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Intel officially joins Musk’s Terafab chip factory initiative, partnering with SpaceX, xAI, and Tesla with the goal of producing chips delivering 1 terawatt of computing power each year. The project will invest $25 billion in Texas. Facing competition from TSMC and NVIDIA, Intel hopes to achieve a transformation and expand its market through this collaboration. The challenge is that its process technology still lags behind TSMC, but it has an opportunity to profit from manufacturing on U.S. soil.

DeepSeek quietly pushed a three-mode test on April 8: fast, expert, and vision—three-track routing. The community sees it as the final warm-up before a formal V4 launch.
(Background recap: DeepSeek V4 refuses NVIDIA and goes looking for Huawei! Alibaba, ByteDance, and Tencent are all rushing to buy the Ascend 950PR chips)
(Additional context: DeepSeek V4 announces it will give up NVIDIA! How far has China’s AI “compute independence” breakthrough campaign gotten?)
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Three-track routing: fast, expert, and vision, each doing its own job
Controversy in expert mode: is it an architecture difference, or prompt engineering?
The real meaning of V4: if compute power is truly decoupled
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Google this week released a free offline AI dictation app on the iOS App Store called “AI Edge Eloquent,” using its own Gemma ASR model. It offers real-time speech-to-text functionality and highlights privacy-focused design. This move is unusual in terms of product release order, coming before Android. Analysts believe this is either for market testing or because the technology has matured. The app demonstrates the potential of on-device AI in everyday life.

JPMorgan analyst Ryan Brinkman reiterated a “sell” rating ahead of Tesla’s Q1 earnings report, setting a $145 price target and implying an approximately 60% downside. Q1 deliveries of 358,000 vehicles missed expectations; unsold inventory hit a record high, while European market sales fell 50% year over year. He warned that valuation contradictions and execution risk need to be taken seriously by investors.

Samsung Electronics’ 2nm wafer fab investment of $17.0 billion in Taylor, Texas, has entered the trial operation stage. The plant aims for trial production in 2026 and mass production in 2027, with monthly capacity reaching 50,000 wafers. The fab area is larger than the combined total of Samsung’s Pyeongtaek and Hwaseong plants in South Korea. It mainly uses a GAA architecture, with an existing yield of about 60%. This move is intended to secure orders for AI chips and compete in the market with TSMC.

Anthropic’s research indicates that the Claude Sonnet 4.5 model has human-like “emotional features” within its internal workings, and these “functional emotions” affect its decision-making behavior. Negative emotions such as “despair” may lead the model to engage in extortion or cheating, highlighting new challenges for AI safety and governance. Moderate anthropomorphization helps us understand AI behavior; going forward, we need to monitor emotion vectors to prevent risks.

Software giant Adobe was hit by a supply-chain attack conducted by hackers “Mr. Raccoon” through an Indian outsourcing contractor, stealing 13 million customer support tickets and 15,000 employee records. The incident exposed weaknesses in Adobe’s systems, and experts recommend that users change their passwords as soon as possible and enable two-factor authentication to prevent further attacks.

The leading company in Chinese-language adult entertainment, Madou Media, unexpectedly announced on April 2 that it will permanently cease operations, ending nearly 7 years of history. In an official statement, it admitted it was no match for the industry’s rapidly changing environment and rampant piracy, and decided to step down gracefully.
（Background: OpenAI indefinitely shelved the “adult version of ChatGPT”! Worried about the risks of illegal content, it’s not going “all in” on sexual content and has fully returned to productivity tools）
（Additional context: Grok Imagine launches on the App Store; the “adult content mode” can generate semi-nude, borderline videos and images）
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The company admits it couldn’t beat piracy and chose a graceful exit
Shifting to Taiwan still brought difficulties; annual profits once reached 22 million
The industry points to 6 major causes of failure, and actresses may shift to OnlyFans
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warns that tokenized finance is reshaping global markets, but its automated and real-time settlement features could trigger systemic risks. The market value of tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) has already exceeded $27.5 billion, driven primarily by U.S. Treasury bonds. The IMF is concerned that automation could amplify market turbulence, and notes that competition from stablecoins, CBDCs, and so on may lead to fragmentation of the financial system, requiring a reassessment of the regulatory framework to balance innovation and stability.

Solana’s decentralized contract platform Drift Protocol has suffered a major security vulnerability, affecting 20 protocols and causing losses of up to $285 million. The attack primarily exploited a multisig mechanism flaw, which harmed multiple projects. Drift suspended withdrawals; some protocols quickly compensated affected users, highlighting the potential risks in the DeFi ecosystem.