How Apple is readying the Vision Pro to ship in 2024 and a look at its Mac plans, including upgrading its lineup to M3 and early work on a 30"-or-larger iMac
After debuting the Vision Pro, Apple is working on finishing up the device's software, expanding testing and finalizing the rollout strategy.
Pete Buttigieg warns of possible air travel disruption ahead of a July 1 cutoff for airlines to retrofit equipment to avoid 5G interference or face restrictions
Airlines have until July 1 to update equipment or face restrictions on landing in poor visibility conditions
Databricks agrees to acquire generative AI startup MosaicML in a ~$1.3B deal closing in Q2; MosaicML launched in 2021, raised $64M, and has 62 employees
The deal aims at connecting businesses' data with services to help them build their own, cheaper language models, Databricks CEO says
A look at Harry and Meghan's Hollywood flop in streaming's era of slower growth; sources: Netflix is unlikely to renew their $100M deal, which runs through 2025
They arrived three years ago with royal star power amid a streaming boom, but have notched more cancellations and rejections than produced shows
Meta announces Quest Plus, a subscription for VR games where users “get two titles every month” for $7.99/month or $59.99/year, for Quest 2 and Quest Pro
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg just announced Quest Plus, the company's new “virtual reality subscription” that gives users access to …
IBM plans to acquire cloud IT management startup Apptio for $4.6B in cash from Vista Equity Partners, which paid $1.94B to take Apptio private in 2018
As cloud architecture continues to more ubiquitous among organizations, increasingly what is more apparent is that many organizations …
A profile of Korean chip engineer Choi Jin-seok, who embarked on a quixotic mission to lead China's industry after his career stalled and faces IP theft charges
In 2006, a Korean engineer called Choi Jin-seok achieved a feat that earned him the nickname “master of semiconductor yield”.
An interview with early Waze investors Yahal Zilka and Ehud Levy on why they invested, the impact of Google's acquisition on Israel's tech industry, and more
The disregard for map companies, the dilemma between BlackBerry and iPhone, the indifference on the part of Tim Cook …
As the use of AI-generated ads in political campaigns increases globally, consultants, election researchers, and lawmakers push for setting up new guardrails
Gaps in campaign rules allow politicians to spread images and messaging generated by increasingly powerful artificial intelligence technology.
US-based chipmaker Wolfspeed says a group led by Apollo plans to make a $1.25B debt investment, with room for an additional $750M, to support a US expansion
Wolfspeed (WOLF.N) said on Monday that a group led by Apollo Global Management (APO.N) would make a debt investment of $1.25 billion …
A survey of 2,000+ US adults finds 57% know of ChatGPT, 46% for Bing Chat, 45% for My AI, and 38% for Bard; only ~33% have used the tools, with Gen Z dominating
We polled 2,000 people about how they're using AI, what they want it to do, and what scares them about it the most. Twitter: @teedubya and @rjcc Twitter: Lord Travis Wright / @teedubya : This is a bea...
SCOTUS refuses to revive Genius' 2019 lawsuit accusing Google of scraping millions of song lyrics for search, leaving in place a ruling tossing out the lawsuit
The US Supreme Court refused to revive a lawsuit by music website Genius Media Group Inc. accusing Alphabet Inc.'s Google of stealing millions of song lyrics.
NYC says the MOVEit flaw exposed ~45K students' data, following March 2022's breach of ~820K students' data via the Illuminate Education grading software hack
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Q&A with Microsoft's Jared Spataro on AI tools advancing knowledge work, increasing worker creativity, being “usefully wrong”, automating work away, and more
Microsoft over the past few years has released some of the most interesting research about how people work … Bluesky: @fudge.org Bluesky: Jay Cuthrell / @fudge.org : Re: AI downsides and dystopia — ...
US law enforcement seized BreachForums' domain on June 22, after arresting the data leak site's alleged admin, Conor Fitzpatrick, aka Pompompurin, on March 15
Amazon plans to build a local delivery network in 23 states by recruiting thousands of small US businesses, from bodegas to florists, to deliver its packages
Amazon aims to recruit 2,500 local businesses to deliver its packages in the U.S. by end of year. My latest @axios https://www.axios.com/... $AMZN
Source: a group of investors led by Apollo Global Management plans to make a $1B+ debt investment in US-based chipmaker Wolfspeed, which has a $6B market cap
Japan announces a $6.3B deal to buy and privatize photoresists maker JSR, which controls the global supply of key chipmaking chemicals with two other companies
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DeepMind cofounder and CEO Demis Hassabis shares details on Gemini, a ChatGPT rival they are building that combines strengths of LLMs with AlphaGo-type systems
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Q&A with AWS Product VP Matt Wood on the generative AI boom, the escalating AI battle between the tech giants, curating the best AI models for AWS, and more
“It really helps if you think of them less as this very loaded term of artificial intelligence, and more just applied statistics.” Twitter: Ben Smith / @semaforben : Amazon makes “a bet that the futur...
FTC v. Microsoft: Phil Spencer says Xbox is not a “robust business” and fails to meet internal targets, and the Activision deal is a way to expand into mobile
While there are effective laws outlawing the sharing of nonconsensual deepfake porn in some states, such as Virginia and California, the US needs a federal law
I wasn't surprised, but I *am* frustrated with policymakers … Bluesky: Amanda Marcotte / @amandamarcotte.bsky.social : This shows why the hysteria over AI is focused on the wrong issues. The fear is ...
A profile of Christina Cacioppo, the co-founder and CEO of data security compliance startup Vanta, which has an ~$80M ARR, a $1.6B valuation, and raised $203M
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Blind: ~56% of US tech workers would accept equal or less pay in a new role, and ~45% of those say the uncertain job market is the main reason they would do so
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As TikTok CEO Shou Chew announces a five-year $10B investment in Indonesia, experts say competition and regulation have made TikTok vulnerable in Southeast Asia
A look at the underwhelming state of augmentative and alternative communication tech, including a handful of iPad apps, for speech and language impaired users
While the FTC's Amazon case raises fair points in isolation, Prime overall is overwhelmingly positive for users and the FTC seems oblivious to the trade-offs
Ben Thompson / Stratechery : Twitter: @thecompoundnews and @stratechery Twitter: @thecompoundnews : “The FTC's complaint about dark patterns when it comes to signing up for Prime is rooted in the ass...
An interview with Asana CEO Dustin Moskovitz, who became Asana's majority owner after a post-listing share buying spree, on AI's risks as a philanthropy focus
Jordan Novet / CNBC : Twitter: @mukund Twitter: Mukund Mohan / @mukund : Even after rallying 66% this year, Asana $ASAN shares are more than 80% below their record high from late 2021. https://www.cn...
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