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☆ WhatsApp unveils new video messaging feature
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —WhatsApp will now let you record and send video clips directly in the messaging app, the Meta-owned platform announced this week. The instant video messages can be up to 60 seconds long, and are similarly protected with the app’s end-to-end encryption service. The new feature will be similar to sending a voice message on the platform, the company added, and there will also be a way to record the video hands-free. Earlier this year, WhatsApp rolled out an update that lets users edit messages in the app (as long as it’s within 15 minutes after sending). The latest product update for WhatsApp comes on the heels of a better-than-expected earnings report from Meta.

Persons: CNN — WhatsApp, WhatsApp, Mark Zuckerberg’s Organizations: CNN, Meta

☆ Meta stock climbs after revenue
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ The responsible investing boom is over. Can anything replace ESG?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-26 | by ( Nicole Goodkind | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

New York CNN —Environmental, social and corporate governance, or ESG, investing is on a downward spiral. But in 2022, the pace of inflows quickly eased as a confluence of political, geopolitical and market events severely damaged interest in ESG investing. ESG investing took off and became a buzzword — the “artificial intelligence of six years ago,” said Jenkins. Alphabet reported revenue of $74.6 billion, marking a 7% jump compared to last year and beating Wall Street’s estimates. Banc of California reported a much smaller decline in net income of $2.4 million last quarter.

Persons: ESG, Larry Fink, ”, Robert Jenkins, Jenkins, “, ” Jenkins, he’s, What’s, Clare Duffy, Catherine Thorbecke, Wall, ” Thomas Monteiro, —, Elisabeth Buchwald, Jared Wolff, Wolff, PacWest Organizations: CNN Business, Bell, New York CNN, BlackRock, CNN, Lipper, Pleiades Strategy, Google, Microsoft, Wall, Bancorp, Western Bank, Beverly, Santa, Bank Locations: New York, YOLO, Ukraine, Banc, California, Santa Ana, United States

☆ AI is supposed to make our jobs easier. These workers disagree
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

“In the next few years, the main impact of AI on work will be to help people do their jobs more efficiently,” Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said in a blog post recently. Big Tech companies are now rushing to jump on the AI bandwagon, pledging significant investments into new AI-powered tools that promise to streamline work. News outlet CNET had to issue “substantial” corrections earlier this year after experimenting with using an AI tool to write stories. Others like Clarke, the publisher, have tried to combat the fallout from the rise of AI by relying on more AI. “You listen to these AI experts, they go on about how these things are going to do amazing breakthroughs in different fields,” Clarke said.

Persons: hasn’t, Neil Clarke’s, Clarke, “, ” Clarke, “ It’s, ChatGPT, Bill Gates, it’s, Shakked, Neil Clarke, Lisa R, Clarke Mathias Cormann, ” Cormann, ’ Ivana Saula, Saula, ” Saula, ”, Gizmodo Organizations: CNN, Microsoft, Big Tech, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT’s Department of Economics, Clarkesworld Magazine, Organization for Economic Co, Development, “ Workers, International Association of Machinists, Aerospace Workers, ” Workers, CNET, Star Locations: Shakked Noy, MIT’s, newsrooms

☆ Thousands of authors demand payment from AI companies for use of copyrighted works
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Brian Fung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

Washington CNN —Thousands of published authors are requesting payment from tech companies for the use of their copyrighted works in training artificial intelligence tools, marking the latest intellectual property critique to target AI development. In an open letter they signed, posted by the Authors Guild Tuesday, the writers accused AI companies of unfairly profiting from their work. “Millions of copyrighted books, articles, essays, and poetry provide the ‘food’ for AI systems, endless meals for which there has been no bill,” the letter said. “The high commerciality of your use argues against fair use,” the authors wrote to the AI companies. In May, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman appeared to acknowledge more needs to be done to address concerns from creators about how AI systems use their works.

