Nvidia chips change into collateral harm in new US sanctions concentrating on China

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The TechCrunch Prime 3

• No chips for you: Nvidia is caught up within the new sanctions the U.S. is imposing on China. Rita stories the corporate stated it won’t be able to export two of its AI chips to China, its second-largest market. That can seemingly price Nvidia some $400 million in misplaced gross sales for this third quarter and interrupt some manufacturing that occurs in China.
• Just got paid: Google is increasing its different fee programs, like third-party, for in-app purchases to extra nations, Ivan writes. This consists of a few of Android’s largest markets, together with India and Indonesia.
• More cuts: Tage wrote about Nigerian digital financial institution Kuda, which is the newest African startup to put off some workers. He notes that Kuda’s 5% discount affected about two dozen folks as the corporate determined to take away redundant positions and low-performing workers in efforts to chop prices.

Startups and VC

“A red-headed lady stands on the moon, her face obscured. Her bare physique appears to be like prefer it belongs on a poster you’d discover on a hormonal teenager’s bed room wall — that’s, till you attain her torso, the place three arms spit out of her shoulders,” Kyle and Amanda write in a narrative that has extra twists and turns than a mountain go.  AI is getting better at generating porn. We might not be prepared for the consequences, they ponder.

The remainder of our high tales have much less nudity, but in addition much less arms rising the place they shouldn’t. We’ll name it a draw, lets:

Cease sensationalizing the ‘collapse’ of VC: Take a look at the information

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For founders who need to increase, it is a horrible time: It’s taking for much longer than it used to, and valuations are a lot decrease than just some months in the past.

For traders, nevertheless, issues are settling again to earth, says Brian Walsh of WIND Ventures.

“The fact is that there was an unprecedented hype cycle in 2021, and what we now have seen for the reason that starting of 2022, objectively, is a ‘reversion to the imply’ consistent with long-term traits.”

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Huge Tech Inc.

To begin your weekend off proper, Zack has the 411 on a data breach over at Samsung, which apparently is the second such incident this yr. The corporate instructed Zack the breach occurred in late July and that buyer knowledge was compromised in early August, although wouldn’t get particular on what number of prospects have been affected or why prospects at the moment are simply being instructed.