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Will Knight / Wired: Amazon announces AI Shopping Guides, which show AI-generated descriptions and recommendations for over 100 product types on its US mobile website and app  —  Amazon feeds its large language models vast quantities of retail data.  It says its AI agents might someday be smart enough to buy you stuff without you even having to ask. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Zoom plans to launch a feature in 2025 that allows users to create an AI-animated, photorealistic avatar from a video clip they record of themselves  —  Zoom wants to turn you into an AI-animated, photorealistic avatar — but not until sometime next year.  —  The upcoming feature … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Dan Riccio, Apple’s Vision Pro chief and former head of hardware engineering, is leaving this month; the Vision Pro team is moving under John Ternus  —  – Headset group will be overseen by hardware leader John Ternus  — The retiring executive had worked at Apple for over 26 years Lees verder op Tech Meme

Spencer Soper / Bloomberg: Amazon aims to deploy Vision Assisted Package Retrieval, an AI-powered tool to help drivers quickly find packages in delivery vans, in 1,000 vans by early 2025  —  – Technology will shorten typical delivery route by 30 minutes  —  Amazon.com Inc. unveiled a new artificial intelligence tool designed … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: X updates its Creator Revenue Sharing program to pay creators based on engagement with their content from Premium users, not ads in replies  —  X is making a big change to how creators can earn money from the platform.  Since last year, X has shared ad revenue with creators based … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hayden Field / CNBC: Writer debuts Palmyra X 004, an LLM for enterprise applications, saying it cost just $700K to train, using synthetic data; source: Writer is raising up to $200M  —  San Francisco-based AI startup Writer debuted a large artificial intelligence model on Wednesday to compete with enterprise offerings from OpenAI, Anthropic and others. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Annie Palmer / CNBC: Amazon Pharmacy plans to expand same-day prescription delivery to 20 more US cities in 2025, including Boston, Dallas, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, and San Diego  —  Amazon plans to bring same-day prescription delivery to 20 more cities next year, the company said Wednesday, marking the latest phase of its push into health care. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Financial Times: Sources: OpenAI plans to restructure as a public benefit corporation to defend itself from hostile takeovers and protect Sam Altman from outsider interference  —  ChatGPT maker considers largely untested company model to protect chief executive Sam Altman from outside interference Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anna Washenko / Engadget: Meta rolls out Meta AI in six more countries, including the UK, and plans 15 more in the coming weeks, and adds it to Ray-Ban glasses in Australia and the UK  —  15 more countries will get access over the coming weeks.  —  Meta AI is beginning a big international rollout. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Mary Ilyushina / Washington Post: Russia’s Roskomnadzor regulator bans Discord, drawing ire from the Russian military, which has extensively used the app to coordinate units in Ukraine  —  The ban has also renewed a wider debate about how Russia’s bureaucratic machine keeps frustrating the military effort. Lees verder op Tech Meme