Thu. 02/29 – What If The Vision Pro Is Selling Better Than We Think?

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🗓️ 29 February 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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The SEC has subpoenaed OpenAI. What if the Vision Pro is selling better than even Apple thought? Beware of the repo attack affecting GitHub. Beware of the video doorbells that are ridiculously easy to take over. And is robotics the next big tech industry we need to be paying attention to? Links: SEC Investigating Whether OpenAI Investors Were Misled (WSJ) EA to lay off 5% of workforce, or about 670 employees (CNBC) Vision Pro demand higher than expected; returns down to 1% – Kuo (9to5Mac) Kuo: Apple Vision Pro on Track to Launch in More Countries Before WWDC in June (MacRumors) Apple Vision Pro return rate is about the same as the iPhone 15 Pro (Apple Insider) StarCoder 2 is a code-generating AI that runs on most GPUs (TechCrunch) GitHub besieged by millions of malicious repositories in ongoing attack (ArsTechnica) These Video Doorbells Have Terrible Security. Amazon Sells Them Anyway. (Consumer Reports) Humanoid robot startup Figure AI valued at $2.6 billion as Bezos, OpenAI, Nvidia join funding (CNBC) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Thursday, February 29th, 2024.
0:07.8	I'm Brian McCullough today.
0:09.2	The SEC has subpoenaed Open AI.
0:11.8	What if the Vision Pro is selling better than even Apple
0:14.2	thought? Beware of the repo attack affecting GitHub. Beware of the video
0:18.6	doorbells that are ridiculously easy to take over and is robotics the next big tech industry we need to be paying
0:25.1	attention to. Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:29.6	I was wondering if the feds were going to take a look at this.
0:35.0	Sources are telling the journal that the US SEC has sent a subpoena to Open
0:40.8	AI. They did so in December actually seeking internal records
0:44.5	after the board's decision to fire Sam Altman as CEO back in November.
0:49.6	Quote, SEC officials based in New York are conducting the investigation and have asked that some senior open AI officials preserve internal documents.
0:58.0	The SEC enforces laws that forbid people from misleading investors regardless of whether fundraisers seek capital
1:04.4	and public or private markets.
1:06.8	The SEC often closes investigations without making formal accusations of wrongdoing.
1:11.6	Some of the people familiar with the investigation described it as a
1:13.9	predictable response to the former Open AI Board's claim in its November statement.
1:18.4	One of the people said that the SEC hasn't pointed to any specific statement or
1:22.4	communication by Altman that it has
1:24.1	deemed misleading. The SEC's civil investigation has been percolating in the
1:28.0	background as open AI officials pitched investors as part of its recently
1:31.2	closed tender offer which valued the AI Juggernaut behind
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