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🤫 Apple Hits Pause on AI Magic

Apple paused its AI-generated notification summaries → after accuracy issues. The feature will be back eventually, but only after some much-needed fine-tuning. iOS 18.3 public beta drops next week.

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🚀 One Small Step for Bezos

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has successfully launched its New Glenn heavy rocket into space for the first time. The rocket, which has been in development for 10 years, can carry up to 45 tons to orbit—19 tons less than Elon Musk’s Falcon Heavy.

The launch proceeded as planned, although the company was unable to recover the rocket’s first stage. Despite this, Blue Origin has declared the mission a success.

As SpaceX’s main competitor, Blue Origin’s successful launch of New Glenn is expected to ramp up the rivalry between the two companies. Elon Musk even took to X to congratulate Jeff Bezos on the achievement.

Congratulations on reaching orbit on the first attempt! — Musk wrote.

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😂 MrBeast to the Rescue?

TikTok faces a U.S. ban if ByteDance doesn’t sell by January 19. MrBeast → joked about buying it to save the platform, which has 170M U.S. users at stake.

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😄 Life Just Got Even Easier

OpenAI rolled out Tasks, a new ChatGPT → feature that schedules reminders and automates recurring requests.

For now, the feature is in beta and available only to Plus, Team, and Pro subscribers, with a 10-task limit per user.

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🤫 While We Were Sleeping…

TikTok → has shut down reports of a potential sale to Elon Musk, dismissing them as baseless. This follows Bloomberg’s claim that Chinese officials were exploring a deal to avoid U.S. sanctions.

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😘 Make TikTok Great Again

China is reportedly considering selling TikTok U.S. to Elon Musk → to avoid a potential ban. One proposed scenario involves Musk’s X taking control of TikTok U.S. while managing it alongside ByteDance.

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🐈 Cutie Patootie

TCL's Ai Me robot → debuts at CES 2025—it monitors homes, records videos, controls smart devices, and even pairs with smart cars. No release date yet, but it's already turning heads.

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💅 Next-gen gaming

Tetris and DOOM have now been ported into fully playable PDF → files. Just open them in a browser and play—no install needed.

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🦴 Still saving up for the first one?

Apple is already working on Vision Pro 2 → with an M5 chip and Apple Intelligence, expected in 2025 with sales starting in 2026. A cheaper version might drop even sooner.

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🧠 Next in line for a brain chip?

Neuralink → has implanted its third brain chip and plans up to 30 more in 2025.

The company is also working on Blindsight, a device aiming to restore vision.

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🤐 It’s Time to Say Goodbye

TikTok → plans to shut down in the U.S. on January 19 unless the Supreme Court blocks the ban. ByteDance refuses to sell, and the court has upheld the law.

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😎 AI That Reads Your Mind? Sure…

At CES 2025, startup Based Hardware unveiled Omi, an $89 AI wearable → that listens, analyzes brain signals, and responds in real time. Ships in Q2 2025.

A similar AI assistant, Friend, AI-powered necklace, was introduced last summer.

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🤗 Apple denies Siri snooping

Apple refutes claims that Siri → records and shares user data with advertisers. The statement follows a $95M lawsuit settlement.

Apple insists it never used, sold, or shared Siri data for marketing.

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🛸 AI as a Service?

Samsung → will launch an AI Subscription Club for Galaxy smartphones next month.

Currently limited to South Korea, details may emerge at Galaxy Unpacked on January 22.

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🤡 EU Commission fined for violating its own GDPR rules

The European Court has fined → the European Commission €400 for breaching GDPR after a user's data was transferred to Meta and Amazon without proper safeguards.

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🤔 Privacy? What Privacy?

In 2024, Telegram → complied with 900 requests from U.S. authorities, affecting 2,253 users.

The number of disclosures surged in the last quarter following Pavel Durov's detention in France.

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😄 Meta Lets Users Decide

Meta → is ditching third-party fact-checking and shifting to Community Notes, letting users add context instead of removing posts. The rollout starts in the U.S. before going global.

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💸 Too Successful to Be Profitable

OpenAI’s $200/month plan is costing more than it earns.

Altman admits → miscalculation as ChatGPT runs up to $700K/day. Despite $20B in funding, losses could hit $5B this year.

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📱 This Is (Probably) the iPhone 17 Pro

Reputable insider Majin Bu shared prototype images of the iPhone 17 Pro on X, hinting at Apple's potential design direction.

🍏 The camera layout remains, but the module now stretches across the entire width—similar to Google's Pixel lineup.

🍏 The LiDAR sensor, flash, and extra microphone have been repositioned to the opposite side.

🍏 More design details are expected to surface from case manufacturers.

🍏 The official reveal is set for September 2025.

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📸 One Stock to Rule Them All?

Getty Images and Shutterstock are in talks to merge → into a $2 billion media giant, aiming to dominate the stock photo market amid rising demand and AI disruptions.

But with regulators watching closely, the deal might not be picture-perfect.

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