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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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| Michael Burkhardt / 9to5Mac: |
Gurman: Apple is working on a MacBook Pro overhaul featuring a thinner design, but it probably won't be released until 2026 following delays in display tech — According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, Apple will be releasing a ‘total redesign’ for MacBook Pro in 2026.| @mingchikuo: |
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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| 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: |
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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 …
X: @edgecliffe
| 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.
More: The Verge, The Ambient, The Verge, and The Verge
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Google Cloud's Q3 revenue grew 35% YoY to $11.35B and had a 17% operating margin, outpacing AWS' 19% YoY revenue growth to $27.45B and its 38% operating margin — With Wall Street laser focused on cloud computing this week, Google outpaced its rivals in growth, a key sign for investors … | Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Interviews with Amazon Health Services SVP Neil Lindsay and others on the company's health care business, its PillPack and One Medical acquisitions, and more — In November 2021, Neil Lindsay was named to head Amazon's health business. It wasn't because of his medical expertise. He didn't have any.Sponsor Posts
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