Thu. 12/12 – The “Killer App” For Vision Pro?

More fallout from the whole Cruise wind-down. What it’s like to use some of the new Gemini 2.0 features. Has Apple, quite belatedly, finally done a feature update that provides the Vision Pro with a “killer app?” An Instagram-like app from China I had never heard of. And one singular, eye-popping datapoint from the CHIPS Act.
Links:

The end of Cruise is the beginning of a risky new phase for autonomous vehicles (The Verge)

Gemini 2.0 Flash: An outstanding multi-modal LLM with a sci-fi streaming model (Simon Willison's Blog)

FCC Opens Entire 6-GHz Band to Very-Low-Power Device Operations (TV Tech)

The Vision Pro’s ultrawide Mac display is very close to being a killer app (The Verge)

China’s Instagram-Style Xiaohongshu Crosses $1 Billion in Profit (Bloomberg)

Harvard Is Releasing a Massive Free AI Training Dataset Funded by OpenAI and Microsoft (Wired)

US chipmaking boom in doubt after Biden’s defeat (Financial Times)

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