Amazon to spend $4 billion on small town delivery expansion

Amazon announced it will spend $4 billion by the end of 2026 on expanding deliveries to small towns in rural America.

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Meta’s Reality Labs posts $4.2 billion loss in first quarter

Meta’s Reality Labs posts $4.2 billion loss in first quarter

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Qualcomm tops estimates but gives light revenue forecast

All together, Qualcomm’s business selling chips, called QCT, rose 18% on an annual basis to $9.47 billion in revenue during the quarter.

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Teladoc buys mental health company UpLift to help boost struggling BetterHelp unit

Teladoc Health, which has been struggling to revive growth, has acquired mental health company UpLift for $30 million in cash.

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Pinterest launches new tools to fight AI slop

Pinterest says it’s finally going to do something about the AI slop that’s taken over its platform. After an increasing volume of complaints, the social networking and image pinboarding site announced Wednesday a plan to begin labeling AI-generated and AI-modified images. It will also introduce a new option that allows users to reduce the number […]

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Amazon updates Q Business to let companies build public-facing chatbots

Amazon wants companies to build public-facing chatbots using its Q Business assistant. On Wednesday, the company announced that Q Business, its AWS-hosted AI assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries, and complete tasks, now supports anonymous user access. This effectively means that AWS users can now create Q Business chatbots for websites, support portals, and […]

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AI Code Hallucinations Increase the Risk of ‘Package Confusion’ Attacks

A new study found that code generated by AI is more likely to contain made-up information that can be used to trick software into interacting with malicious code.

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Rivian’s reportedly sitting on a stockpile of tariff-free batteries

Rivian built up a stockpile of batteries for its trucks, SUVs, and commercial vans before and after the election of Donald Trump, a strategy used to soften the blow of the president’s tariffs, according to Bloomberg News. The company apparently bought an undisclosed number of lithium iron phosphate batteries from Chinese firm Gotion before the […]

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If you own Ray-Ban Meta glasses, you should double-check your privacy settings

Meta has updated the privacy policy for its AI glasses, Ray-Ban Meta, giving the tech giant more power over what data it can store and use to train its AI models. The company emailed Ray-Ban Meta owners on Tuesday with a notice that AI features will now be enabled on the glasses by default, according […]

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Trump-Bezos call sets stage for tense earnings report from Amazon

Amazon’s financials will land days after President Trump complained about a report that the company was considering displaying tariff costs on listings.

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