Aug. 5, 2025
Tue 08/05 – Spygate At TSMC?
TSMC has fired employees for allegedly attempting to pilfer information on their 2nm tech. Figma could have raised more money in its IPO but chose not to. Creating entire video game worlds with just a text prompt. And exactly how big Patreon has grown in the creator economy.
00:32 TSMC Spygate
02:50 Cloudflare V. Perplexity
04:52 Figma Followup
07:35 Music AI
09:53 New Google Models
14:58 Patreon Numbers
Links:
- TSMC says employees tried to steal trade secrets on iPhone 18 chip process (9to5Mac)
- Cloudflare says Perplexity’s AI bots are ‘stealth crawling’ blocked sites (The Verge)
- Figma’s Pursuit of Long-Term Backers Kept IPO Price in Check (Bloomberg)
- Voice Startup ElevenLabs Launches AI Music Service (WSJ)
- Google’s new AI model creates video game worlds in real time (The Verge)
- Google’s Kaggle to host AI chess tournament to evaluate leading AI models’ reasoning skills (Silicon Angle)
- Exclusive: Patreon crosses $10 billion creator payment milestone (Axios)
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