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Source: Amazon plans to soon show how much President Trump's tariffs are adding to the price of each product, right next to its total listed price — Amazon doesn't want to shoulder the blame for the cost of President Donald Trump's trade war. So the e-commerce giant will soon show …
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Forums: r/wallstreetbets and Slashdot
| Rafe Uddin / Financial Times: |
Sources: Amazon is seeking steep supplier discounts and setting tough terms to protect margins amid US tariffs, following its playbook from Trump's first term — Trade war leads ecommerce group to seek steep discounts from sellers, particularly from China — Amazon is seeking steep discounts …
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| Will Oremus / Washington Post: |
The US House passes the Take It Down Act to criminalize posting nonconsensual intimate imagery, including deepfakes, and require online platforms to remove them — Trump is expected to sign into law a bill that would force online platforms to quickly take down nonconsensual intimate images.
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Forums: r/politics, r/politics, and r/technology
| Lauren Feiner / The Verge: |
Critics fear the Trump administration could weaponize the Take It Down Act, one of the few online safety bills to pass in years, against content it dislikes — Critics warn it could have grave consequences for online speech and encryption. … The Take It Down Act is heading …
More: Ars Technica, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and SiliconANGLE
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Alibaba debuts its Qwen3 family of open-weight “hybrid” AI reasoning models, including Qwen3-235B-A22B, with 235B total parameters and 22B activated parameters — Chinese tech company Alibaba on Monday released Qwen3, a family of AI models the company claims matches …
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Forums: Hacker News, r/singularity, and r/LocalLLaMA
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Duolingo CEO Luis von Ahn says the company will “gradually stop using contractors to do work that AI can handle”, as part of an announcement to be “AI-first” — The company is going to be ‘AI-first,’ says its CEO. … Duolingo will “gradually stop using contractors …
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Forums: r/antiwork, r/artificial, r/duolingo, r/Economics, r/technology, and Slashdot
| Reece Rogers / Wired: |
OpenAI starts rolling out product recommendations in ChatGPT, including Plus, Pro, Free, and logged-out users, with buy buttons that link to merchants' websites — OpenAI is launching a shopping experience inside of ChatGPT, complete with product picks and buy buttons.
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| Maxwell Zeff / TechCrunch: |
| Joey Roulette / Reuters: |
Amazon launches 27 satellites for its Project Kuiper broadband internet program, the first batch of 3,236 satellites that it plans to send into low-Earth orbit — The first 27 satellites for Amazon's Kuiper broadband internet constellation were launched into space from Florida on Monday …
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| Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer: |
Sources: Scattered Spider conducted a ransomware attack on UK retailer M&S, which employs 64,000 in 1,400+ stores, causing widespread disruption from April 22 — Ongoing outages at British retail giant Marks & Spencer are caused by a ransomware attack believed to be conducted …
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| Google Cloud Blog: |
Google tracked 75 zero days exploited in the wild in 2024, down from 98 in 2023 but up from 63 in 2022; state-sponsored threat groups led in zero-day exploits — Google Threat Intelligence — Visibility and context on the threats that matter most. — Executive Summary| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources detail tensions between Sam Altman and Satya Nadella, whose partnership began after a summer 2018 meeting; Microsoft can block OpenAI's for-profit move — The OpenAI and Microsoft CEOs helped each other become power players in generative AI but are now preparing for independent futures
More: TechSpot, Spyglass, The Economic Times, StrictlyVC, and StartupNews.fyi
| Zvi Mowshowitz / Don't Worry About the Vase: |
A deep dive into GPT-4o's tendency to give sycophantic responses, an issue Sam Altman promised to fix and that may be caused by OpenAI optimizing for engagement — GPT-4o tells you what it thinks you want to hear. — The results of this were rather ugly. You get extreme sycophancy. Absurd praise.
More: Simon Willison's Weblog, Fortune, The Rundown AI, VentureBeat, India Today, and The Hindu
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| Wired: |
Oligo researchers detail AirBorne, a set of vulnerabilities in Apple's AirPlay SDK that may affect 10M+ third-party devices; Apple patched its own devices — Researchers reveal a collection of bugs known as AirBorne that would allow any hacker on the same Wi-Fi network as a third-party AirPlay-enabled device … Sponsor Posts
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