Persons: Margaret Atwood, Dan Brown, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Franzen, James Patterson, Jodi Picoult, Philip Pullman, “, OpenAI, didn’t, Sarah Silverman, Margaret Atwood Rich Fury, Monika Skolimowska, Goldsmith, Andy Warhol, Prince, Warhol, Sam Altman, “ We’re, ”, –, Catherine Thorbecke Organizations: Washington CNN, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, Warhol

☆ Elon Musk announces a new AI company
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-12 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Elon Musk on Wednesday announced the formation of a new company focused on artificial intelligence, after months of teasing plans to build a rival to ChatGPT. In an interview with then-Fox News host Tucker Carlson in April, Musk said teased plans for his new AI venture. The announcement of Musk’s latest venture comes at a precarious moment for Musk. The turbulence at Twitter comes after months of Musk alienating some users and advertisers by slashing staff, pushing through controversial policy changes and making a number of incendiary remarks. In addition to Twitter, Musk runs several other companies, including Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink and The Boring Company.

Persons: CNN — Elon Musk, Musk, “, Tesla, OpenAI, ” Musk, Tucker Carlson, “ We’re, ” Organizations: CNN, Wednesday, Fox News, Twitter, Meta, SpaceX, The Boring Company Locations: ChatGPT

☆ Google hit with lawsuit alleging it stole data from millions of users to train its AI tools
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Google was hit with a wide-ranging lawsuit on Tuesday alleging the tech giant scraped data from millions of users without their consent and violated copyright laws in order to train and develop its artificial intelligence products. The complaint also claims Google has taken “virtually the entirety of our digital footprint,” including “creative and copywritten works” to build its AI products. The complaint points to a recent update to Google’s privacy policy that explicitly states the company may use publicly accessible information to train its AI models and tools such as Bard. It is also seeking unspecified damages and payments as financial compensation to people whose data was allegedly misappropriated by Google. Giordano contrasted the benefits and alleged harms of how Google typically indexes online data to support its core search engine with the new allegations of it scraping data to train AI tools.

Persons: DeepMind, OpenAI, Bard, “, ’, ” Tim Giordano, Giordano, ” Giordano, Ryan Clarkson Organizations: CNN, Google, Clarkson Law Firm, ChatGPT, Clarkson Locations: California

☆ Elizabeth Holmes could be released from prison two years earlier than expected
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-11 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Disgraced former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes could be out of prison nearly two years earlier than expected, according to the projected release date posted by the Bureau of Prisons. The Bureau of Prisons online database now reports, however, that Holmes’ expected release date is December 29, 2032 – which would take roughly two years off of her full sentence. The discrepancy appears to be due to how the Bureau of Prisons calculates its estimated release date. These factors that go into calculating an estimated release date are not unique to Holmes’ case, but standard for inmates. Holmes is currently serving out her sentence at Federal Prison Camp Bryan, a minimum security federal prison camp that is approximately 100 miles from Houston.

Persons: CNN —, Elizabeth Holmes, Holmes, Theranos Organizations: CNN, Bureau of Prisons, Prisons, Federal Prison, Street Locations: Texas, Houston, Silicon Valley

☆ Sarah Silverman sues OpenAI and Meta alleging copyright infringement
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Comedian Sarah Silverman and two authors are suing Meta and ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, alleging the companies’ AI language models were trained on copyrighted materials from their books without their knowledge or consent. A new crop of AI tools has gained tremendous attention in recent months for their ability to generate written work and images in response to user prompts. The large language models underpinning these tools are trained on vast troves of online data. The complaint against Meta similarly claims that the company used the authors’ copyrighted books to train LLaMA, the set of large language models released by Meta in February. The legal action from Silverman isn’t the first to focus on how large language models are trained.

