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November 10, 2024, 7:35 PM

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Apple's future growth may come from several new Watch- or iPad-level businesses; visionOS 2.2's ultrawide Mac display mode is the Vision Pro's first killer app  —  Apple may never find another product with as much revenue potential as the iPhone, but it can still thrive with several new Apple Watch- or iPad-level businesses.
The Information:
Sources: Orion, OpenAI's upcoming flagship model currently in development, shows a smaller increase in quality from GPT-4 than GPT-4 had over GPT-3 at launch  —  The number of people using ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence products is soaring.  The rate of improvement …
Reuters:
Source: the US ordered TSMC to halt shipments of 7nm or more advanced chips that power AI accelerator and GPUs to Chinese customers starting on November 11  —  The U.S. ordered Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (2330.TW) to halt shipments of advanced chips to Chinese customers …
Zak Killian / HotHardware:
Intel's Robert Hallock admits “our wounds with Arrow Lake not hitting the performance we projected were self-inflicted” and promises fixes for performance gains  —  Speaking plainly, Intel's recently-launched Core Ultra 200 desktop CPUs, code-named “Arrow Lake” …
Zachary Small / New York Times:
A painting depicting Alan Turing as the god of AI, which was created by an AI-powered humanoid robot called Ai-Da, sold at a Sotheby's auction for nearly $1.1M  —  The portrait depicts the British mathematician Alan Turing as the god of artificial intelligence.
Washington Post:
Research: AI disinfo amplified satire, false political narratives, and hate speech since August; users falsely assessed content authenticity 52% of the time  —  This was the year that artificial intelligence was expected to wreak havoc on elections.  For two years, experts from D.C …
Taylor Lorenz / User Mag:
Threads becoming inundated with liberal election fraud conspiracies highlights the shift toward a “post-truth” online landscape across the political spectrum  —  Over the past several days, Meta's Threads has become inundated with liberal election fraud conspiracies.
Miles Kruppa / Wall Street Journal:
Chegg has lost 500K+ subscribers since ChatGPT's launch, and its stock is down 99% from early 2021, as students looking for homework help turn to free AI tools  —  Chegg's stock is down 99%, and students looking for homework help are defecting to ChatGPT  —  Most companies are starting …
Newcomer:
San Francisco's next mayor, Dan Lurie, a Levi's heir with no political experience, wasn't tech leaders' top choice but is a moderate who aims to work with them  —  San Francisco venture capitalists didn't get all the results they'd hoped for in this week's local elections.

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