Jacob Kastrenakes
The Reddit IPO inches closer.
The company is now looking at March. It’s been moving toward a public offering since December 2021, shortly before the market started to dip.
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Jess Weatherbed
TSMC’s $40 billion Arizona chip project faces new challenges.
The Taiwanese chip maker is expecting production delays at its second semiconductor plant in Phoenix, Arizona, pushing its target for volume production from 2026 to either 2027 or 2028. TSMC originally announced the facility would produce advanced 3nm chips, but now says the chip type isn’t determined yet.
This update follows previous production delays at its first Arizona factory, which TSMC blamed on labor shortages.
Thomas Ricker
Samsung’s Galaxy AI is coming to 100 million Galaxy phones.
After its impressive debut on the S24 series, Samsung said its Google-powered AI will expand to “select Galaxy devices” by mid-2024. TM Roh, head of Samsung’s mobile division, now gives us a rough target for the mix of old and new devices:
Galaxy AI in the Galaxy S24 series is a hybrid AI using both on-device and cloud-based AI. This year, we will introduce Galaxy AI to about 100 million Galaxy smartphones for the global expansion of mobile AI.
For context, Samsung shipped about 220 million smartphones in all of 2023, as Apple overtook it for the first time — something Roh is determined to change:
“We are taking the (decrease) in shipment volume seriously,” said Roh, predicting double-digit growth in S24 sales compared to the S23 series.
Samsung aims to adopt AI in 100m Galaxy phones
[The Korea Herald]
Jay Peters
Instagram has some new filters.
The new filters, which were announced on the @creators Instagram channel, add to the big batch Instagram added in November. Hopefully these recent additions are a sign that Instagram wants to add more filters at a faster clip.
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Allison Johnson
We might see the Galaxy Ring later this year.
Analyst Avi Greengart got — in a very literal sense — some hands-on time with Samsung’s prototype health tracker. He has much more to say about it than Samsung did in its presentation, including that it may ship in 2024. Guess it really is the year of the smart ring.
Jay Peters
Add a fancy background AND a hat to your Meet call.
Google is going to let you combine multiple video effects when you’re on a Meet call, as detailed in a blog post. The company is also introducing AI-powered studio lighting and audio quality, but those two features are only available for people using the Duet AI for Google Workspace Enterprise add-on.
One more new feature: Google will let you join Meet calls on mobile without having a Google account.
Amrita Khalid
Wes Davis
Hey Google, what’s happening with Bard?
Google is adding AI image generation to Bard tomorrow, according to developer Dylan Roussel, who shared a screenshot of a changelog dated for tomorrow.
Roussel says it will use Imagen, Google’s text-to-image model, shown in a video of an earlier iteration.