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Eight current and former Apple employees share concerns about the upcoming MR headset's $3,000 price, utility, and unproven market — The company is expected to unveil an augmented reality headset in a few months. Some employees wonder if the device makes sense for Apple.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple demoed its mixed reality headset, likely dubbed Reality Pro or Reality One, for a group of its top ~100 executives, ahead of their annual offsite — Apple's push into mixed reality will take years to pay off, with the company hoping the device follows the same trajectory as its smartwatch.
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Source: Elon Musk offers Twitter staff stock grants at a ~$20B valuation which, with a $13B debt, implies a $33B enterprise value, ~11x 2023's projected revenue — Elon Musk offered Twitter employees stock grants at a valuation of roughly $20 billion, said a person familiar with an email Musk sent to staff …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Microsoft releases Windows 10 Snip & Sketch and Windows 11 Snipping Tool updates to fix the “aCropalypse” bug used to reveal info edited out in some screenshots — Microsoft released an emergency security update for the Windows 10 and Windows 11 Snipping tool to fix the Acropalypse privacy vulnerability.
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| Taylor Lorenz / Washington Post: |
Hollywood and music industry insiders, actors, and others say a TikTok ban could seriously hurt their businesses and are scrambling to create contingency plans — The entertainment industry has become so reliant on TikTok that banning the app could hurt business, industry insiders say| Yoel Roth / Techdirt: |
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| Chloe Xiang / VICE: |
Microsoft researchers claim GPT-4 showed early signs of AGI and performance close to human levels in tasks spanning coding, medicine, law, psychology, and more — The eyebrow-raising claim from Microsoft—which is banking on GPT putting it ahead of Google—contrasts with the model's clear limitations.
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| Chloe Xiang / VICE: |
A look at the community of users who “jailbreak” GPT models to generate unfiltered content and see themselves as fighting back against OpenAI's closed policies — “The problem is when GPT-X is released and we are unable to discern its values since they are being decided behind the closed doors of AI companies.”
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| Adam Morgan McCarthy / The Block: |
The hacker of DeFi lending protocol Euler Finance has returned 58,737 ETH, worth ~$102M, from the 96K ETH stolen in a flash-loan attack on March 13; EUL up 27%+ — - The Euler hacker has returned 58,737 ETH from the 96,000 ETH stolen. — They previously returned 3,000 ETH.
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| Viola Zhou / Rest of World: |
A look at the Chinese social e-commerce app and women-friendly “lifestyle bible” Xiaohongshu, which has 200M MAUs and critics describe as a consumerist trap — Known as China's “lifestyle bible,” the social media platform is an aspirational living guide or a consumerist trap.
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| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
A profile of Atlanta-based Yellow Card, Africa's largest centralized crypto exchange, which has done ~$1.75B in transactions since 2019 and raised $57M — - Yellow Card is the largest centralized cryptocurrency exchange in Africa. — For its nearly 1.4 million users across the continent …
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| Will Knight / Wired: |
Norway-based 1X, which is developing humanoid robots, raised a $23.5M Series A2 led by the OpenAI Startup Fund with participation from Tiger Global and others — Autonomous machines are still too clumsy for delicate tasks. But humans can operate mechanical arms from afar, turning physical labor into remote work.
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| Joe Brock / Reuters: |
Sources: concerned about Chinese spying, the US helped SubCom win its $600M bid for an Asia-Europe subsea cable project through incentives and investor pressure — Subsea cables, which carry the world's data, are now central to the U.S.-China tech war. Washington, fearful of Beijing's spies …
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