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Sources: the EU plans to fine Apple around €500M for allegedly breaking EU law over access to music streaming services, following a 2019 complaint by Spotify — Move is culmination of long-running European Commission antitrust probe after a complaint by Spotify
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple Store sources: Vision Pro returns are between average and above average compared to other products; in-store demo conversion rate is as high as 10% to 15% — The Apple Vision Pro has now been available for two weeks — and some of Apple's most dedicated customers are returning the device to get back their $3,500.
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| Michael Crider / PCWorld: |
SPEC invalidates 2,600 benchmark results for some Intel Xeon CPUs, saying their compiler artificially inflated the results of its benchmark by as much as 9% — Benchmarks, while inherently contentious and not always representative of real-world performance, are an important tool in any kind of quantitative evaluation.
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| Zeke Faux / Bloomberg: |
A Florida court filing accuses the Bahamas-based Deltec Bank of giving Alameda Research a short-term line of credit worth billions of dollars to buy Tether — - Deltec is alleged to have provided a short-term line of credit — Court documents suggest a tighter web than previously known
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| Christine Chung / New York Times: |
How the expansion of facial recognition tech at US airports is transforming the way travelers move through them, from checking a bag to boarding the plane — Biometric technology is expanding at airports across the United States — and the world — and transforming the way we move through them … | Can Emir / Interesting Engineering: |
Amsterdam-based Monumental, which is developing AI-powered bricklaying robots, emerges from stealth and raised $25M co-led by Plural and Hummingbird — Monumental, a trailblazing robotics startup, has raised $25 million in funding co-led by Plural and Hummingbird.
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| Matt Barnum / Wall Street Journal: |
Hands-on with Khan Academy's ChatGPT-powered AI tutoring bot Khanmigo, which frequently makes basic arithmetic errors, as Khan Academy works to improve accuracy — Khanmigo, a ChatGPT-powered bot, made frequent calculation errors during a Journal reporter's test| Alec Russell / Financial Times: |
A look at the impact of Russia's invasion on Ukraine's tech center Kharkiv; of the 511 tech companies in the city before February 2022, 500 are still operating — Ukraine's entrepreneurs and engineers show how to keep going during extreme disruption — Andriy Dekhtyar was in the closing stages … | Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with Irene Solaiman, the head of global policy at Hugging Face, on her advice for women seeking to enter AI, the best way to responsibly build AI, and more — To give AI-focused women academics and others their well-deserved — and overdue — time in the spotlight … | Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with Laela Sturdy, the head of Alphabet's growth stage venture arm CapitalG, about its decision-making process, AI strategy, Stripe's valuation, and more — Almost a year ago, Alphabet's growth stage venture arm, CapitalG, named partner Laela Sturdy as its new head, just as the unit's founder, David Lawee, stepped down.| Richard Nieva / Forbes: |
A look at Nvidia's AI startup investments through Nventures and its corporate development team, deals that come with intangibles, like access to research teams — The trillion-dollar chipmaker has done over two dozen deals, through its Nventures investing arm and corporate development team.
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
An interview with Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, co-founders of conversational AI startup Sierra, on using several AI models at once, building AI agents, and more — Sierra hopes every company will use its empathetic AI chatbots for customer interactions. — I might have inadvertently … Sponsor Posts
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