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Four reasons for the less-than-expected developer enthusiasm for Apple's Vision Pro, including an uncertain ROI and anger at Apple for its App Store policies — Apple's new Vision Pro will lack some key apps when it debuts, renewing concerns about an already-tense relationship with certain developers.
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| Ming-Chi Kuo: |
Apple sold an estimated 160K-180K Vision Pro units during the first pre-order weekend; unchanged shipping times after first 48 hours suggest demand tapered off — Conclusion: The immediate sold-out when pre-orders opened confirms earlier predictions. However, the inability to sustain …
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| Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg: |
Filing: Terraform Labs, co-founded by Do Kwon, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US, listing assets and liabilities both between $100M and $500M — - Singapore-based Terraform files for bankruptcy in Delaware — Kwon's lawyer has said he may soon be extradited to the US
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
OpenAI bans the developer of a chatbot mimicking presidential hopeful Dean Phillips, the company's first action against use of its tech in a political campaign — It's the ChatGPT maker's first known action against the use of its technology in a political campaign
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| Bloomberg: |
Source: in a low-key tour, Jensen Huang visited Nvidia's offices in Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Beijing earlier in January, as the US curbs Nvidia's China exports — - Company's chips have become central to US-China tech race — Huang kept a low profile during his visit to the country
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
ElevenLabs, which uses AI tools to create and edit synthetic voices, raised an $80M Series B co-led by a16z, Nat Friedman, and Daniel Gross at a $1B+ valuation — There's a lot of money in voice cloning. — Case in point: ElevenLabs, a startup developing AI-powered tools to create …
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| Harry McCracken / Technologizer: |
In an unpublished manuscript, David Bunnell, who co-founded PC Magazine, PC World, and Macworld, details the origins of the enduring media brands from the 1980s — In an unpublished manuscript, the cofounder of three enduring media brands looks back. … “But Flying Upside Down is more than that.| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Meta plans to let EU users unlink their Instagram and Facebook accounts, as well as other Meta services, ahead of the EU's DMA taking effect in March 2024 — EU users will be able to unlink their Instagram and Facebook accounts, as well as other Meta services ahead of the bloc's new Digital Markets Act …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Canva generated $2B+ in annualized revenue in 2023 and is nearing a $1.5B+ share sale at a ~$26B valuation, roughly the same as in its previous round — - Sale of existing shares would maintain $26 billion valuation — Australian firm saw over $2 billion annualized revenue in 2023
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| Ciaran Martin / Ciaran's Crispy Cogitations: |
British Library hack lessons for the UK: ransomware is a national security issue, a national response is required, policy mitigations are available, and more — The most important lesson to figure out is why it is taking so long to restore services. That will tell us how to prevent …
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| Nikkei Asia: |
Chinese warehouse robotic startups are keen to ease Japan's logistics crunch; IFR: 52% of ~550K warehouse robots installed globally in 2022 were made in China — Startups see Japanese market as testing ground ahead of domestic growth — Quicktron's autonomous mobile robots move and shelve bins in warehouses.
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| Carl Franzen / VentureBeat: |
Nightshade, a free tool that lets artists “poison” AI models being trained on their artwork without permission, is now available to download for Mac and PC — It's here: months after it was first announced, Nightshade, a new, free software tool allowing artists to “poison” …
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