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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple opens pre-orders for the Vision Pro, which has an M2 chip with an 8-core CPU and a 10-core GPU, 16GB of memory, and 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB storage options — Apple today finally shared additional tech specs for its Vision Pro headset following the start of pre-orders in the United States.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases Vision Pro accessories, including a travel case, a battery pack, and a Light Seal, all for $199 each, and Solo Knit and Dual Loop bands for $99 — Apple Vision Pro is now available for pre-order, and so are lots of accessories for Apple's first spatial computer. The price for most things?
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| Hartley Charlton / MacRumors: |
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| Bloomberg: |
Microsoft says Russia-linked group Midnight Blizzard hacked some employee emails beginning in November 2023; the same group breached SolarWinds as early as 2019 — - Nation-state spies previously conducted cyber-espionage on US — Targeted breaches hit Microsoft executives, cyber team
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sam Altman has held talks to raise billions, including $8B to $10B from Abu Dhabi-based G42, to set up a network of factories to manufacture chips — - Push reflects concern about potential semiconductor shortage — Project would involve working with major chipmaking companies
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| Josh Sisco / Politico: |
Sources: the US DOJ and FTC are discussing which agency can investigate the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership and which can probe companies for scraping web content — One of the most high-profile tech partnerships in years has drawn scrutiny from regulators, who currently can't pursue an investigation.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
YouTube Head of Gaming Leo Olebe was among the 100 employees that Google laid off from YouTube this week — When Google's YouTube video division confirmed 100 layoffs on Wednesday, Leo Olebe, who was head of YouTube Gaming, was among those let go. — Olebe was a longtime gaming executive … | Piotr Lipinski / Reuters: |
The EU Commission is seeking feedback on concessions Apple offered, including opening its Tap to Pay tech to third-party wallets for 10 years, to settle a probe — The European Commission is seeking feedback from rivals and customers on concessions Apple (AAPL.O) offered … | Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
X rolls out audio and video calling to Android, after launching on iOS in October 2023; all users can receive calls, but only Premium subscribers can place them — Elon Musk's own social network X is rolling out the ability to make audio and video calls directly from the app to its Android client.
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| Theo Wayt / The Information: |
Flexport raised $260M from Shopify, one of its biggest shareholders; Shopify sold its logistics business to Flexport in exchange for equity in 2023 — Flexport is raising $260 million from e-commerce software giant Shopify, one of its biggest shareholders, according to two people with direct knowledge …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Elon Musk's xAI has secured $500M in commitments from investors toward a $1B goal and is aiming for a valuation of $15B to $20B — - Grok maker aims for valuation of at least $15 billion — Investors in X, formerly Twitter, getting priority in round| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Rabbit's $199 AI device R1 will use Perplexity AI's tech to answer user queries; the first 100,000 R1 buyers will get one year of Perplexity Pro for free — One of the standout gadgets of this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES), the rabbit r1, will use Perplexity AI's tech to answer user queries …
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| Dan Ladden-Hall / The Daily Beast: |
Author Rie Kudan, this year's winner of Japan's prestigious Akutagawa Prize, reveals that ~5% of her book “quoted verbatim the sentences generated by” ChatGPT — One of the judges praised her winning book as being “flawless.” — At an award ceremony for one of Japan's …
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