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Ben Thompson / Stratechery: While the FTC’s Amazon complaint has valid points, Prime’s value proposition is overwhelmingly positive for consumers and the FTC seems to ignore the trade-offs  —  It was Friday morning, and I needed sunglasses — specifically the nerdy ones that fit on top of a pair of prescription glasses. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brian Fung / CNN: A breakdown of how much each US state will get in the $42.5B broadband infrastructure plan; Texas leads with $3.3B+, followed by California with $1.8B+  —  The Biden administration on Monday outlined how states across the country will be receiving billions of dollars in federal funding … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Will Knight / Wired: DeepMind cofounder and CEO Demis Hassabis shares details on Gemini, a ChatGPT rival they are building that combines strengths of LLMs with AlphaGo-type systems  —  Demis Hassabis says the company is working on a system called Gemini that will tap techniques that helped AlphaGo defeat a Go champion in 2016. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jay Peters / The Verge: Meta announces Quest Plus, a subscription for VR games where users “get two titles every month” for $7.99/month or $59.99/year, for Quest 2 and Quest Pro  —  Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg just announced Quest Plus, the company’s new “virtual reality subscription” that gives users access to … Lees verder op Tech Meme

The Verge: A survey of 2,000+ US adults finds 57% know of ChatGPT, 46% for Bing Chat, 45% for My AI, and 38% for Bard; only ~33% have used the tools, with Gen Z dominating  —  We polled 2,000 people about how they’re using AI, what they want it to do, and what scares them about it the most. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Jaspreet Singh / Reuters: US-based chipmaker Wolfspeed says a group led by Apollo plans to make a $1.25B debt investment, with room for an additional $750M, to support a US expansion  —  Wolfspeed (WOLF.N) said on Monday that a group led by Apollo Global Management (APO.N) would make a debt investment of $1.25 billion … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: SCOTUS refuses to revive Genius’ 2019 lawsuit accusing Google of scraping millions of song lyrics for search, leaving in place a ruling tossing out the lawsuit  —  The US Supreme Court refused to revive a lawsuit by music website Genius Media Group Inc. accusing Alphabet Inc.’s Google of stealing millions of song lyrics. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Hope King / Axios: Amazon plans to build a local delivery network in 23 states by recruiting thousands of small US businesses, from bodegas to florists, to deliver its packages  —  Amazon plans to tap thousands of U.S. small businesses, from bodegas to florists, to deliver its packages by the end of the year, Axios is first to report. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Bloomberg: Japan announces a $6.3B deal to buy and privatize photoresists maker JSR, which controls the global supply of key chipmaking chemicals with two other companies  —  Japan’s government unveiled a $6.3 billion deal to buy out and privatize JSR Corp., taking direct control of the world leader … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Emily Birnbaum / Bloomberg: SCOTUS refuses to revive a 2019 lawsuit by Genius accusing Google of scraping millions of song lyrics, leaving in place a ruling that tossed out the lawsuit  —  The US Supreme Court refused to revive a lawsuit by music website Genius Media Group Inc. accusing Alphabet Inc.’s Google of stealing millions of song lyrics. Lees verder op Tech Meme