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Sources: Instagram and TikTok are working on versions of their apps customized to run on TV screens, following YouTube's success in attracting a TV audience (www.theinformation.com)
5 days ago YouTube Instagram

Sources: Uber is in talks with Travis Kalanick to help fund his acquisition of Pony.ai's US arm; Pony.ai has permits to operate robo taxis in the US and China (www.nytimes.com)
5 days ago China Uber AI

Microsoft plans to replace the Blue Screen of Death in Windows 11 with a simplified black screen “providing better information” in an update “later this summer” (www.theverge.com)
5 days ago Microsoft

Microsoft Moves Antivirus Software Out of Windows Kernel To Prevent CrowdStrike-Style Crashes (tech.slashdot.org)
5 days ago Microsoft

As AI kills search traffic, Google launches Offerwall, a Google Ad Manager tool to help publishers generate revenue beyond ads, including via micropayments (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago Google AI

Amazon's VP of Generative AI Vasi Philomin left for another company; VP of Amazon Elastic Block Store Rajesh Sheth assumed some of Philomin's responsibilities (www.reuters.com)
5 days ago Amazon AI

YouTube launches an AI Overviews-like carousel for searches related to shopping, places, and things to do in a specific place, for Premium users in the US (techcrunch.com)
5 days ago AI YouTube

Workers at Google, TikTok, Adobe, Dropbox, CrowdStrike, and other tech firms recount how managers used AI to justify firing them, speed up their work, and more (www.bloodinthemachine.com)
5 days ago Google AI Adobe Dropbox

Microsoft 365 'Direct Send' abused to send phishing as internal users (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
5 days ago Microsoft

Amazon's crackdown on counterfeits nets $180M in penalties, dozens of criminal convictions (indianexpress.com)
5 days ago Amazon

Microsoft confirms Family Safety blocks Google Chrome from launching (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
5 days ago Google Microsoft Chrome

Microsoft fixes Outlook bug causing crashes when opening emails (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
5 days ago Microsoft

Amazon launches at-home diagnostic services in six Indian cities in partnership with Orange Health Labs, marking its entry into India's diagnostics market (www.bloomberg.com)
6 days ago India Amazon

Xbox division job cuts: Thousands at Microsoft brace for yet another round of layoffs (indianexpress.com)
6 days ago Microsoft Layoffs Xbox

Sam Altman on NYT podcast: Key highlights including Microsoft tensions, AI jobs disruption (indianexpress.com)
6 days ago Microsoft AI

Internal docs: Scale AI's efforts to train Google's Gemini were flooded with “spammy behavior” from unqualified independent contractors submitting shoddy work (www.inc.com)
6 days ago Google AI

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman warns against companies trying to game the site with AI-generated content, saying “human verification is top of mind for us right now” (t.co)
6 days ago AI Reddit

Sources: Microsoft is pushing to remove the AGI clause from its OpenAI contract, which lets OpenAI limit Microsoft's access to its IP once its systems reach AGI (www.wsj.com)
6 days ago Microsoft

Microsoft and OpenAI dueling over artificial general intelligence: Report (indianexpress.com)
6 days ago Microsoft Intelligence

US senators reintroduce the bipartisan Open App Markets Act to challenge Apple's and Google's grip on app stores; the 2021 version never made it to a floor vote (appleinsider.com)
6 days ago Google Apple

A group of authors sue Microsoft in a NY federal court, claiming the company used nearly 200,000 pirated books without permission to train its Megatron AI model (www.reuters.com)
6 days ago Microsoft AI

Microsoft Sued By Authors Over Use of Books in AI Training (news.slashdot.org)
6 days ago Microsoft AI

Hackers abuse Microsoft ClickOnce and AWS services for stealthy attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
6 days ago Microsoft

Permalink to Google's Agent2Agent protocol finds new home at the Linux Foundation (sdtimes.com)
6 days ago Linux Google

Lyon Abandons Microsoft Office To Strengthen 'Digital Sovereignty' (slashdot.org)
6 days ago Microsoft

Google releases Gemini CLI with free Gemini 2.5 Pro (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
6 days ago Google

Google DeepMind unveils AlphaGenome, an AI tool to predict the effects of DNA changes on molecular processes, available via an API for non-commercial research (www.technologyreview.com)
6 days ago Google AI

Leaked memo: Intel will shut down its automotive business and lay off “most” employees working in the unit, the latest step in Intel's downsizing (www.oregonlive.com)
6 days ago Intel

Google Rolls Out Street View Time Travel To Celebrate 20 Years of Google Earth (news.slashdot.org)
6 days ago Google

Intel Will Shut Down Its Automotive Business, Lay Off Most of the Department's Employees (tech.slashdot.org)
6 days ago Intel

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