An e-commerce CEO is getting absolutely roasted online for laying off 90% of his support staff, after an AI chatbot outperformed them (www.businessinsider.com)
Suumit Shah, the CEO of Bengaluru-based Dukaan, said the chatbot answered customer queries in 2 minutes — a task that took the humans over 2 hours.
Buffalo mass shooting victims sue social media platforms that they say contributed to the massacre (www.13newsnow.com)
CEO replaces 90% of support staff with AI, praises the system on Twitter (www.techspot.com)
Amazon tells court it shouldn't have to police its platforms for hate speech and disinformation (www.businessinsider.com)
Amazon filed a petition with an EU court asking it to annul its designation as a “very large online platform” in the Digital Services Act.
What is SimpleX Chat (blog.notrustverify.ch)
‘Harmful’ content should not be promoted via social media algorithms, peers say (www.nationalworld.com)
A lawsuit claims Google has been 'secretly stealing everything ever created and shared on the internet by hundreds of millions of Americans' to train its AI (www.businessinsider.com)
A lawsuit claims Google took people’s data without their knowledge or consent to train its AI products, including chatbot Bard.
Advice for Operating a Public-Facing API (jcs.org)
Musk claims Meta hired dozens of Twitter employees to build Threads. (www.law360.com)
A top lawyer for Twitter owner Elon Musk says the platform has “serious concerns” that Facebook parent Meta hired “dozens of former Twitter employees” in order to build its new “copycat” Threads app — accusations that Meta denies....
Google’s AI-powered notes app is now called NotebookLM, and it’s launching today (www.theverge.com)
Launching today to “a small group of users in the US,” according to a Google blog post....
Tax prep companies shared private taxpayer data with Google and Meta for years, congressional probe finds (www.cnn.com)
Some of America’s largest tax-prep companies have spent years sharing Americans’ sensitive financial data with tech titans including Meta and Google in a potential violation of federal law — data that in some cases was misused for targeted advertising, according to a seven-month congressional investigation.
Twitter seems to ban all Threads links to reaffirm its position as a “free speech absolutist” platform (www.theverge.com)
A search for Threads content on Twitter currently brings up zero results, despite plenty of links to Meta’s microblogging rival being posted on the platform.
Anthropic Launches Claude 2 (www.anthropic.com)
Claude 2 has improved performance, longer responses, and can be accessed via API as well as a new public-facing beta website.
Chinese intelligence hacked U.S government emails in ‘significant’ breach (www.cnbc.com)
The group attacked over two dozen government agencies in Western Europe and the U.S., and compromised associated personal accounts of employees.
Elon Musk’s new xAI company launches to “understand the true nature of the universe” (www.theverge.com)
xAI, Elon Musk’s newly formed AI company, has revealed itself with a new website detailing its mission and team at x.ai. Musk tweeted the company’s intent is to “understand reality” without any other details or explanation....
Tech companies block wage increase for New York City delivery workers (www.theguardian.com)
Doordash, GrubHub, Uber and Relay lawsuits claim that the $17.96 per hour wage set to start on 12 July would deal blow to business
Reddit beats lawsuit by WallStreetBets founder (www.reuters.com)
A U.S. judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit in which the founder of WallStreetBets, which helped ignite investors’ fascination with “meme” stocks, accused Reddit of wrongly banning him from moderating the community and usurping his trademark rights.
‘I deleted my Twitter account’: eight readers on how they avoid digital burnout (www.theguardian.com)
‘I deleted my Twitter account’: eight readers on how they avoid digital burnout...
Retro Kitchens of the Future: Discovering the Dream Kitchens of Yesteryear (rarehistoricalphotos.com)
From the 1950s to the 1980s, individuals and companies alike conceptualized and presented their captivating visions of the kitchen of the future.
Chinese intelligence hacked State Department emails in ‘significant’ breach (www.cnbc.com)
BusKill (USB Dead Man Switch) v0.7.0 released 💾 (www.buskill.in)
We’re happy to announce the release of BusKill v0.7.0!...
Tumblr is losing $30M each year, CEO says (techcrunch.com)
Freetube Keeps buffering (lemmy.world)
I was really enjoying the Freetube desktop client but lately the buffering has made it…worse than watching you tube with commercials. Does anyone know why? I understand that it maybe due to a change in youtube (ala adblockers) or a setting that I have to change, but any information or help would be greatly appreciated.