Persons: Sarah Silverman, OpenAI, Silverman, ”, Christopher Golden, Richard Kadrey, ChatGPT, “, Meta, Silverman isn’t, Sam Altman, “ We’re Organizations: CNN, Meta, OpenAI, Facebook Locations: San Francisco federal

☆ AI is already linked to layoffs in the industry that created it
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-04 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Some 212,294 workers in the tech industry have been laid off in 2023 alone, according to data tracked by Layoffs.fyi, already surpassing the 164,709 recorded in 2022. But in the shadow of those mass layoffs, the tech industry has also been gripped by an AI fervor and invested heavily in AI talent and tech. Roger Lee, a startup founder who has been tracking tech industry layoffs via his website Layoffs.fyi, also runs Comprehensive.io, which examines job listings and compensation data across some 3,000 tech companies. Those looking to thrive in the tech industry and beyond may need to brush up on their AI skills. It’s not that everyone needs to become AI specialists, Wang added, but rather that workers should know how to use AI tools to become more efficient at whatever they’re doing.

Persons: Arvind Krishna, Barrons, Krishna, Dropbox, ”, Drew Houston, “, Dan Wang, ” Wang, Mark Zuckerberg, Roger Lee, Lee, Wang, It’s, That’s Organizations: CNN, Bloomberg, Columbia Business School, Layoffs.fyi, Microsoft, Machine Locations: OpenAI, Silicon Valley

☆ Pokemon Go maker Niantic is laying off 230 employees
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —Niantic, the creator of hit mobile game Pokemon Go, announced it is laying off 230 employees and reorganizing its business as it grapples with new macroeconomic uncertainty. In a letter to staff announcing the job cuts, Niantic CEO John Hanke said the company is taking other significant actions as well: shuttering its Los Angeles studio, sunsetting its NBA All-World game and halting production on Marvel: World of Heroes. The privately held company’s breakout hit, Pokemon Go, was among the first mobile games to embrace augmented reality when it launched in 2016. “In the wake of the revenue surge we saw during Covid, we grew our headcount and related expenses in order to pursue growth more aggressively, expanding existing game teams, our AR platform work, new game projects and roles that support our products and our employees,” Hanke wrote. Eventually, however, “our revenue returned to pre-Covid levels and new projects in games and platform have not delivered revenues commensurate with those investments,” he added.

Persons: New York CNN — Niantic, John Hanke, sunsetting, Hanke, ” Hanke, “ Organizations: New, New York CNN, NBA, Marvel, Layoffs.fyi Locations: New York, Los Angeles

☆ Premarket stocks: Why Wall Street is bullish on beaten-down energy
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Analysis Krystal Hur | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

New York (CNN) Some investors are turning bullish on energy stocks, despite their disappointing performance this year and some major challenges facing Big Oil. But energy stocks have fallen 7.8% this year, compared to a gain of 14.5% for the S&P 500. Why are energy stocks down? The energy sector rose about 59% last year after Russia's invasion of Ukraine sent commodity prices skyrocketing. There are two main reasons why investors are keen on energy stocks: They're priced attractively, and the companies are making money.

Persons: It'sthe, Jay Rhame, Eric Diton, Catherine Thorbecke Organizations: CNN Business, Bell, CNN, International Energy Agency, Asset Management, Brent, West, downer, Federal Reserve, Apple, Nvidia, ExxonMobil XOM Energy, Chevron, Wealth Alliance Locations: New York, Ukraine, Europe, West Texas, China, India

☆ Snapchat+ gains 4 million paying subscribers in its first year
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

New York CNN —Snap said Thursday that it has garnered more than 4 million paying customers for its subscription service Snapchat+. The tally of paying subscribers disclosed by Snap on Thursday still represents a small fraction of the 750 million monthly active users that the platform boasted about hitting at its Investor Day event earlier this year. Snapchat+ offers access to “exclusive, experimental and pre-release features,” according to a blog post from Snap Thursday. As of Thursday, subscribers have access to more than 20 features, “including custom app themes, unique app icons, and the ability to pin your #1 BFF,” the company added. The service, dubbed Twitter Blue, had an estimated 550,000 paying subscribers as of late April.

