Google signs a cooperative research and development agreement with the NIST to develop new nanotechnology and semiconductor devices with open-source designs (Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNet)

Max A. Cherney / Protocol:
Nvidia and AMD say the US imposed export restrictions on chips used for AI applications to Russia and China, affecting chips like Nvidia’s A100 and AMD’s MI200  —  The U.S. has begun to impose fresh restrictions on exports of advanced chips necessary for AI-related applications to Russia and China …

Stephanie Condon / ZDNet:
Google Cloud announces the Blockchain Node Engine, helping developers build and manage blockchain-based products, starting with Ethereum  —  Google Cloud on Thursday unveiled Blockchain Node Engine – a fully managed service for Web3 developers that wants to build and manage products for blockchain-based platforms.

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Joe Belfiore, who has been Microsoft’s VP of Office Group for the past two years and with the company for 32 years, has announced his retirement  —  Joe Belfiore, who has been the Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s Office Group for the past two years and with the company in various roles for 32 years, has announced his retirement.

Stephanie Condon / ZDNet:
Nvidia and Microsoft plan to build an AI supercomputer in the cloud, making Azure the first public cloud to incorporate Nvidia’s full AI stack  —  Nvidia and Microsoft announced Wednesday a multi-year collaboration to build an AI supercomputer in the cloud, adding tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs to Microsoft Azure.

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
Microsoft plans to end support for SwiftKey on iOS and delist it from the App Store on October 5; SwiftKey on Android will continue to be supported  —  Questions about what’s going on with Microsoft’s support of the predictive SwifKey keyboard app for iOS have been bubbling up over the past few weeks.

Tiernan Ray / ZDNet:
An interview with Meta’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun on his critics and why today’s most popular approaches to AI won’t lead to human-level intelligence  —  (Article is updated with a rebuttal by Gary Marcus in context.)  —  Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist of Meta Properties, owner of Facebook …