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Rob Dunwood (1:56)
These are the daily tech headlines for Tuesday, February 24, 2020. I'm Rob Dunwood. Apple is shifting some production of its Mac mini desktop computer from Asia to a facility in Houston, with manufacturing slated to start later this year. This decision is part of a recent U.S. investment following a $600 billion commitment made last August despite ongoing uncertainty about U.S. tariffs. The Houston facility is also being expected to include a new training center, which is projected to create thousands of jobs. Though Apple has a history of inconsistent follow through on investment promises, Panasonic is drastically reducing its commitment to its TV business by handing over the global manufacturing, marketing and selling of Panasonic branded TVs including in the US and Europe, to the Chinese company Skyworth. Skyworth, a top TV brand, will manage sales and logistics, while Panasonic will offer expertise, quality assurance and jointly develop high end OLED models. This move is the culmination of Panasonic's decade long scaling back of its TV operations and mirrors a larger trend of Japanese companies leaving the TV market as South Korean and Chinese manufacturers gained dominance. Meta has entered a major deal with AMD to purchase up to 6 gigawatts of Instinct GPUs. The agreement includes an equity component, potentially granting Meta up to a 10% stake in AMD up to 160 million shares upon meeting GPU shipment milestones starting in the second half of 2026. This deal also extends their existing EPYC CPU collaboration and reflects a broader industry effort by major AI companies to reduce reliance on Nvidia for chip supply, though Analys experts warn that such closely linked deals carry risk if AI market demand slows. Meta is planning a renewed effort to enter the stablecoin market by the end of the year. Instead of launching its own currency as it did with the failed Libre Diem project, Meta will integrate a dollar pegged stablecoin through a third party firm. This move is intended to reduce traditional banking fees and advance Meta's position in social commerce and cross border payment, allowing the company to proceed with less direct regulatory scrutiny. Discord has dropped its limited UK age verification test with provider Persona due to user privacy concerns and backlash specifically regarding face scans, an exposed code referencing facial recognition. Discord removed Persona mentions and now uses Kid, which partners with Veritad for facial age estimation and ID scanning. Discord assures users that face scan data stays ON device and IDs are immediately deleted after confirmation. Users whose age isn't determined with high confidence will default to a teen experience unless unless they complete a verification process involving a face scan or photo id. The US Department of Defense is reportedly planning to adopt Elon Musk's Grok AI for its classified systems after a dispute with Anthropic, which refused the Pentagon's request to use its Claude model for all lawful purposes including mass surveillance and autonomous weapons. Although officials consider GROK less advanced than Claude, XAI agreed to the DoD's terms. This move follows previous controversy over Grok's output of offensive rhetoric. The DoD has also negotiated deals with OpenAI and Gemini, which it considers comparable to Anthropic's technology. Anthropic has accused three Chinese AI firms, Deepseek, Moonshot and Minimax, of using approximately 24,000 fraudulent accounts and over 16 million exchanges in industrial scale campaigns to conduct distillation attacks on its quad Chatbot Anthropic claims the companies illicitly extracted Claude's capabilities to train their own models, which involves less powerful models learning from advanced ones and was detected through IP correlation and other infrastructure indicators. Anthropic plans to upgrade its system to prevent these attacks. While the company itself is simultaneously facing a lawsuit from music publishers over the alleged use of copyrighted songs to train Claude. Chinese drone manufacturer DJI is challenging the Federal Communications Commission's decision to ban and import all of its new drone models and critical components, as well as those from other foreign drone companies like Autel, by filing a lawsuit in the U.S. court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. DJI claims the December ruling carelessly restricts its business and denies U.S. customers access to its latest technology as it prevents companies from getting FCC approval for new models and components through existing versions can still be sold and finally, WhatsApp is finally developing a long awaited scheduled messages feature, a capability already available on platforms like Telegram and Imessage. References to a scheduled messages menu were found in a recent test flight beta by WA BetaInfo. Although the feature is not yet functional for beta testers, the new function will eventually be rolled out to select beta testers for feedback before an official release. For more analysis of the tech news of the day, subscribe to dailytechnewshow.com and if you enjoy the show, remember to tell a friend to check us out. Thanks for listening. We'll talk to you next time.