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Amazon Prime Video Trolls Netflix’s Password Crackdown: Remember When Love Meant Sharing?
- Amazon.com Inc’s AMZN Prime Video boldly roasted Netflix Inc NFLX with a hilarious meme and a intelligent throwback, difficult the sanctity of shared passwords.
- Prime Video has unleashed a formidable response to Netflix’s current password-sharing crackdown with a witty meme and a nostalgic reminder of the streaming big’s previous stance.
- Amazon’s Prime Video UK deal with took a jab at Netflix’s current password-sharing crackdown by sharing a screenshot of its “Who’s Watching” web page that includes humorously named profiles: “Everyone, Who Has, Our, Password, [Heart Emoji].”
YouTube Bids Adieu To This Feature Amid Focus Shift To Shorts, Community Posts
- Alphabet Inc.’s GOOG GOOGL on-line video-sharing platform YouTube introduced its determination to bid adieu to the Stories function on June 26, signaling a shift in its focus towards different avenues of content material creation.
- YouTube is discontinuing ‘YouTube Stories,’ its Snapchat clone. Initially launched 2017 as ‘Reels,’ it was rebranded as ‘YouTube Stories in 2018.
- Stories supplied YouTube creators with greater than 10,000 subscribers the chance to share non permanent posts. These posts, similar to Snapchat, would mechanically vanish after seven days.
- Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) has declared her opposition to President Joe Biden’s proposed 30% excise tax on Bitcoin (BTC/USD) miners.
- Lummis on Thursday tweeted that the tax is a “blatant attempt by the administration to pick winners and losers,” including that she “will not let President Biden tax the digital asset industry out of existence.”
- Lummis, on May 19, on the Bitcoin 2023 convention in Miami, argued that the proposed excise tax was misguided and would solely hurt the burgeoning cryptocurrency business. She emphasised the significance of making a regulatory surroundings that fosters innovation quite than stifles it.
Tesla Data Leak Exposes FSD Safety Nightmare As Complaints Reportedly Run Into Thousands
- Tesla Inc TSLA prospects have filed over 2,400 complaints relating to self-acceleration points and 1,500 complaints about braking issues between 2015 and March 2022.
- The complaints about these Full Self Driving (FSD) options spanned throughout areas, together with the United States, Europe, and Asia, and have been primarily based on leaked knowledge from Tesla’s IT system.
- Data from Tesla’s IT system revealed stories of unintended emergency braking and sudden acceleration. While most of those incidents had minor penalties, some resulted in deadly outcomes.
Amended European Deal For BioNTech-Pfizer’s Covid-19 Vaccines Allows Reduced Purchases
- The European Commission (EC) had agreed with BioNTech SE BNTX and Pfizer Inc PFE on adapting the prevailing contract on vaccines in opposition to Covid-19, together with a discount within the variety of doses bought by EU international locations beneath the contract and pushing the supply deadline to 2026.
- The settlement offers for decreasing the variety of doses bought by member states beneath the contract.
- Following cost of a payment, initially contracted doses can be transformed into optionally available orders.
AstraZeneca/Merck’s Cancer Drug Combo Shows Positive Results In Endometrial Cancer
- AstraZeneca Plc’s AZN mixture of Imfinzi (durvalumab) and Lynparza (olaparib), when added to platinum-primarily based chemotherapy, confirmed constructive ends in the DUO-E Phase 3 trial in sufferers with newly recognized superior or recurrent endometrial most cancers.
- Lynparza is collectively developed with Merck & Co Inc MRK.
- The remedy confirmed a statistically significant enchancment in development-free survival (PFS) in comparison with normal-of-care chemotherapy.
- LG Energy Solution (LGES) and Hyundai Motor Co Ltd HYMTF disclosed an EV battery cell manufacturing three way partnership within the U.S. Friday.
- LGES and Hyundai Motor inked a deal to supply EV batteries within the U.S., additional accelerating the Group’s electrification efforts in North America.
- Youngsoo Kwon, CEO of LGES, and Jaehoon Chang, President and CEO of Hyundai Motor, personally inked the deal at LGES’s headquarters in Seoul.
Reuters
Elon Musk’s Brain Chip Company Gets FDA Greenlight For ‘First-In-Human Clinical Study’
- Elon Musk’s mind-implant firm Neuralink has acquired the inexperienced mild from the Food and Drug Administration to begin its “first-in-human clinical study.”
- This milestone achievement for Neuralink comes after a sequence of setbacks and challenges confronted by the corporate in its pursuit of FDA approval.
- In a tweet, the corporate wrote that this was the “result of incredible work by the Neuralink team in close collaboration with the FDA and represented an important first step that will one day allow our technology to help many people.”
China’s AI Battle Gathers Steam As Baidu Prepares To Integrate ChatGPT-Like Feature To Search Engine
- Baidu Inc BIDU CEO Robin Li shared plans to launch Ernie 3.5, a generative AI giant-language mannequin that can energy Baidu’s ChatGPT-like app Ernie Bot and improve its search engine.
- Li introduced at China’s Zhongguancun Forum two months after Ernie Bot met with combined evaluations.
- Ernie Bot and different merchandise powered by the corporate’s generative AI giant-language mannequin have remained in trial mode for the reason that public face-off. Baidu invited chosen corporations and customers to check the merchandise and supply suggestions.
Volkswagen, Audi Arrive At $85M Settlement With Texas
- Volkswagen AG VWAGY and Audi have reached an $85 million settlement over violations of Texas environmental legal guidelines.
- The automobile producers employed unlawful emission-evading expertise in violation of Texas environmental legal guidelines.
- In Early May, Texas Supreme Court dominated that the state environmental lawsuit in opposition to Volkswagen and Audi might be taken ahead.
Bloomberg
Tesla EV Batter Supplier CATL Wants to Catch Up to Peers, Gets In Solar Panels
- Chinese EV battery producer Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd is researching the event of perovskite cells to drive new enhancements in photo voltaic panel efficiency, becoming a member of related endeavors by Tesla Inc TSLA.
- The Tesla provider additionally inked a cope with JA Solar Technology Co, China’s fourth-greatest module maker, to cooperate on scientific improvements, advertising and marketing, and storage.
- BYD Co, Ltd BYDDF BYDDY can produce about 5 gigawatts of panels a yr. Tesla elevated photo voltaic deployments by 40% yr-on-yr within the first quarter.
CNBC
Amazon Reshuffles Positions: Air Cargo Business Leader To Helm Workplace-Safety Division
- Amazon.Com Inc AMZN shifted its air cargo enterprise head Sarah Rhoads to supervise its office well being and security division.
- Rhoads may also lead Amazon’s world operations studying and improvement unit, which offers with profession development and expertise enchancment within the firm’s entrance-line workforce.
- The memo emphasised the significance of security in aerospace and different industries. Rhoads’ background as a embellished navy pilot and success main Amazon Global Air made her apt for the function. She joined Amazon in 2011.
ChatGPT Bug Bites JP Morgan: Looks To Develop AI Software For Investment Advice
- JP Morgan Chase & Co JPM is growing a ChatGPT-like software program service that leverages disruptive synthetic intelligence to pick out buyer investments.
- The firm utilized to trademark a product referred to as IndexGPT.
- IndexGPT appears to be like to faucet cloud computing software program utilizing synthetic intelligence for analyzing and deciding on securities tailor-made to buyer wants.
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