malware".
In the warning, the company wrote: “Apple has detected that you have been targeted by a malicious attack that is attempting to remotely take control of an iPhone associated with Apple ID -xxx-.”
“Mercenary malware” is how Apple refers to government-sponsored malware attacks on enemy nations.
The company said that while it cannot be 100% certain of identifying the attacks, the warning is well-founded and recommends that users take it “seriously.”
Last October, Apple sent a similar warning to several journalists and politicians in India. Amnesty International later announced that it had found NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware on the iPhones of prominent journalists in the country.
TSMC receives more than $11 billion in subsidies from the US
TSMC will manufacture its most advanced chips in the US after receiving a commitment of up to $11.6 billion in funding from the Biden administration.
The world's largest chip foundry said it will build a third factory in Arizona in addition to two others already under construction.
The company's first factory here is expected to start operating in 2025 and produce 4nm chips. The second factory is expected to produce 3nm and 2nm chips in 2028.
TSMC will receive up to $6.6 billion in direct funding from the US government and can borrow an additional $5 billion.
This is the largest financial grant the US government has given to a foreign chipmaker to date.
Following the latest deal, TSMC agreed to increase its total investment in the US by more than 60% to more than $65 billion from $40 billion previously.
Lael Brainard, President Biden's chief economic adviser, called TSMC's commitment to manufacturing cutting-edge semiconductors on American soil "a new chapter for the American semiconductor industry."
Google joins the chip war with Amazon and Microsoft
At the Cloud Next event held on April 9, Google introduced a new server chip, expected to be available later this year.
With this chip, the search company is following in the footsteps of competitors like Amazon and Microsoft.
The big players are competing fiercely in the cloud infrastructure market, where organizations rent resources in remote data centers and pay based on usage.
Three-quarters of Alphabet's revenue, Google's parent company, comes from advertising, but its cloud business is growing faster and now accounts for nearly 11% of the company's revenue.
Google will hold 7.5% of the cloud infrastructure market by 2022, while Amazon and Microsoft together will control about 62%, according to Gartner estimates.
Alibaba Chairman Admits China's AI is 2 Years Behind the US
Alibaba co-founder and chairman Joe Tsai commented that China is two years behind the US in the global artificial intelligence (AI) race, partly due to Washington's technological restrictions.
“China is a bit behind, obviously,” Tsai said, citing OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, as an example, as it has outpaced the rest of the tech industry in AI innovation. The Alibaba chairman made the comments in a podcast with Nicolai Tangen, CEO of investment bank Norges Bank.
Mr. Tsai pointed out that Chinese tech companies “may be two years behind” leading AI companies in the US.
US export restrictions aimed at cutting off China's access to advanced semiconductors such as Nvidia's graphics processing units (GPUs) are "certainly affecting" mainland tech firms, including Alibaba.
Mr. Tsai’s candid comments in the interview reflect concerns within China’s tech industry at large about how export controls are stifling domestic AI innovation, making it less competitive in this important field.
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