Amazon MGM Studios announces the GenAI Creators' Fund, greenlights three AI animated series for Prime Video, and launches an AI production platform with AWS (Todd Spangler/Variety)

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Amazon MGM Studios announces the GenAI Creators' Fund, greenlights three AI animated series for Prime Video, and launches an AI production platform with AWS  —  Amazon MGM Studios is touting the power of AI to help create “cinematic” entertainment in a big new initiative …

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Meta rolls out Plus plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp globally, will test $7.99/mo. and $19.99/mo. Meta AI plans, a $49.99/mo. creator plan, and more (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Meta rolls out Plus plans for Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp globally, will test $7.99/mo. and $19.99/mo. Meta AI plans, a $49.99/mo. creator plan, and more  —  Meta is doubling down on its subscription offerings.  On Wednesday, the social networking giant announced it's now rolling …

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Micron hit a $1T market value for the first time on Tuesday as shares jumped 19%, driven by demand for its memory chips in the AI race (Samantha Subin/CNBC)

Samantha Subin / CNBC:
Micron hit a $1T market value for the first time on Tuesday as shares jumped 19%, driven by demand for its memory chips in the AI race  —  Micron topped a $1 trillion market value for the first time on Tuesday as shares popped 19%, driven by insatiable artificial intelligence demand for its memory chips.

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London-based Perceptic, which says its end-to-end AI platform for drug development is being used by top pharmaceuticals, raised a $12M seed led by Accel (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

Jeremy Kahn / Fortune:
London-based Perceptic, which says its end-to-end AI platform for drug development is being used by top pharmaceuticals, raised a $12M seed led by Accel  —  A trio of former Palantir executives who helped spearhead that company's Life Sciences practice have founded a startup called Perceptic …

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Q&A with Sundar Pichai about reshaping the information ecosystem with Search changes, putting AI agents in everything, when AI will replace him as CEO, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)

Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Q&A with Sundar Pichai about reshaping the information ecosystem with Search changes, putting AI agents in everything, when AI will replace him as CEO, and more  —  Today, I'm talking with Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, in a conversation we recorded just after the Google I/O developer conference.

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Massachusetts formally recognizes the App Drivers Union, which says it represents ~70,000 workers and is the first state-certified rideshare union in the US (Bryan Hecht/The Boston Globe)

Bryan Hecht / The Boston Globe:
Massachusetts formally recognizes the App Drivers Union, which says it represents ~70,000 workers and is the first state-certified rideshare union in the US  —  Uber and Lyft drivers in Massachusetts have officially unionized, a first-in-the-nation move that now sets up what could be the final stage in a years-long organizing effort.

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The FTC settles with Cox, MindSift, and 1010 Digital Works for $930K over claims they falsely said they could use phone mics to spy on users for ad targeting (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

Adi Robertson / The Verge:
The FTC settles with Cox, MindSift, and 1010 Digital Works for $930K over claims they falsely said they could use phone mics to spy on users for ad targeting  —  More specifically, it was fined for allegedly lying by claiming that it could. … An exceptionally weird controversy has come …

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