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| Victoria Song / The Verge: |
Google unveils Android XR, a mixed reality OS for headsets and smart glasses, with Gemini built in, and plans a 2025 debut with Samsung's Project Moohan headset — I demoed Google's new Android XR platform, Samsung's Project Moohan, and prototype smart glasses. I felt as close to Tony Stark in a controlled demo as I'll ever be.
More: The Keyword, Android Developers on YouTube, Samsung Newsroom, Android Developers Blog, Ars Technica, TechRadar, The Verge, Android Police, Android Police, Android Authority, 9to5Google, Financial Times, Android Police, AndroidGuys, XR Today, MobileSyrup, MIXED Reality News, TechEBlog, SlashGear, UploadVR, TalkAndroid.com, Road to VR, Irish News, Neowin, The Shortcut, Liliputing, Android Headlines, BGR, Patently Apple, The Independent, How-To Geek, UploadVR, Droid Life, Android Authority, SamMobile, Phandroid, Sammy Fans, Gizmodo, Tom's Guide, Android Authority, Android Central, Android Central, Road to VR, Road to VR, Droid Life, Engadget, UploadVR, ZDNET, TechCrunch, Android Authority, Yahoo Finance, Lowpass, and MacDailyNews
Bluesky: @omershapira.com, @cloudraven.dev, @openbrush.app, @openxr, @liveviewnative.dev, @vicmsong, @bdsams.com, and @patbits
Mastodon: @thekhronosgroup@fosstodon.org and @stroughtonsmith …
Threads: @benedictevans and @parkerortolani
X: @bilawalsidhu, @benz145, @cesarberardini, @tom_krikorian, @bilawalsidhu, @mishaalrahman, @android, @firt, @mishaalrahman, @openxr, @spatiallyme, @mishaalrahman, @kentbye, @spatialbiggs, @mishaalrahman, @dylanmcd8, @qualcomm, @mishaalrahman, @qualcomm, @dylanmcd8, @dmarcos, @androiddev, @gwanatu, @android, @sherbondy, @justonpayne, @lunayian, @ericmasher, @jasonhowell, @sherbondy, @bdsams, @izadi_shahram, @lunayian, @andybiar, @gwanatu, @nathievr, and @xreal_global
LinkedIn: Mario Anima, Juston P., Chao Guo, Rasekh Rifaat, Sameer Samat, Aaron Luber, Lolu Bodunwa, Benjamin Hersh, Federico Tombari, Hector Galindo, Poorva Gupta, Shahram Izadi, Kira Rich, Guru Somadder, Lucy Jin, and Carlos Vinueza
Forums: Hacker News, r/Android, r/augmentedreality, r/VITURE, and r/singularity
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Hands-on with Samsung's Project Moohan headset: lighter and more comfortable than Apple's Vision Pro, Android XR is highly reminiscent of visionOS, and more — - Google aims to mimic phone success with Android XR software — Samsung headset coming next year with Vision Pro-like features
More: Road to VR, 9to5Mac, UploadVR, CNET, Android Police, PYMNTS.com, Agence France-Presse, CNET on YouTube, MacRumors, Digital Trends, The Information, Wired, 9to5Google, Chrome Unboxed, The Shortcut, Android Headlines, Cult of Mac, PhoneArena, SamMobile, and 9to5Google
X: @markgurman, @markgurman, @justidude, @sadlyitsbradley, @sadlyitsbradley, @leakerapple, @dylanmcd8, @markgurman, @markgurman, @mishaalrahman, @heaney555, @mkbhd, @markgurman, @mkbhd, @thegalox_, @dwr, @dylanmcd8, @cixliv, @javonevansx, @kentbye, @tom_krikorian, @jetscott, @lunayian, @dilmerv, @scobleizer, and @kentbye. LinkedIn: Carson Taylor
Forums: r/gadgets, r/technology, and r/virtualreality
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to debut its Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip in Apple TV and HomePod mini refreshes in 2025, in iPhones later in 2025, and iPads and Macs by 2026 — - Company developing Proxima chip in separate move from modems — New component will be part of Apple TV box and HomePod updates
More: Reuters, Tom's Guide, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Macworld, iClarified, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Neowin, BGR, Thurrott, and Motley Fool
Forums: Slashdot and MacRumors Forums
| TechCrunch: |
Sources: Yahoo laid off or lost via attrition 40 to 50 people from its 200-strong cybersecurity team in 2024, as it outsources its “red team” under its new CTO — Zack Whittaker Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai — Yahoo laid off around 25% of its cybersecurity team … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
ServiceTitan's shares closed up 42.25% at $101 in its Nasdaq debut, giving the cloud software provider an ~$8.9B market cap after it raised ~$625M in its IPO — ServiceTitan shares popped 42% in their Nasdaq debut on Thursday after the provider of cloud software to contractors raised around $625 million in its initial public offering.
