As TikTok’s ban in the United States swiftly approaches, lawmakers on Friday reminded Apple that they are on the hook for enforcement.
TikTok ban: The latest news
As a refresher, President Biden signed the TikTok divest-or-ban bill in April. The bill didn’t explicitly ban TikTok but gave China-linked parent company ByteDance nice months to sell TikTok. That timeline expires next month, at which point TikTok will be banned in the United States starting January 19. The law was upheld in court last week.
The law results from concerns about TikTok and ByteDance potentially being a national security threat in the United States.
Källa: TikTok ban: Apple must remove it from the App Store next month – 9to5Mac
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, has donated $1m (£786,000) to an inauguration fund for President-elect Donald Trump.
The tech giant’s boss, Mark Zuckerberg, dined with Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in November, having sought to repair his and his firm’s relationship with Trump following the election.
Trump has previously been highly critical of Mr Zuckerberg and Facebook – calling the platform ”anti-Trump” in 2017.
Meta is not believed to have made similar donations to President Joe Biden’s inaugural fund in 2020 or to Trump’s previous inaugural fund in 2016.
Komplicerade uppgifter som skulle ta längre tid att räkna ut än universum funnits ska nu kunna ta fem minuter. Det är löftet för Googles nya kvantdatorchip Willow.
– Det görs ständiga framsteg, milstolpar passeras, säger Frank Wilczek, professor i teoretisk fysik på MIT.
Källa: Googles kvantdatorchip Willow räknar 10 kvadriljoner gånger snabbare än superdatorer
FBI Director Chris Wray will resign at the end of the Biden administration, the agency said Wednesday, as it became clear he would be forced out by President-elect Donald Trump.
Trump, who originally nominated Wray after firing the previous FBI director, previously announced he will nominate Kash Patel for the role, although Wray still had three years remaining on his 10-year term. Patel has been meeting with senators to build support for a confirmation vote next year.
Källa: FBI Director Chris Wray announces plans to resign | CNN Politics
Apple is working with semiconductor company Broadcom on its first server chip designed to handle AI applications, according to The Information, which cited three people with knowledge of the project.
Apple is known for designing its own chips — called Apple Silicon and primarily manufactured by TSMC — for its devices. But those chips weren’t necessarily designed to power AI processing.
Källa: Apple reportedly developing AI server chip with Broadcom | TechCrunch
To power its Apple Intelligence servers, Apple is now said to be at least in part working with Broadcom on a new processor design.
Apple makes much of how Apple Intelligence works on-device, but it’s also clear that there are requests that need use of a greater Large Language Model. Such requests are sent to Apple’s servers, and the company has been working to produce server processors specifically for this purpose.
According to The Information, that work includes a partnership with Broadcom to make a processor codenamed Baltra for release in 2026. Reportedly, this does not mean Broadcom designing and producing the new processor, but possibly only providing one of several ”chiplets.”.
Källa: Apple partners with Broadcom to make its server AI processors
