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Meta Platforms hopes to make money out of its augmented reality glasses through software features, such as subscriptions to its artificial intelligence service, its vice president of wearables Alex Himel said in an interview with The Information’s TITV this week. But Meta doesn’t have near-term plans to try and sell ads on the glasses, Himel said, noting they don’t have a big enough audience to appeal to advertisers yet.
Himel was speaking a day after Meta unveiled its biggest step towards augmented realit
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"If Disney's going to cave to Trump, then Disney doesn't get my money," one former Disney+ subscriber who canceled told Business Insider. Read more ›
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Trump's defamation lawsuit against the New York Times was "tedious" and could be 45 pages shorter, a federal judge ruled. Read more ›
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Jimmy Kimmel should just leave ABC and go online, people have been saying this week. But it's not that easy: Donald Trump can find you there, too. Read more ›
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In a chaotic meeting, ACIP voted not to recommend a prescription requirement for Covid-19 vaccines. Some panelists seemed unaware of the point of the meeting, while others went on strange tangents. Read more ›
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Jimmy Kimmel's suspension has provoked dread in the late-night world. Hollywood writers rallied against Disney and Trump. Read more ›
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Apple CEO Tim Cook says tariffs played no role in the higher price 'to be totally clear.' Read more ›
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Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner sounded off on ABC's decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel's show, in a thinly veiled shot at current leader Bob Iger. Read more ›
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Jimmy Kimmel wasn’t suspended because of poor ratings. He wasn’t suspended because he crossed some ethical red line. He was suspended because the president of the United States decided to make an example of him. The supposed justification came on Kimmel’s Monday night show. “We hit some new lows over the weekend, with the MAGA […] Read more ›
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Donald Trump and Melania Trump wore matching shades of purple in the UK. It was one of many instances of first couples coordinating their outfits. Read more ›
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Three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets flew into Estonia on Friday, escalating tensions and marking the latest violation of NATO airspace by Moscow. Read more ›
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U.S. President Donald Trump plans to impose a new $100,000 application fee for H-1B worker visas, a White House official said, potentially dealing a big blow to the technology sector that relies heavily on skilled workers from India and China. From a report: As part of his broader immigration crackdown, the Republican president was expected to sign a proclamation as early as Friday restricting entry under the H-1B visa program... Read more ›
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iPhone Day isn't even over, but already users are sharing reports of accidentally broken phones. Others are breaking their phones on purpose. Read more ›
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Jon Stewart has reacted to Jimmy Kimmel's suspension with an episode of "The Daily Show" devoted to praising Trump. Read more ›
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Here's what late night hosts said about Jimmy Kimmel being pulled off air, including Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, and Jimmy Fallon. Read more ›
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As reported by Bloomberg today, some of the new iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone Air models on display at Apple Stores today are already scratched and scuffed. French blog Consomac also reported on this topic. The scratches appear to be most prominent on models with darker finishes, including the iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max in Deep Blue, and the iPhone Air in Space Black. Images Credit: Consomac It is... Read more ›
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff was upset. Last fall, one of his technical teams told large Salesforce customers that using Agentforce, the software firm’s new artificial intelligence for automating customer service and other functions, would require extensive planning. The product information the Salesforce team shared with those customers acknowledged the complexity of making the AI perform well. That message contradicted Benioff, a charismatic salesman who had been telling customers that using... Read more ›
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As OpenAI irons out new terms of a partnership with Microsoft, it has told some shareholders that the percentage of revenue it will hand over to Microsoft will drop considerably in the coming years. As part of their original partnership agreement, Microsoft is entitled to 20% of the startup’s revenue through 2030. But OpenAI has projected to share roughly 8% of its revenue with commercial partners—namely, Microsoft—by the end of... Read more ›
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Anthropic, OpenAI and other artificial intelligence developers are sending large language models to the office. The AI models are being taught how to use everything from Salesforce’s customer relationship management software to Zendesk’s customer support and Cerner’s health records apps. The idea is to teach AI how to handle some of the complicated tasks white-collar workers do. Read more ›
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Navan is planning to reveal on Friday its securities filing for an initial public offering, two people with direct knowledge of the deal said, marking one of the final steps toward a long awaited listing for the travel software startup. The startup has confidentially submitted its IPO plans in ... Read more ›
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Shares of StubHub closed at $22 on its first day of trading, more than 6% below its initial public offering price of $23.50. The offering raised $800 million. Stubhub CEO Eric Baker said in an interview that the company is betting on future revenue growth from direct ticket sales. The ... Read more ›
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September is on track for six venture-backed tech listings, the most since November 2021. The rising number of IPOs means venture funds can start returning more cash to the limited partners that back them, relieving one of the strains that had held back VC fundraising over the last few years. Nearly all of September’s listings are from companies more than 10 years old. These include Netskope, which plans to price... Read more ›
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On paper, Informatica, a Redwood City-based cloud software firm with 5,000 white collar employees, is exactly the type of company that should be gung-ho to pay up and buy Office 365 Copilot, the version of Microsoft’s flagship software that comes with artificial intelligence features. And more than a year ago, Informatica did test out Office 365 Copilot for a handful of its employees, according to CIO Graeme Thompson. But Thompson... Read more ›
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Perplexity has drawn plenty of its headlines for its relentless fundraising—which recently valued the artificial intelligence search firm at $20 billion—and its penchant for declaring big-ticket acquisition targets like TikTok. But its efforts to build businesses in online shopping and advertising, which would put Perplexity’s revenue growth on more sustainable footing, have moved much more slowly. Nearly a year after the company began selling ad space and letting users buy... Read more ›
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On Wednesday, Meta Platforms took a big step towards dominating the still-nascent augmented reality market when it unveiled the latest version of its Ray-Bans smart glasses, this time with a see-through display and a wristband for controlling the device. People will be able to send text messages via hand motions interpreted by the wristband.Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the glasses were a step towards “superintelligence,” his artificial intelligence holy grail.... Read more ›
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For a company whose name refers to divine prophecies, Oracle hasn’t done a very good job of predicting the future. Investors, though, appear to believe in the company’s latest, most incredible forecast. The database giant last week upped its forecast for future revenue it expects to generate, based on its current contracts, by a whopping $317 billion. That’s 359% higher than last quarter’s projection. Executives attributed the boost to a... Read more ›
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