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...Meta’s interest in working with Magic Leap also comes as Silicon Valley faces increasing pressure to lessen its reliance on China for the manufacturing of hardware — an issue that has become more relevant...
...The issue of bias of AI models built by Silicon Valley giants has created a backlash from users....
...Apple announced a quarterly dividend of 24 cents per share on Thursday. “No one is buying Apple for the dividend yield at this point in time,” said Silverblatt....
...In many ways, Durov is like any billionaire tech founder in Silicon Valley....
...Much of the buzz around tech headsets in recent months has focused on Apple’s upcoming launch of its long-awaited Vision Pro, a large and pricey “mixed-reality” device that can show realistic 3D holograms...
...In Silicon Valley, this has been met with deep apprehension. It is seen as a government attempt to override years of design and technical decisions made by product managers and engineers....
...Apple is also feeling the heat on the other side of the Atlantic....
...In his testimony, Zuckerberg called for lawmakers instead to mandate regulation requiring Apple and Google app stores to verify the age of younger users....
...Apple, Amazon, BMW, Goldman Sachs, KPMG, Walmart and Meta....
...The search giant said its “largest, most capable and most general” AI system would be available as a free app through Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS app stores....
...An arms race for AI dominance kicked off last year when Microsoft invested $10bn in OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. The case also comes as tensions have increased over Silicon Valley’s links to China....
...Brussels has charged Google with abusing its dominant position in the advertising tech sector, warning that the alleged offences can only be resolved by forcing the Silicon Valley giant to sell off part...
...We're blessed with having a lot of them here, and in Silicon Valley it's a make-up of a couple of things. One is a number of feeding universities from all around the region....
...They include a deal with Apple that makes Google’s search engine the default on Apple’s devices, bringing in billions of dollars a year....
...The move heightens the rivalry between two of Silicon Valley’s most prominent billionaires....
...It comes as Meta has faced challenges in targeting and measuring ad campaigns following privacy changes by Apple....
...Some of Silicon Valley’s top engineers have spent the last decade writing code for driverless cars to expertly manoeuvre around the most complex streets in San Francisco....
...Bluesky said last year it had received $13mn in funding and it set up as an independent LLC, but it was unclear how it would be financed or monetised....
...“Moreover, the algorithms have been presented as agnostic as to the nature of the content.” Additional reporting by Hannah Murphy...
...Meta and Apple....
...Schmidt from the Apple board of directors in 2009....
...Apple, Amazon and Meta have in recent years have paid billions of dollars for the rights to screen events from the NFL to English Premier League football matches....
...Like Silicon Valley’s venture capitalists, retail investors have gone cold on the sector too....
...TPG has named partner and chief human resources officer Anilu Vazquez-Ubarri as chief operating officer of the firm, succeeding Ken Murphy, who plans to retire....
...Crawford was responsible for smoothing tensions over at Apple, two of the people said, including after Musk publicly harangued chief executive Tim Cook over fees the tech group charges developers of its...
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