Exclusive-TSMC told US of chip in Huawei device after TechInsights finding, source says

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company notified the U.S. a couple of weeks ago that one of its chips had been found in a Huawei device after a teardown by the tech research firm TechInsights, according to a person familiar with the matter. TechInsights informed TSMC about the chip in advance of publishing its findings in a report, the person said, and the chip company notified the U.S. Department of Commerce. TSMC said in a statement on Monday that it had proactively communicated with the Commerce Department regarding the matter.

Will Qualcomm’s new Snapdragon mobile chip enable an Android UWB future?

The Snapdragon 8 Elite chip comes with ultra wideband baked in, and it won’t require smartphone makers to add extra hardware to take advantage of it, reports Android Authority. Not every Android phone supports UWB, which is used for precision location features (think AirTags). Perhaps that’ll change with the 8 Elite, given Qualcomm’s chips’ popularity with Android device makers.

Anthropic releases AI to automate mouse clicks for coders

Anthropic, a startup backed by Alphabet and Amazon.com, released a pair of updated artificial intelligence models on Tuesday, along with a new capability to autonomously perform computer tasks and save users keystrokes. The new “computer use” feature can tell AI “where to move the mouse, where to click, what to type, in order to do quite complicated tasks,” Anthropic’s Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan said in an interview. The capability is tailored to software developers and represents a move toward AI agents, programs that require little human intervention to carry out multi-step actions.