Internet/e-commerce

Sources: the CFPB moves to place Google under formal federal supervision, an extraordinary move that may lead to regular inspections; Google fiercely resisted (www.washingtonpost.com)
2024-11-15 Google

Google releases a new free Gemini app for iOS, letting users ask questions and chat via text, voice, or camera, as well as use conversational Gemini Live (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-15 IOS Google

The EU fines Meta €797.72M for tying Facebook Marketplace to Facebook and “imposing unfair trading conditions” on rival websites, the first such fine for Meta (t.co)
2024-11-15 Facebook

Microsoft releases Windows 11 ISOs for Arm64 PCs, letting users clean install Windows via official offline media, including the latest Snapdragon X Copilot+ PCs (www.windowscentral.com)
2024-11-15 Microsoft

Google updates Maps to help users search for products like home goods, clothing, and electronics and find stores nearby, improve traffic reporting, and more (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-14 Google

Q&A with Spotify Co-President and CTO Gustav Söderström on AI-generated music, NotebookLM podcasts, AI recommendations, improving discoverability, and more (www.bigtechnology.com)
2024-11-14 AI Spotify

Nvidia B200 GPU and Google Trillium TPU debut on the MLPerf Training v4.1 benchmark charts; the B200 posted a doubling of performance on some tests vs. the H100 (spectrum.ieee.org)
2024-11-14 Google Nvidia

Netflix's Distributed Counter Abstraction (netflixtechblog.com)
2024-11-14 Netflix

IBM Boosts the Amount of Computation You Can Get Done On Quantum Hardware (tech.slashdot.org)
2024-11-14 IBM Quantum

Google says real-time protections against scam calls and malicious apps are rolling out on Pixel 6 or newer devices and coming soon to more Android phones (9to5google.com)
2024-11-14 Android Google

Spotify plans to pay incentives to video creators who hit certain viewing thresholds and, in January, to let Premium subscribers view podcast videos without ads (www.wsj.com)
2024-11-14 Spotify

Amazon Shuts Down Secret Project To Develop Fertility Tracker (science.slashdot.org)
2024-11-14 Amazon

Google announces new features for the Fitbit Ace LTE, its smartwatch for kids, including family group chats, messaging for siblings, and a new mini-game (techcrunch.com)
2024-11-14 Google

Microsoft patches Windows zero-day exploited in attacks on Ukraine (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2024-11-14 Microsoft Ukraine

Microsoft Gaming Handheld Device 'Few Years' Away, Says Xbox Chief (games.slashdot.org)
2024-11-14 Microsoft Xbox

Sources: OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are seeing diminishing returns from costly efforts to build new AI models; a new Gemini model is missing internal targets (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-11-14 Google AI

Docs and sources: Amazon has discontinued a secretive effort to develop an at-home fertility tracker, which was part of its moonshot incubator Grand Challenge (www.cnbc.com)
2024-11-14 Amazon

New Google Pixel AI feature analyzes phone conversations for scams (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2024-11-14 Google AI

Microsoft November 2024 Patch Tuesday fixes 4 zero-days, 89 flaws (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2024-11-14 Microsoft

Amazon Children's Day sale 2024: Best deals on tablets, wireless earphones and smartwatches (indianexpress.com)
2024-11-14 Amazon

Sources: execs at xAI rivals were alarmed by how fast Elon Musk set up the 100K GPU cluster Colossus; a source says Sam Altman argued with Microsoft over it (www.theinformation.com)
2024-11-14 Microsoft Elon Musk

Amazon launches Amazon Haul, a storefront on its app that promises “crazy low prices” on a range of items, to compete with Temu and Shein (www.cnbc.com)
2024-11-14 Amazon

Google says it will test removing news articles from EU-based publishers from Search for 1% of users in France, Poland, Greece, Belgium, and other EU countries (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-14 France Google Greece Poland Belgium

An interview with Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer, who says he won't rule out any Xbox exclusive coming to PlayStation, discusses potential M&A, and more (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-11-14 Microsoft Interview Xbox

Amazon recently told staff with disabilities that it was adding a more rigorous vetting process to approve working from home, as it moves to five days per week (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-11-13 Amazon

Sources: OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are all seeing diminishing returns from costly efforts to build new AI models; a new Gemini model misses internal targets (www.bloomberg.com)
2024-11-13 Google AI

Google DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3's source code and model weights for academic use, which could accelerate scientific discovery and drug development (venturebeat.com)
2024-11-13 Google

YouTube is testing a new feature that will let a small group of creators use AI to “restyle” licensed songs for their Shorts through prompts (www.theverge.com)
2024-11-13 AI YouTube

Bowing to EU demands, Meta rolls out ‘less personalised ads' on Facebook and Instagram (indianexpress.com)
2024-11-13 Facebook Instagram

Anti-Airbnb protests spread to Milan as key boxes are vandalised by furious locals who say holiday lets are pricing them out of Italian city (www.dailymail.co.uk)
2024-11-13 Italy Airbnb

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