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AWS CEO Adam Selipsky | Noah Berger Amazon’s cloud business AWS launched a chat tool called Amazon Q, where businesses can ask questions specific to their companies. Announced during a keynote speech by AWS CEO Adam Selipsky at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Q acts like an AI assistant where users can ask questions about their businesses using their data. For example, employees can query Amazon Q on the company’s latest guidelines for logo usage or understand another engineer’s code to maintain an app. Q can surface the information instead of the…

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Illustration: The Verge If you ever wanted to make your website sound a little more silly, now’s your chance. Google Registry just released a new top-level domain that lets you slap a big ol’ .meme at the end of your website. The new .meme domains are available to register right now as part of an early access period for an “additional one-time fee.” If you don’t want to pay extra, you can wait until they become publicly available on December 5th at 4PM UTC (12PM ET) to pay just the…

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Photo illustration by Alex Parkin / The Verge The co-founder of website builder Wix is embracing generative AI, and he’s not too worried that it might destroy the business models of the web. Continue reading… Article originally published https://www.theverge.com/23977985/wix-ceo-avishai-abrahami-generative-ai-web-google-search-interview

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Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Google says it’s investigating Google Drive users’ reports claiming that their personal files have unexpectedly vanished from the cloud service. The company acknowledged the issue today in a new Google community support thread and believes it involves a “limited subset” of Google Drive for desktop app users. Google notes it’s a sync issue for Google Drive desktop versions 84.0.0.0 through 84.0.4.0. One of the users, who lost all of their Google Drive data going back to May, discovered the unwelcome surprise last week…

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Illustration: Alex Castro / The Verge Users on Reddit and Hacker News are complaining that YouTube seems to have inserted an intentional five-second delay before video pages will load in Mozilla’s Firefox and occasionally some other browsers. YouTube tells The Verge that these users are right about the delay, but the browser has nothing to do with it — it’s part of the company’s efforts to quash ad blockers across all platforms. “In the past week, users using ad blockers may have experienced suboptimal viewing, which included delays in loading,…

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Illustration: The Verge ChatGPT’s voice feature is now available to all users for free. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), OpenAI announced users can now tap the headphones icon to use their voice to talk with ChatGPT in the mobile app, as well as get an audible response. OpenAI first rolled out the ability to prompt ChatGPT with your voice and images in September, but it only made the feature available to paying users. The release comes as OpenAI’s staff struggle with the sudden ousting of their CEO and…

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Anthropic gives Claude more abilities. | Image: Anthropic While OpenAI is in the middle of an existential crisis, there’s a new chatbot update from Anthropic, the Google-backed AI startup founded by former OpenAI engineers who left over disagreements about the company’s increasingly commercial direction as its Microsoft partnership went on. Anthropic has announced that the latest update of its chatbot, Claude 2.1, can digest up to 200,000 tokens at once for Pro tier users, which it says equals over 500 pages of material. Our new model Claude 2.1 offers an…

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Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Vox Media Last week, Elon Musk appeared to endorse antisemitic conspiracy theories and posted about supporting white pride on his social platform X, formerly Twitter. Musk’s tweets were then highlighted by a Media Matters article that found advertising from major companies had shown up next to pro-Nazi content. Major advertisers then halted their ad spends on the platform. To address the controversy, CEO Linda Yaccarino sent a memo titled “Our Work Is Meaningful,” reiterating her commitment to X. As pressure mounts for the company…

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The Verge Most of ESPN’s accounts were inactive yesterday after Disney announced on Friday that it was done advertising on X, formerly Twitter. Disney’s decision followed posts by platform owner Elon Musk agreeing with antisemitic and white power accounts. AwfulAnnouncing spotted the inactivity yesterday, noting that the main ESPN account has almost 50 million followers. While a handful of the accounts had some activity, the primary ESPN account, NBA on ESPN, First Take, NFL on ESPN, ESPN Plus, and others have not posted, replied, or liked anything since at least…

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Illustration: The Verge The social network failed to hit the growth targets its new owner set in 2019. But were they ever compatible with what Tumblr does best? Continue reading… Article originally published https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/17/23964580/tumblr-downscaling-smaller-social-media-site

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