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January 22, 2024, 3:15 PM

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Ming-Chi Kuo:
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Suvashree Ghosh / Bloomberg:
Filing: Terraform Labs, co-founded by Do Kwon, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US, listing assets and liabilities both between $100M and $500M  —  - Singapore-based Terraform files for bankruptcy in Delaware  — Kwon's lawyer has said he may soon be extradited to the US

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