Internet/e-commerce

SEC filing: GameStop says it owns 9.8% of eBay, signaling its intent to press ahead with a bid for the company after its unsolicited $56B offer was rejected (www.reuters.com)
3 hours ago eBay

Amazon apologizes after some AWS users received bills as high as $1.5T due to “an issue with unit pricing within the estimated billing computation subsystem” (www.theguardian.com)
13 hours ago Amazon

Court filing: Google says it is ready to add third-party app stores within Google Play in the US on July 22, as Google and Epic withdraw their settlement motion (www.theverge.com)
17 hours ago Google

San Francisco sends legal notices to Apple and Google demanding they take down 13 AI apps used to make deepfake nude images; Google says it has deleted the apps (www.wired.com)
21 hours ago Google AI Apple San Francisco

Microsoft Restores Player's 25-Year-Old Account After Nuking It Due to Hacker (games.slashdot.org)
22 hours ago Microsoft Hacker

Source: Microsoft plans to release an AI security tool this month using models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and itself, as a cost-effective Mythos alternative (www.theinformation.com)
1 day ago Microsoft AI

US chip, memory, and storage stocks fell sharply on Thursday, with Sandisk down 13%, Seagate 10%, Western Digital 9%, and Intel and Micron 6% each (www.ft.com)
1 day ago Intel Western Digital

Sources: Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro as it tries to improve its capabilities, particularly in coding; GOOG closes down 4.43% (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago Google

EU Forces Google To Share Search Data, Open Android To Rivals (tech.slashdot.org)
1 day ago Android Google

Netflix says roughly 300 titles used generative AI this year, mostly in post-production, “to deliver higher quality output more quickly and at a lower cost” (www.theverge.com)
1 day ago AI Netflix

An NYT reporter finds AI-generated, unauthorized biographies of herself and other journalists on Amazon, where AI-made books with elusive “authors” proliferate (www.nytimes.com)
1 day ago Amazon AI

Netflix reports Q2 revenue up 13% YoY to $12.56B, vs. $12.59B est., and says it will give fewer engagement updates starting in 2027; NFLX drops 7%+ after hours (www.cnbc.com)
1 day ago Netflix

Google updates its AI video editor Vids with Gemini Omni and a feature that lets users create custom digital avatars using a selfie and voice recording (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago Google AI

Google Renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook (tech.slashdot.org)
1 day ago Google

Sources: Google is months behind schedule on delivering Gemini 3.5 Pro because the company has been trying to improve its capabilities, particularly in coding (www.bloomberg.com)
1 day ago Google

Google says users in the US can now link to and interact with some apps in AI Mode, including Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music (techcrunch.com)
1 day ago Google AI YouTube

Google renames NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook and rolls out an update giving every notebook a secure cloud computer, letting it write and execute code natively (blog.google)
1 day ago Google

The EU issues two decisions under the DMA, requiring Google to provide rival AI assistants and search engines comparable access to Android and some Search data (www.theverge.com)
1 day ago Android Google AI

Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs launch a bioresilience program to leverage AI models for pathogen surveillance, vaccine design, and outbreak response (www.axios.com)
1 day ago Google AI

Uber agrees to acquire Delivery Hero in a deal that values the German food delivery company at ~$14.8B, offering €41.50 per share and buying out Prosus' stake (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago Germany Uber

SpaceXAI open-sources Grok Build under an Apache 2.0 license after the tool had uploaded user repositories to a Google Cloud bucket, causing a severe backlash (simonwillison.net)
2 days ago Google

Book Publishers Sue Google For Copyright Infringement Over Gemini AI Training (yro.slashdot.org)
2 days ago Google AI

Sources: Microsoft security chief Hayete Gallot, who took over in February, has prioritized AI tools, cut several hundred roles, replaced senior execs, and more (www.theinformation.com)
2 days ago Microsoft AI

Spotify Is Now an AI Chatbot, Too (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2 days ago AI chatbot Spotify

Hack Reveals Suno AI Music Generator Scraped YouTube, Deezer, and Genius (news.slashdot.org)
2 days ago AI YouTube

Uber and Waymo are engaged in a DC lobbying battle over AV legislation, with Uber supporting a hybrid human-robotaxi model and Waymo pushing for pure robotaxis (www.bloomberg.com)
2 days ago Uber

Google and Epic Cancel Settlement; Third-Party App Stores Coming To Google Play (yro.slashdot.org)
2 days ago Google

Google Gemini CLI abused as a hacking agent, malware botnet operator (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2 days ago Google

Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws (tech.slashdot.org)
2 days ago Microsoft

Sources: the EU is set to fine Google hundreds of millions of euros over alleged self-preferencing of its services in Search and restrictions on app developers (www.ft.com)
2 days ago Google

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