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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.
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| New York Times: |
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.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
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| Yuval Mann / Ynetnews: |
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 … | Nina Jankowicz / The Atlantic: |
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 — Because I was in the public eye, somebody synthesized explicit videos of me. — Recently, a Google Alert informed me that I am the subject of deepfake pornography.
More: MIT Technology Review. LinkedIn: Nina Jankowicz. Bluesky: @amandamarcotte.bsky.social. Twitter: @vanbadham, @wiczipedia, and @kattenbarge
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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 …
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| Phoebe Liu / Forbes: |
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 — The Stanford graduate built a fast-growing software company to automate what had previously been a manual process.
Twitter: @andrew__reed, @dadiomov, and @paulg
| Kevin J. Delaney / Charter: |
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
| Financial Times: |
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”.
More: The Korea Herald. Twitter: @adam_tooze, @michaelxpettis, @financialtimes, and @joel_p_atkinson
| Maria Heeter / The Information: |
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 — A group of investors led by Apollo Global Management is making a more than $1 billion debt investment in Wolfspeed …
More: Bloomberg, WRAL TechWire, Coinspeaker, Reuters, and MarketWatch
Twitter: @heetermaria and @heetermaria
| Wall Street Journal: |
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| Hope King / Axios: |
Amazon plans to build a local delivery network in 23 states by tapping thousands of small US businesses, such as bodegas and florists, to deliver packages — Amazon plans to tap thousands of U.S. small businesses, from bodegas to florists, to deliver its packages by the end of the year, Axios is first to report.
Twitter: @hopeking
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