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December 9, 2024, 12:20 AM

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Mark Gurman / Bloomberg:
Sources: Apple has been working with Sony on a months long effort to add PS VR2 controller support to visionOS; Apple has sold fewer than 500K Vision Pros  —  Apple and Sony have discussed forging a partnership that could change gaming on the Vision Pro.  Also: Apple has a three-year road map …
Tripp Mickle / New York Times:
Apple faces a lawsuit accusing it of failing to implement a system that detects and removes CSAM from iCloud, despite initially developing such a tool in 2021  —  A 27-year old former child sexual abuse victim photographed anonymously with her mother.  Her lawsuit against Apple claims …
Om Malik / Crazy Stupid Tech:
The rise of generative AI will force the web browser to evolve again, just as the web browser evolved for a mobile-first world by contorting itself into apps  —  I'm addicted to Apple's Vision Pro.  It's a nearly perfect entertainment device, serving as my ideal television.  Sure, I would like it to be lighter.
Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal:
A look at the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a planned project aiming to make Chicago a quantum computing hub with PsiQuantum as the anchor tenant  —  An industrial park taking shape on an old steel mill site provides a glimpse into the quantum future
Ashley Carman / Bloomberg:
ElevenLabs, which is reportedly raising $200M at a $3B valuation, launched a tool to let users create and edit AI-hosted podcasts from various source materials  —  The new product competes with Google's viral NotebookLM  —  ElevenLabs Inc., a startup that uses artificial intelligence software …

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