Tech Meme

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: Q&A with Jason Del Rey, the author of Winner Sells All, on how Walmart plays catch up to Amazon, Walmart CEO Doug McMillon’s tenure, Amazon’s missteps, and more  —  Jason Del Rey has spent the last 15 years reporting on e-commerce businesses, including Walmart and Amazon. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jody Godoy / Reuters: Months before the SEC’s lawsuit, Coinbase filed amicus briefs in two crypto-related SEC cases, aiming to aid its own defense, an unusual federal court strategy  —  Months before cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase (COIN.O) became the biggest target of the U.S. crackdown on digital assets … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Rick Porter / The Hollywood Reporter: Netflix tweaks its weekly top 10 rankings to sort by “views”, calculated by dividing the time spent watching a film or a show in a week by its running time  —  The streamer’s weekly rankings will now show the most popular titles by number of accounts watching as well as total time. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brad Stone / Bloomberg: In his new book, The Coming Wave, DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman proposes a “modern Turing test” to measure if an AI is “artificial capable intelligence”  —  A new book floats a provocative idea for testing whether machines are capable of human-like intelligence. Lees verder op Tech Meme

K.J. Yossman / Variety: Filing: Embracer paid ~$395M for Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit rights in 2022, far below ~$2B estimates; Amazon reportedly paid $250M for just the TV rights  —  Embracer Group, the Swedish gaming conglomerate that snapped up the rights to “Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Dylan Tokar / Wall Street Journal: Google Cloud launches Anti Money Laundering AI, an API used by HSBC, Banco Bradesco, and Lunar that relies on AI instead of the industry’s rules-based system  —  The company is looking to set itself apart from a crowded field of surveillance platforms by reducing the amount of human input … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Associated Press: Bernie Sanders opens a Senate investigation into Amazon’s warehouse safety practices and writes to Andy Jassy about “egregious health and safety violations”  —  Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders has opened a Senate investigation into Amazon’s warehouse safety practices … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Annie Palmer / CNBC: The US FTC files a lawsuit against Amazon over allegedly using “dark patterns” to enroll customers in Prime without consent and “sabotaged” attempts to cancel  —  – The FTC on Wednesday sued Amazon, alleging it tricked customers into signing up for its Prime subscription program … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Maria Streshinsky / Wired: Q&A with Christopher Nolan, director of Oppenheimer, on AI benefits for images in filmmaking, the parallels between nuclear weapon development and AI, and more  —  The Oppenheimer director says AI is not the bomb.  His new movie might still scare you shitless. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: London-based Volt, which offers open banking APIs in the UK, Europe, and Brazil, raised a $60M Series B led by IVP, a source says at a $350M+ valuation  —  Open banking — where traditional banks enable payments and other new services by way of APIs that give access to financial data previously locked … Lees verder op Tech Meme