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Here's your TnB Tech Minute for Monday, April 8th.

I'm Alex Oscela for the Wall Street Journal.

Alibaba is lowering prices on core cloud products by an average of 23% for customers

making use of its data centers outside mainland China.

It's seeking to tap enthusiasm for artificial intelligence computing and gain an edge in markets dominated by companies like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.

Alibaba Cloud said the cuts were aligned with a quote AI first strategy to make core computing resources

accessible to a range of customers.

Alibaba's revenue from cloud services, considered one of the Chinese

e-commerce giant's most promising businesses, has slowed in recent quarters amid

competition from rival cloud units of Huawei and Tencent.

Taiwanese chipmaker T.S.M.C. is getting up to $6.6 billion from the US government for a factory complex under

construction in Phoenix.

The money is intended to expand the operation scope and sophistication.

U.S. officials say T.S. M.C. will invest more than $65 billion in total and add a third chip

factory to the manufacturing complex it started building in 2021.

And Elon Musk has vowed to fight an order by Brazil's Supreme Court to remove several accounts from X.

The ruling was part of a broader clampdown by Brazil on social media accounts that are deemed to be propagating hate speech and false information.

Though X initially complied with the order, owner Elon Musk said in a series of posts over

the weekend that the accounts in question would be reinstated.

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