Huawei readies new chip to challenge Nvidia, surmounting US sanctions: WSJ reports the Chinese tech company is looking for AI business with the Ascend series but still faces production problems.

Vietnam turns chip sector magnet with affordable, quality talent pool: US, Taiwan, South Korean players beat path to Vietnam though boom strains resources. Nikkei

The sleepy Czech town helping Europe compete in the global chip war: A $2 billion investment by a US company promises to create a tech hub and help modernize the country’s stagnating economy. Bloomberg

Microsoft + Palantir are teaming up to offer a range of artificial intelligence services for classified government use.

Bloomberg: US considers a rare antitrust move: Breaking up Google

Bloomberg: Google launches Pixel 9 phones, Pixel Watch 3 in renewed push to sell AI

Google’s Gemini live AI sounds so human, I almost forgot it was a bot: Google’s Android chief told our columnist the voice assistant was designed to impersonate humans, but he doesn’t want anyone getting romantic with it. WSJ

Gemini is replacing Google Assistant on Pixel phones, and it’s a trainwreck: FC reprts Google is throwing out a perfectly good voice assistant for one that frequently fails at basic tasks.

Why are there so many AI ads? Shira Ovide

PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Australian arm will invest A$11.5 million ($7.6 million) over the next year to bolster its artificial intelligence capabilities.

A group of illustrators + visual artists suing Stability AI, Midjourney, and other AI image generators for copyright infringement advanced a novel theory that their images have been “compressed” inside of AI models.

Jobhunters flood recruiters with AI-generated CVs: FT reports about half of applicants are using tools such as ChatGPT to help write cover letters but, without editing, the language is ‘clunky.’

We’re entering an AI price-fixing dystopia: Algorithmic collusion appears to be spreading to more and more industries. And existing laws may not be equipped to stop it. Rogé Karma

LLMs will transform medicine, media and more: But not without a helping (human) hand. Economist

Enjoy the ride + plan accordingly.

-Marc