A look at the challenges facing AWS’ new CEO Matt Garman as the cloud unit battles the perception that it’s falling behind Microsoft and Google in AI rollouts (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

Annie Palmer / CNBC:
A look at the challenges facing AWS’ new CEO Matt Garman as the cloud unit battles the perception that it’s falling behind Microsoft and Google in AI rollouts  —  In May 2023, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was asked by an attendee at the annual shareholder meeting how the company was innovating in generative artificial intelligence.

Google says it is “taking swift action” to remove AI Overviews on certain queries “where appropriate under our content policies” (Kylie Robison/The Verge)

Kylie Robison / The Verge:
Google says it is “taking swift action” to remove AI Overviews on certain queries “where appropriate under our content policies”  —  Social media is abuzz with examples of Google’s new AI Overview product saying weird stuff, from telling users to put glue on their pizza to suggesting they eat rocks.

Atari buys the Intellivision brand and the rights to 200+ Intellivision Entertainment games, and says the deal “ends the longest running console war in history” (Todd Spangler/Variety)

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Atari buys the Intellivision brand and the rights to 200+ Intellivision Entertainment games, and says the deal “ends the longest running console war in history”  —  For fans of old-school games, it’s kind of like Coke acquiring Pepsi: Atari, which produced one of the first hit home game consoles …

Instant messaging client ICQ will stop working from June 26, recommends users migrate to messaging platforms from parent company VK; ICQ had 100M users in 2001 (Michael Kan/PCMag)

Michael Kan / PCMag:
Instant messaging client ICQ will stop working from June 26, recommends users migrate to messaging platforms from parent company VK; ICQ had 100M users in 2001  —  ICQ will stop working on June 26.  It’s encouraging users to migrate to a messaging app from Russia-based VK, its parent company.

An overview of existing deals between news publishers and AI companies and the questions they raise regarding long-term costs, the selection process, and more (Pete Brown/Columbia Journalism Review)

Pete Brown / Columbia Journalism Review:
An overview of existing deals between news publishers and AI companies and the questions they raise regarding long-term costs, the selection process, and more  —  In the past few weeks, News Corp, the Financial Times and Dotdash Meredith became the latest news organizations to strike licensing deals …

Google says the vast majority of AI Overviews provide high-quality information and many of the viral examples have been uncommon queries or have been doctored (Peter Kafka/Business Insider)

Peter Kafka / Business Insider:
Google says the vast majority of AI Overviews provide high-quality information and many of the viral examples have been uncommon queries or have been doctored  —  An curved arrow pointing right.  — In February, when this happened before, Google shelved the faulty AI product behind the results.

Microsoft’s Bing, Copilot, and Copilot in Windows services are back online worldwide after an outage that began around 3 AM ET on May 23 and lasted 24+ hours (Mayank Parmar/BleepingComputer)

Mayank Parmar / BleepingComputer:
Microsoft’s Bing, Copilot, and Copilot in Windows services are back online worldwide after an outage that began around 3 AM ET on May 23 and lasted 24+ hours  —  After over a 24-hour outage, Microsoft’s Bing, Copilot, and Copilot in Windows services are back online worldwide, with no information released as to what caused the problem.

A look at the privacy and security concerns surrounding Microsoft’s Recall, which will record everything users do in Windows for up to three months by default (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
A look at the privacy and security concerns surrounding Microsoft’s Recall, which will record everything users do in Windows for up to three months by default  —  Microsoft’s announcement of the new AI-powered Windows 11 Recall feature has sparked a lot of concern, with many thinking …

Q&A with Signal President Meredith Whittaker on the clash with Elon Musk, Telegram’s Pavel Durov, “dorm room high-jinks” of OpenAI “edge lords”, and more (Mike Butcher/TechCrunch)

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:
Q&A with Signal President Meredith Whittaker on the clash with Elon Musk, Telegram’s Pavel Durov, “dorm room high-jinks” of OpenAI “edge lords”, and more  —  The Signal president is tired of “dorm room” antics, while social media and AI become ever more concentrated