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Sources: the production of a cheaper Vision Pro has been delayed beyond 2027, meaning Apple's only new headset in 2025 will be a Vision Pro with an M5 chip — As I understand it, production of the cheaper Vision Pro has been delayed beyond 2027 for a while now. This means Apple's only new head-mounted display device in 2025 will be the Vision Pro with an upgraded M5 processor. I think what really drove Apple to delay the cheaper
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: iOS 18.2 may arrive during the week of December 2; thoughts on the Mac mini as a gaming device, the Pixelmator deal, Q4 earnings, and Peloton's new CEO — The new Mac mini could become Apple's long-awaited answer to the PlayStation and Xbox. Also: The company's next AI features …
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| Politico: |
A single $123M grant has been finalized from the $33B+ announced so far under the US CHIPS Act, which is facing criticism on both sides of the political aisle — The $39 billion high-tech subsidy plan was supposed to come with guardrails. Progressives worry those are dissolving before their eyes.
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| Stephen Groves / Associated Press: |
US House Speaker Mike Johnson says the GOP “probably will” try to repeal the CHIPS Act, but then walks it back, saying the GOP may “further streamline” the bill — House Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that Republicans “probably will” try to repeal legislation …
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| Hamid Ganji / Neowin: |
Geekbench 6: Apple's M4 Max chip scores 4,060 in single-core tests, making it the first production CPU to cross 4,000, and scores 26,675 in multi-core tests — After months of swirling rumors, Apple revealed its new Mac devices with updated M4 chips last week.| Cory Doctorow / Pluralistic: |
Why Bluesky not adding the federation systems that would let users leave the Bluesky server and take their community to other hosts can cause “enshittification” — - Bluesky and enshittification: No one is the enshittifier of their own story. — Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
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| Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson / Financial Times: |
An interview with Steve Ballmer on trying to turn USAFacts, his not-for-profit civic initiative, into a source of dispassionate statistics to inform US voters — Former Microsoft boss seeks to build better democracy with data — Elon Musk has used his ownership of X to promote Donald Trump's re-election …
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
Experts say Tesla's imitation learning-based approach to building fully autonomous driving systems needs AI breakthroughs that may not be achieved for some time — Tesla is pushing to build true self-driving vehicles by 2026. The way its CEO wants to do it seems risky.| Sarah Kessler / New York Times: |
Q&A with Kay Koplovitz about her transition to VC with Springboard after the sale of USA Networks, why women-led startups are underestimated, DEI, and more — Kay Koplovitz still remembers her first negotiation. Her family was moving from one suburb of Milwaukee to another in the middle … | David Pierce / The Verge: |
Amazon's plan to rearchitect Alexa around LLMs could finally help Alexa understand what users are trying to do and end the awkward syntax needed to use Skills — Ten years ago, Amazon imagined a future beyond apps — and it had the idea basically right. But the perfect ambient computer remains frustratingly far away.
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| Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Microsoft CFO Amy Hood, a budget hawk who has been in the position for 11 years and is at the center of the bet-the-company on AI spending spree — Amy Hood is at the center of Microsoft's bet-the-company dive into AI
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| Devin Gordon / New York Times: |
AI in Hollywood is a tech leap with a vast impact but remains a tool, not a replacement, for creatives; its speed, quality, and cost allow for VFX breakthroughs — The Los Angeles headquarters of Metaphysic, a Hollywood visual-effects start-up that uses artificial intelligence …
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