A stealth startup led by ex-Blue Origin leaders, focused on harvesting resources from the moon, has quietly closed a sizable new tranche of funding, according to regulatory documents. Interlune, a startup that’s been around for at least three years but has made almost zero public […]
Month: February 2024
OpenAI launches ChatGPT app for Apple Vision Pro
OpenAI launches ChatGPT, a multimodal AI app that lets users chat with text, images, and voice on the Apple Vision Pro, the augmented reality headset powered by visionOS.
These 30 robotics companies are hiring
It was a rough week. There are rarely good weeks for my industry, but this one felt especially dire. Perhaps because it hit close to home. Not that many publications, however, have been through the scale of what iRobot is facing. After a year-and-a-half of […]
Google Search is losing its ‘cached’ web page feature
One of Google Search’s oldest and best-known features, cache links, are being retired, Google’s search liaison said in an X post seen by The Verge. Best known by the “Cached” button, those are a snapshot of a web page the last time Google indexed it. […]
YouTube is not building a Vision Pro app, so Apollo for Reddit dev made one
Apple’s Vision Pro headset is set to release for consumers today, but YouTube is not currently building a dedicated app for the device. To fill that void, Christian Selig, the developer who made Apollo for Reddit client, has made a Vision Pro app for YouTube called […]
Sega’s Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth hits 1M copies in 7 days
Sega announced that Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth has sold a million copies in its first seven days, making it the fastest-selling title in the series. The game was released on January 26 in 11 languages . To commemorate the sales speed and thank players […]
J. Crew, Mytheresa and e.l.f. brands launch Apple Vision Pro apps
Fashion, luxury and cosmetics brands are among the 600 apps headed to the Apple Vision Pro. Obsess is announcing that it partnered with the fashion brand J.Crew, cosmetics firm Mytheresa and luxury brand e.l.f. Cosmetics to launch Apple Vision Pro apps today. J.Crew and visionOS […]
Google Search is losing its ‘cached’ web page feature
One of Google Search’s oldest and best-known features, cache links, are being retired, Google’s search liaison said in an X post seen by The Verge. Best known by the “Cached” button, those are a snapshot of a web page the last time Google indexed it. […]
Apple says EU represents 7% of global App Store revenue
Nearly a week after Apple announced big changes to the App Store because of the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) rules, the company said that the market represents 7% of its global App Store revenues. The company’s chief financial officer Luca Maestri said that […]
Renowned investors Elad Gil and Sarah Guo on the risks and rewards of funding AI tech: “The biggest threat to us in the short run is other people”
Last week, at our first StrictlyVC evening of the year, prominent AI investors Elad Gil and Sarah Guo joined us in San Francisco to talk about how they think about AI investing in a world where deals were getting bid up feverishly two months ago, […]