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June 24, 2024, 2:20 AM

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Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Meta has held discussions with Apple to integrate its AI model with Apple Intelligence; Anthropic and Perplexity also discussed integrations with Apple  —  The longtime rivals have held talks about potentially integrating Meta's generative AI model into Apple Intelligence
Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
A look at Apple's plans for Vision headsets and AR glasses, M4 Macs, reasons for limiting Apple Intelligence to the latest iPhones and delaying it in the EU  —  The Apple Vision Pro has gotten off to a slow start, spurring management to rethink its plans for the device.
Financial Times:
Sources: the EU plans to charge Apple for alleged anti-competitive conduct and Microsoft on suspicions of taking advantage of its market dominance this week  —  Also in this newsletter: How the European Commission wants to put G7 plans on Russia's frozen assets into action
John Gruber / Daring Fireball:
A look at Apple Intelligence, an umbrella for dozens of models running on-device or in carbon neutral data centers, and why Vision Pro is not getting it yet  —  An oft-told story is that back in 2009 — two years after Dropbox debuted, two years before Apple unveiled iCloud …
Financial Times:
Sources detail growing tensions between Elon Musk and Linda Yaccarino, stemming from her struggle to steady X's financial health a year after being named CEO  —  Tensions between billionaire and his top executive have been rising as the platform's financial health has struggled
Eduardo Baptista / Reuters:
Sources: ByteDance is working with Broadcom on a US sanctions compliant 5nm AI chip, to be made by TSMC, with manufacturing not expected to start this year  —  China's ByteDance is working with U.S. chip designer Broadcom (AVGO.O) on developing an advanced AI processor …
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Andrew Mills / Reuters:
Qatari telecom group Ooredoo: Nvidia agreed to deploy AI tech in Ooredoo datacenters in five Middle Eastern countries, Nvidia's first major launch in the region  —  Nvidia has signed a deal to deploy its artificial intelligence technology at data centres owned by Qatari telecoms group Ooredoo …
Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch:
Meta launches its Meta AI chatbot in India with support for English only, a week after Google's Gemini app on Android debuted with support for 9 local languages  —  After a few months of testing during the general elections, Meta is making its Llama-3-powered AI chatbot available to all users in India.
Amelia Tait / Wired:
A look at pre-smartphone services like GOOG-411 and AQA, which used to employ humans to answer questions with witty responses and encyclopedic knowledge  —  Not too long ago, services like GOOG-411, 118 118 and AQA used actual humans to answer questions with witty responses and encyclopedic knowledge.
Politico:
Y Combinator and 140 AI startups sign a letter opposing California's AI safety bill, saying the bill could harm California's ability to retain its AI talent  —  THE BUZZ: FIRST IN PLAYBOOK: One of Silicon Valley's heaviest hitters is wading into the fight over California's AI regulations.

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