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The US FTC files a lawsuit alleging Amazon used “dark patterns” to steer customers to enroll in Prime without consent and “sabotaged” their attempts to cancel — - The FTC on Wednesday sued Amazon, alleging it tricked customers into signing up for its Prime subscription program …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple releases visionOS SDK, and says the company will open developer labs and applications for Apple Vision Pro developer kits next month — When Apple announced Vision Pro at WWDC, the company promised to make a robust set of tools available for developers.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft increases the prices in most markets for its Xbox Series X and, for the first time, Xbox Game Pass; Xbox Series X pricing remains the same in the US — Microsoft is increasing its Xbox Series X prices in most countries in August apart from the US, Japan, Chile, Brazil, and Colombia.
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| Julia Love / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Twitter resumed paying Google Cloud for its services; the companies are negotiating a partnership that could include ads and Google using Twitter's API — Twitter has resumed paying Google Cloud for its services, patching up a relationship that became strained after Elon Musk acquired … | Josh Dzieza / The Verge: |
A look at the vast and mostly hidden “tasker” underclass, including subject-matter experts, hired by companies like Scale AI to annotate data for AI training — As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere.
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| David Pierce / The Verge: |
Dropbox debuts two AI tools: one for summarizing documents, and Dash, an ambitious universal search engine that aims to be the “Google for your personal stuff” — Dropbox is launching two different but related AI-powered services into its platform.| Zosha Millman / Polygon: |
Ali Selim, the director and executive producer of Marvel's Secret Invasion, says Method Studios used AI to design the opening credits scene — ‘It just came right out of the shape-shifting, Skrull world identity’ — The world of Secret Invasion is decidedly sketchy.
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| Scott Wong / NBC News: |
US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer unveils an AI regulatory framework and says that “Congress must join the AI revolution” before it's too late to regulate — The Senate majority leader released his long-awaited framework for regulating artificial intelligence …
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| Sawdah Bhaimiya / Insider: |
In a tweet reply, Elon Musk says Twitter considers “cis” and “cisgender” slurs and “the contemptible creep” who “manufactured” the term “has serious problems” — - Elon Musk said terms like “cisgender” and “cis” are now considered “slurs” on Twitter.
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| Maria Streshinsky / Wired: |
Q&A with Christopher Nolan, the director of Oppenheimer, on AI improving images in filmmaking, the parallels between nuclear weapon development and AI, and more — The Oppenheimer director says AI is not the bomb. His new movie might still scare you shitless.| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
Amazon plans to hold Prime Day 2023 on July 11 and July 12 and introduce an invite-only Prime Days deals program; India's event will be held “later this summer” — Amazon will hold its 2023 Prime Day sales event on Tuesday, July 11, and Wednesday, July 12, the Seattle-based e-commerce giant announced tonight.
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| Molly Schuetz / Bloomberg: |
Intel plans to sell a ~20% stake in IMS Nanofabrication to Bain in a deal valuing IMS at $4.3B; Intel invested in IMS in 2009 and acquired the company in 2015 — Intel Corp. agreed to sell a roughly 20% stake in IMS Nanofabrication GmbH to Bain Capital in a deal that values the company at $4.3 billion.
More: Intel, Tom's Hardware, Reuters, Livemint, and The Register
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Discord plans to let creators sell “Downloadables”, one-time digital purchases, and rolls out Media Channels in beta, designed for videos, photos, and files — Discord plans to give creators a new way to make money from their communities by selling digital products via one-time purchases.
More: Discord Blog, iPhone in Canada Blog, Eurogamer.net, Music Ally, Dexerto, and PC Gamer
| Kana Inagaki / Financial Times: |
Masayoshi Son says SoftBank plans to go on the “counteroffensive” soon by resuming AI investments; the group has $35B+ after halting investments in recent years — Billionaire chief talks up AI and reveals he had breakdown in October where he questioned his achievements as an entrepreneur| Will Douglas Heaven / MIT Technology Review: |
A look at the recent debates over existential risk in AI, as views once considered extreme are now mainstream talking points, grabbing world leaders' attention — “Ghost stories are contagious.” — Who's afraid of the big bad bots? A lot of people, it seems.
More: Tech Xplore. LinkedIn: Rob Foster. Mastodon: @TNLNYC@mastodon.social. Twitter: @internetdaniel, @phuenermund, @ieet, @mark_riedl, @datasociety, and @fchollet
| Mia Sato / The Verge: |
Patreon adds a free membership tier for the first time and plans to let creators sell one-off downloadable products such as videos and podcasts, taking a 5% cut — Patreon built a user base with creators who wanted to charge a fee for the content they create.
More: TechCrunch
| Aaron Holmes / The Information: |
Google files a US FTC complaint alleging Microsoft used Office 365 licensing terms to lock clients into Azure contracts; Microsoft changed its EU terms in 2022 — After years of publicly alleging that Microsoft used its dominant position in enterprise software to push customers toward …
More: The Register, Reuters, Neowin, CNBC, and Forbes
| Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter: |
Netflix tweaks its weekly top 10 rankings to sort by “views”, calculated by dividing the time spent watching a film or a show in a week by its running time — The streamer's weekly rankings will now show the most popular titles by number of accounts watching as well as total time.| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Q&A with Jason Del Rey, the author of Winner Sells All, on how Walmart plays catch up to Amazon, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon's tenure, Amazon's missteps, and more — Jason Del Rey has spent the last 15 years reporting on e-commerce businesses, including Walmart and Amazon.
More: GeekWire
| Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: |
Instagram now lets US users download Reels posted by public accounts, adding a watermark logo and the account name for sharing, which TikTok has done for years — Instagram is finally letting users download Reels posted by others so they can share them outside the app.| Kat Bailey / IGN: |
In a major reorganization, EA splits EA Games and EA Sports, and renames the former as EA Entertainment, signaling the company's possible expansion beyond games — EA is undergoing a major internal reorganization, with EA Games being renamed “EA Entertainment.”
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| Jesse Levine / Bloomberg: |
A profile of Joseph Tsai, the Taiwan-born, US-educated Alibaba co-founder, its next chairman, a longtime Jack Ma ally, and now a prominent blockchain proponent — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is bringing back Joseph Tsai, who has become a prominent blockchain proponent and owner …
More: South China Morning Post and Tech in Asia
| Brad Stone / Bloomberg: |
In his new book, The Coming Wave, DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman proposes a “modern Turing test” to measure if an AI is “artificial capable intelligence” — A new book floats a provocative idea for testing whether machines are capable of human-like intelligence.
Twitter: @mustafasuleymn and @michaelbhaskar
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Reddit suspended some moderators after they changed their subreddits to NSFW as “incorrectly marking a community as NSFW” violates its content and mod policies — Reddit has started removing moderator teams managing subreddits that switched the labeling on their communities to Not Safe For Work …
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