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Sources: Apple has considered a fitness ring, smart glasses, and adding cameras and more advanced AI to AirPods, but is not actively developing these devices — Apple has explored the idea of developing new wearable devices — including a fitness ring, smart glasses and even AirPods with cameras …
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| Neil Long / Mobilegamer.biz: |
Sources detail their concerns with Apple Arcade, including declining developer payouts, cancelled projects, and its shift to focus on family-friendly games — Multiple mobilegamer.biz sources have voiced their concern for Apple Arcade's future, citing a glut of cancelled projects and ever-declining developer payouts.
More: 9to5Mac. X: @carnage4life, @woelfel, @lewispackwood, @knoebelbroet, and @knoebelbroet. LinkedIn: Neil Long. Forums: r/Games
| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Qualcomm unveils AI Hub, a new library of 75+ pre-optimized AI models, X80 5G modem, and FastConnect 7900, a chip that integrates Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth, and UWB — Qualcomm unveiled a suite of AI, 5G, and Wi-Fi devices at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.
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| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
A profile of Mistral AI, which wants to be the “most capital-efficient company in the world of AI”, as it announces its new open-source AI model Mistral Large — Led by 31-year-old CEO Arthur Mensch, Paris-based Mistral believes AI systems can be built more efficiently—and much more cheaply| Financial Times: |
Microsoft partners with Mistral as regulators probe its OpenAI alliance; Microsoft takes a minor stake in Mistral and will help bring its AI models to market — Tech giant unveils partnership with French AI start-up, as regulators probe $13bn alliance with ChatGPT maker| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Samsung unveils Galaxy Ring at MWC 2024; the device is centered around health and wellness, comes in three colors, and will be available later this year — After teasing it (again) yesterday, Samsung has finally shown off the Galaxy Ring in physical form at Mobile World Conference (MWC 2024) and revealed some additional details.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Lenovo demos the ThinkBook Transparent Display Laptop concept, with a 17.3-inch MicroLED panel and a built-in drawing tablet — The ThinkBook Transparent Display Laptop concept even comes with a built-in drawing tablet. Lenovo just needs to find something worth seeing on the other side.
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| Samrhitha Arunasalam / Reuters: |
Broadcom sells its end-user computing unit to KKR in a deal valued at about $4B — Chipmaker Broadcom (AVGO.O) is selling its business which allows users to access desktops and applications from any device to KKR (KKR.N) in a deal valued at about $4 billion, the private equity firm said on Monday.
More: TechCrunch, The Information, Media Center, and Constellation Research
| Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: |
Google announces new Android features, including Gemini integration with Messages, AI-powered text summaries for Android Auto, and AI-generated image captions — The Android updates announced at MWC also include new accessibility features and casting controls for Spotify.
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| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Avail, a modular blockchain project spun out of Polygon in 2023 to streamline the rollup experience, raised a $27M seed co-led by Founders Fund and Dragonfly — - Avail has raised $27 million in seed funding co-led by Founders Fund and Dragonfly. — Avail is a modular blockchain project that spun out of Polygon last year.| Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News: |
A consultant working for Rep. Dean Phillips, who challenged Biden in NH's primary, admits to producing the deepfake robocalls, saying anyone can do it for $500 — Steve Kramer acknowledged Sunday that he created the fake Joe Biden robocall at the center of a multistate investigation after NBC News reported about his involvement.| TechCrunch: |
Paytm Payments Bank reconstitutes its board, as part of which founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma, who owns a 51% stake in the Paytm unit, steps down — Vijay Shekhar Sharma, the founder and majority owner of Paytm Payments Bank, has stepped down from the board of the troubled unit days …
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