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Source: Apple told at least one supplier it has suspended work on the next Apple Vision Pro; sources: it's still aiming to debut a cheaper model by end of 2025 — Apple Suspends Work on Next High-End Headset, Focused on Releasing Cheaper Model in Late 2025 Apple has told at least one supplier …
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Threads: @heaney_555. Bluesky: @marypcbuk.bsky.social. X: @sadlyitsbradley, @arian_ghashghai, @waynema, and @bzamayo
Forums: Hacker News, r/technology, r/hardware, and MacRumors Forums
| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
ASUS VivoBook S 15 Copilot+ PC review: Snapdragon X Elite is incredible, all-day battery, a gorgeous 15.6" OLED screen, and $1,299 for 1TB SSD and 16GB of RAM — Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite elevates this Windows laptop from a good all-rounder to a great one.| Ina Fried / Axios: |
A study of 10 chatbots, including Perplexity and ChatGPT, shows they often repeat Russian disinformation and cite fugitive John Dougan's fake local news sites — - Entering 57 prompts into 10 leading chatbots, NewsGuard found they spread Russian disinformation narratives 32% of the time … | Javier Espinoza / Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple is set to settle a long-running EU antitrust investigation over payments, after the EU accepted measures that Apple committed to in January 2024 — Tech company willing to open mobile pay system to rivals in concessions that will help avoid antitrust fines from the bloc
More: MacRumors, PYMNTS.com, The Verge, TipRanks Financial, MacDailyNews, iMore, 9to5Mac, Invezz, and AppleInsider
| Arjun Kharpal / CNBC: |
Margrethe Vestager says Apple has a number of “very serious” issues under the EU's DMA, and the EU will reveal conclusions of its investigation “hopefully soon” — WATCH NOW — Apple has a number of “very serious” issues under the European Union's sweeping rules aimed …
More: Thurrott, New York Post, AppleInsider, WinBuzzer, MacDailyNews, and NewsBytes. X: @squawkboxeurope
| Wall Street Journal: |
Social media creators say earning a decent, reliable income is getting harder, as platforms pay less for popular posts and brands get pickier about partnerships — Platforms are paying less for popular posts, brands are pickier about partnerships and a possible TikTok ban looms
More: Inc.com, PYMNTS.com, Mobilegamer.biz, Werd I/O, and Business Insider
Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Signal President Meredith Whittaker warns the EU's recent “upload moderation” proposal to detect CSAM “fundamentally undermines encryption” of messaging apps — A controversial European Union legislative proposal to scan the private messages of citizens in a bid …
More: Signal Blog, The Guardian, The Hacker News, Blockonomi, WinBuzzer, Cointelegraph, WebProNews, and RestorePrivacy
Mastodon: @jpmens@mastodon.social. X: @mer__edith, @gergelyorosz, @jsrailton, @profwoodward, @nzahn42, @mer__edith, @echo_pbreyer, and @bpreneel1. LinkedIn: Kim Crawley
Forums: r/worldnews and r/europe
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Nvidia passes Microsoft during intraday trading to become the most valuable public company, with a ~$3.33T market cap; NVDA is up over 9x since January 2023 — Nvidia, long known in the niche gaming community for its graphics chips, is now the most valuable public company in the world.
More: Reuters, Bloomberg, Benzinga, Financial Times, VideoCardz.com, Proactive, New York Post, Hindustan Times, Fox Business, Quartz, Yahoo Finance, Watcher Guru, Mothership.SG, Forexlive, Forbes, and Anadolu Ajansı …. Forums: r/nvidia
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Meta launches its much-awaited Threads API, letting developers publish posts, fetch content, manage replies, and view analytics, after an API beta in March 2024 — Meta said today that it finally launched its much-awaited API for Threads so developers can build experiences around it.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
A look at Apple's upcoming CarPlay updates, aiming to be “a design toolkit for automakers” comprising UI layers: local, overlay, remote, and punch-through — Apple's been talking about its next generation of CarPlay for two years now with very little to show for it …
More: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, ZDNet, Tom's Guide, CarDekho, Driven Car Guide, drivespark.com, autoX, TopSpeed, AUTOJOSH, Motor1.com, Geeky Gadgets, autoevolution, autoevolution, The Mac Observer, iClarified, and autoevolution. X: @rsgnl
| Bloomberg: |
Filings: X is still working on a Venmo-like payments feature, with a 2024 US launch target; X had $1.48B in revenue in first six months of 2023, down ~40% YoY — State license applications give new insight into the company's plans, as well as its financial woes during the Elon era.
