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The company is building livestreaming studios in cities including Los Angeles, according to The Information. Influencers will then stream and sell products to their followers from the TikTok studios.

The Vision Pro is not an easy thing to review, or explain, or score. But Nilay had to do all those things. So about 24 hours before the whole thing went live, we sat Nilay down in the studio to hash this thing out once and for all. What is the Vision Pro good at? What’s it for? Why is it so expensive? What’s the deal with the eyes? And most importantly... is it good?

Italy’s data protection watchdog is giving OpenAI 30 days to respond to a new set of findings that claims the company is breaking data privacy laws in the EU. The agency didn’t disclose specific complaints, but it briefly banned ChatGPT in the country last year over claims it unlawfully collected users’ data.

The company has taken a $1.6 billion hit related to unsold electric vehicles as growth across the EV market continues to slow. EV sales reached $2.1 billion in GM’s fourth quarter, up from the $2.0 billion reported last year.

MacRumors discovered fresh references to this rumored Apple operating system in the first beta of tvOS 17.4, having last been mentioned in a few job listings that Apple posted back in 2019. It’s thought to be a dedicated platform for Apple’s HomePod lineup, designed to help expand the company’s smart home presence — like a smart display and speaker combination that Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says Apple is developing.

Instagram head Adam Mosseri confirmed in a post today that the Threads team is working on “surfacing trends”, so that new feature is definitely on the way.

Elon Musk’s other other company, the brain-machine interface startup Neuralink, has apparently put an implant in a human, who is recovering well and seeing “promising neuron spike detection.”