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AMD to invest $400 million in India by 2028: Here’s what we know

US chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices said on Friday it will invest around $400 million in India over the next five years and will build its largest design center in the tech hub of Bengaluru. AMD’s announcement was made by its Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster at an annual semiconductor conference that started Friday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s home state of Gujarat. Other speakers at the flagship event include Foxconn Chairman Young Liu and Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra. Despite being a late entrant, the Modi government has been courting investments into India’s nascent chip sector to establish its credentials as a chipmaking hub. AMD said it will open its new design centre campus in Bengaluru by end of this year and create 3,000 new engineering roles within five years. “Our India teams will continue to play a pivotal role in delivering the high-performance and adaptive solutions that support AMD customers worldwide,” Papermaster said. The new 500,000-square-foot (55,5...
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Twitter blocks links to rival Threads as concerns around user base grow

Meta launched its Twitter rival app Threads on July 5 and since then the app has gained more than 100 million users. Although Twitter’s new CEO Linda Yaccarino has denied that Twitter’s user base is shrinking, the company seems to be worried about its rival’s popularity.

Twitter users have reported that the platform is blocking links to Threads’ website in its search results to make it harder for people to find Threads conversations or profiles.

Andy Baio was one of the Threads users who noticed this change on Twitter. Searching for “url:threads.net” did not show any tweets with links to the website, even though there were many tweets with threads.net links.

Posting the screenshot of the search result on Threads, he said, “Twitter is selectively blocking searches for tweets that link to Threads, even though they allow posting Threads URLs (for now).”

However, a simple search without the “url:” operator shows tweets that mention threads.net website or Threads usernames but it seems that Twitter has blocked direct links to Threads discussions on the platform. 

A report by TechCrunch said that this is not the first time Twitter has done something like this. The platform, under the leadership of Musk, has blocked links to the websites of its rivals earlier too.  

For instance, Twitter has also censored links to Substack, a newsletter platform, when it launched its own discussions feature, Substack Notes. Twitter users were not allowed to reply to, like, or retweet those links. 

On July 11, Twitter CEO Yaccarino in a tweet claimed that the platform recently had its largest usage day since February. 

“Don’t want to leave you hanging by a thread… but Twitter, you really outdid yourselves! Last week we had our largest usage day since February. There’s only ONE Twitter. You know it. I know it,” Yaccarino tweeted. 

Her remark has come at a time when a report from CNBC has claimed that Twitter’s web traffic fell 5% in the first two days after Threads became available, compared with the previous week.

Meanwhile, Twitter has threatened to sue Meta for allegedly using its trade secrets and poaching its former employees to build the new “copycat” platform.

Twitter lawyer Alex Spiro sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, accusing the company of engaging in “systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property”, reports Semafor. 

“Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information,” Spiro wrote in a letter.

 

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