More: The Information, Inc, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Bloomberg, Forbes, CNBC Television on YouTube, Cautious Optimism, Bloomberg, CNBC Television on YouTube, TechCrunch, Bloomberg Technology on YouTube, The Information, Fortune, Los Angeles Business Journal, Barron's Online, SiliconANGLE, Axios, Los Angeles Times, Axios, and Financial Times
Bluesky: @chirag. X: @griffith_will, @alexrkonrad, @ldarmiento, @bdeeter, @ravi_lsvp, @brendanfwallace, @bdeeter, @batteryventures, @richardjnieva, @nasdaqexchange, @annarchyy, @squawkcnbc, @michaelmbrown, @laurenbalik, @tanayj, @griffith_will, @afc, @mikebucella, @iconiqgrowth, @bessemervp, and @indexventures
| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon plans to donate $1M to Trump's inaugural fund and stream the inauguration through Prime Video; a source says “Bezos is donating through Amazon” — Amazon.com is planning a $1 million donation to president-elect Donald Trump's inaugural fund … | Avram Piltch / Tom's Hardware: |
Microsoft's new version of Recall appears to still capture sensitive data like credit card numbers, even with the default “sensitive information” filter enabled — Despite promising to filter personal data out, Recall still captures it. … The new version of Recall encrypts …
More: Windows Copilot News, Laptop Mag, XDA Developers, The Verge, Tom's Guide, Digital Trends, and WinBuzzer
Bluesky: @timkellogg.me. Mastodon: @tertle950@kitty.social, @leeloo@techhub.social, @monkee@chaos.social, and @Fat_Farang@mastodon.social
Forums: Hacker News, r/Windows11, r/pcmasterrace, r/privacy, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
OpenAI releases Advanced Voice Mode with vision for ChatGPT Plus, Team, and Pro subscribers, letting them share their screen or videos for ChatGPT to respond to — OpenAI has finally released the real-time video capabilities for ChatGPT that it demoed nearly seven months ago.
More: OpenAI on YouTube, Ars Technica, TechRadar, Axios, Mashable, WUSA, The Decoder, 9to5Mac, Bloomberg, MakeUseOf, Quartz, TechEBlog, WinBuzzer, and How-To Geek
Bluesky: @nealunger. X: @openai, @openai, @caromcc_, @sama, @stevenheidel, @gdb, @shuchaobi, @kevinweil, @_alice_evans, and @edkrassen
| Erin Griffith / New York Times: |
An interview with Evan Williams on his new app Mozi, which raised $6M and aims to foster in-person connections, as a return to social media's original intention — Evan Williams's new app, Mozi, is aimed at fostering in-real-life connections.Carolyn Fong for The New York Times
More: Ev Williams, Daring Fireball, and A Whole Lotta Nothing
Bluesky: @bijansabet.com, @ering, @sippey.com, @knguyen, @timfernholz, @natepentz, @couts, and @chaykak
X: @joshuaogundu, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, @ev, and @jsmarr
| Kritika Lamba / Reuters: |
Vapi, which helps businesses deploy AI-powered voice agents, raised a $20M Series A from Bessemer, Y Combinator, and others, a source says at a $130M valuation — Vapi, a San Francisco-based startup that helps businesses deploy artificial intelligence-powered voice agents … | Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Broadcom reports Q4 revenue up 51% YoY to $14.05B vs. $14.09B est., FY 2024 AI revenue up 220%, expects Q1 revenue just above est.; AVGO jumps 10%+ after hours — Broadcom reported better-than-expected fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday and said artificial intelligence revenue for the year more than tripled.
More: Reuters, Yahoo Finance, Seeking Alpha, MarketWatch, Wall Street Journal, Broadcom Inc., Investopedia, CNBC Television on YouTube, and Barron's Online
Bluesky: @firstadopter. X: @economyapp, @brandonvanzee, @danielnewmanuv, @thetranscript_, and @thetranscript_
| Pew Research Center: |
A survey of US teens aged 13 to 17 shows 73% use YouTube daily, 57% TikTok, 50% Instagram, and 20% Facebook; 17% use X daily, down from 23% in 2022 — YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat remain widely used among U.S. teens; some say they're on these sites almost constantly
More: Associated Press, PCMag, Business Insider, The Information, Social Media Today, Courthouse News Service, TechCrunch, The Independent, and The Verge
Bluesky: @rayminehane, @scriban, @conradhackett, @faineg, @rachelmcohen, and @adrianweckler
Threads: @npmigreg and @technicallymims
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Threads is testing collections of profiles to follow, curated by a “handful of Threads community leaders”, built around topics like fashion, food, and books — Meta's Threads is getting another feature seemingly inspired by Bluesky: curated groups of accounts that you can follow all at once.
More: TechCrunch, Neowin, Engadget, Social Media Today, and PhoneArena
Bluesky: @om.co, @durumcrustulum.com, @edzitron.com, @birchtree.me, @lauraolin, and @o.simardcasanova.net. Mastodon: @joesteel@duck.haus
Threads: @mosseri, @guillecummings, @nycolehampton, @matthewfacciani, @jackcarterbenjamin, @mosseri, @quillmatiq, @quillmatiq, @digiphile, and @theromit
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft launches Phi-4, a 14B-parameter language model that it says outperforms comparable and larger models, like Gemini Pro 1.5, in mathematical reasoning — Microsoft launched a new artificial intelligence model today that achieves remarkable mathematical reasoning capabilities …
More: Microsoft Tech Community, TechCrunch, Maginative, and Microsoft
X: @peteratmsr, @iscienceluvr, and @sebastienbubeck
| Matt Yoder / Awful Announcing: |
YouTube tells YouTube TV customers that the base plan's monthly price will jump from $73 to $83 in January 2025, after raising it from $65 to $73 in March 2023 — Streaming services became a popular alternative to cable and satellite television because they were available for far cheaper with consumer-friendly options.
