The Intersection of Custom Chips and International Trade Tensions

Headlines from re:Invent, how tech is caught up in a tariff war with France, Facebook created a chatbot to help employees explain themselves during the holidays, and let me tell you about the new foldable phone from Pablo Escobar’s brother.

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Links:

• AWS Graviton2: What it means for Arm in the data center, cloud, enterprise, AWS (ZDNet)
• AWS launches its custom Inferentia inferencing chips (TechCrunch)
• Trump Administration Proposes Tariffs Against $2.4 Billion of French Goods (WSJ)
• Former Google employees who say they were fired for organizing are filing labor charges against the company (Vox)
• Google fired us for organizing. We’re fighting back. (Google Walkout For Real Change)
• TikTok curbed reach for people with disabilities (NetzPolitik.org)
• TikTok prevented disabled users’ videos from showing up in feeds (The Verge)
• DHS wants to expand airport face recognition scans to include US citizens (TechCrunch)
• Facebook Gives Workers a Chatbot to Appease That Prying Uncle (NYTimes)
• Pablo Escobar's Brother Has Apple In His Crosshairs With... an 'Unbreakable' Foldable Phone? (Gizmodo)

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