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Breaking Tech News- Survey: Apple cut 2024 Vision Pro shipments to 400K-450K units, vs. a 700K+ market consensus, and cut orders mean demand has fallen sharply beyond expectations (Ming-Chi Kuo)
- Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses get support for video calling via WhatsApp and Messenger, Apple Music compatibility, and a new frame style (Victoria Song/The Verge)
- Sources: AI search engine Perplexity is raising $250M+ at a $2.5B to $3B valuation; previous backers NEA and IVP are among those looking to invest (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- Repairable laptop maker Framework Computer raised a $17M Series A-1, after an $18M Series A in early 2022, to expand into new product categories (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)
- Meta rolls out multimodal AI in early access for the Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses, mainly to help identify objects, translate signs, and write Instagram captions (Victoria Song/The Verge)
- Apple schedules a "special Apple Event" for May 7 at 10am ET, where new iPads are expected; rumors suggest the iPad Pro will get an OLED display and an M3 chip (Quentyn Kennemer/The Verge)
- As Congress' TikTok bill moves ahead, US lawmakers must show on what grounds they are forcing a sale or ban of the popular and culturally significant platform (Dave Lee/Bloomberg)
- Meta, Google, OpenAI, child safety group Thorn, nonprofit All Tech Is Human, and other AI groups sign on to an initiative to add new child safety measures (Deepa Seetharaman/Wall Street Journal)
- Sonos updates its Android and iOS apps, rebuilding them to become more reliable, and plans to discontinue its Windows and macOS apps in favor of web apps (Chris Welch/The Verge)
- Perplexity AI, which offers an AI chatbot that summarizes search results, raised ~$63M led by Daniel Gross at a $1B+ valuation, up from $520M in January 2024 (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
Jan Koehler 
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