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| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
In a video, Mark Zuckerberg shares his thoughts on the Vision Pro, saying Quest 3 “is the better product, period”, highlighting Apple's tradeoffs, and more — Now that it can be strapped to our faces and worn in strange places, opinions about Apple's Vision Pro are flying left and right.
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Threads: @yasharali, @supremebagholder, @katw408, @drewje, @redactedfella, @thealabasterslim, @jeffbowen, @katw408, @mattnavarra, @kalihays1, @alexheath, @mkarolian, @supremebagholder, @eshumarneedi, @jaymayo_vrtist, @jank0, @reckless1280, @kalihays1, @daveleebbg, @boztank, @curtisparadis, @matic3d, @jw, and @johnonolan. Instagram: Mark Zuckerberg. Bluesky: @annmlipton.bsky.social
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| The Information: |
AI researcher Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI, leaves the company; Karpathy was developing a product that he described as an AI assistant — Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI, has left the company, a spokesperson confirmed.
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Forums: Hacker News and r/singularity
| David Pierce / The Verge: |
OpenAI starts testing a “memory” feature that is on by default and lets ChatGPT and custom GPTs remember info about users and their conversations over time — Talking to an AI chatbot can feel a bit like Groundhog Day after a while, as you tell it for the umpteenth …
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Threads: @n1ftey. Bluesky: @intelwire.bsky.social. X: @joannejang, @openai, @altryne, @simonw, @alliekmiller, @stufflistings, @jeremynguyenphd, @mikebutcher, @therealadamg, @emollick, @ikeadrift, @parismarx, @chatgptapp, @rowancheung, and @swyx
LinkedIn: Markus Bernhardt, Frith Tweedie, Kevin Chaplin, Jeff Jockisch, Emil Protalinski, and Mark Fulton
Forums: Hacker News, r/ChatGPT, r/technology, and r/OpenAI
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple's longest-serving senior industrial designer, Bart Andre, told colleagues this month that he is retiring; Andre joined in 1992 alongside Jony Ive — - Bart Andre retiring after three decades on design team — Departure marks near-complete turnover of group since Ive era
More: MacRumors, The Indian Express, iMore, NewsBytes, Benzinga, Supercharged, Wccftech, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and The Verge
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| Alison Snyder / Axios: |
Cohere's nonprofit research lab releases its open-source multilingual LLM Aya, which the lab says can follow instructions in more than 100 languages — A new open-source generative AI model can follow instructions in more than 100 languages. … - It covers more than twice as many languages … | Vanessa Gera / Associated Press: |
Polish PM Donald Tusk says state authorities under the previous government used NSO's Pegasus spyware illegally against a “very long” list of hacking victims — Poland's new prime minister said Tuesday he has documentation proving that state authorities under the previous government used … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Walmart is in talks to buy smart TV manufacturer Vizio for $2B+, as the company looks to bolster its advertising business in its battle with Amazon — Retail giant discussing a more than $2 billion deal that would boost its advertising business in battle with Amazon| Bloomberg: |
Sony reports Q3 revenue up 22% YoY to ~$25.11B, operating income up 10% YoY to ~$3.1B, meeting est., and 8.2M PS5s sold, roughly 1M units lower than projected — - Company reversing course after taking the unit private in 2020 — Underwhelming PlayStation 5 sales led to sales outlook cut
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| Sean O'Kane / TechCrunch: |
Waymo has issued a software fix for its cars, its first recall, after two vehicles crashed into the same towed pickup truck in Phoenix in December 2023 — Waymo is voluntarily recalling the software that powers its robotaxi fleet after two vehicles crashed into the same towed pickup truck in Phoenix, Arizona, in December.
More: Waymo, Silicon Republic, Benzinga, Engadget, and NBC Bay Area
| Michael Nuñez / VentureBeat: |
In a research paper, Apple researchers detail a new AI tool called Keyframer, which uses LLMs to animate static images through natural language prompts — Apple researchers have unveiled a new AI tool called “Keyframer,” which harnesses the power of large language models (LLMs) …
More: MacRumors and arXiv
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| Elizabeth Lopatto / The Verge: |
A look at Slack 10 years after its launch: early success, going public in 2019, being acquired by Salesforce, and how the service changed work culture — A decade later, it's clear that Slack changed work culture, even at companies that don't use it. … Most enterprise software is shitty.
