{"id":5665,"date":"2025-08-16T11:52:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T11:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=5665"},"modified":"2025-08-16T11:52:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T11:52:43","slug":"the-obtain-taiwans-silicon-defend-and-chatgpts-persona-misstep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/?p=5665","title":{"rendered":"The Obtain: Taiwan&#8217;s silicon defend, and ChatGPT&#8217;s persona misstep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Taiwanese politics more and more revolves round one essential query: Will China invade? China\u2019s ruling social gathering has wished to grab Taiwan for greater than half a century. However lately, China\u2019s chief, Xi Jinping, has positioned larger emphasis on the thought of \u201ctaking again\u201d the island (which the Chinese language Communist Occasion, or CCP, has by no means managed).<\/p>\n<p>Many in Taiwan and elsewhere suppose one main deterrent has to do with the island\u2019s vital position in semiconductor manufacturing. Taiwan produces the vast majority of the world\u2019s semiconductors and greater than 90% of essentially the most superior chips wanted for AI functions.<\/p>\n<p>However now some Taiwan specialists and among the island\u2019s citi\u00adzens are apprehensive that this \u201csilicon defend,\u201d if it ever existed, is cracking. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2025\/08\/15\/1121358\/taiwan-silicon-shield-tsmc-china-chip-manufacturing\/?utm_source=the_download&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&amp;utm_term=*%7CSUBCLASS%7C*&amp;utm_content=*%7CDATE:m-d-Y%7C*\">Learn the complete story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Johanna M. Costigan<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>This story is from our forthcoming print difficulty, which is all about safety. In case you haven\u2019t already, <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/technologyreview.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=47c1a9cec9749a8f8cbc83e78&amp;id=78eba736e9&amp;e=a236e356bf\"><strong>subscribe now<\/strong><\/a><strong> to obtain future points as soon as they land.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Why there is a large backlash in opposition to ChatGPT&#8217;s new &#8216;persona&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When OpenAI made the swap to its new GPT-5 mannequin final week, a variety of folks reacted with shock, frustration, unhappiness, or anger to earlier mannequin 4o\u2019s sudden disappearance from ChatGPT.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of its consciousness that persons are growing emotional bonds with the mannequin, OpenAI seems to have been caught flat-footed by the fervor of customers\u2019 pleas for its return. Inside a day, the corporate made 4o accessible once more to its paying clients (free customers are caught with GPT-5).<\/p>\n<p>MIT Expertise Evaluation spoke with a number of ChatGPT customers who have been deeply affected by the lack of 4o. All are ladies between the ages of 20 and 40, and all bar one thought-about 4o to be a romantic accomplice. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2025\/08\/15\/1121900\/gpt4o-grief-ai-companion\/?utm_source=the_download&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&amp;utm_term=*%7CSUBCLASS%7C*&amp;utm_content=*%7CDATE:m-d-Y%7C*\">Learn the complete story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Grace Huckins<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Why US federal well being companies are abandoning mRNA vaccines<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwanese politics more and more revolves round one essential query: Will China invade? China\u2019s ruling social gathering has wished to grab Taiwan for greater than half a century. However lately, China\u2019s chief, Xi Jinping, has positioned larger emphasis on the thought of \u201ctaking again\u201d the island (which the Chinese language Communist Occasion, or CCP, has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[4737,562,4738,747,4736,3391,4735],"class_list":["post-5665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-news","tag-chatgpts","tag-download","tag-misstep","tag-personality","tag-shield","tag-silicon","tag-taiwans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5666,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions\/5666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techtrendfeed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- This website is optimized by Airlift. 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