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Humane reveals full details on $699 Ai Pin, Unity earnings

Humane, an AI hardware startup founded by former Apple execs, revealed the specs of its $699 Ai Pin, which took five years, 25 patents, and ~$240M in funding to build; the company expects to sell ~100K units in year one - Link

Unity Q3 earnings: revenue: $544.2M (+69% y/y), net loss: -$125.3M, FCF: $104M; Unity shares are up ~4%+ on the news due to positive free cash flow, despite missing revenue estimates - Link

Noice, a Finland-based startup building a livestreaming service that helps viewers participate with gamers, raised a $21M Series A from Sedona Holdings, Team Builder Ventures, and others - Link

WSJ sources: Meta agreed on a preliminary deal with Tencent to sell a lower-priced version of its VR headset in China starting in H2 2024 - Link

.Tech Domains has a new program called startups.tech, where you can get your startup featured on This Week in Startups. Go to startups.tech/jason to find out how!

First, Jason breaks down what forced WeWork's bankruptcy filing (2:27), and what it might look like if Adam Neumann took back the company. (5:45) Then, driverDoc's Josh Kolar joins Jason to discuss creating an all-in-one digital management platform for trucking companies (25:54). - Link

Omegle, the popular and controversial video chat service, has shut down after 14 years of operation; the service's popularity dipped over the years, but it still had ~50M visitors last month - Link

OpenAI said it was dealing with unusual traffic that suggested a hacking attack, which caused periodic service outages between November 8-9 - Link

Ritual, a startup building a decentralized platform for AI models that plans to launch in 2024, emerged from stealth with a $25M Series A led by Archetype - Link

Samsung announced Galaxy AI, a mobile AI experience that includes live translations which will debut in 2024 - Link

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