Apple starts selling the Vision Pro in the US; Tim Cook compares Vision Pro debut to the birth of Mac, iPod, and iPhone in a memo to employees
Apple Inc. faithful lined up at its US stores on Friday to pick up the first Vision Pro headsets, ushering in what the company calls “the era of spatial computing.”
Interviews with Disney executives about Apple Vision Pro, how the device is changing the studio's production pipelines, future plans for the device, and more
Years in the works, the new Disney+ app has an immersive new twist. But the company sees it as one small step into a new entertainment medium with rich possibilities.
Tim Cook says that Apple is spending “a tremendous amount of time and effort” on AI features and the company plans to detail its ongoing work “later this year”
Tim Cook says that Apple is spending “a tremendous amount of time and effort” on AI features that will be announced in the coming months.
The US Treasury sanctions six Iranian government officials for their role in targeting devices at a Pennsylvania water utility in November 2023
The Iranian attack targeted a device manufactured by an Israeli company. — The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday announced sanctions …
Apple details Vision Pro's Bluetooth accessories support, saying it isn't compatible with Bluetooth mice but works with the Magic Trackpad and most keyboards
Apple has published a new support document today detailing more about Vision Pro's support for Bluetooth accessories.
Meta's stock rises 20%+, adding ~$200B to its market cap, the biggest single-session market value addition, eclipsing Apple's and Amazon's $190B gains in 2022
- Stock also holds record for the biggest wipeout in history — Shares surge after big earnings beat, buyback, dividend plans
Apple reports Q1 revenue up 2% YoY to $119.6B, net income up 13% to $33.9B, Americas net sales up 2% to $50.4B, and Europe net sales up 10% to $30.4B
More than 100 human rights and LGBTQ groups and many kids condemn the Kids Online Safety Act after the January 31 hearing, saying it is “to control information”
Gen Z TikTokers, LGBTQ organizations and free speech advocates react angrily to Wednesday's hearing
Google dropped the cache link from Search results snippets last week and plans to remove the cache functionality entirely “in the near future”
but they may eventually return in a new form Ashwin / Ghacks : Google confirms that cache links have been removed from search results Mastodon: Misty / @misty@digipres.club : Google's getting rid of t...
The rise and fall of Ben Armstrong, aka BitBoy, who was one of the most popular crypto YouTubers, lost much of his wealth, and now faces personal turmoil
Ben Armstrong, better known as BitBoy, was once the most popular cryptocurrency YouTuber in the world. Now his empire has collapsed.
California records show Apple's self-driving cars drove about 452K miles in 2023, up 4x from 2022 and 30x from 2021, but well below Waymo's 6M+ miles
Government records show Apple's secretive auto division almost quadrupled its self-driving miles in 2023.
Former CIA employee Joshua Schulte, who was convicted for leaking secrets to WikiLeaks, was sentenced to 40 years in prison on February 1 for espionage and more
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Nayib Bukele doubles down on BTC despite El Salvador's economic woes and IMF asking for BTC's removal as legal tender; 88% of citizens didn't use BTC in 2023
who is Nayib Bukele? Crypto Daily : El Salvador To Continue With Bitcoin-Backed Bonds, Says Vice President X: @reuters : Bitcoin will remain legal tender in El Salvador during the second term of Presi...
Meta's Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab, which is responsible for Llama, is made up largely of women; sources say ~60% of FAIR's leadership team are women
In the high stakes, brutally competitive AI race, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has been an outlier. While most of the big foundation … X: @aiatmeta , @shireenyates , @semafor , @tarantulae , and @jpineau1 ...
Spotify and Joe Rogan sign a new multiyear deal, estimated to be worth $250M; Rogan's show will be available across podcast platforms and as videos on YouTube
China-based advertisers now account for 10% of Meta's annual revenue and contributed 5 percentage points to its total worldwide revenue growth
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Synergy: enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services was ~$74B in Q4 2023, up 20% YoY, and $5.6B over Q3 2023, the largest QoQ increase ever achieved
For the last several quarters we've seen a lull in the expansion of the cloud infrastructure market, with lower growth numbers …
A look at Reddit's third-party app ecosystem seven months after API changes: most current apps now charge users a monthly fee, some are profitable, and more
Apollo dev: “I don't believe Reddit's leadership... cares about developers anymore.” — Last year, Reddit sparked massive controversy …
Google plans to roll out a Google Maps feature that uses LLMs to analyze its data on 250M+ places and community insights to recommend places, starting in the US
One of the great pleasures in life is discovering a new city with friends. … Forums: r/artificial : One-Minute Daily AI News 2/2/2024
EU countries strike a deal on the AI Act, after announcing pro-innovation measures and an AI Office; the bill still needs the EU Parliament's formal approval
Samsung Galaxy S24 and S24 Plus review: slightly bigger and brighter displays with flat edges, and the AI features are occasionally great but sometimes weird
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Sources: in January, the US DOJ charged three people over a phone-hacking scheme that included the FTX hack to steal $400M+ during the exchange's 2022 collapse
Another great article by Brian Krebs on SIM-swapping risks and countermeasures. … Kelvin Low : FTX hack demonstrates the fatal flaw in the cryptoverse's design. — Bloomberg reports: — “Three peopl...
Sources: Apple plans to acquire Brighter AI, a German startup specializing in anonymizing face and license plate data, to enhance privacy features on Vision Pro
Sources indicate Apple plans to acquire Brighter AI, a German AI startup specializing in anonymizing face and license plate data.
Analysis: ByteDance spent $8.74M on US lobbying activities in 2023, up 77% YoY, and Shein spent $2.12M, up 7.6x from 2022, amid rising US-China trade tensions
Chinese firms seek to minimize effects of alarm over bilateral tensions — ByteDance increased its lobbying spending by 77% in 2023 over the previous year. X: @nikkeiasia X: @nikkeiasia : ByteDance, ...
Hugging Face launches HuggingChat Assistants, allowing users to create customized AI chatbots with specific capabilities using LLMs like Mixtral or Llama2
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat : X: @ai_newswaltz , @_philschmid , @abidlabs , and @_philschmid X: Mathieu Trachino / @ai_newswaltz : Why @huggingface Assistants are better than GPTs Today, Hugging Face ...
Chinese automaker Geely launches 11 LEO satellites to provide high-precision positioning support to self-driving cars and expects 72 to be in orbit by 2025
A US federal judge certifies a class-action lawsuit accusing Apple of monopolizing the market for iPhone apps by banning digital purchases outside its App Store
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Sources: Reddit has picked the New York Stock Exchange for its long-delayed IPO that could take place as soon as next month
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Sources: cloud data management startup Rubrik plans an US IPO as early as April 2024, amid a DOJ fraud investigation into one of its former employees
Reuters : X: @readkrystalhu X: Krystal Hu / @readkrystalhu : Rubrik, the data security company that was last valued at $4 billion in 2021, just celebrated its 10th birthday and is looking to flip its...
Sources: Baidu Venture is in talks to sell its stakes in US startups, including AI robotics startup Machina Labs, to US buyers, as US-China relations sour
Juro Osawa / The Information :
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