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Sources: Apple has been working with Sony on a months long effort to add PS VR2 controller support to visionOS; Apple has sold fewer than 500K Vision Pros — Apple and Sony have discussed forging a partnership that could change gaming on the Vision Pro. Also: Apple has a three-year road map …
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| CBS News: |
FEC post-election filings: Elon Musk gave $239M to America PAC, $20.5M as a sole donor to RBG PAC, $10M to Senate Leadership Fund, $3M to MAHA Alliance, more — Elon Musk spent more than a quarter of a billion dollars to back President-elect Donald Trump and other Republican candidates, campaign finance records filed Thursday show.| Tripp Mickle / New York Times: |
Apple faces a lawsuit accusing it of failing to implement a system that detects and removes CSAM from iCloud, despite initially developing such a tool in 2021 — A 27-year old former child sexual abuse victim photographed anonymously with her mother. Her lawsuit against Apple claims …
More: Neowin, Benzinga, NewsBytes, TechCrunch, Forbes, Engadget, and AppleInsider. Bluesky: @mike-salter
| Jeran Wittenstein / Bloomberg: |
Bloomberg Intelligence: the Magnificent Seven's combined profit growth is projected to slow from 34% in 2024 to 18% in 2025, or just 3% if Nvidia is excluded — - Magnificent 7's 2025 profit growth projected to slow to 18% — Chip giant Nvidia is seen driving most of that profit growth| Davide Castelvecchi / Nature: |
A randomized study at a corporate lab employing more than 1,000 researchers: teams using AI discovered 44% more new materials than teams with standard workflows — - Davide Castelvecchi — Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming ubiquitous in applied research, but can it actually invent useful materials faster than humans can?| Dan Gallagher / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at Marvell, a chipmaker whose market cap surpassed Intel's, driven by its data center business; CEO Matt Murphy is reportedly been floated as Intel's CEO — Marvell's role in helping tech titans create their own data center chips has boosted its revenue—and valuation
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| Om Malik / Crazy Stupid Tech: |
The rise of generative AI will force the web browser to evolve again, just as the web browser evolved for a mobile-first world by contorting itself into apps — I'm addicted to Apple's Vision Pro. It's a nearly perfect entertainment device, serving as my ideal television. Sure, I would like it to be lighter.
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Threads: @om, @carnage4life, and @carnage4life
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Study: gTLDs like .shop and .xyz, which had 11% market share for new domains, accounted for ~37% of cybercrime domains reported between Sep. 2023 and Aug. 2024 — Phishing attacks increased nearly 40 percent in the year ending August 2024, with much of that growth concentrated at a small number … | Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal: |
A look at the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a planned project aiming to make Chicago a quantum computing hub with PsiQuantum as the anchor tenant — An industrial park taking shape on an old steel mill site provides a glimpse into the quantum future
Bluesky: @dannygroner. X: @psiquantum, @wsj, and @alexmmmack
LinkedIn: Steve Rosenbush, Alex Mack, Jorge Santiago Ortiz, and Brad Henderson
| Ashley Carman / Bloomberg: |
ElevenLabs, which is reportedly raising $200M at a $3B valuation, launched a tool to let users create and edit AI-hosted podcasts from various source materials — The new product competes with Google's viral NotebookLM — ElevenLabs Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence software …
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| Bloomberg: |
How the US-China fallout is fueling boomtowns in Vietnam and Malaysia, as startups and governments rush to build out AI, chipmaking hubs, and access to compute — An accelerating influx of tech investment is transforming local economies in Malaysia and Vietnam.| Andrew Williams / Wired: |
A look at the opportunities India provides for smartphone companies, including its growing market for premium phones and as a manufacturing hub outside of China — A quarter of all iPhones could be made outside China by 2025, most likely in India—a rapidly growing market with hundreds of millions of potential customers.
More: The Indian Express, Notebookcheck, and The Diplomat
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