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Windows Apocalypse, Anthropic’s AI Fund, New Apple Immersive Videos

Windows Apocalypse, Anthropic’s AI Fund, New Apple Immersive Videos

Plus Quest 4 rumors & GPT-4o mini

Cosmo Scharf
July 23, 2024

Windows BSoD Apocalypse, Anthropic’s AI Fund, New Apple Immersive Videos

Hi everyone, it’s Cosmo. I’m trying a new format this week – essentially a video version of the newsletter. I’m also opting for shorter written posts in lieu of longer video commentary. Reply to this email if you like it or have any feedback! Enjoy 😊!

Magic Beans of the Week

CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft

🔗 The Verge – Wes Davis

Menlo Ventures and Anthropic team up on a $100M AI fund

🔗 Techcrunch – Marina Temkin

After Tesla and OpenAI, Andrej Karpathy’s startup aims to apply AI assistants to education

🔗 Techcrunch – Rebecca Bellan

OpenAI in talks with Broadcom to develop new AI chip

🔗 Maginative – Chris Mckay

GPT-4o mini: advancing cost-efficient intelligence

🔗 OpenAI

Google is trying to steal the Ray-Ban partnership from Meta

🔗 The Verge – Alex Heath

Meta's HUD glasses reportedly won't be Ray-Ban branded

🔗 Upload VR – David Heaney

Quest 4 reportedly coming in 2026, then Quest Pro 2 in 2027

🔗 Upload VR – David Heaney

Google's early VR modeling tool 'Blocks' is getting revived as open source software

🔗 Road to VR – Scott Hayden

Trump allies want to “Make America First in AI” with sweeping executive order

🔗 Ars Technica – Benj Edwards

New Apple Immersive Video series and films premiere on Vision Pro

🔗 Apple

TinyPod turns your Apple Watch into an iPod

🔗 MacRumors – Juli Clover

Thank you for reading. Till next week! 😊

Best,
Cosmo