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The announcement secures the preliminary agreement that was made in April to help construct a new semiconductor factory in Phoenix, Arizona by 2030. President-elect Donald Trump has criticized the CHIPS Act, which now faces an uncertain future when he retakes the White House.

Rough timing for the outages today. After crossing 15 million users yesterday, the site is already past 16 million today.

As spotted by TechCrunch, researcher Jiska Classen posted a video showing that iOS 18 will reboot your iPhone after three days of inactivity. The security feature, which 404 Media originally reported on, is apparently making it more difficult for police to break into suspects’ phones.

As my colleague Tom Warren reported last week, Xbox’s AI-powered search will let you enter things like, “FPS games with zombies” or “cozy farming games with fishing,” which should come in handy if you forget the title of a game, or don’t know what you’re looking for.

According to The New York Times, the session between Musk and Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani was described by Iranian officials as “a discussion of how to defuse tensions between Iran and the United States.”

The President-elect chose his former political opponent and anti-vaccine activist to lead HHS, a department that oversees the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Kennedy has embraced policies widely rejected by the scientific community, like halting the addition of fluoride to drinking water — a mineral that helps prevent tooth decay.

The app launched last month, but was initially was only available for paid users. Now, all users can try it, OpenAI says.

Amazon announced a $20-and-under “Haul” section yesterday to compete with platforms like Temu — and it’s already filled with questionable listings.

The AI chatbot can now “see” what’s on your screen in VS Code, Xcode, Terminal, and iTerm2, allowing ChatGPT to provide suggestions or answer questions about your code without having to copy and paste it into the app using its “Work with Apps” option that’s currently in beta testing.

King, who might be partially responsible for the original $8 starting price for Elon Musk’s Twitter Blue (now X Premium), is leaving for Threads. Here’s his Threads profile.