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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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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
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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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Sources: FTX sold 22M Grayscale Bitcoin Trust shares, worth nearly $1B, explaining the outflows after the SEC's ETF approval; BTC has tumbled since the approval — BTC's price has fallen since bitcoin ETFs were approved. In theory, now that FTX is done selling its substantial holdings … | 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| Financial Times: |
How Japan plans to use avatars, robots, and AI in construction, trucking, farming, and retail to alleviate an estimated labor shortage of 11M people by 2040 — Farmers, retailers and builders rethink business models as world's fastest-ageing society runs out of workers
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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 — Introduction, apology, caveat, and then another apology — The introduction: For nearly three months, the British Library …
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| Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: |
Palantir's revenue growth from US government contracts has slowed in recent quarters, as some agencies look at cheaper rivals and seek fewer data access limits — Individual investors had bolstered company's share price in their enthusiasm for new AI data platform| Edwin Heathcote / Financial Times: |
Architects are incorporating DALL-E, Midjourney, and other generative AI tools for complex design work, threatening the industry of illustrators and animators — Programs such as Dall-E and Midjourney are revolutionising the designs of buildings, but threatening the industry too| 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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