More: The Verge, Ars Technica, The Wrap, Associated Press, PhoneArena, Cord Cutters News, New York Times, New York Daily News, TechSpot, PCWorld, Dexerto, Proactive, MacRumors, BGR, MakeUseOf, The Desk, Wall Street Journal, Android Headlines, Hollywood Life, AFTVnews, RetailWire, Appleosophy, ZDNET, Pocket-lint, Sportico, and 9to5Google
Bluesky: @jimbo831, @carnage4life, @welch, @eshumarneedi.com, @bdsams.com, @mgsiegler.com, and @sarcosis.org. Threads: @chriswelch
| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Telefónica, one of the world's largest carriers, plans to preinstall the Epic Games Store on every new compatible Android phone it sells, including Samsung's — Telefónica, one of the largest carriers in the world serving the UK, Spain, Germany, and Latin America with the O2 … | Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple is selling a $120 Vision Pro comfort strap with modular counterweights, made by sleep apnea device maker ResMed, to address complaints about extended use — Aside from the $3500 starting price, there's one common complaint about Apple Vision Pro that most customers experience.
More: Resmed Inc and MacRumors
Threads: @markgurman. X: @greengart, @anshelsag, @sigjudge, @markgurman, and @markgurman. Forums: MacRumors Forums
| Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE: |
Crusoe Energy, which offers cost-effective generative AI compute at scale using clean energy, raised a $600M Series D led by Founders Fund at a $2.8B valuation — Crusoe Energy Systems LLC, a startup building data centers for artificial intelligence workloads, today announced it raised $600 million …
More: FinSMEs, Benzinga, Wall Street Journal, CRN, and Portland Business Journal
| Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: |
Gemini 2.0 Flash LLM early impressions: spatial reasoning performance is impressive, and its new streaming API is one of those “we live in the future” moments — Huge announcment from Google this morning: Introducing Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era.
More: The Keyword, The Independent, Bloomberg, and TechCrunch
X: @simonw, @sriramk, @simonw, @simonw, and @googledeepmind
LinkedIn: Greta Krupetsky, Haris Ioannou, and Emil Protalinski
Forums: r/singularity and r/Bard
| Kanishka Singh / Reuters: |
Texas AG Ken Paxton opens investigations into Character.AI, Reddit, Instagram, Discord, and 11 others over their privacy and safety practices for minors — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said on Thursday his office launched investigations into over a dozen technology platforms over their privacy and safety practices for minors.
More: The Record, Texas Attorney General, KXAN-TV, and Austin American-Statesman
X: @txag and @kenpaxtontx
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
YouTube removed the ability to click video titles in YouTube Player for Publishers; outlets give up ad revenue by using the standard player to link to YouTube — For about a year, I've gotten notes from readers asking why our YouTube embeds are broken in one very specific way … | FinSMEs: |
Adelaide-based Fleet Space, whose ExoSphere platform helps find minerals in space using AI, sensors, and more, raised a AU$150M Series D at a AU$800M+ valuation — Fleet Space Technologie s, an Adelaide, Australia-based space exploration company, raised USD$100M in Series D funding, at USD$525M valuation.
More: Fleet Space Technologies, TechCrunch, and SpaceNews
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Character.AI announces parental controls and an LLM for users under 18, after two US lawsuits claimed its chatbots contributed to users' self-harm and suicide — In an announcement today, Chatbot service Character.AI says it will soon be launching parental controls for teenage users …
More: Character.AI Blog, BBC, CBS News, Fox Business, Futurism, Android Headlines, and Ars Technica
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Sublime Security, which uses AI to scan companies' and political campaigns' emails for phishing, raised a $60M Series B, taking its total funding to $93.8M — Across the world, companies rely on Microsoft and Google to administer email accounts for employees. Keeping all those mailboxes secure, however, is a business opportunity.
More: FinSMEs and Sublime Security
LinkedIn: Trevor Nelson, Sara Mathes, Jordan King, and Shardul Shah
| Nic Fildes / Financial Times: |
Australia plans a levy on tech companies like Meta with $250M+ in local revenue to force them to pay publishers for journalism, after Meta quit the prior deal — Move is designed to close loophole after Meta walked away from existing deal to use media content
More: Reuters, BBC, The Guardian, Social Media Today, New York Post, theaustralian, B&T, 7NEWS, Mumbrella, and Crikey
Bluesky: @kint, @elizasorensen, @decryption, @virginiagewin, @kint, and @kint
Threads: @palzer0, @palzer0, @tamaleaver, and @mattnavarra
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