Apple sold an estimated 160K-180K Vision Pro units during the first pre-order weekend; unchanged shipping times after first 48 hours suggest demand tapered off
Conclusion: The immediate sold-out when pre-orders opened confirms earlier predictions. However, the inability to sustain …
Four reasons for the less-than-expected developer enthusiasm for Apple's Vision Pro, including an uncertain ROI and anger at Apple for its App Store policies
Apple's new Vision Pro will lack some key apps when it debuts, renewing concerns about an already-tense relationship with certain developers.
Filing: Terraform Labs, co-founded by Do Kwon, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US, listing assets and liabilities both between $100M and $500M
- Singapore-based Terraform files for bankruptcy in Delaware — Kwon's lawyer has said he may soon be extradited to the US
Meta plans to let EU users unlink their Instagram and Facebook accounts, as well as other Meta services, ahead of the EU's DMA taking effect in March 2024
EU users will be able to unlink their Instagram and Facebook accounts, as well as other Meta services ahead of the bloc's new Digital Markets Act …
OpenAI bans the developer of a chatbot mimicking presidential hopeful Dean Phillips, the company's first action against use of its tech in a political campaign
It's the ChatGPT maker's first known action against the use of its technology in a political campaign
British Library hack lessons for the UK: ransomware is a national security issue, a national response is required, policy mitigations are available, and more
Introduction, apology, caveat, and then another apology — The introduction: For nearly three months, the British Library …
Sources: FTX sold 22M Grayscale Bitcoin Trust shares, worth nearly $1B, explaining the outflows after the SEC's ETF approval; BTC has tumbled since the approval
BTC's price has fallen since bitcoin ETFs were approved. In theory, now that FTX is done selling its substantial holdings …
ElevenLabs, which uses AI tools to create and edit synthetic voices, raised an $80M Series B co-led by a16z, Nat Friedman, and Daniel Gross at a $1B+ valuation
There's a lot of money in voice cloning. — Case in point: ElevenLabs, a startup developing AI-powered tools to create …
A September 2023 survey of 3,000+ game developers: 84% were somewhat or very concerned about the ethics of using generative AI and 35% were impacted by layoffs
but here's why that's not a bad thing Jason Nelson / Decrypt : Half of Game Devs Use AI, But Creatives Are Wary: Survey Chris Scullion / Video Games Chronicle : A third of developers saw layoffs at th...
Generative AI and how to regulate the tech dominated the discussions at the 2024 World Economic Forum; the UN Secretary-General said AI poses risks to societies
and won't — change health care Katyanna Quach / The Register : Energy breakthrough needed to build AGI, says OpenAI boss Altman Andrea Rizzi / El País : Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta: ‘Human-...
Nightshade, a free tool that lets artists “poison” AI models being trained on their artwork without permission, is now available to download for Mac and PC
Source: in a low-key tour, Jensen Huang visited Nvidia's offices in Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Beijing earlier in January, as the US curbs Nvidia's China exports
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Architects are incorporating DALL-E, Midjourney, and other generative AI tools for complex design work, threatening the industry of illustrators and animators
Programs such as Dall-E and Midjourney are revolutionising the designs of buildings, but threatening the industry too
A look at Nvidia and Convai's AI-powered video game NPCs, which are effectively generative AI chatbots that players can talk to, instead of using preset phrases
Source: Alphabet's moonshot X lab is restructuring to make it easier to spin projects out as independent startups; sources: it's laying off dozens of employees
- X is the brainchild of Google founders Brin and Page — Google's job cuts are part of a broader cost-efficiency push
The US sentences BreachForums admin Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, aka “Pompompurin”, to 20 years of supervised release for his role in operating the cybercrime forum
How Japan plans to use avatars, robots, and AI in construction, trucking, farming, and retail to alleviate an estimated labor shortage of 11M people by 2040
Farmers, retailers and builders rethink business models as world's fastest-ageing society runs out of workers Forums: r/singularity Forums: r/singularity : .
Palantir's revenue growth from US government contracts has slowed in recent quarters, as some agencies look at cheaper rivals and seek fewer data access limits
Individual investors had bolstered company's share price in their enthusiasm for new AI data platform
Chinese imports of chip making machines rose 14% YoY to ~$40B in 2023; lithography equipment imports from the Netherlands rose 1,000% YoY to $1.1B in December
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In an unpublished manuscript, David Bunnell, who co-founded PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld, details the origins of the enduring media brands from the 1980s
Harry McCracken / Technologizer : X: @harrymccracken See also Mediagazer X: Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken : David Bunnell cofounded several of the most important computer magazines of all time. H...
As the Mac turns 40, a look at its evolution and interviews with Alan Dye and other Apple executives about its future, its influence on the Vision Pro, and more
Chinese warehouse robotic startups are keen to ease Japan's logistics crunch; IFR: 52% of ~550K warehouse robots installed globally in 2022 were made in China
Nikkei Asia : X: @nikkeiasia X: @nikkeiasia : Chinese warehouse robot startups are keen on landing orders in Japan, a market scrambling to resolve a looming bottleneck in the logistics industry. http...
Cybersecurity startups raised $8.2B across 692 deals in 2023, down from $16.3B across 941 deals in 2022 and the lowest since 2018; Q4 funding was just $1.3B
Sources: Canva generated $2B+ in annualized revenue in 2023 and is nearing a $1.5B+ share sale at a ~$26B valuation, roughly the same as in its previous round
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An interview with crypto skeptic James Block, whose damning critique of Signature Bank on his newsletter, Dirty Bubble Media, became the best short call of 2023
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