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June 22, 2024, 4:40 PM

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Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica:
How the Internet Archive plans to defend its digital lending practices as it appeals a US court's 2023 ruling; IA says it was forced to remove over 500K books  —  Internet Archive fans beg publishers to stop emptying the open library.  —  As a result of book publishers successfully suing …
Natasha Singer / New York Times:
Court filings show how Zuckerberg and other Meta execs played down risks to young users, while rejecting staff pleas to bolster guardrails and hire more staff  —  In April 2019, David Ginsberg, a Meta executive, emailed his boss, Mark Zuckerberg, with a proposal to research and reduce loneliness …
Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal:
Research: the number of freelance jobs on platforms like Upwork, in areas where generative AI excels, have dropped by as much as 21% since ChatGPT's debut  —  There's now data to back up what freelancers have been saying for months  —  Jennifer Kelly, a freelance copywriter in the picturesque …
Washington Post:
As power needs of AI push emissions up, tech companies explore experimental clean energy projects such as atomic fusion and futuristic geothermal power plants  —  As power needs of AI push emissions up and put big tech in a bind, companies put their faith in elusive — some say improbable — technologies.
Bloomberg:
Analysis: the AI frenzy is expected to drive the global data center energy consumption to 1,580 TWh by 2034, about as much as is used by all of India currently  —  Like much of Northern Virginia, Loudoun County was once known for its horse farms and Civil War battle sites.
Mark Sullivan / Fast Company:
In response to plagiarism allegations, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says the company “is not ignoring” robots.txt, but does rely on third-party web crawlers  —  The AI search startup Perplexity is in hot water in the wake of a Wired investigation revealing that the startup …
Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Despite a $3T+ valuation, Nvidia remains a little-known brand outside gaming and tech industries due to the speed of its ascent and lack of consumer contact  —  Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google were the four leading global brands at the end of 2023, according to consulting firm Interbrand.
Dylan Martin / CRN:
Q&A with AMD executive Forrest Norrod on increasing AI investments, releasing accelerator chips at a faster cadence, AMD's open standards approach, and more  —  In an interview with CRN, AMD executive Forrest Norrod talks about how the company is “dramatically” increasing investments …
Edwin Evans-Thirlwell / Rock, Paper, Shotgun:
How Embracer's layoffs and project cancellations gutted Fishlabs, a promising studio that now lives on as a cross-dev team supporting other Embracer companies  —  The exclusive inside story of Chorus developers Fishlabs, from Project Black to Project White  —  A phoenix is a mythological firebird …

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