Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Similarweb: Truth Social’s average number of US monthly visits was just over 4M from May 2023 to April 2024, down 39%+ from the prior 12-month period — Nearly two-and-a-half years after its launch, Truth Social is struggling to hang onto its small U.S. user base, according to new data …
Two lawsuits filed on behalf of the Uvalde shooting victims allege Activision, Meta, and the gunmaker, Daniel Defense, are responsible for “grooming” the gunman (Washington Post)
Washington Post:
Two lawsuits filed on behalf of the Uvalde shooting victims allege Activision, Meta, and the gunmaker, Daniel Defense, are responsible for “grooming” the gunman — The lawsuits allege the companies are responsible for pushing the Robb Elementary shooter to acquire an AR-15-style weapon.
Dell’s stock rose 4.3% to close at $160.18 after reaching a record high on May 24 amid a rally in companies working on generative AI; DELL is up 114.17% in 2024 (Yuvraj Malik/Reuters)
Yuvraj Malik / Reuters:
Dell’s stock rose 4.3% to close at $160.18 after reaching a record high on May 24 amid a rally in companies working on generative AI; DELL is up 114.17% in 2024 — Shares of Dell Technologies (DELL.N) hit a record high on Friday amid a rally in companies working on generative artificial …
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.
A Delaware federal court overturns a jury’s 2022 decision that Shopify owes $40M to Express Mobile for infringing patents related to website-building tools (Josh Scott/BetaKit)
Josh Scott / BetaKit:
A Delaware federal court overturns a jury’s 2022 decision that Shopify owes $40M to Express Mobile for infringing patents related to website-building tools — Canadian e-commerce giant Shopify has convinced a Delaware, US court to overturn a 2022 patent-infringement decision.