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Sources: Apple and Google are in active talks to use Gemini to power some new iPhone features in 2024; Apple also held talks with OpenAI to use its models — - Companies considering AI deal that would build on search pact — Apple also recently held discussions with OpenAI about deal
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| Financial Times: |
Filings: in December 2023, Reddit canceled CEO Steve Huffman's pay incentives tied to hitting a $25B valuation, signaling reduced hopes for a blockbuster IPO — Social media company cancels Steve Huffman's performance awards based on hitting $25bn market value
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| Paresh Dave / Wired: |
Reviewing Reddit's IPO filings: signs of stalling user growth, struggles to grow overseas, a dependence on Google, wooing brands, a new Class C stock, and more — WIRED reviewed edits made by Reddit to its IPO filings over the years ahead of its stock market debut this week. Here are seven big takeaways.| Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Reddit co-founder Steve Huffman, who blends the personal and professional as CEO and plans to test a tepid IPO market for the unprofitable company — Steve Huffman built the social-media platform nearly two decades ago while in college. Now he's taking it public … | Echo Wang / Reuters: |
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xAI open sources the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1, a 314B parameter Mixture-of-Experts model, under the Apache 2.0 license — We are releasing the base model weights and network architecture of Grok-1, our large language model. Grok-1 is a 314 billion parameter Mixture …
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| Paul Tassi / Forbes: |
Respawn and EA postpone the North American Finals of Apex Legends, after an unknown user hacked the game and gave pros hacks like aimbots during the event — Something rather terrifying has disrupted the North American Finals of Apex Legends, and players are now starting to potentially worry …
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| Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Sony pauses PlayStation VR2 production, which hit 2M+ since February 2023, to clear unsold inventory; Sony recently confirmed testing PSVR2 PC support — - $550 accessory has suffered from lack of compelling content — Sony testing PC compatibility to expand gadget's appeal
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
A look at issues and monetization options for CarPlay; sources say Apple plans to produce 20M-25M units of the entry and mid-tier AirPods launching in fall 2024 — Apple's new CarPlay interface was originally designed to fend off Android, but now it's Apple's last hope to conquer the automotive industry.
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| Allison Johnson / The Verge: |
Qualcomm unveils the Snapdragon 8S Gen 3, aiming to bring most 8 Gen 3 features, including on-device AI models, to mid-range smartphones in the “coming months” — Qualcomm just launched a new chipset that's designed to sit just below its current flagship in terms of capabilities and price.
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| Rachel Graf / Bloomberg: |
A US judge rules Apple must face a class-action suit over AirTag stalking, as three plaintiffs made sufficient negligence and liability claims under CA law — - Judge says three plaintiffs made sufficient negligence claims — Apple had argued it couldn't be held responsible for misuse
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| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
At an EU DMA hearing, an Apple lawyer fended off criticism over DMA compliance; Meta, Amazon, Alphabet, ByteDance, and Microsoft will now have similar hearings — Apple (AAPL.O) on Monday fended off criticism that it has not done enough to open up its closed eco-system as required under …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google quietly refreshes its Fitbit branding, changing from “Fitbit by Google” to “Google Fitbit”, similar to Google Pixel and Google Nest — With the Sense 2 and Versa 4 announcement in August of 2022, the “Fitbit by Google” branding emerged. That's now going away in favor of just “Google Fitbit.”
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