Amazon's Acquisition Challenges and Competing Products

Preorders for the Vision Pro begin, but huge new questions about partner support have arisen. Zuckerberg says he wants to open source AGI. You’re going to have to pay for those Galaxy AI features. Perplexity will power the rabbit r1. And, of course, the Weekend Longreads Suggestions.

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Links:

• YouTube and Spotify Won’t Launch Apple Vision Pro Apps, Joining Netflix (Bloomberg)
• A Survey of Popular Apps Currently Compatible With Apple Vision Pro (MacStories)
• Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence (The Verge)
• EU Commission Intends to Block Amazon’s iRobot Acquisition (WSJ)
• Samsung says Galaxy AI features will only be free ‘until the end of 2025’ (9to5Google)
• The rabbit r1 will use Perplexity AI’s tech to answer your queries (TechCrunch)

Weekend Longreads Suggestions:

• How Twitch lost its way (Fast Company)
• Astronomers spotted something perplexing near the beginning of time (Vox)

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