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Meta Connect 2024: Mark Zuckerberg Unveils Quest 3S: Mark Zuckerberg announced the new Quest 3S, a more affordable version of the Quest 3 with improved capabilities. The Quest 3S is expected to be a significant step forward in the VR market. Read more on The Verge
Zuckerberg chats with AI clone as human creator looks on in year’s weirdest demo: Mark Zuckerberg invited creator Don Allen Stevenson III to join him onstage. The Meta CEO proceeded to pick up a phone and carry on a conversation with an AI-generated version of Stevenson as the genuine article stood between the exec and an image of himself on the big screen. Read more on TechCrunch
OpenAI’s for-profit switch could include equity for Sam Altman: OpenAI describes its business structure as “a partnership between our original Nonprofit and a new capped profit arm,” which has been a contributing factor in last year’s short-lived board coup against CEO Sam Altman and a recent lawsuit by cofounder Elon Musk. But that’s reportedly set to change along with a massive new funding round that’s still being negotiated but could value the ChatGPT maker at more than $150 billion. Read more on The Verge
Google files EU antitrust complaint against Microsoft: Google filed a complaint against Microsoft with the European Commission on Wednesday. Google accused Microsoft of making it prohibitively expensive for cloud customers to move their work from Azure to other providers, like Google Cloud. Read more on Engadget
New tech could improve care for Parkinson’s patients: The number of people living with Parkinson’s disease globally has doubled in the past 25 years. Yet the treatment and monitoring of the neurological disease seems many decades behind. Clinicians typically gauge the severity of the disease using subjective rating scales, and a shortage of doctors trained to treat Parkinson’s means that people can go months—or years—between clinic visits.Read more on Medical Express
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