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| Annie Palmer / CNBC: |
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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Forums: Hacker News and r/technology
| 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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| 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.
More: Work in Progress, Thurrott, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Computerworld, and TechCrunch. Bluesky: @mtsw.bsky.social
| 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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| 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.
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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.| 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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| 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| Jeremy Diamond / CNN: |
A look at the White House's urgent push to regulate AI, as President Biden meets with AI experts for a non-industry perspective on the risks and opportunities — President Joe Biden huddled in the Oval Office with several of his top advisers in early April as an aide typed prompts into ChatGPT …
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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, The Register, Livemint, and Reuters
| 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, Music Ally, Dexerto, Eurogamer.net, and PC Gamer
| 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.| 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
| 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.| Financial Times: |
TikTok tests Trendy Beat, a new section selling popular items from videos, in the UK; filings and sources say the products are sold by a ByteDance-owned entity — ByteDance experiments with selling its own products through viral app as it prepares to challenge Shein and Amazon| 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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LinkedIn: Laura Miele and David Tinson
Forums: r/PS4, r/pcgaming, r/Madden, r/PS5, and r/Games
| Yonhap News Agency: |
Sources: YouTube plans to launch its first official shopping channel for live commerce, set to open in South Korea on June 30 with content from ~30 brands — YouTube will launch its official shopping channel in South Korea for live commerce later this month for the first time in the world … | Dylan Tokar / Wall Street Journal: |
Google Cloud launches Anti Money Laundering AI, an API used by HSBC, Banco Bradesco, and Lunar that relies on AI instead of the industry's rules-based system — The company is looking to set itself apart from a crowded field of surveillance platforms by reducing the amount of human input …
More: Tech Monitor, Metaverse Post, and Finbold
| Nate Bek / GeekWire: |
Seattle-based DexCare, whose tools help health systems manage capacity and patient appointments, raised a $75M Series C, bringing its total funding to $146M — Seattle health-tech startup DexCare announced Wednesday that it raised $75 million in fresh cash to boost the development of its healthcare patient demand and access platform.
More: FinSMEs, HIT Consultant, Tech Startups, and DexCare
| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
Twitch plans to require that streamers add new content labels for streams with sexual themes, graphic violence, drug use, gambling, or “significant” vulgarity — Twitch is rethinking the way it flags mature content, swapping its existing toggle for a more granular set of topic-specific labels.
More: Twitch, PC Gamer, Destructoid, Neowin, Engadget, Eurogamer.net, GamesIndustry.biz, The Verge, PC Games Insider, and Dexerto
| 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.| Bloomberg: |
The US, the EU, Japan, and India have committed $100B+ combined for chip subsidies; chipmakers argue inflation, energy, and tech advances increased plant costs — The global race to build domestic factories and sever dependency on overseas suppliers for these critical components is spurring a spending boom … | Associated Press: |
Bernie Sanders opens a Senate investigation into Amazon's warehouse safety practices and writes to Andy Jassy about “egregious health and safety violations” — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has opened a Senate investigation into Amazon's warehouse safety practices … Sponsor Posts
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