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Amazon's AI Shopping Assistant Rufus Tests Sponsored Prompts -- Lower Traffic But More Cost-Effective Than Search Ads
Amazon is testing a format called 'sponsored prompts' inside its Rufus AI shopping assistant, and early results show the ads generate significantly lower traffi...
California Suspends Enforcement of Law Requiring VCs to Disclose Diversity Data
California regulators have again suspended enforcement of a state law that required venture capital firms to disclose the demographic composition of startup fou...
Jury Verdicts Against Meta and YouTube Target Platform Design, Not Just Content -- and That Changes the Legal Picture
Last week's jury verdicts against Meta and YouTube in social media harm cases recognized specific platform design features as defective products -- a legal dist...
EU Institutions Ban Staff From Using Fully AI-Generated Images and Videos in Official Communications
The European Union's main institutions have prohibited staff from using fully AI-generated images and videos in official communications, Politico reported Tuesd...
Cognichip Raises $60 Million to Build AI That Designs Chips, With Intel's Former CEO on Board
Cognichip, a startup developing artificial intelligence models designed to automate the chip design process, has raised a $60 million Series A led by Seligman V...
Anthropic's Claude Code Source Leak Exposes 512,000 Lines of Internal TypeScript
Anthropic accidentally shipped a 59.8 MB source map file inside version 2.1.88 of its @anthropic-ai/claude-code npm package on March 31, exposing 512,000 lines ...
NASA Launches Artemis II, Sending Four Astronauts Toward the Moon for First Time in 54 Years
NASA successfully launched the Artemis II mission on Wednesday evening, sending four astronauts on a 10-day journey toward the Moon in the first crewed lunar fl...
Iranian Strike Damages AWS Data Center Operation in Bahrain, Sources Say
An Iranian military strike damaged Amazon Web Services' operation in Bahrain, sources told the Financial Times Wednesday, in what appears to be the first confir...
Microsoft on Track for $5.5 Billion Cloud and AI Investment in Singapore Through 2029
Microsoft confirmed Wednesday it is on track to invest $5.5 billion in cloud and AI infrastructure in Singapore through 2029, the Wall Street Journal reported, ...