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SoftBank Group Corp. founder Masayoshi Son is seeking to team up with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. to realize what could be his biggest bet yet — a trillion-dollar industrial complex in Arizona to build robots and artificial intelligence.

Son envisions a version of the vast manufacturing hub of China’s Shenzhen that would bring back high-tech manufacturing to the US, according to people familiar with the billionaire’s thinking. The park may comprise production lines for AI-powered industrial robots, they said, asking not to be named as the plan remains private.

SoftBank officials are keen to have the Taiwanese maker of Nvidia Corp.’s advanced AI chips play a prominent role in the project, although it’s not clear what part Son sees for TSMC, which already plans to invest $165 billion in the US and has started mass production at its first Arizona factory. Nor is it clear that TSMC would be interested. A person familiar with the chipmaker’s thinking said that SoftBank’s project has no bearing on TSMC’s plans in Phoenix.

This reads like a parody of venture capital. Large made-up headline grabbing number (why not 1 quadrillion instead of 1 trillion?), almost word salad-like selection of buzzy keywords and companies, "AI-powered industrial robots" with TSMC and Nvidia.

The world isn't that simple. It's possible that things could have changed since the regime formally took over VK.

I would be surprised if they banned Telegram.

The nature of these discussions and the fact that MS described AGI as "an LLM service that reaches $100 B per year in revenue" is evidence that much of the marketing around "AI" is basically fraudulent.

Clearly LLMs specifically and ML models in general have many powerful use cases, but that doesn't mean the people involved aren't running a scheme to profit off the hype.

Pretty crazy news. It's like we are living in a dystopian world of the 80s/90s cyberpunk novels.

If you get anxiety about trying to line your device up with a terminal to make a contactless payment, here's some good news: the NFC Forum has announced that version 15 of the standard is quadrupling the distance of contactless connections, from the current 0.5 cm (0.19 inches) to 2 cm (0.78 inches).

A radical increase. Although I can see how it would be good for smartwatches.

At any rate it will take half a decade before terminals and devices both start commonly using R15 of the NFC standard.

This (official?) thread on their forums implies 7 years of support.

Path tracing on an iGPU? That's the quite the goal!

Funny how the author immediately decided to shut everything down when he realized the number of peer/torrents still sending requests to the domain.

I am really surprised your account wasn't from ML. This seems very similar to the usual degenerate word salad you hear from the tankies.

Although I will give you points for originality, this is a somewhat new type of word salad.

Yeah, your right. They are focused on NAND/flash, for some reason I misremembered them being a player in DDR RAM.

They are a rising player in more commodity-like RAM types.