Persons: Elon Musk Organizations: New, New York CNN, Elon, Twitter, Meta, Facebook Locations: New York

☆ Melinda Gates wants more women in the AI race
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

New York CNN —As Silicon Valley and beyond is gripped by the fervor of artificial intelligence, Melinda French Gates is raising the alarm that more women must be involved in developing these tech tools. AI models have long taken heat for their ability to perpetuate biases, especially around women and people of color. The new crop of generative AI tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Dall-E are trained on vast troves of online data – data that often carries the same biases as humans. In her interview with Harlow, Gates also revealed that she never endorses specific candidates because she votes for both sides of the aisle. “Too often we have decisions being made for women, not by women,” Gates said.

Persons: Melinda French Gates, “, ” Gates, CNN’s Poppy Harlow, Poppy Harlow, Melinda Gates, ”, Ed, Roe, Wade, Gates, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, we’re Organizations: New, New York CNN, CNN, Republican, Democratic Locations: New York, “, United States, Harlow

☆ OpenAI lawsuit: Maker of ChatGPT sued over alleged data usage
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —OpenAI, the company behind the viral ChatGPT tool, has been hit with a lawsuit alleging the company stole and misappropriated vast swaths of peoples’ data from the internet to train its AI tools. The proposed class action lawsuit, filed Wednesday in a California federal court, claims that OpenAI secretly scraped “massive amounts of personal data from the internet,” according to the complaint. Microsoft, a major investor into OpenAI, was also named as a defendant in the suit and did not immediately respond to a request for comment. It also seeks payments of “data dividends” as financial compensation to people whose information was used to develop and train OpenAI’s tools. OpenAI publicly launched ChatGPT late last year, and the tool immediately went viral for its ability to generate compelling, human-sounding responses to user prompts.

Persons: CNN — OpenAI, OpenAI, “, ”, Timothy K, Giordano Organizations: CNN, Microsoft, Clarkson Locations: California, OpenAI

☆ Twitter accused of failing to pay millions in employee bonuses after Musk takeover
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-21 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

The suit is seeking class action status for former and current Twitter employees who did not receive their 2022 bonus. In the months leading up to Musk completing his acquisition of Twitter, company executives repeatedly promised employees that 2022 bonuses would be paid out at 50% of the target, according to the complaint. Despite the promises, however, Twitter has yet to pay out bonuses, the lawsuit says. Liss-Riordan previously brought multiple proposed class action suits against Twitter, including on behalf of female employees and disabled employees. Twitter has denied the breach of contract allegations in the lawsuit brought by former employees about remote work and severance.

Persons: Elon Musk, Mark Schobinger, ” Shannon Liss, Riordan, Musk, Schobinger, Twitter’s, Musk’s Organizations: CNN, Twitter, Liss Locations: San Francisco federal, Schobinger

☆ Gannett sues Google, alleging it has an online ad monopoly
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Gannett, the largest newspaper publisher in the United States, is suing Google, alleging the tech giant holds a monopoly over the digital ad market. Gannett argues in court documents that Google and its parent company, Alphabet, controls how publishers buy and sell ads online. “The result is dramatically less revenue for publishers and Google’s ad-tech rivals, while Google enjoys exorbitant monopoly profits,” the lawsuit states. Google controls about a quarter of the US digital advertising market, with Meta, Amazon and TikTok combining for another third, according to eMarketer. That means publishers often rely at least in part on Google’s advertising technology to support their operations: Gannett says Google controls 90% of the ad market for publishers.

