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Apple sold an estimated 160K to 180K Vision Pro units during the first pre-order weekend; unchanged shipping times after 48 hours suggest demand has tapered off — Conclusion: The immediate sold-out when pre-orders opened confirms earlier predictions. However, the inability to sustain …
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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Sources: FTX sold 22M Grayscale Bitcoin Trust shares, worth nearly $1B, explaining the outflows after the US SEC approved 11 ETFs and BTC's price tumbling since — 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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| Julia Love / Bloomberg: |
Source: Alphabet's moonshot X lab is restructuring to make it easier to spin out projects as startups; sources say the unit is laying off dozens of employees — - X is the brainchild of Google founders Brin and Page — Google's job cuts are part of a broader cost-efficiency push| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Apple releases iOS 17.3, which adds the Stolen Device Protection feature, collaborative playlists in Apple Music, and more — iOS 17.3 is out, and it comes with a new security feature that's supposed to prevent thieves from taking your iPhone and quickly taking over access to anything stored …
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| Ariel Zilber / New York Post: |
Some current and former Google employees publicly blast the company, criticizing its lack of “visionary” leaders, cold approach to delivering layoff news, more — Angry Googlers are finished being nice. — Current and former employees of the tech behemoth took to LinkedIn …
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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 … | NBC News: |
Following complaints and shared audio, New Hampshire's AG probes fake Joe Biden robocalls, apparently artificially generated, telling Democrats not to vote — The call, an apparent imitation or digital manipulation of the president's voice, says, “Voting this Tuesday only enables the Republicans …
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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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| Ben Axelrod / Awful Announcing: |
Months after pulling its Surviving Barstool series from YouTube over censorship claims, Barstool Sports announces a deal with Rumble; Rumble stock jumps 30%+ — Screen grab: Dave Portnoy on X — Nearly two months after pulling its popular Surviving Barstool series from YouTube over claims of censorship … | Lauren Weber / Wall Street Journal: |
Researchers: only 18 companies of 391 analyzed seem to have followed a NYC law that went into effect six months ago and requires disclosure of hiring algorithms — The law requires employers to disclose how algorithms screen job candidates — It has been six months since New York City began enforcing … | Heather Somerville / Wall Street Journal: |
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