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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 …
More: MacRumors, Benzinga, Business Insider, Tom's Guide, The Tech Basic, The Verge, Laptop Mag, Tom's Hardware, MIXED Reality News, iPhone in Canada Blog, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Android Headlines, UploadVR, Cult of Mac, The Ankler, Wccftech, What Hi-Fi?, 9to5Mac, Spyglass, and Wall Street Pit
X: @amir, @zachdcarter, @oswaldvalue, @waynema, @yelix, @kantrowitz, @nkulw, @chrisharihar, and @rustybrick
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/wallstreetbets, and MacRumors Forums
| 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
More: Consumer Financial …, 9to5Mac, The Verge, PYMNTS.com, Reuters, Bloomberg Law, Engadget, How-To Geek, Washington Post, Yahoo Finance, Wall Street Journal, Gizmodo, NPR, MacRumors, Associated Press, Spokesman.com, Fox Business, Tech Xplore, Fast Company, Consumer Financial …, Cult of Mac, The Information, Fortune, Forbes, Channel NewsAsia, Neowin, New York Times, AppleInsider, Quartz, CNBC, CBS News, Tech Startups, Finextra, CNN, and Financial Times
X: @rsgnl, @ashleygjovik, @chopracfpb, @chopracfpb, and @chopracfpb. LinkedIn: David Herpers. Forums: r/AppleCard
| 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.
More: Investor's Business Daily, Business Insider, Seeking Alpha, AppleInsider, PhoneArena, Forexlive, MacRumors, Forbes, 9to5Mac, CNBC, Benzinga, iPhone in Canada Blog, Patently Apple, GuruFocus, and ZeroHedge News
X: @mingchikuo, @amitisinvesting, @deitaone, @spercharged, @htsfhickey, @mingchikuo, @stockmarketnerd, @elg, and @susanlitv. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Six Colors: |
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 …
More: MacRumors, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Macworld, 9to5Mac, Ars Technica, CNBC, 9to5Mac, CNET, 9to5Mac, CNET, The Verge, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Shortcut, Pocket-lint, iClarified, WinBuzzer, Cult of Mac, Daring Fireball, iPhone in Canada Blog, Yahoo Finance, The Decoder, TechRadar, Redmond Pie, BGR, MacStories, BGR, and BGR
Threads: @benedictevans. X: @markgurman, @markgurman, @classicii_mrmac, @nandoprince93, @mastermike88, @parkerortolani, and @brandonbutch
| 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, 9to5Mac, Cult of Mac, and MacDailyNews
| 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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Google open sources SynthID Text, which lets developers watermark and detect text generated by AI models, available under the Apache 2.0 license — Google is making SynthID Text, its technology that lets developers watermark and detect text generated by generative AI models, generally available.| CNN: |
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 …
More: NBC News, Gizmodo, Reuters, Bloomberg, CNBC, New York Times, and 24sight News
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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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LinkedIn: Scott Cunningham, Dr. Marisa Tschopp, Jack Raines, and Sean Manion
Forums: r/CharacterAI, r/ChatGPT, r/singularity, r/interestingasfuck, r/Futurology, and Slashdot
| 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
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| 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 … | 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| 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| 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.
More: About Amazon, How-To Geek, TechSpot, Tom's Hardware, Thurrott, Tom's Guide, Wired, and ZDNET
| 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: Krebs on Security, NOTUS, The Verge, al.com, and TidBITS
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X: @f4micom, @josephfcox, @byrontau, @taragolshan, and @anelsona
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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.”
More: Mashable, The Wrap, New York Post, Reuters, The Verge, and Oversight Board. Threads: @mattnavarra
| 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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Forums: Hacker News, r/NVDA_Stock, r/RISCV, r/hardware, r/Android, and Slashdot
| 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, DevOps.com, Forbes, Interconnects, TechCrunch, and Anthropic
X: @esyudkowsky, @mckaywrigley, @alexalbert__, @emollick, @hpc_guru, and @emollick. LinkedIn: Stephan Geering
| 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 … | 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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Threads: @markgurman and @joannastern
X: @mikeisaac and @joannastern
| 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
| Bloomberg: |
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
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Microsoft: Russia, China, and Iran are stepping up cyber-influence efforts on the US election; China has focused on down-ballot candidates and Congress members — Russia, Iran, and China are targeting the US election with an evolving array of influence operations in the last days of campaign season.
More: Microsoft On the Issues, New York Times, The Hill, Politico, Recorded Future, Dark Reading, Wall Street Journal, US News, Associated Press, CBS News, Newsweek, Times Of India on YouTube, Reuters, Neowin, Benzinga, Associated Press, CNN, Semafor, and Nextgov/FCW
X: @irnaenglish, @senatorheinrich, @brianjliston, @recordedfuture, @msftissues, @msftsecintel, and @msftsecintel
Forums: r/technology, r/inthenews, r/AnythingGoesNews, r/ParlerWatch, and r/politics
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