Paul Stenhouse: News is disappearing from Facebook in Canada
Saturday Morning with Jack Tame · Newstalk ZB
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News is disappearing from Facebook in Canada
Canada's Online News Act passed on Thursday which forces tech companies to negotiate with news publishers to link to their content. There's even a provision for binding arbitration if needed. Meta isn't happy. They said back in May that it's "like asking email providers to pay the postal service because people don’t send letters any more". Meta's argument is stronger than Google's because users choose to share the news on Facebook & Instagram, rather than Facebook itself. The tech companies have six months before the legislation comes into effect, but Facebook plans to start blocking access immediately.
Amazon wants in on the AI race too
AWS is allocating $100 million to a program to work with companies to use their AI tech. They're adding data scientists, engineers, and solutions architects. Amazon is in a slightly different position to Microsoft & Google because they don't have the same access to datasets from crawling the web. What they do have is connections for an enterprise to their own data inside the AWS data servers thanks to their position as the cloud-leader.
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