Wed. 12/20 – Sony Has Sold 50 Million PS5s
Rite Aid was apparently doing some crazy stuff with facial recognition software. Sony says the PS5 is killing it. ByteDance is definitely killing it. Microsoft CoPilot can now compose songs. And maybe the real reason OpenAI is making deals with publishers.
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Rite Aid was apparently doing some crazy stuff with facial recognition software. Sony says the PS5 is killing it. ByteDance is definitely killing it. Microsoft CoPilot can now compose songs. And maybe the real reason OpenAI is making deals with publishers.
Links:
- Rite Aid Banned From AI Facial Recognition by FTC After Misuse (Bloomberg)
- PlayStation sales and blockbuster games propel console market back to growth (FT)
- ByteDance’s Sales Break $110 Billion to Pass Tencent This Year (ByteDance)
- SSH protects the world’s most sensitive networks. It just got a lot weaker (ArsTechnica)
- Microsoft Copilot gets a music creation feature via Suno integration (TechCrunch)
- Scooter Company Bird Global Files Bankruptcy to Sell Itself (Bloomberg)
- What Do AI Companies Want With the Media? (NYMag)
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