Persons: CNN —, Gannett, Michael Reed, ” Reed, ” Dan Taylor, ”, ” Taylor Organizations: CNN, CNN — Gannett, Google, USA, Meta, Gannett, ” “, European Union, Justice Department Locations: United States, New York

☆ Bernie Sanders launches Senate probe into Amazon warehouse safety conditions
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday launched a Senate investigation into working and safety conditions at Amazon warehouses, adding to federal scrutiny on the labor practices of one of the country’s largest employers. In 2018, following heavy criticism from Sanders, Amazon announced it was raising its minimum wage for US employees to $15 an hour. In his letter Tuesday, Sanders argued that Amazon warehouses “are uniquely dangerous,” and cited recent citations from the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration against Amazon. After inspecting three Amazon warehouse facilities, OSHA issued hazard letters in January related to injury risks from workers lifting packages. An Amazon spokesperson at the time said the company “strongly” disagrees with OSHA’s claims and intends to appeal.

Persons: CNN — Sen, Bernie Sanders, Sanders, ” Sanders, Andy Jassy, OSHA’s, Steve Kelly, Sanders ’, ”, ” Kelly, We’ve Organizations: CNN, Amazon, Labor, Occupational Safety, Health Administration, OSHA

☆ Forget about the AI apocalypse. The real dangers are already here
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-16 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Left to right: Microsoft's CTO Kevin Scott, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis. Joy Malone/David Ryder/Bloomberg/Joel Saget/AFP/Getty ImagesSome AI industry experts say that focusing attention on far-off scenarios may distract from the more immediate harms that a new generation of powerful AI tools can cause to people and communities, including spreading misinformation, perpetuating biases and enabling discrimination in various services. “Motives seemed to be mixed,” Gary Marcus, an AI researcher and New York University professor emeritus who testified before lawmakers alongside Altman last month, told CNN. In his testimony before Congress, Altman also said the potential for AI to be used to manipulate voters and target disinformation were among “my areas of greatest concern.”Even in more ordinary use cases, however, there are concerns. Influencing regulatorsRegulators may be the real intended audience for the tech industry’s doomsday messaging.

Persons: Sam Altman, Altman, Demis Hassabis, Kevin Scott, Elon Musk, Joy Malone, David Ryder, Joel Saget, ” Gary Marcus, ”, Marcus, Gary Marcus, Eric Lee, Emily Bender, Bender, ” Bender, ’, we’re Organizations: CNN, Google, Microsoft, Bloomberg, Getty, New York University, OpenAI, University of Washington, Laboratory, Washington Locations: Valley, AFP, Washington , DC, Congress

☆ Amazon reinstates Bessemer, Alabama warehouse worker and union face Jennifer Bates
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-15 | by ( Clare Duffy | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

New York CNN —An Amazon worker and union organizer has been given her job back after she appealed her firing by the e-commerce giant earlier this month. Amazon on Thursday confirmed that it had reinstated Jennifer Bates — who became the face of the effort to unionize an Amazon facility in Bessemer, Alabama — following its appeals process. Bates had received notice of her termination from Amazon in early June. Amazon workers at a New York warehouse voted to form the company’s first US union last year, although Amazon has since refused to recognize the union or come to the bargaining table. Other efforts to unionize Amazon facilities, including one across the street from the New York warehouse, have failed.

Persons: Jennifer Bates —, Bates, I’m, ” Bates, Mary Kate Paradis, –, Catherine Thorbecke Organizations: New, New York CNN, Amazon, Wholesale, Department Store Union, CNN, National Labor Relations Board Locations: New York, Bessemer , Alabama, United States

☆ Amazon Web Services briefly hit by wide-ranging outage, impacting major websites
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Amazon Web Services was briefly hit by a wide-ranging outage on Tuesday afternoon that impacted a large number of major websites, including the Boston Globe and New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority. Other news outlets such as The Verge also publicly confirmed that their websites were temporarily hit by the AWS outage. There were some 12,000 reports of issues accessing AWS services on outage-tracking site DownDetector at around 3 p.m. ET, the dashboard reported that, “Many AWS services are now fully recovered and marked Resolved on this event. ET, the dashboard stated that, “The issue has been resolved and all AWS Services are operating normally.”

