Techmeme
March 26, 2023, 2:00 PM

Top News

New York Times:
Eight current and former Apple employees share concerns about the upcoming MR headset's $3,000 price, utility, and unproven market  —  The company is expected to unveil an augmented reality headset in a few months.  Some employees wonder if the device makes sense for Apple.
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple demoed its mixed reality headset, likely dubbed Reality Pro or Reality One, for a group of its top ~100 executives, ahead of their annual offsite  —  Apple's push into mixed reality will take years to pay off, with the company hoping the device follows the same trajectory as its smartwatch.
Erin Woo / The Information:
Source: Elon Musk offers Twitter staff stock grants at a ~$20B valuation which, with a $13B debt, implies a $33B enterprise value, ~11x 2023's projected revenue  —  Elon Musk offered Twitter employees stock grants at a valuation of roughly $20 billion, said a person familiar with an email Musk sent to staff …
Alexa Corse / Wall Street Journal:
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft releases Windows 10 Snip & Sketch and Windows 11 Snipping Tool updates to fix the “aCropalypse” bug used to reveal info edited out in some screenshots  —  Microsoft released an emergency security update for the Windows 10 and Windows 11 Snipping tool to fix the Acropalypse privacy vulnerability.
Yoel Roth / Techdirt:
Chloe Xiang / VICE:
Microsoft researchers claim GPT-4 showed early signs of AGI and performance close to human levels in tasks spanning coding, medicine, law, psychology, and more  —  The eyebrow-raising claim from Microsoft—which is banking on GPT putting it ahead of Google—contrasts with the model's clear limitations.
Chloe Xiang / VICE:
A look at the community of users who “jailbreak” GPT models to generate unfiltered content and see themselves as fighting back against OpenAI's closed policies  —  “The problem is when GPT-X is released and we are unable to discern its values since they are being decided behind the closed doors of AI companies.”
Viola Zhou / Rest of World:
A look at the Chinese social e-commerce app and women-friendly “lifestyle bible” Xiaohongshu, which has 200M MAUs and critics describe as a consumerist trap  —  Known as China's “lifestyle bible,” the social media platform is an aspirational living guide or a consumerist trap.
MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
A profile of Atlanta-based Yellow Card, Africa's largest centralized crypto exchange, which has done ~$1.75B in transactions since 2019 and raised $57M  —  - Yellow Card is the largest centralized cryptocurrency exchange in Africa.  — For its nearly 1.4 million users across the continent …
More: Cryptonews
Will Knight / Wired:
Norway-based 1X, which is developing humanoid robots, raised a $23.5M Series A2 led by the OpenAI Startup Fund with participation from Tiger Global and others  —  Autonomous machines are still too clumsy for delicate tasks.  But humans can operate mechanical arms from afar, turning physical labor into remote work.
Joe Brock / Reuters:
Sources: concerned about Chinese spying, the US helped SubCom win its $600M bid for an Asia-Europe subsea cable project through incentives and investor pressure  —  Subsea cables, which carry the world's data, are now central to the U.S.-China tech war.  Washington, fearful of Beijing's spies …

Sponsor Posts

Tribe AI:
Build AI products that matter  —  Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact.  We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.
Zoho:
Planned US Data Center Maintenance on 23rd and 30th November 2024, between 08.30PM to 00.30AM PST  —  Dear Customers, Our annual infrastructure maintenance for our US Data Center is scheduled for 23rd November 2024 …
Hamming:
Make AI Voice Agents trustworthy  —  Hamming AI automatically tests AI voice agents and continuously monitors them in production.
Techmeme Leaderboards:
Discover the top reporters on AI, VR, policy, and much more  —  We've analyzed Techmeme's news crawl to identify the most influential and prolific writers on 48 news topics.  Download reports immediately for just $100.
Techmeme Ride Home:
Tue. 11/12 - Apple Into The Smarthome
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or RSS.
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 2:00 PM ET, March 26, 2023.

The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.

More News

Wall Street Journal:
Eric Benjamin Seufert / Mobile Dev Memo:

Earlier Picks

Financial Times:
Irregular Ideas:
Intel:
More: Associated Press, Gordon and Betty Moore …, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, PCWorld, Washington Post, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, The Verge, Mercury News, HotHardware, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, TechEBlog, Neowin, Newser, IGN, PhoneArena, BBC, TechSpot, MacDailyNews, Club386, PC Gamer, Reuters, Intel, PCMag, Tom's Hardware, Bloomberg, Barron's Online, Engadget, TidBITS, DigiTimes, The Economic Times, Techlusive, CNET, Fast Company, Livemint, AnandTech, MarketWatch, Los Angeles Times, CRN, The Register, San Francisco Business Journal, Daring Fireball, and Slashdot
Gary Price / LJ Infodocket: