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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple plans an appointment-only retail launch of the Vision Pro in the US in early 2024, starting with stores in NYC, LA, and other major cities  —  Apple Inc. is planning a retail launch of its Vision Pro headset with appointments and in-store promotion in select US markets early next year …
Max Tani / Semafor:
Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads, saying Meta “engaged in systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade secrets” and other IP  —  Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over its new text-based “Twitter killer” platform …
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Threads: @andymstone, @oliverdarcy, @daveleebbg, @alecstapp, @semafor, and @semafor
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Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
Meta launches Instagram's text-based Threads app on the App Store and Google Play in 100+ countries; users log in via Instagram and can follow the same accounts
More: TechCrunch, Wired, The Guardian, Washington Post, The i Paper, Silicon Valley Business …, BetaNews, Dexerto, Bloomberg, Neowin, Forbes, PCMag, Cryptopolitan, TweakTown, The Guardian, Coinpedia Fintech News, Guinness World Records, NBC 7 San Diego, Coinmonks, Laptop Mag, Pocket-lint, Memeburn, Mashable, SlashGear, TheGamer, Livemint, The Verge, Reuters, Associated Press, Business Post, The Information, New York Times, TechCrunch, Marketing Dive, BizTech News, Chennai Print, Wall Street Journal, Supercharged, 9to5Mac, Daring Fireball, and The Verge
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Threads: @mosseri, @zuck, @mosseri, @kayvonmusic, @fazeclan, @instagram, @aliterative, @mosseri, @yung_pueblo, @caseyrain, @japanoninsta, @carnage4life, @mosseri, @carnage4life, @0xjessel, @carnage4life, @aoc, @mosseri, @mosseri, @itselavia, @zuck, @zuck, @zuck, @davecamarillo, @jeremysliew, @naomigleit, @mosseri, @whatsapp, @taylorlorenz, @eorlins, @absolutelyashika, @milliegooch, @zuck, @tobi, @h1brd, @taylorlorenz, @alokvmenon, @thisisbillgates, @davidmarcus, @gerekmeinhardt, @mosseri, and @zuck.  Forums: r/technology
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Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch:
Mark Zuckerberg says Threads now has over 30M signups, up from 10M within seven hours of launch, 5M in four hours, and 2M in two hours
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:
Meta's Supplemental Privacy Policy for Threads says that “your Threads profile can only be deleted by deleting your Instagram account”, surprising some users
Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:
Sega co-COO Shuji Utsumi says the company is withholding its biggest games from third-party blockchain gaming projects and is shelving its own blockchain games  —  Sega Corp., the gaming studio once regarded among the staunchest advocates of blockchain gaming, is pulling back from an arena devastated …
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk:
Crypto bridging protocol Multichain confirms a $130M exploit affecting user-supplied tokens and recommends “all users suspend the use of Multichain services”  —  “It is recommended that all users suspend the use of Multichain services and revoke all contract approvals related to Multichain," developers said early Friday.
Nathan Crooks / The Block:
Report: Binance GC Han Ng, Chief Strategy Officer Patrick Hillmann, and compliance SVP Steven Christie are leaving Binance over CZ's response to the DOJ's probe  —  - Top executives at Binance resigned this week over CEO Changpeng Zhao's handling of regulatory investigations into the company, Fortune reported, citing sources.
New York Times:
Sources: the FBI searched Kraken co-founder Jesse Powell's home in March 2023, as part of US prosecutors' probe into claims he hacked a nonprofit he founded  —  Federal agents were investigating Jesse Powell, the founder of the crypto exchange Kraken, over claims that he hacked and cyber-stalked a nonprofit arts group.
New York Times:
Uber, DoorDash, and Grubhub sue NYC, seeking to block new minimum pay standards that increased the hourly wage for gig workers to ~$18 and $20 by 2025  —  Uber, DoorDash and Grubhub argued that the city used poor data to calculate how much food delivery workers should earn and that the change would hurt consumers.
Frederick Munawa / CoinDesk:
Lightning Labs announces tools that let developers create AI agents that leverage GPT function calls to hold, send, and receive bitcoin via Lightning Network  —  “We are in the realm of enabling use cases that weren't previously possible,” Lightning Labs CEO Elizabeth Stark told CoinDesk.
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
OpenAI releases its GPT-4 API in general availability, giving all paying developers access and planning to give new developers access by the end of July 2023  —  OpenAI today announced the general availability of GPT-4, its latest text-generating model, through its paid API.

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Adeel Hassan / New York Times:
Wikipedia editors vote to bar co-founder Larry Sanger from editing articles for canvassing outside users to sway internal votes, per the Wikipedia Foundation

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