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A look at Apple's preparations for the Vision Pro's US launch and main challenges in 2024, like lagging in generative AI, reviving revenue growth, and antitrust — Apple has a big year ahead for new products, but also faces challenges ranging from trying to catch up in AI to dealing with changes to the App Store.
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Linear's CEO, who uses Carta to manage its cap table, says Carta tried to sell Linear shares without its consent; Carta CEO blames a rogue employee — “This might be the end of Carta as the trusted platform for startups” — Carta, an ambitious 12-year-old Silicon Valley outfit …
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| Anne VanderMey / Bloomberg: |
Carta says it is investigating an internal policy violation that affected Linear and two other companies, where someone “on the cap table” was contacted — The chief executive officer of Carta Inc. said the startup was investigating customer allegations that it misused their data …
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: some executives and board members fear that Elon Musk's use of LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, mushrooms, ketamine, and other drugs could harm his companies — Some executives and board members fear the billionaire's use of drugs—including LSD, cocaine, ecstasy, mushrooms and ketamine—could harm his companies
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| IEEE Spectrum: |
How Midjourney v6 and DALL-E 3 produce “plagiaristic outputs”, even when not directly asked to do so, which could expose users to copyright infringement claims — This is a guest post. The views expressed here are solely those of the authors and do not represent positions of IEEE Spectrum or the IEEE.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Xreal unveils the $699 Air 2 Ultra AR glasses, adding dual 3D cameras to map the wearer's environment and enable features like hand tracking, shipping in March — Augmented reality company Xreal has revealed a new entry in its Air glasses lineup: the $699 Air 2 Ultra.| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
Music industry insiders reflect on the waning influence of popular, human-curated Spotify playlists, as the company shifts towards AI-driven personalization — The streaming giant's shift to automation is impacting the supremacy of curated music selections — Welcome back to Soundbite, and happy New Year!
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| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
TRM Labs: North Korea-affiliated hackers were responsible for almost a third of all crypto thefts in 2023, stealing $600M+, which is ~30% less than in 2022 — U.S. national security officials have raised concerns about North Korea's use of stolen crypto to develop nuclear weapons. — Register Now| Steven Levy / Wired: |
A defense of AI hallucinations, which can spur creativity and, by requiring fact-checks, act as a firewall in the transition to coexist with superintelligent AI — It's a big problem when chatbots spew untruths. But we should also celebrate these hallucinations as prompts for human creativity and a barrier to machines taking over.
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
DeepMind spinout Isomorphic Labs partners with Eli Lilly and Novartis on AI-based drug discovery, for $82.5M paid upfront and $2.9B in performance incentives — Isomorphic Labs, the London-based, drug discovery-focused spin-out of Google AI R&D division DeepMind, today announced that it's entered … | Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Acer announces Intel Core Ultra-based Swift laptops, including the Swift X 14 with Nvidia RTX 4070 and 120Hz OLED display, starting at $1,399 — Acer is rolling out new laptops based on Intel Core Ultra including the Acer Swift X 14, a powerhouse PC with Intel Core Ultra, RTX 4070, a 120Hz OLED display, and more.
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| Raffaele Huang / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and ByteDance aren't keen on buying Nvidia's lower-powered AI chips and are shifting some orders to Huawei's China-made chips — Chinese buyers are pushing back against the lower-powered AI chips it hopes to sell to them in response to U.S. export curbsSponsor Posts
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