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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Apple plans to ship the $3,499+ Vision Pro on February 2 in the US, after opening pre-orders on January 19 at 8am ET, with a Solo Knit Band and a Dual Loop Band — It's finally time: Apple has announced it will start shipping its Vision Pro headset on February 2nd in the United States.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Apple plans to offer customers demos of Vision Pro at its US retail stores from February 2 through the weekend on a first-come, first-served basis — Apple Vision Pro officially has pre-order and launch dates as of today, and now we know how the public will get to try Apple's first spatial computer as well.
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple says the base Vision Pro model has 256GB of storage and the ZEISS Optical Inserts for readers cost $99 and prescription ZEISS Optical Inserts cost $149 — Apple has announced more details on Vision Pro availability. In a press release today, Apple announced that Vision Pro …
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| OpenAI: |
OpenAI responds to The New York Times' lawsuit: training is fair use and there is an opt-out, “regurgitation” is a rare bug, and NYT “manipulated” its models — We support journalism, partner with news organizations, and believe The New York Times lawsuit is without merit.
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| Anna Tong / Reuters: |
Filing and memo: Unity Software plans to lay off ~25% of its workforce, or 1,800 jobs, by the end of March 2024, its largest layoff ever and affecting all teams — Videogame software provider Unity Software (U.N) will target laying off approximately 25% of its workforce, or 1,800 jobs …
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| Casey Newton / Platformer: |
Substack plans to remove some Nazi publications, but its new policy interpretation won't include proactively removing neo-Nazi and far-right extremism content — Substack is removing some publications that express support for Nazis, the company said today.
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| Axios: |
Carta has decided to close its liquidity services business, which matched buyers and sellers of private company stock — Carta has decided to close its liquidity services business, which matched buyers and sellers of private company stock, Axios has learned. … - Carta was most recently valued at $8.5 billion.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Volkswagen plans to integrate ChatGPT into its cars to control basic functions and answer “general knowledge questions”, starting in Europe in Q2 2024 — Volkswagen is jumping on the generative AI bandwagon by announcing plans to install OpenAI's ChatGPT into its vehicles starting in the second quarter of 2024.
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Sony teases a “spatial” VR headset designed for 3D content creation with 4K OLED microdisplays and powered by Snapdragon XR2+ Gen 2, available later in 2024 — The company showed off the headset along with a unique pair of controllers today during a presentation at CES 2024.
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| Wes Davis / The Verge: |
The Wi-Fi Alliance begins certifying devices with Wi-Fi 7, which could offer big speed and efficiency gains over Wi-Fi 6 in phones, laptops, and routers in 2024 — The Wi-Fi Alliance is now officially certifying devices that support Wi-Fi 7, the next generation of wireless home internet.
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Intel announces new Core 14th Gen chips, including the HX-series for high-end laptops and 18 chips for desktops, and the new Series 1 for thin-and-light PCs — Some are 14th-gen Core and some are Core (Series 1), but they're the same thing. — Intel usually uses CES to fill …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: HPE is in advanced talks to buy Juniper Networks for about $13B, in a deal that could be announced as soon as this week — Deal could be unveiled this week, valuing Juniper at roughly $13 billion — Hewlett Packard Enterprise is in advanced talks to buy Juniper Networks for about $13 billion … | Lauren Thomas / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Elliott Management has built a ~$1B stake in Match Group and plans to push the online dating company to take steps to boost its languishing stock — Activist has roughly $1 billion stake and intends to meet with Match to discuss ways to improve online dating company's performance| Alan Ohnsman / Forbes: |
Waymo plans to test self-driving SUVs on Phoenix freeways later in January, initially with its staff, the first robotaxi company to prep for higher-speed rides — Starting this month the Alphabet Inc. unit will operate autonomous Waymos on Phoenix-area freeways.
More: Waypoint, The Robot Report, Engadget, The Last Driver License Holder, and BGR
| Jane Zhang / Bloomberg: |
Filing: JD-backed Dada Nexus is investigating “suspicious practices”, including a ~$140M overstatement of revenue and costs in 2023, triggering a 46% stock dive — - Dada discloses it may have overstated both revenue and cost — The company is one of JD's faster-growing subsidiaries| Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: |
TikTok restricts Creative Center, used by advertisers to track hashtags, after it was used by critics to scrutinize content on the Israel-Hamas war and more — People and groups had harnessed the tool to scrutinize content on the site related to the Israel-Hamas war and other topics.| Hassan Mujtaba / Wccftech: |
Asus announces its first mini-PC, the ROG NUC, featuring Intel Core Ultra CPUs, up to an Nvidia RTX 4070 GPU, quad 4K display support, and Wi-Fi 6E — ASUS has introduced its first ROG NUC Mini PC featuring Intel's Core Ultra CPUs and up to an NVIDIA RTX 4070 GPU in a compact form factor.
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| Emilia David / The Verge: |
Getty Images and Nvidia launch Generative AI by iStock, a text-to-image service for SMBs that generates stock photos and was trained with Nvidia's Picasso model — Getty Images and Nvidia are deepening their AI partnership with the launch of Generative AI by iStock, a text-to-image platform specifically designed to make stock photos.| Josh Ye / Reuters: |
ByteDance says it is in talks with multiple prospective buyers, including Tencent, to sell its Nuverse gaming unit as part of a plan to exit the gaming industry — TikTok owner ByteDance said on Tuesday it is in talks with multiple prospective buyers of its gaming assets … | Kate Clark / The Information: |
Sources: former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal's new AI startup, which is making software for LLM developers, raised ~$30M led by Khosla Ventures — Parag Agrawal, who was CEO of Twitter for a year before Elon Musk took over the social media app in late 2022, recently raised about $30 million …
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| Bloomberg: |
Duolingo cuts ~10% of its contractors, partly attributing the move to its use of more generative AI to create app content — About 10% of contractors were “offboarded,” a company spokesperson said Monday. “We just no longer need as many people to do the type of work some of these contractors were doing.
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| Brody Ford / Bloomberg: |
Twilio co-founder Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO and from the company board, replaced by Khozema Shipchandler, amid slow growth and activist investor pressure — Lawson will be replaced by Khozema Shipchandler, who most recently led the communication business unit, Twilio said in a statement Monday.Sponsor Posts
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