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Sources: Apple has sharply scaled back Vision Pro production since early summer, and could stop making the existing version entirely by the end of 2024 — Apple has sharply scaled back production of its Vision Pro mixed reality headset since the early summer and could stop making …
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Sources: the US DOJ warned Elon Musk's America PAC in recent days that his $1M sweepstakes to registered voters in swing states may violate federal law — The Justice Department warned Elon Musk's America PAC in recent days that his $1 million sweepstakes to registered voters in swing states …
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| Paige Smith / Bloomberg: |
The US CFPB says Goldman Sachs and Apple will pay $89M following a long-running Apple Card investigation; Goldman must pay $64.8M and Apple must pay $25M — - Watchdog cites customer service breakdowns, misrepresentations — Goldman banned from new credit cards without ‘credible’ plan
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| Nduka Orjinmo / Bloomberg: |
Nigeria drops charges against Binance executive Tigran Gambaryan, detained since February 2024; sources say the case was discontinued due to his ill health — How Uber and Lyft Used a Loophole to Deny NYC Drivers Millions in Pay … Hello World| Reuters: |
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says a flaw in Blackwell AI chips that impacted production has been fixed with TSMC's help and the issue was “100% Nvidia's fault” — Nvidia (NVDA.O) CEO Jensen Huang said on Wednesday a design flaw with its latest Blackwell AI chips which impacted production … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple nears production of MacBook Airs with M4 for release in early 2025, slightly delays M4 Mac Studio, and plans new entry-level iPads for the spring — - Company slightly delays next Mac Studio desktop with M4 chip — Preparations in place to launch new MacBook Air early in 2025
More: MacRumors, Macworld, The Verge, AppleInsider, and 9to5Mac
| Washington Post: |
A profile of Nicole Shanahan, the ex-wife of Sergey Brin and a rising MAGA star; sources: Shanahan and Brin's marriage drove a wedge between Brin and Larry Page — With a massive divorce settlement from Google co-founder Sergey Brin, the former Democrat and RFK Jr. running mate is remaking herself …
More: Australian Financial Review and New York Post
Threads: @pkafka. X: @seamushughes, @billkuchman, @merylkornfield, @bigmeaninternet, @pkafka, @nkulw, @ashleyrparker, @nitashatiku, @wexler, and @_cingraham
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Apple releases iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS 15.2 developer betas, with features like Genmoji, Image Playground, Visual Intelligence, and ChatGPT integration — Apple Intelligence just keeps on coming. — The first batch of features in Apple's much-hyped entry into the artificial intelligence boom …
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| Ming-Chi Kuo: |
Kuo: Apple has cut iPhone 16 orders by ~10M units for Q4 2024 and H1 2025, mostly non-Pro models, and plans 8.6M iPhone SE 4 units from December 2024 to Q1 2025 — - iPhone 16 orders were cut by around 10M units for 4Q24-1H25, with most of the cuts affecting non-Pro models.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google makes SynthID Text, which lets developers watermark and detect text generated by AI models, generally available — Google is making SynthID Text, its technology that lets developers watermark and detect text generated by generative AI models, generally available.| Jennifer Pattison Tuohy / The Verge: |
Amazon-owned Eero unveils the $350 Eero Outdoor 7, a dual-band 2.4 and 5Ghz Wi-Fi 7 access point that covers up to 15,000 square feet with speeds up to 2.1Gbps — Mesh Wi-Fi pioneer Eero is tackling a new frontier: the outdoors. Today, the Amazon-owned company announced the Eero Outdoor 7.
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| Kevin Roose / New York Times: |
A mother sues Character.AI after her 14-year-old son became obsessed with a chatbot before his suicide; Character.AI says it plans new safety features — The mother of a 14-year-old Florida boy says he became obsessed with a chatbot on Character.AI before his death. — THE SHIFT
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| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
China says Tim Cook said Apple would “continue to grow its investments in China” in a meeting with its top tech official, during his second visit in 2024 — How Uber and Lyft Used a Loophole to Deny NYC Drivers Millions in Pay … Hello World … Quicktake| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Source: in mid-October, TSMC halted shipments to a client after it discovered that chips fabricated for that entity had found their way into Huawei products — - TSMC halted shipments immediately after discovery this month — The company has notified Taipei, Washington as it investigates| Ian King / Bloomberg: |
Document: Arm is canceling a license that let Qualcomm use Arm's intellectual property to design chips, escalating the legal dispute between the companies — - Arm sued its longtime partner for breach of contract in 2022 — The company gave Qualcomm a 60-day notice of cancellation
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| Karissa Bell / Engadget: |
Meta's Oversight Board says it has “serious concerns” about Meta's moderation in “electoral contexts”, after Meta removed a satirical image of Harris and Walz — It warned Meta that “overenforcing” its rules could “lead to the excessive removal of political speech.”
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| Cade Metz / New York Times: |
Suchir Balaji, who spent four years at OpenAI, says OpenAI's use of copyrighted data violated the law and ChatGPT damages the internet; he left in August 2024 — Suchir Balaji spent nearly four years as an artificial intelligence researcher at OpenAI. Among other projects … | Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Chemistry, a new VC firm by Index, Bessemer, and a16z alums Mark Goldberg, Ethan Kurzweil, and Kristina Shen, raised $350M for its debut, Series A-focused fund — Mark Goldberg, Ethan Kurzweil and Kristina Shen left top jobs at blue chip VC firms to launch Chemistry, a new equal partnership focused on backing Series A startups.
More: Crunchbase News and Chemistry
| Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: |
Claude Sonnet 3.5 hands-on: the AI understood a basic game and its mechanics, had a strategy, was willing to revise it based on learning, but fragilities remain — Some quick impressions of an actual agent — There seems to be near-universal belief in AI that agents are the next big thing.
More: Anthropic on YouTube, CNET, Forbes, Interconnects, TechPowerUp, Business Insider, TechCrunch, and Anthropic
| Joseph Cox / 404 Media: |
Privacy advocates leak hours of footage of Locate X, a global, warrantless phone tracking tool made by Babel Street and used by US agencies like ICE and CBP — This article was produced with support from the Capitol Forum. — On a computer screen a map shows the movements of smartphones around the globe.
More: NOTUS, The Verge, al.com, and TidBITS
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| Joanna Stern / Wall Street Journal: |
An interview with Craig Federighi on the launch of Apple Intelligence features like notification summaries in iOS 18.1, Siri, Apple's AI strategy, and more — Our columnist reviews the first wave of AI features coming to iPhones with iOS 18.1, and asks Apple's software chief why so much is still missing
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India's Supreme Court strikes down a tribunal order that let Byju's settle debts with India's cricket board, pushing the edtech startup firmly toward insolvency — - India Supreme Court rejects deal approved by appeals tribunal — Firm fighting for its life in courts after business dried up| Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: |
Adobe makes Fresco, its dedicated drawing and painting app, free to users, removing a subscription for premium features, to compete with Procreate and others — Adobe is attempting to lure illustrators to join its creative software platform by making its dedicated drawing and painting app entirely free for everyone.
More: The Adobe Blog, How-To Geek, The Tech Basic, Neowin, Engadget, Creative Bloq, iClarified, and MakeUseOf
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