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| Marianne Lavelle / Inside Climate News: |
Sources: the Trump admin plans to end Energy Star, a voluntary program started in 1992 to promote energy savings, initially aimed at PCs, monitors, and printers — Despite having industry support and saving consumers half a trillion dollars over the decades, the program could be eliminated imminently.
More: CNN, Washington Post, New York Times, The Verge, Engadget, TechSpot, CleanTechnica, Utility Dive, Mashable, Fortune, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Washington Times, PCMag, and CBS News
| Charles Daly / Bloomberg: |
Klarna, which said in 2024 that AI was doing the work of 700 customer service agents, starts hiring remote workers after the AI approach led to “lower quality” — To that end, Sebastian Siemiatkowski, 43, is plotting a rare recruitment drive so the buy-now-pay-later company's customers …
More: Fortune, Entrepreneur, Runtime, Finextra, Yahoo Finance, and PYMNTS.com
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| Lauren Kent / CNN: |
Pope Leo XIV says he chose his name to honor Pope Leo XIII's work during the first industrial revolution, as AI poses challenges in a new industrial revolution — Pope Leo XIV indicated on Saturday that his papacy will follow closely in the footsteps of the late Pope Francis …
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| Scott Macfarlane / CBS News: |
Sources: the Trump administration fires US Copyright Office head Shira Perlmutter; her office had raised concerns about using copyrighted content to train AI — The Trump administration has fired the head of the U.S. Copyright Office, two sources familiar with the situation confirmed to CBS News Saturday.
More: Committee on House … and Politico
| Erin Brodwin / Axios: |
TSOLife, whose software is in use in 1,300 senior living facilities in 47 US states, raised a $43M Series B led by PeakSpan, bringing its total funding to $52M — TSOLife raised $43 million in Series B funds for home-grown senior living software, CEO David Sawyer tells Axios exclusively.| Ben Bergman / Business Insider: |
Source: Tel Aviv-based AI21 Labs, which is building its own LLMs and launched an AI orchestration system in March, is raising a $300M Series D — - AI21 Labs is raising a $300 million Series D funding round to build its own LLMs. — It aims to reduce hallucinations in generative AI, which would enhance reliability for companies.
More: CTech
| Cheyenne MacDonald / Engadget: |
The FTC pushes the enforcement of its “click-to-cancel” rule requiring businesses to make canceling subscriptions as easy as signing up, from May 14 to July 14 — The Federal Trade Commission has delayed the start of a rule that aims to make the process of canceling subscriptions less of a nightmare.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Q&A with Sonos interim CEO Tom Conrad on the disastrous app redesign, the Ace headphones, subscriptions, the canceled video player, Google, and more — The man who hopes to become Sonos' next permanent CEO talks about the app, the now-canceled video player, subscriptions, Google, and more.| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
Ramp: 32.4% of US businesses using Ramp cards had OpenAI subscriptions in April, up from 28% in March; Google AI subscriptions fell to 0.1% in April — OpenAI appears to be pulling well ahead of rivals in the race to capture enterprises' AI spend, according to transaction data from fintech firm Ramp.
More: Ramp and Cautious Optimism
| Bloomberg: |
A look at Microsoft's Threat Intelligence Center, staffed largely by ex-intelligence and military personnel, which has become a key pillar of US cyber defense — Over the past decade, the software company has become a pillar of US cyber defenses — a position that could become more complicated under Trump.| Financial Times: |
The UK stopped asking Uber to pay VAT on the full cost of rides, instead collecting VAT only on its commission, after a setback in a similar dispute with Bolt — HMRC has stopped demanding ridesharing company pay VAT on the full cost of rides after legal setback in related matter
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| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
A study finds that asking LLMs to be concise in their answers, particularly on ambiguous topics, can negatively affect factuality and worsen hallucinations — Turns out, telling an AI chatbot to be concise could make it hallucinate more than it otherwise would have.
More: New Scientist, Hugging Face, Giskard on Hugging Face, and eWeek
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| Jessica Mathews / Fortune: |
The Trump administration's plan to cut the budget of the NSF, considered key to US tech leadership, by about 57% to $3.9B is alarming the startup and VC sector — From NASA to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Trump's reform agenda has thrown numerous federal agencies under …
More: Forbes and Science
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Epic Games says it has submitted Fortnite to the US App Store for review — Update: Epic Games says it has submitted Fortnite to the U.S. App Store for review. The ball is now in Apple's court to approve the app submission. — If Fortnite does return to the U.S. App Store this week, it won't be before Friday.
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