Apple plans to ship the $3,499+ Vision Pro on February 2 in the US, after opening pre-orders on January 19 at 8am ET, with a Solo Knit Band and a Dual Loop Band
Again Michael Potuck / 9to5Mac : Here's everything that Apple includes in the Vision Pro box Nick Evanson / PC Gamer : The $3,499 Apple Vision Pro finally has an actual release date, and will be on sa...
Apple plans to offer customers demos of the Apple Vision Pro at its US retail stores from February 2 through the weekend on a first-come, first-served basis
Apple Vision Pro officially has pre-order and launch dates as of today, and now we know how the public will get to try Apple's first spatial computer as well.
Apple releases visionOS marketing style guidelines, asking developers to refer to Apple Vision Pro apps as “spatial computing apps”, not AR, VR, XR, or MR apps
Apple on Monday finally confirmed that Vision Pro will arrive in stores early next month.
Substack plans to remove some Nazi publications, but its new policy interpretation won't include proactively removing neo-Nazi and far-right extremism content
Substack is removing some publications that express support for Nazis, the company said today.
Filing and memo: Unity Software plans to lay off ~25% of its workforce, or 1,800 jobs, by the end of March 2024, its largest layoff ever and affecting all teams
Videogame software provider Unity Software (U.N) will target laying off approximately 25% of its workforce, or 1,800 jobs …
How the internet reshaped itself around Google's search algorithms, including via SEO tricks, and the company's role in many websites now using similar designs
How the internet reshaped itself around Google's search algorithms — and into a world where websites look the same. — Animations by Richard Parry
Beijing's judicial bureau says a state-backed institution cracked Apple's AirDrop to identify message senders, and police found multiple suspects via the method
- Beijing agency claims to have found way to identify senders — Declaration follows efforts to crack down on sensitive content
Volkswagen plans to add ChatGPT to its voice assistant for “general knowledge questions” and to control functions like heating and AC, starting in Europe in Q2
Volkswagen is jumping on the generative AI bandwagon by announcing plans to install OpenAI's ChatGPT into its vehicles starting in the second quarter of 2024.
In November 2023, Apple challenged the EU's DMA designation of its five App Stores as a single service, iOS' interoperability, and iMessage's NIICS designation
Apple (AAPL.O) has challenged EU tech rules designating its five App Stores as a single core platform service subject to onerous obligations …
Carta plans to close its liquidity services business, which matched private company stock buyers and sellers, as people will “worry that we are using the data”
Carta has decided to close its liquidity services business, which matched buyers and sellers of private company stock, Axios has learned.
Sony teases a “spatial” VR headset for 3D model creation, offering 4K OLEDs, a ring and a pointer controller, and a Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2, coming later in 2024
The company showed off the headset along with a unique pair of controllers today during a presentation at CES 2024.
X suspends several podcasters and journalists, including The Intercept's Ken Klippenstein and Texas Observer's Steven Monacelli, with little to no explanation
Elon Musk's “free speech” social media platform banned a number of accounts recently critical of Israel.
Meta plans to start automatically restricting teen Instagram and Facebook accounts from harmful content, including posts about self-harm, in the coming weeks
Efforts to curb harmful material and reduce unwanted interactions with teen social-media accounts come as states sue parent company Meta
Sources: Elliott Management has built a ~$1B stake in Match Group and plans to push the online dating company to take steps to boost its stock; MTCH jumps 5%+
Activist has roughly $1 billion stake and intends to meet with Match to discuss ways to improve online dating company's performance
Amazon announces Matter Casting, an Apple AirPlay-like feature to send videos from Android and iOS to Amazon devices, initially supporting Echo Show devices
Amazon.com Inc. introduced a new feature that mimics Apple Inc.'s AirPlay while working across different platforms …
Intel announces new Core 14th Gen chips, including the HX-series for high-end laptops, 18 chips for desktops, and the new Series 1 Core for thin-and-light PCs
Some are 14th-gen Core and some are Core (Series 1), but they're the same thing. — Intel usually uses CES to fill …
Sources: Texas-based HPE is in advanced talks to acquire California-based Juniper Networks for ~$13B, in a deal that could be announced as soon as this week
Deal could be unveiled this week, valuing Juniper at roughly $13 billion — Hewlett Packard Enterprise is in advanced talks …
OpenAI responds to The New York Times' lawsuit: training is fair use and there is an opt-out, “regurgitation” is a rare bug, and NYT “manipulated” its models
written evidence (LLM0113) Dan Milmo / The Guardian : ‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says Ryan Daws / AI News : Copyrighted data ‘impossible’ to avo...
The EU begins investigating whether Microsoft's OpenAI investment should be vetted under its rules, and asks for feedback on generative AI and virtual worlds
- EU watchdog follows UK regulator in weighing a probe — Move comes after furore over firing and rehiring of Sam Altman
MSI unveils the Claw, a Windows gaming handheld with Intel's Meteor Lake Core Ultra chip and a 7" 1080p 120Hz IPS display, in three models from $699 to $799
MSI Claw is first Intel Core Ultra-powered Windows 11 gaming handheld Instagram: The Verge : This is MSI's Steam Deck competitor called Claw. The Windows based gaming handheld is equipped with a seve...
