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Lenovo to establish major PC and server factory in Saudi Arabia with $2 billion investment

TechSpot

The project, backed by a $2 billion investment from Alat, a subsidiary of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund, is expected to go into operation by 2026. Once operational, the facility is expected to employ thousands of workers and produce millions of PCs annually, positioning it as one of the largest.

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Lucid Motors goes public, collects $4.5 billion

The Verge

Shares of the Saudi-owned , California-based startup began trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange Monday morning. The public listing is the second in the last week for the industry; fellow EV startup Faraday Future became a public company listed on the Nasdaq last Thursday and raised $1 billion in the process.

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Lucid is raising prices on its luxury Air EV by as much as 13%

TechCrunch

All existing reservation holders will not experience price hikes, the company said, noting that updated pricing for Canada will be made public on June 1. The Project Gravity SUV remains on target to begin production in the first half of 2024, according to Lucid’s CEO and CTO Peter Rawlinson. Lucid Motors Q1 2022 financials.

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Facebook is researching AI systems that see, hear, and remember everything you do

The Verge

A new research project led by Facebook’s AI team suggests the scope of the company’s ambitions. Right now, the tasks outlined above cannot be achieved reliably by any AI system, and Facebook stresses that this is a research project rather than a commercial development. Such ambitions have huge privacy implications.

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Lenovo secures $2 billion investment from Saudi Arabia’s Alat, establishes MEA headquarters in Riyadh

TechNode

On Wednesday, Chinese PC maker Lenovo announced a strategic partnership with Alat, a subsidiary under Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) focused on transformative technology investments and sustainable manufacturing, with Alat proposing a $2 billion zero coupon convertible bonds investment in Lenovo.

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Remote working means this startup can use brains in emerging markets to disrupt management consultants

TechCrunch

And while there are plenty of portals offering low-quality freelance consulting services, these are generally unsupervised that would never work for corporates and the public sector. It’s now set to launch in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Lagos, Nigeria next month. A YC company Apollo Group is also in this space, roughly speaking.

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Chip company Arm files for Nasdaq listing in IPO anticipated to be this year’s biggest

TechCrunch

The outfit didn’t provide a projected share price in its F-1 paperwork, but SoftBank recently bought the 24.99% stake in Arm that it didn’t own outright from its Vision Fund unit, reportedly at a valuation of more than $64 billion. regulators. That’s twice the $32 billion SoftBank paid for Arm seven years ago.