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June 17, 2024, 2:35 PM
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Vivek H. Murthy / New York Times:
The US Surgeon General says platforms should add a “warning label” saying that “social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents”  —  One of the most important lessons I learned in medical school was that in an emergency, you don't have the luxury to wait for perfect information.
Emma Roth / The Verge:
The US DOJ sues Adobe for allegedly harming “consumers by enrolling them in its default, most lucrative subscription plan without clearly disclosing” plan terms  —  The US government is suing Adobe for allegedly hiding expensive fees and making it difficult to cancel a subscription.
Tim Hardwick / MacRumors:
Kuo: the Apple Watch Series 10 will be thinner and have a bigger screen, from 41mm to 45mm and 45mm to 49mm; Apple will use 3D printing to make some components  —  This year's Apple Watch Series 10 will be thinner and come in larger screen sizes than previous models, according to Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.
Alan Ohnsman / Forbes:
Uber says “tens of thousands of riders” in Phoenix have matched with a “Waymo (AI) driver” and have given “a nearly 4.9 average star rating” since the launch  —  The Alphabet Inc. unit, which operates its commercial ride service in three major cities …
Aisha Malik / TechCrunch:
YouTube is testing Notes, an experimental crowdsourced tool to let users add context to videos, similar to X's Community Notes, on mobile in the US in English  —  YouTube is introducing a new experimental feature that will allow viewers to add “Notes” to provide more context and information under videos …
Carl Franzen / VentureBeat:
Runway unveils Gen-3 Alpha, a model to generate high-quality, highly realistic 10-second-long video clips; it's unclear if it will come to a free or paid tier  —  New York City-based Runway ML, also known as Runway, was among the earliest startups to focus on realistic high-quality generative AI video creation models.
Scott Stein / CNET:
Logitech unveils the MX Ink, a $130 stylus coming in September for the Meta Quest 2, Quest 3, and “future headsets”, the Quest's first third-party input device  —  The stylus works in 2D or 3D art in VR and AR, arriving this fall.  Your move, Apple.
Thomas Germain / BBC:
Copywriters detail how AI is affecting their jobs, with some noticing a new line of work to make AI-generated text sound more human, a job that pays a lot less  —  If you're worried about how AI will affect your job, the world of copywriters may offer a glimpse of the future.
Jonathan Maze / Restaurant Business:
McDonald's ends its IBM partnership to test automated Drive Thru orders, plans to remove the tech from 100+ restaurants by July 26, and seeks a new partner  —  The Chicago-based fast-food giant is ending its partnership with IBM on automated order-taking without an expansion.
Bloomberg:
Around two dozen sources detail Google's decision to form the Google DeepMind “super-unit” in April 2023, shifting from AI research lab to AI product factory  —  The company combined its two AI labs to develop commercial services, a move that could undermine its long-running strength in foundational research.
Kim Zetter / Wired:
Hacking group ShinyHunters claims to have breached contractor EPAM Systems to steal data from Ticketmaster and ~165 other Snowflake users; EPAM denies the claim  —  A ShinyHunters hacker tells WIRED that they gained access to Ticketmaster's Snowflake cloud account—and others—by first breaching a third-party contractor.
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
Google begins rolling out “Listen to this page” in Chrome for Android, letting the browser read text-heavy web pages in US, UK, Indian, and Australian English  —  Chrome for Android has been working on its own text-to-speech (TTS) capability for a few months now, and Google is now rolling out “Listen to this page.”

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Todd Spangler / Variety:
On a staff call, Bari Weiss defends firing Scott Pelley, saying the foundation of “trust and mutual respect” was broken after Pelley's outburst on Monday

Washington Post:
Two Stars and Stripes advisory board members sue the US Defense Department, saying new restrictions on the paper violate the First Amendment and federal law

Connor Hart / Wall Street Journal:
Hasbro launches Sixth Wall, an AI studio working with ElevenLabs and voice actors to create and license AI-native versions of its characters and franchises

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Sheila Dang / Reuters:
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Ari Saperstein / The Guardian:
How Apple added support for automatic transcript generation in the Podcast app, a feature highly requested by both disabled users and podcast creators
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