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Spotify and Epic Games call Apple’s revised DMA compliance plan ‘confusing,’ ‘illegal’ and ‘unacceptable’ Aug 12, 2024

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Count Spotify and Epic Games among the Apple critics who are not happy with the iPhone maker’s newly revised compliance plan for the European Union’s Digital Markets Act (DMA). Shortly after Apple announced the updated version on Tuesday, including loosened restrictions along with the addition of two more fees, Spotify shared a statement with TechCrunch

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UK launches formal probe into Amazon’s ties with AI startup Anthropic Aug 09, 2024

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The U.K.’s antitrust regulator has confirmed that it’s carrying out a formal antitrust investigation into Amazon’s ties with Anthropic, after Amazon recently completed a $4 billion investment into the AI startup.

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Airbnb details plans to expand beyond short-term rentals, including co-hosting and relaunching ‘experiences’ Aug 08, 2024

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Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky suggested on Tuesday’s Q2 earnings call with investors that the company will soon expand into new products and services, including co-hosting, a relaunch of Airbnb’s “experiences,” guest services, and more.

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Lyft to ‘open up a can of whoop ass’ on surge pricing Aug 08, 2024

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Ride-hail giant Lyft will pilot a new feature called Price Lock that will let a rider purchase a monthly subscription “that caps the price for a specific route at a specific time,” according to CEO David Risher.

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Figure’s new humanoid robot leverages OpenAI for natural speech conversations Aug 07, 2024

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Figure 02 is outfitted with speakers and microphones to speak and listen to people at work.

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Uber highlights autonomous vehicle efforts with Tesla in its rearview mirror Aug 07, 2024

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Uber reported strong second-quarter results, with gross bookings and net profit both up decently. But the company has chosen to highlight the success of its autonomous vehicle effort, likely to assuage investors concerned about incoming competition from Tesla, which aims to reveal its first robotaxi in October.

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AWS launches Mithra to identify and mitigate malicious domains across its massive system Aug 06, 2024

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When a company is the size of Amazon, a lot of bad actors will come after it and its customers, which makes defending the network a monster job.

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How the theft of 40M UK voter register records was entirely preventable Aug 06, 2024

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A scathing rebuke by the U.K. data protection watchdog reveals what led to the compromise of tens of millions of U.K. voters' information.

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iPad sales help bail out Apple amid a continued iPhone slide Aug 05, 2024

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In spite of a drop for the quarter, iPhone remained Apple’s most important category by a wide margin.

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AI music startup Suno claims training model on copyrighted music is ‘fair use’ Aug 05, 2024

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Following the recent lawsuit filed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) against music generation startups Udio and Suno, Suno admitted in a court filing on Thursday that it did, in fact, train its AI model using copyrighted songs. But it claimed that doing so was legal under the fair-use doctrine.

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