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| Alistair Barr / Business Insider: |
A typo in Lyft's Q4 release mistakenly forecast a 500 BPS of EBITDA margin improvement for 2024, causing a stock surge, before the error was corrected to 50 BPS — - Lyft mistakenly forecast 500 basis points of margin improvement for 2024, causing a stock surge.
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| Antonia Mufarech / Bloomberg: |
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| Tom Dotan / Wall Street Journal: |
Copilot for Microsoft 365 testers question the $30/seat price and find Copilot the most useful in Teams and the least in Excel; Dow and others plan big rollouts — Artificial-intelligence aide handles email, meetings and other things, but its price and limited use have some skeptical| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Nvidia releases an early version of Chat with RTX, an app that lets users run an AI chatbot on a PC powered by an RTX 30- or 40-series GPU with 8GB+ of VRAM — Nvidia is releasing an early version of Chat with RTX today, a demo app that lets you run a personal AI chatbot on your PC.
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Mastodon: @carnage4life@mas.to. X: @nvidiageforce, @_akhaliq, @firstadopter, @nvidiaaidev, and @prathkum. Forums: Hacker News
| James Ball / Columbia Journalism Review: |
How Reddit, after the catastrophic online manhunt to find the Boston Marathon bomber, quietly became a civilized place to discuss news, due to strong moderation — Twitter had been our place. Where journalists gathered and pored over news in as near to real time as possible.
Forums: r/Journalism
| Bloomberg: |
Co-CEO of SoftBank Vision Funds Alex Clavel says the VC is “looking very carefully” at generative AI firms, as SoftBank embraces a cautious investment approach — Once known for bestowing ten-figure valuations, the firm is now embracing a more modest approach
X: @athomson6 and @middleeast
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Sydney-based quantum computing startup Diraq extends its Series A to $35M led by Quantonation, taking its total funding to $120M+, to build quantum processors — Australian quantum computing startup Diraq Pty Ltd. said today it has closed on a $15 million capital raise that will be used …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
For the first time since 2002, Nvidia ended a trading day with a bigger market value than Amazon, as its market cap reached $1.78T, fueled by the AI boom — - Nvidia surpassed Amazon in market capitalization on Tuesday. — It's a sign of how strong demand is for chips that can run cutting-edge AI …
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| Cagan Koc / Bloomberg: |
ASML CFO Roger Dassen says the chip market “has now reached the lowest point of the dip” and “the recovery is nascent”; ASML's top client spent €8.78B in 2023 — - ‘Recovery is nascent,’ CFO Dassen says in firm's annual report — Demand for ASML products is a bellwether for chip industry
More: Reuters
| Hayden Field / CNBC: |
Instacart reports Q4 revenue up 6% YoY to $803M, vs. $804M est., and plans to cut ~250, or ~7%, of its staff; three top execs are leaving for personal reasons — - Instacart on Tuesday announced it would lay off about 250 employees, or roughly 7% of the company, alongside reporting fourth-quarter earnings …
More: Instacart, Nairametrics, The Information, TechCrunch, Search Engine Land, Reuters, and Bloomberg
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Mozilla plans to scale back its investment in its VPN, Relay, its Online Footprint Scrubber, and mozilla.social, shut down Hubs, and cut ~60 employees — After installing a new interim CEO earlier this month, Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox browser …
More: Engadget, Ghacks, TechRadar, Bloomberg, The Register, Neowin, Bloomberg Law, OSnews, and The Verge
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Forums: Hacker News, r/browsers, and r/technology
| Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: |
Foundry Group, an 18-year-old VC firm with nearly $3.5B in assets under management, has quietly decided to wind down and not raise any more funds — Foundry Group, an 18-year-old venture firm with nearly $3.5 billion in assets under management, has quietly decided to shut down and not raise any more funds.
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