Advancements in Augmented Reality and Emerging Competition

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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