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Apple privately asked Amazon to block rival ads. Insider found evidence of this special treatment, while others suffer from ‘junk ads’::An internal Amazon email shows that Apple asked the e-commerce giant for special treatment that most other brands don’t get.

‘Fortnite’ maker Epic Games is battling Google in court over app-store fees 2 years after largely losing a similar case against Apple::Epic Games is taking aim at the commissions that Google charges on digital purchases made within a mobile app.

The bosses of rival chip giants Nvidia and AMD are cousins, researcher says::Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su are first cousins once removed, according to a genealogist.

Robinhood is cutting jobs, reorganizing teams, and focusing on credit cards to solve a shrinking user base, insiders say::Robinhood is reorganizing and its future in credit cards was discussed in all-employee meeting, insiders say.

Fake naked pictures of young girls created with AI spark fury in a small Spanish town::More than 20 girls aged 11 to 17 have been identified as victims in Almendralejo, in the western Spanish region of Extremadura, reports say.

Australia gifted the Corvo PPDS drone, made of lightweight board and rubber, to Ukraine. Now it's possible they've struck a Russian airfield....

Thousands of employees in the US Department of the Interior are using accounts that are easily hacked::The Interior Department is tasked with protecting the country’s natural resources, like gas pipelines. Hundreds of its senior officers even used “password-1234” on their accounts.

Leaked Google pay data reveals the highest salaries the tech giant pays in engineering, sales, and more::Insider obtained an internal Google spreadsheet that shows how much employees were paid in 2022 — and which roles at the tech giant paid best.

In similar case, US National Eating Disorder Association laid off entire helpline staff. Soon after, chatbot disabled for giving out harmful information.

Apple tells dozens of employees in San Diego to move to Austin or face layoffs, report says::Apple has reportedly told San Diego employees that they have until end of February to decide if they will move to another state or lose their job.

The definitive account of how WeWork went from a $47 billion valuation to a basket case in just 6 weeks::The WeWork cofounder Adam Neumann picked the wrong time to be the visionary leader of a company with imperial ambitions and obscure finances.

You might expect the whirring blades of a helicopter to spark concern or annoyance from animals in the vicinity. But for the reptilian residents of a crocodile farm, a low-flying chopper seemed to signal mating season....

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From writers and teachers to bankers and lawyers, most jobs seem ripe to be replaced by artificial intelligence — with one notable exception. The only job that seems to be safe from the rise of ChatGPT and other AI tech is, oddly enough, the most expensive and easily automated role: CEO....

Major websites like Amazon and the New York Times are increasingly blocking OpenAI’s web crawler GPTBot::Companies like Amazon and The New York Times are rushing to prevent ChatGPT from collecting their data.

Scientists found more than 1,000 AI spam bots trying to scam people and steal their social media profiles — and regulators can’t keep up::Social media is being flooded with spammy AI content. Research by Indiana University details how artificial intelligence is being used to scam people on social media platforms.