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Analysis: Meta has invested $80B+ in AR and VR since 2014 when it bought Oculus, and is on track to top $100B in 2025 — Tech group reveals it put $19.9bn into its Reality Labs division, which develops its smart glasses and headsets, last year — Meta's total investment in virtual …
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Forums: r/augmentedreality and Slashdot
| Bloomberg: |
Trump signs an executive action to form a sovereign wealth fund; Commerce secretary nominee Howard Lutnick says it may be used to facilitate a sale of TikTok US — - Fund could be used as US facilitates TikTok sale, Lutnick says — Bessent says fund will be created in the next 12 months
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| Evan Weinberger / Bloomberg Law: |
Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent orders the CFPB to stop all rulemaking, communications, litigation, and other activities; in November, Musk called to “Delete CFPB” — Search by Topic — Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has shut down a wide variety of operations inside …
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| Musk Watch: |
An OPM staffer believes a server Musk's associates installed, with access to federal staff info like SSNs, has not undergone a Privacy Impact Assessment — The Musk-connected political hires include two recent high school graduates — Several of Elon Musk's associates installed at the Office …
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| Washington Post: |
Analysis of FEC filings: Elon Musk spent $288M+ to help elect Trump and other Republicans, the 2024 US election's biggest donor; Musk's America PAC raised $263M — Billionaire Elon Musk spent at least $288 million to help elect President Donald Trump and other Republican candidates … | Rochelle Raveendran / CBC News: |
In the wake of US tariffs on Canadian goods, the premier of Ontario Doug Ford says he's “ripping up” the province's CA$100M Starlink contract — Musk part of President Donald Trump's team that wants to destroy families, Ford says — Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford is …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
The first ever native iPhone porn app, Hot Tub, arrives in the EU via the alternative app store AltStore PAL, which was made possible by the DMA — A native pornography app for iOS is coming to the EU via the approved alternative app store AltStore PAL, made possible by Europe's Digital Markets Act (DMA).
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| Umar Shakir / The Verge: |
A US district court judge denies Apple's emergency motion to halt the remedy trial of the DOJ v. Google case, saying it hasn't demonstrated satisfactory reasons — Apple won't get to say how a Google monopoly breakup could affect its business dealings.
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| Andrew Orr / AppleInsider: |
Counterpoint: iPhone 15 led global smartphone sales in 2024, followed by iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPhone 15 Pro, Galaxy A15 5G; global smartphone revenue grew 5% YoY — Apple's iPhone 15 led global sales in 2024, with Pro models close behind, as premium device demand drove a revenue rebound.
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| Cristina Criddle / Financial Times: |
Anthropic details Constitutional Classifiers, a system that aims to guard AI models against jailbreaks, monitoring both inputs and outputs for harmful content — Leading tech groups including Microsoft and Meta also invest in similar safety systems — Artificial intelligence start …
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| Bloomberg: |
The Seoul High Court upholds an earlier decision clearing Samsung Executive Chairman Jay Y. Lee of fraud and stock-rigging, marking a major victory for Samsung — - Seoul court upholds Jay Y. Lee's earlier victory on appeal — The Samsung scion can now focus on turning around the firm| Bloomberg: |
A US appeals court panel appeared skeptical of Google's bid to overturn a 2023 jury verdict that declared the Play Store an illegal monopoly in the Epic case — - Jury ruled Google violated antitrust law by restricting apps — Google argues case shouldn't have been decided by jury
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| Ethan Mollick / One Useful Thing: |
OpenAI's Deep Research hands-on: very good at nuanced, complex research, and the first narrow agent to do sophisticated and likely economically valuable work — The first narrow agents are here — A hint to the future arrived quietly over the weekend. For a long time …
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