Wed. 08/17 – “Anti Party” Technology
Cracking down on house parties as a service. Apple makes moves to diversify the supply chain. Another worrying datapoint from the semiconductor industry. Have the banks been using WhatsApp to avoid scrutiny from regulators? And can large language models make our dreams of robot butlers a reality?
Cracking down on house parties as a service. Apple makes moves to diversify the supply chain. Another worrying datapoint from the semiconductor industry. Have the banks been using WhatsApp to avoid scrutiny from regulators? And can large language models make our dreams of robot butlers a reality?
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Links:
- Exclusive: Airbnb rolls out new anti-party tech to prevent unapproved gatherings (Fast Company)
- MacBook design changes enable Vietnamese production for the first time; Apple Watch too (9to5Mac)
- Chipmakers Are Flashing More Warnings on the Global Economy (Bloomberg)
- Wall Street's Record Fines Over WhatsApp Use Were Years in the Making (Bloomberg)
- Amazon is raising seller fees for the holidays to manage through surging inflation (CNBC)
- Mid-year Crypto Crime Update: Illicit Activity Falls With Rest of Market, With Some Notable Exceptions (Chainalysis)
- Google invested a whopping $1.5B into blockchain companies since September (CoinTelegraph)
- Google’s New Robot Learned to Take Orders by Scraping the Web (Wired)
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