Persons: Donald Trump’s, ” Organizations: CNN, Amazon, Services, Boston Globe, New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority, Globe, York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Twitter, Southwest Airlines, Service Locations: New York City’s, Miami, York’s, Northern Virginia

☆ Elizabeth Holmes objects to government requesting she pay $250 a month to victims after prison
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-13 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced former Theranos CEO, has “limited financial means” and should not be forced to pay $250 a month to victims of her crimes after she is released from prison, her lawyers argued in a court filing on Monday. The move from Holmes’ attorneys comes after federal prosecutors said in a separate filing last week that “clerical errors” had resulted in no payment schedule being set for Holmes’ restitution after she is released from prison. Holmes and former Theranos COO Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani were previously ordered to pay $452 million in restitution to victims of their crimes. Holmes reported to prison late last month in Texas to serve out her more than 11-year sentence. As part of the original restitution order, some $125 million is owed to media mogul Rupert Murdoch, as well as millions in payments to other Theranos investors.

Persons: Elizabeth Holmes, Holmes, ”, Ramesh “ Sunny ” Balwani, Theranos, Rupert Murdoch Organizations: CNN, Federal Locations: Texas, Bryan , Texas

☆ Silicon Valley escalates the battle over returning to the office
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-10 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

The updated policy includes tracking office badge attendance and possibly factoring it into performance reviews, according to CNBC, citing internal memos. Other tech companies are also grappling with how best to compel workers to come into the office after they’ve grown accustomed to greater flexibility. At Amazon, tensions boiled over last week as hundreds of office workers staged a walkout to call attention to their grievances, including the three-day return-to-office mandate that was implemented in May. In response to the walkout, Amazon previously told CNN it may “take time” for some workers to adjust to being in the office more days. (A Meta spokesperson told CNN the updated policy was not set in stone, and employees designated as remote workers will be allowed to keep their remote status).

Persons: Chris Schmidt, Ryan Lamont, ” Lamont, “ we’re, they’ve, Pamela, it’s, Schmidt, ” Schmidt, “, ” Organizations: CNN, Silicon, Google, CNBC, Alphabet Workers Union, Facebook, Good, “ Locations: New York City

☆ Deciding what to do when your employer changes the rules on remote work
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Jeanne Sahadi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

New York CNN —If you’ve organized your life around a fully remote or highly flexible hybrid work schedule over the past three years, it can feel jarring if your employer decides to change the rules on remote work and require or enforce more on-site attendance. This, despite the company previously telling staffers most of them would be working remote full time, according to the Wall Street Journal. In addition, according to CNBC, it also said it hopes that employees working remotely full time will consider working a hybrid schedule instead if they live near a Google office. “Changes in remote work policies can certainly create significant risk to employee retention and engagement, depending on how drastic the changes are and how effectively they are executed by managers,” Wigert noted. What do you need to do your best work?

Persons: John Stankey, “, ”, Caitlin Duffy, ” Gallup, Ben Wigert, ” Wigert, you’re, Octavia Gordema, Gordema, you’ve, Duffy, ” Gordema, ” –, Catherine Thorbecke Organizations: New, New York CNN, T, Bloomberg, Farmers Insurance Group, Wall Street, Google, CNBC, Gartner Consulting, Gallup, “ Locations: New York

Tim Cook speaks at an Apple special event at Apple Park in Cupertino, California on September 7, 2022. Brittany Hosea-Small/AFP/Getty Images/FILEFor years, Apple CEO Tim Cook has expressed interest in augmented reality. Now Apple finally appears ready to show off what it's been working on. Apple's rumored new VR/AR headset could be called Reality One or Reality Pro, according to Bloomberg. The decision to unveil it at WWDC suggests Apple wants to encourage developers to build apps and experiences for the product in order to make it more compelling for customers and worth the hefty price tag.

Persons: Tim Cook, Brittany Hosea, it's, Apple's, Siri, Apple Organizations: Apple, Getty, Bloomberg Locations: Cupertino , California, AFP

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