Techmeme: How Apple is readying the Vision Pro to ship in 2024 and a look at its Mac plans, including upgrading its lineup to M3 and early work on a 30"-or-larger iMac (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:

How Apple is readying the Vision Pro to ship in 2024 and a look at its Mac plans, including upgrading its lineup to M3 and early work on a 30"-or-larger iMac — After debuting the Vision Pro, Apple is working on finishing up the device's software, expanding testing and finalizing the rollout strategy.

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Twitter: @markgurman, @aapltree, and @gartenberg

Forums: r/hardware, r/apple, and MacRumors Forums

New York Times:

As the use of AI-generated ads in political campaigns increases globally, consultants, election researchers, and lawmakers push for setting up new guardrails — Gaps in campaign rules allow politicians to spread images and messaging generated by increasingly powerful artificial intelligence technology.

More: Insider. Bluesky: @toddgregory.bsky.social. Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. Twitter: @kevinokeefe, @erikbryn, and @nytimes

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Yuval Mann / Ynetnews:

An interview with early Waze investors Yahal Zilka and Ehud Levy on why they invested, the impact of Google's acquisition on Israel's tech industry, and more — The disregard for map companies, the dilemma between BlackBerry and iPhone, the indifference on the part of Tim Cook …

More: Post News. Twitter: @noam, @thomasbcn, @mike_arias, @sarthakgh, @yewiedewie, and @andrewchen

Nina Jankowicz / The Atlantic:

While there are effective laws outlawing the sharing of nonconsensual deepfake porn in some states, such as Virginia and California, the US needs a federal law — Because I was in the public eye, somebody synthesized explicit videos of me. — Recently, a Google Alert informed me that I am the subject of deepfake pornography.

More: MIT Technology Review. LinkedIn: Nina Jankowicz. Bluesky: @amandamarcotte.bsky.social. Twitter: @vanbadham, @wiczipedia, and @kattenbarge

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

IBM plans to acquire cloud IT management startup Apptio for $4.6B in cash from Vista Equity Partners, which paid $1.94B to take Apptio private in 2018 — As cloud architecture continues to more ubiquitous among organizations, increasingly what is more apparent is that many organizations …

More: IBM, FinSMEs, Reuters, Bloomberg, Barron's Online, Tech Monitor, WRAL TechWire, The Information, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, iTnews, Wall Street Journal, and MarketWatch

Phoebe Liu / Forbes:

A profile of Christina Cacioppo, the co-founder and CEO of data security compliance startup Vanta, which has an ~$80M ARR, a $1.6B valuation, and raised $203M — The Stanford graduate built a fast-growing software company to automate what had previously been a manual process.

Twitter: @andrew__reed, @dadiomov, and @paulg

Kevin J. Delaney / Charter:

Q&A with Microsoft's Jared Spataro on AI tools advancing knowledge work, increasing worker creativity, being “usefully wrong”, automating work away, and more — Microsoft over the past few years has released some of the most interesting research about how people work …

Bluesky: @fudge.org

Financial Times:

A profile of Korean chip engineer Choi Jin-seok, who embarked on a quixotic mission to lead China's industry after his career stalled and faces IP theft charges — In 2006, a Korean engineer called Choi Jin-seok achieved a feat that earned him the nickname “master of semiconductor yield”.

More: The Korea Herald. Twitter: @adam_tooze, @michaelxpettis, @financialtimes, and @joel_p_atkinson

Maria Heeter / The Information:

Source: a group of investors led by Apollo Global Management plans to make a $1B+ debt investment in US-based chipmaker Wolfspeed, which has a $6B market cap — A group of investors led by Apollo Global Management is making a more than $1 billion debt investment in Wolfspeed …

More: Bloomberg, WRAL TechWire, Coinspeaker, Reuters, and MarketWatch

Twitter: @heetermaria and @heetermaria

Wall Street Journal:

Databricks agrees to acquire generative AI startup MosaicML in a ~$1.3B deal closing in Q2; MosaicML launched in 2021, raised $64M, and has 62 employees — The deal aims at connecting businesses' data with services to help them build their own, cheaper language models, Databricks CEO says

More: Reuters, PR Newswire, and MosaicML. Thanks:@lindsayklife

Hope King / Axios:

Amazon plans to build a local delivery network in 23 states by tapping thousands of small US businesses, such as bodegas and florists, to deliver packages — Amazon plans to tap thousands of U.S. small businesses, from bodegas to florists, to deliver its packages by the end of the year, Axios is first to report.

Twitter: @hopeking

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