More: Quartz, The Verge, PYMNTS.com, Coinpedia Fintech News, CoinGape, Coinspeaker, and The Crypto Times
| Amar Subramanya / Google: |
Google launches a Gemini app for Android in India, supporting English and nine other languages, and says Gemini will roll out to its iOS app in the coming weeks — Vice President, Engineering, Gemini Experiences — Gemini, your AI assistant from Google, has had an exciting first year in India.
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| Noam Scheiber / New York Times: |
Amazon Labor Union members vote to join forces with the 1.3M-member Teamsters union; ALU President Christian Smalls says Teamsters allocated $8M for organizing — An affiliation agreement between the Amazon Labor Union and the 1.3 million-member Teamsters signals an escalation in challenging the online retailer.
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X: @teamsters, @derrickpalmer_, and @uniondrip
| Larry Dignan / Constellation Research: |
HPE and Nvidia unveil private cloud offerings for generative AI workloads coming this fall, including HPE Private Cloud AI, a co-developed “turnkey” option — Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Nvidia teamed up to launch a set of private cloud offerings and integrations designed for generative AI workloads.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Xreal unveils the $199+ Beam Pro, a 6.5-inch device that powers Xreal's glasses, runs Android 14-based NebulaOS, uses a Snapdragon chip, and has two USB-C ports — Xreal has made a name for itself with some surprisingly nice-looking augmented reality glasses, which put a display in front …
More: CNET, Gizmodo, TechCrunch, Multicore, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, XREAL TECHNOLOGY LIMITED, MIXED Reality News, AndroidGuys, GSMArena.com, Neowin, VentureBeat, Phandroid, Windows Central, CGMagazine, Dexerto, ZDNet, Yanko Design, Digital Trends, UploadVR, and Notebookcheck. Forums: r/Xreal
| James Rundle / Wall Street Journal: |
Maryland-based Huntress, an SMB-focused managed security platform, raised a $150M Series D led by Kleiner Perkins, Meritech, and Sapphire at a $1.5B+ valuation — Cash infusion will go toward new product development for small businesses, CEO says — Cybersecurity provider Huntress …
More: SiliconANGLE, Washington …, Crunchbase News, PitchBook, Huntress Labs, Reuters, and CRN
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
AI search engine startup Genspark launches, offering a Sparkpage overview for queries, and raised a $60M seed led by Lanchi at a $260M post-money valuation — Move over, Perplexity. There's a new AI-powered search engine in town — and its creators think it can best the many, many other attempts out there.
More: Reuters, Search Engine Land, and Silicon Valley Business …
| Ann-Marie Alcántara / Wall Street Journal: |
Some Google users, frustrated by the results, turn to Reddit as a search alternative; a weeklong test finds Reddit is best for product recommendations and more — Googling isn't what it used to be — Frustrated by their Google searches, people are funneling their queries to a site that isn't a search engine at all: Reddit.| Zaheer Kachwala / Reuters: |
Autonomous trucking startup Waabi raised a $200M Series B led by Uber and Khosla Ventures, after an $83.5M Series A in 2021, and aims for a full launch in 2025 — Waabi has raised $200 million in a Series B funding round, led by existing investors Uber Technologies (UBER.N) and Khosla Ventures …
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| Jason Snell / Six Colors: |
Devs say Apple is denying or delaying notarization of iOS apps, including emulators and AltStore apps, to enforce its rules, defeating the point of the EU's DMA — This apparently happened just before WWDC, so I missed it, but it deserves everyone's attention.
More: mjtsai.com. Mastodon: @eduo@mastodon.social, @sdarlington@mas.to, and @jsnell@zeppelin.flights
| Wency Chen / South China Morning Post: |
Sources: Shein CEO Xu Yangtian has deliberately kept a low profile for fear of attracting unwanted public attention; Shein has never published any photos of him — - Even by the standards of Chinese tech business leaders, the lack of public information about Xu Yangtian is unusual| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
London-based SurrealDB, which helps developers consolidate their databases, raised $20M led by FirstMark and Georgian, taking its total funding to $26M — Brothers Tobie Morgan Hitchcock and Jaime Hitchcock spent years building cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) systems together …
More: FinSMEs, EU-Startups, Constellation Research, SiliconANGLE, and SurrealDB
| Calvin Wankhede / Android Authority: |
Adobe updates Acrobat with Firefly-powered AI image generation, AI Assistant supporting analysis of multiple documents, including non-PDF files, and more — Acrobat's AI Assistant is getting more useful, just months after its debut. — • — TL;DRSponsor Posts
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