August 12, 20230CommentsAmazon is removing or reducing packaging to speed up deliveries, cut costs, and meet climate goals, amid concerns that visible products could lead to issues (Sebastian Herrera/Wall Street Journal)
August 12, 20230CommentsA look at Stanford University’s efforts to educate Congress on AI, including a boot camp covering AI’s potential to reshape education and a primer on deepfakes (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)
August 12, 20230CommentsA look at friend.tech, a decentralized social app built on Base that has driven 4,400 ETH in trading volume since launching its invite-only beta on Thursday (Cam Thompson/CoinDesk)
August 12, 20230CommentsHacker group Cult of the Dead Cow details Veilid, an open-source, P2P application framework, and unveils VeilidChat, a Signal-like instant messaging app (Iain Thomson/The Register)
August 12, 20230CommentsUMG, Sony Music, and other labels sue the Internet Archive for copyright infringement, saying the “Great 78 Project” is an “illegal record store” for songs (Blake Brittain/Reuters)
August 12, 20230CommentsThe Hollywood Professional Association, which includes Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, urges the AMPTP, the WGA, and SAG-AFTRA to find a strike resolution soon (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
August 12, 20230CommentsIllinois passes the US’ first law protecting child influencers, entitling influencers under age 16 and featured kids of influencers to a percentage of earnings (Fortesa Latifi/Teen Vogue)
August 12, 20230Commentsa16z crypto unveils Lasso and Jolt, a pair of new tools based on Succinct Non-interactive Arguments of Knowledge, or SNARK, to help enable scalable ZK-rollups (Vishal Chawla/The Block)
August 12, 20230CommentsChindata Group plans to go private in a $3.16B deal with Bain Capital, ending months of uncertainty on the future of the Chinese data center operator (Manya Saini/Reuters)
August 12, 20230CommentsSources: Modular, which offers AI development tools and a programming language, is discussing a Series A at a ~$600M valuation, after a $30M seed in June 2022 (Kate Clark/The Information)
August 12, 20230CommentsAfter new fight claims from Musk, Zuckerberg warns “anything” Musk says hasn’t been agreed on; Musk also said surgery will prevent him from fighting for months (Jesse Levine/Bloomberg)