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Emilia David
Emilia David
Nvidia’s AI partners are also its competition.

Nvidia powers most of the AI projects from Microsoft, OpenAI, Amazon, and Meta, but they’re also trying to lessen their dependence on its limited supply. The New York Times explains they want to make switching between Nvidia chips and others (including their own) “as simple” as possible.

As The Verge reported, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is interested in building chips. Microsoft’s AI-focused chip Maia 100 is expected to arrive this year, and Amazon announced the latest version of its Trainium chip.

Jacob Kastrenakes
Jacob Kastrenakes
Xreal raises 17,000 Vision Pros worth of funding to compete with Apple.

$60 million sounds like a lot, but how much can it really buy you these days?

The extra money should allow Xreal to make up to 2 million AR headsets in 2025, per Bloomberg. Its latest, the Air 2 Ultra, ships in March.

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra review: all that and AI

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Verge Score

The Galaxy S24 Ultra is packed with top-tier hardware, but its highly touted AI features are hit-or-miss — and the price is higher than ever.

Allison Johnson
Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
The music dance experience will return.

We still don’t know when season 2 of Severance will hit Apple TV Plus, but at least we know production on the workplace horror story is underway. In the meantime, please check on your innie.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
A Razzlekhan movie is in the works about the rapper/Bitcoin money launderer.

Last summer, Heather Morgan (a Forbes blogger who also rapped under the name Razzlekhan) and her husband Ilya Lichtenstein pleaded guilty to charges they conspired to launder Bitcoin stolen from Bitfinex in 2016. At the time of their arrest in early 2022, the stolen crypto was worth $4.5 billion.

Netflix previously ordered a documentary series about the couple, and now Deadline reports that Amazon MGM Studios has started development on a Razzlekhan film inspired by this New York Times story.

Screenshot showing Heather Morgan crouched on a concrete surface, hands held in fists in front of her.
Screenshot: Razzlekhan
Andrew Webster
Andrew Webster
A full season of Messi mania.

MLS is back in February, which means the second season of the 10-year-long soccer streaming experiment on Apple TV is about to begin. This season is notable in particular because the league’s crown jewel — Lionel Messi — will be around from the beginning, which is a big deal for Apple’s ambitions in the space.

And it turns out the 2024 version of MLS Season Pass launches today, actually, with Messi’s Inter Miami playing pre-season matches in Saudi Arabia.

Inter Miami CF v FC Dallas
Photo by Omar Vega/Getty Images
Jacob Kastrenakes
Jacob Kastrenakes
YouTube thumbnails are make or break.

Just look at how many image and title iterations The Try Guys go through when trying to make sure a video pops off.

If you’re interested in seeing more, the TikToker below is using a tool called CreatorML to view the thumbnail history.

Jess Weatherbed
Jess Weatherbed
Check out Neversoft’s canceled sci-fi Call of Duty game.

Leaked footage from a canned Xbox 360-era project known as Call of Duty: Future Warfare has been shared on YouTube, showing gameplay menus, settings, and a full “Moonbase Assault” mission, as seen in the video below.

Eurogamer notes that former Neversoft developer Brian Bright has verified the footage, claiming the studio pivoted from Guitar Hero to work on the canceled game, which was later replaced by COD: Ghosts.

Richard Lawler
Richard Lawler
Apple’s new Vision Pro ad is one you might’ve seen before.

With the Vision Pro set to ship starting on February 2nd, Apple uploaded a TV spot for the headset to its YouTube channel. Tim Cook presented this ad at the end of his WWDC 2023 keynote presentation, and it appears to be mostly the same, all these months later.

In June we dug through it to find out everywhere Apple imagines you’ll use its $3,499 headset, but you can watch it again right here,