Fri. 02/14 – Arm Upends The Entire Semiconductor Industry

TikTok is back in the app stores. But the biggest news is that Arm is going to make its own chips, thereby upending how the entire semiconductor industry has been constituted. Why Reddit has been killing it lately. And in the Weekend Longreads Suggestions, what if TikTok, but for Wikipedia?

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Links:

• Apple, Google Restore TikTok App After Assurances From Trump (Bloomberg)
• Arm to launch its own chip in move that could upend semiconductor industry (Financial Times)
• Shein IPO plans hit by Trump’s low-cost parcels crackdown (Financial Times)
• AI Licensing Deals With Google and OpenAI Make Up 10% of Reddit's Revenue (AdWeek)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• Forget DeepSeek. Large language models are getting cheaper still (The Economist)
• How a resurgent Walmart saw off the Amazon threat (Financial Times)
• Developer creates endless Wikipedia feed to fight algorithm addiction (Ars Technica)

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