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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources detail the Vision Pro's in-store sales process, which includes extensive fitting and calibration and an employee-guided demo lasting up to 25 minutes — The company is preparing an extensive sales pitch for the $3,499 device, including a demo lasting as long as 25 minutes.
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| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple to move a San Diego team of the Data Operations Annotations group, responsible for improving Siri's accuracy, to Austin; sources: 121 people are affected — - Company will relocate key Siri data operations group to Austin — Employees who can't transfer or find other jobs will be let go
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Anthropic researchers: AI models can be trained to deceive and the most commonly used AI safety techniques had little to no effect on the deceptive behaviors — Most humans learn the skill of deceiving other humans. So can AI models learn the same? Yes, the answer seems — and terrifyingly, they're exceptionally good at it.
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| Scott Chipolina / Financial Times: |
A UN report says Tether token is one of the leading payment methods for money laundering and frauds, including pig butchering scams, in Southeast Asia — Digital currency at the heart of scams including fake romance frauds known as ‘pig butchering’, report says
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| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
How dye-sensitized solar cells, which are lightweight, bendable, and manufactured cheaply, can capture light indoors to charge small gadgets like headphones — Indoor solar power technology is finally becoming available; Some devices no longer need batteries at all
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| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Interoperability across ecosystems was one of CES 2024's main themes, with widespread support for Qi2 wireless charging perhaps being the most significant shift — Last year, you couldn't mention CES without bringing up Matter. It was a pivotal year for the smart home standard … | Emilia David / The Verge: |
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Google pulls Binance, Kraken, and other global crypto apps from the Play Store in India, after the country flagged them for operating illegally in December 2023 — Google has pulled many crypto exchanges, including Binance and Kraken, from its Play Store in India, the latest blow … | David Karpf / The Atlantic: |
OpenAI's GPT Store debut is reminiscent of Facebook Platform's 2007 launch, which allowed Facebook to use third-party developers' products to boost stickiness — The immediate future of generative AI looks a bit like Facebook's past. — ChatGPT has certainly captured the world's imagination since its release at the end of 2022.
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| Bloomberg: |
The hack of the @SECGov X account highlights security gaps at the agency, which wasn't fully adhering to US federal cybersecurity standards as of September 2023 — - Agency's X hack on Tuesday shines light on security gaps — Watchdog said the agency wasn't adhering to all standards| Adam Samson / Financial Times: |
Documents show Turkey told ISPs to block access to 16 VPN services, fueling concerns of the government stifling news and information before elections in March — New controls on VPNs underline Erdoğan's moves to curb freedom of information — Turkey is tightening its censorship … | Eduardo Baptista / Reuters: |
Sources: dozens of Chinese entities, including military bodies, AI research institutes, and universities bought small batches of Nvidia chips despite a US ban — Chinese military bodies, state-run artificial intelligence research institutes and universities have over the past year purchased small batches …
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| Sohee Kim / Bloomberg: |
South Korea says Samsung and SK Hynix plan to invest more than $470B by 2047 to build 13 new chip plants and three research facilities in the country — - It envisions the world's biggest chipmaking center near Seoul — Samsung and Hynix are leading a two-decade investment
More: The Korea Herald
| Bloomberg: |
Baidu's stock drops 10%+ after an SCMP report linking Ernie Bot, which Baidu said amassed 70M users within three months of launch, to Chinese military research — - Traders cited an SCMP report about an alleged military tieup — The US and China are in a conflict over technology such as AI
More: South China Morning Post
| Richard Lawler / The Verge: |
Nielsen: Peacock's exclusive stream of the NFL AFC Wild Card game was the “most-streamed event in US history”, with 27.6M total viewers and a 24.6M peak average — The streams we were watching mostly held up, if you saw the game, how was the experience for you?Sponsor Posts
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Sohee Kim / Bloomberg:
South Korea says Samsung and SK Hynix plan to invest more than $470B by 2047 to build 13 new chip plants and three research facilities in the countryFind
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Scott Chipolina / Financial Times:
A UN report says Tether token is one of the leading payment methods for money laundering and frauds, including pig butchering scams, in Southeast AsiaFind
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Richard Lawler / The Verge:
Nielsen: Peacock's exclusive stream of the NFL AFC Wild Card game was the “most-streamed event in US history”, with 27.6M total viewers and a 24.6M peak averageFind
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Baidu's stock drops 10%+ after an SCMP report linking Ernie Bot, which Baidu said amassed 70M users within three months of launch, to Chinese military researchFind
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Eduardo Baptista / Reuters:
Sources: dozens of Chinese entities, including military bodies, AI research institutes, and universities bought small batches of Nvidia chips despite a US banFind
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Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
How dye-sensitized solar cells, which are lightweight, bendable, and manufactured cheaply, can capture light indoors to charge small gadgets like headphonesFind
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Adam Samson / Financial Times:
Documents show Turkey told ISPs to block access to 16 VPN services, fueling concerns of the government stifling news and information before elections in MarchFind
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