Internet/e-commerce

Microsoft says it completed a multi-year project, the EU Data Boundary for the Microsoft Cloud, to let Europe-based cloud customers store and process data in EU (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-27 Europe Microsoft

Google redesigns Results About You, its tool for requesting the removal of Search results with personal info, adding a new hub and the ability to update results (www.engadget.com)
2025-2-27 Google

YouTube Reaches 1 Billion Monthly Podcast Viewers (news.slashdot.org)
2025-2-27 YouTube

Amazon says Alexa+ will be able to navigate through movies on Prime Video due to Alexa, Prime Video, and Fire TV's integration, including “jump to a scene” (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-27 Amazon

Amazon says Alexa+ is “model agnostic”, using Amazon Nova models and Anthropic's models, and picks the “best” AI model for a task, drawing on Amazon Bedrock (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-27 Amazon AI

Amazon Revamps Alexa With Generative AI After Year-Long Delay (slashdot.org)
2025-2-27 Amazon AI

Amazon's Panos Panay demoed Alexa+ in a flowing ongoing conversation and says it can book concert tickets, make restaurant reservations, and text a babysitter (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-27 Amazon

Amazon unveils Alexa+, a generative AI update trained to detect tone and mood, with vision capabilities, after first planning to “supercharge” Alexa in 2023 (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-27 Amazon AI

A live blog of Amazon's Alexa event, where the company is expected to announce its new AI-powered Alexa, a new Fire TV platform, and more (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-27 Amazon AI

YouTube says it now has 1B+ monthly viewers for podcast content worldwide; users watched 400M+ hours of podcasts monthly on living room devices in 2024 (variety.com)
2025-2-27 YouTube

Lasso: 20,000+ once-public GitHub repositories from Microsoft, AWS, Google, IBM, Tencent, and 16,000+ other companies are still accessible via Copilot (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-26 Google Microsoft IBM Tencent GitHub

A US federal judge dismisses a lawsuit against TikTok and YouTube over “choking challenge” videos, saying the case failed on its merits and citing Section 230 (news.bloomberglaw.com)
2025-2-26 YouTube

A survey of 2,000 US adults finds 42% say that search engines like Google are becoming less useful, 60% view the state of social media negatively, and more (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-26 Google

Microsoft unlocks free, unlimited access to Copilot Voice and Think Deeper (indianexpress.com)
2025-2-26 Microsoft

Why claims of Microsoft cancelling AI data centre leases are raising eyebrows (indianexpress.com)
2025-2-26 Microsoft AI

A profile of Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, who led the company from trailing eBay and Apple in online sales to becoming the world's second-largest e-commerce firm (www.bloomberg.com)
2025-2-26 Apple eBay Walmart

Google makes its Gemini AI coding tool free to use with ‘practically unlimited' capacity (indianexpress.com)
2025-2-26 Google AI

Sources: in July 2024, Microsoft told top GOP officials that Chinese hackers had accessed the RNC email system for months; the RNC chose not to alert the FBI (www.wsj.com)
2025-2-26 China Microsoft FBI Republican

Analysts expect Amazon to spend up to $25B of its $100B capex in 2025 on its retail network, focusing on automation and efficiency, amid the AI spending boom (t.co)
2025-2-26 Amazon Retail AI

Google loses fight on Android Auto access, bodes ill for Big Tech (indianexpress.com)
2025-2-26 Android Google

YouTube will show fewer mid-roll ads that interrupt sentences or action sequences, and more ads at “natural break points” like transitions, starting May 12 (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-26 YouTube

Google, Qualcomm Will Support 8 Years of Android Updates (hardware.slashdot.org)
2025-2-26 Android Google

IBM plans to acquire DataStax and its cloud database development platform to expand IBM's Watsonx AI portfolio; Crunchbase: DataStax has raised $342.6M (www.crn.com)
2025-2-26 Database IBM AI

Microsoft fixes Entra ID authentication issue caused by DNS change (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2025-2-26 Microsoft

Microsoft rolls out unlimited access to Voice and Think Deeper, powered by Open AI's o1 model, to all Copilot users for free (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-26 Microsoft AI

The UK CMA clears IBM's $6.4B acquisition of infrastructure software company HashiCorp, 10 months after IBM announced the deal, which needs US FTC approval (techcrunch.com)
2025-2-26 IBM

Google Makes Gemini Code Assist Free (tech.slashdot.org)
2025-2-26 Google

Chegg Sues Google For Hurting Traffic With AI (yro.slashdot.org)
2025-2-26 Google AI

Google releases its free Gemini Code Assist globally in public preview for solo developers, with 180K code completions per month; GitHub Copilot offers 2,000 (www.theverge.com)
2025-2-25 Google GitHub

Google to introduce QR-based login for Gmail, will soon stop sending SMS Codes (indianexpress.com)
2025-2-25 Google

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