A look at dating apps' rising subscription prices, as competition intensifies and spending growth slows; data.ai: consumers spent $5B+ on dating apps in 2023
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Microsoft finds a material that could replace ~70% of lithium in a battery, by using Azure Quantum Elements HPC resources to run simulations and AI models
Recently, Microsoft built a clock. — Well, “built” may be overstating things. Members of the company's quantum computing team found …
Dutch online grocery store Picnic raised €355M from the Gates Foundation, Germany's largest supermarket group Edeka, and others to expand in France and Germany
Dutch online grocery store Picnic has raised 355 million euros ($388.02 million) from its investors and plans to further expand …
A profile of OpenAI VP of Global Affairs Anna Makanju, who helped transform Sam Altman from a startup darling into an AI ambassador and worked in Obama's admin
This summer, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman made a pilgrimage to India to discuss the artificial intelligence revolution with a towering figure: Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Luma, which is training AI models that can generate 3D models from text prompts, raised a $43M Series B, a source says at a valuation between $200M and $300M
A couple of years ago, Alex Yu and Amit Jain came together to found a company that'd let people capture objects in 3D using their smartphones …
Duolingo cuts ~10% of its contractors, partly attributing the move to its use of more generative AI to create app content
Welcome to r/Duolingo. This subreddit serves as a forum and a resource … X: Reid Southen / @rahll : Duolingo laid off a huge percentage of their contract translators, and the remaining ones are simpl...
Asus unveils the ROG Phone 8 series, featuring a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3, a 6.78" 165Hz OLED display, a 5,500mAh battery, and a 32MP front-facing camera, for $1,100+
Jon Porter / The Verge :
Netflix defeats a shareholder lawsuit claiming the company hid the impact of account sharing; NFLX fell ~50% from January to April 2022 after growth warnings
Netflix (NFLX.O) has defeated a lawsuit filed by shareholders in a federal court in California that accused the streaming entertainment company …
Lenovo debuts the ThinkBook Plus Gen 5 Hybrid, a 2-in-1 Windows laptop with a 14" 2.8K OLED that doubles as an Android tablet, shipping in Q2 2024 for $2,000+
and I've tested it Adrian Horne / Lenovo StoryHub : All New AI PC Lenovo ThinkBook Laptops and ThinkCentre neo Desktops Inspire a New Wave of Productive and Creative Power Justin Eure / Lenovo StoryHu...
Second Dinner, the developer behind Marvel Snap, raised a $100M Series B led by Griffin Gaming Partners to build out its popular mobile collectible card game
Rachel Kaser / VentureBeat :
Asus announces its first mini-PC, the ROG NUC, featuring Intel Core Ultra CPUs, up to an Nvidia RTX 4070 GPU, quad 4K display support, and Wi-Fi 6E
Hassan Mujtaba / Wccftech :
TikTok restricts Creative Center, meant to help advertisers track hashtags, after critics used the tool to scrutinize content on the Israel-Hamas war and more
and its critics—to assess content on its platform Meera Navlakha / Mashable : TikTok restricts data tool after accusations of geopolitical bias Andrew Hutchinson / Social Media Today : TikTok Implemen...
Razer updates the Blade 16 with up to a 240Hz OLED display, a Core i9-14900HX, and an RTX 4090, and teases a Blade 18 with a 4K 165Hz display and Thunderbolt 5
Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware :
PerformYard, which offers staff retention, management, and upskilling tools, raised $95M from Updata Partners after being mostly bootstrapped besides a $3M seed
Employee performance reviews take time and effort — and aren't always conducted very efficiently.
Analysis: crypto and digital payments companies paid $5.8B in fines in 2023, including Binance's $4.3B, more than the $835M paid by TradFi companies, a first
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SCOTUS declines to hear a case filed by Twitter in 2014, in which Twitter argued that disclosing data requests in national security probes was protected by 1A
ByteDance is in talks with multiple prospective buyers, including Tencent, to sell its Nuverse gaming unit, as part of a plan to exit the gaming industry
Josh Ye / Reuters :
Berlin-based Robinhood rival Trade Republic reported a “solid double-digit million euro” net profit in the year to September, a first, up from a €145M loss YoY
Olaf Storbeck / Financial Times :
Sources: former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal's new AI startup, which is making software for LLM developers, raised ~$30M led by Khosla Ventures
Filing: JD-backed Dada Nexus is investigating “suspicious practices”, including a ~$140M overstatement of revenue and costs in 2023, triggering a 46% stock dive
Jane Zhang / Bloomberg :
Ofcom creates a new team of nearly 350 people, including hires from Meta, Google, and Microsoft, dedicated to online safety and plans to hire 100 more in 2024
Cristina Criddle / Financial Times :
Source: former X VP of Trust and Safety Ella Irwin joined Stability AI as SVP of Integrity in December, to set safeguards around issues like child safety and IP
Ben Goggin / NBC News :
The Mayo Clinic partners with Cerebras to use Cerebras' computing chips and systems to develop its own AI models based on anonymized medical records and data
Stephen Nellis / Reuters :
YouTube updates its cyberbullying policy to ban AI-generated content that “realistically simulates” deceased children or victims of crimes or deadly events
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