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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple starts selling the Vision Pro in the US; Tim Cook compares Vision Pro debut to the birth of Mac, iPod, and iPhone in a memo to employees — Apple Inc. faithful lined up at its US stores on Friday to pick up the first Vision Pro headsets, ushering in what the company calls “the era of spatial computing.”
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Interviews with Disney executives about Apple Vision Pro, how the device is changing the studio's production pipelines, future plans for the device, and more — Years in the works, the new Disney+ app has an immersive new twist. But the company sees it as one small step into a new entertainment medium with rich possibilities.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple details Vision Pro's Bluetooth accessories support, saying it isn't compatible with Bluetooth mice but works with the Magic Trackpad and most keyboards — Apple has published a new support document today detailing more about Vision Pro's support for Bluetooth accessories.| AJ Vicens / CyberScoop: |
The US Treasury sanctions six Iranian government officials for their role in targeting devices at a Pennsylvania water utility in November 2023 — The Iranian attack targeted a device manufactured by an Israeli company. — The U.S. Treasury Department on Friday announced sanctions … | Financial Times: |
China-based advertisers now account for 10% of Meta's annual revenue and contributed 5 percentage points to its total worldwide revenue growth — The US group has benefited from huge but unsustainable outlays from Chinese advertisers — Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp may be banned in China.| Subrat Patnaik / Bloomberg: |
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| Aarian Marshall / Wired: |
Records show Apple's secretive auto unit almost quadrupled its self-driving miles on public roads in 2023, compared to 2022, jumping 2021's total by over 30x — Government records show Apple's secretive auto division almost quadrupled its self-driving miles in 2023.| Ryotaro Yamada / Nikkei Asia: |
Analysis: ByteDance spent $8.74M on US lobbying activities in 2023, up 77% YoY, and Shein spent $2.12M, up 7.6x from 2022, amid rising US-China trade tensions — Chinese firms seek to minimize effects of alarm over bilateral tensions — ByteDance increased its lobbying spending by 77% in 2023 over the previous year.
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| Anne Steele / Wall Street Journal: |
Spotify and Joe Rogan sign a new multiyear deal, estimated to be worth $250M; Rogan's show will be available across podcast platforms and as videos on YouTube — Hit show to be distributed broadly, including on YouTube, rather than exclusively on audio-streaming service
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| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Meta's Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) lab, which is responsible for Llama, is made up largely of women; sources say ~60% of FAIR's leadership team are women — In the high stakes, brutally competitive AI race, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has been an outlier. While most of the big foundation … | Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Hugging Face launches HuggingChat Assistants, allowing users to create customized AI chatbots with specific capabilities using LLMs like Mixtral or Llama2 — Hugging Face, the New York City-based startup that offers a popular, developer-focused repository for open source AI code and frameworks …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Synergy: enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services was ~$74B in Q4 2023, up 20% YoY, and $5.6B over Q3 2023, the largest QoQ increase ever achieved — For the last several quarters we've seen a lull in the expansion of the cloud infrastructure market, with lower growth numbers … | Reuters: |
Nayib Bukele doubles down on BTC despite El Salvador's economic woes and IMF asking for BTC's removal as legal tender; 88% of citizens didn't use BTC in 2023 — James and Nicki Malcolm moved to El Salvador from New Zealand to be part of a bitcoin dream sold by President Nayib Bukele in 2021 …
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| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
More than 100 human rights and LGBTQ groups and many kids condemn the Kids Online Safety Act after the January 31 hearing, saying it is “to control information” — Gen Z TikTokers, LGBTQ organizations and free speech advocates react angrily to Wednesday's hearing
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| Juro Osawa / The Information: |
Sources: Baidu Venture is in talks to sell its stakes in US startups, including AI robotics startup Machina Labs, to US buyers, as US-China relations sour — A venture capital firm backed by Chinese internet firm Baidu is in talks to sell a portfolio of stakes in a range of U.S. startups … | William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
Tim Cook says that Apple is spending “a tremendous amount of time and effort” on AI features and the company plans to detail its ongoing work “later this year” — Tim Cook says that Apple is spending “a tremendous amount of time and effort” on AI features that will be announced in the coming months.
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