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Wes Davis / The Verge: The US FTC announced a $7M fine against mental telehealth startup Cerebral, citing misleading data sharing and cancelation policies, misleading ads, and more  —  The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is proposing a $7 million fine… Read More »The US FTC announced a $7M fine against mental telehealth startup Cerebral, citing misleading data sharing and cancelation policies, misleading ads, and more (Wes Davis/The Verge)

Bloomberg: Sources: German grocery delivery startup Flink raised another €100M from existing investors and has been in merger talks with rivals Getir and Just Eat Takeaway  —  – Flink has been in merger talks with Getir, Just Eat Takeaway  —… Read More »Sources: German grocery delivery startup Flink raised another €100M from existing investors and has been in merger talks with rivals Getir and Just Eat Takeaway (Bloomberg)

Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: The European Data Protection Board says large online platforms like Meta should give users an option to use their services for free without targeted advertising  —  Meta Platforms (META.O) and other large online platforms should… Read More »The European Data Protection Board says large online platforms like Meta should give users an option to use their services for free without targeted advertising (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)

Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg: Sources: the EU has decided that Microsoft’s OpenAI deal doesn’t merit a formal probe because it falls short of a takeover and Microsoft doesn’t control OpenAI  —  – Regulators don’t see evidence of Microsoft controlling OpenAI … Read More »Sources: the EU has decided that Microsoft’s OpenAI deal doesn’t merit a formal probe because it falls short of a takeover and Microsoft doesn’t control OpenAI (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)

Matt Day / Bloomberg: How Amazon developed Just Walk Out since the early 2010s, driven by Jeff Bezos, as the company removes the tech from stores while expanding third-party sales  —  The company is cutting back on the “Just Walk… Read More »How Amazon developed Just Walk Out since the early 2010s, driven by Jeff Bezos, as the company removes the tech from stores while expanding third-party sales (Matt Day/Bloomberg)

The Verge: Stability AI makes Stable Diffusion 3 available to developers via an API and a new Stable Assistant Beta content creation platform; the model remains in preview  —  The next generation of the text-to-image AI model Stable Diffusion is… Read More »Stability AI makes Stable Diffusion 3 available to developers via an API and a new Stable Assistant Beta content creation platform; the model remains in preview (The Verge)

Joseph Cox / 404 Media: A look at Spy Pet, a Discord scraping service that claims to get data from 14K+ servers and 600M users, available for as little as $5; Discord is investigating  —  An online service is scraping… Read More »A look at Spy Pet, a Discord scraping service that claims to get data from 14K+ servers and 600M users, available for as little as $5; Discord is investigating (Joseph Cox/404 Media)

Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch: Snap plans to add watermarks to AI-generated images on Snapchat; watermarks appear as a translucent version of the Snap logo with a sparkle emoji  —  Social media company Snap said Tuesday that it plans to add… Read More »Snap plans to add watermarks to AI-generated images on Snapchat; watermarks appear as a translucent version of the Snap logo with a sparkle emoji (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

Bloomberg: How GitHub Copilot became responsible for a significant percentage of coding, despite its limitations; Stack Overflow: 54.8% of developers used Copilot in 2023  —  The assistant is saving engineers hundreds of hours a month and is helping GitHub retain… Read More »How GitHub Copilot became responsible for a significant percentage of coding, despite its limitations; Stack Overflow: 54.8% of developers used Copilot in 2023 (Bloomberg)

Sarah Jacob / Bloomberg: ASML reports China represented 49% of its system sales in Q1, while sales from Taiwan more than halved and the US dropped five percentage points to 6%  —  China remains ASML’s biggest market, representing 49% of… Read More »ASML reports China represented 49% of its system sales in Q1, while sales from Taiwan more than halved and the US dropped five percentage points to 6% (Sarah Jacob/Bloomberg)