Thu. 06/29 – Big Interesting (AI) Raises

Satya Nadella had his day in court. Looks like the FTC is finalizing its big case against Amazon. YouTube has advertisers asking for refunds. Big new interesting raises in the AI space. And ahead of the Fourth of July travel weekend, we may not have the autonomous driving we want, but maybe we can get the autonomous rental car delivery we deserve.

Links:

• Microsoft and Activision Chiefs Testify Merger Will Benefit Consumers (NYTimes)
• Lina Khan Is Coming for Amazon, Armed With an FTC Antitrust Suit (Bloomberg)
• Advertising industry seeks refunds over YouTube skippable ads (FT)
• ChatGPT maker OpenAI faces a lawsuit over how it used people’s data (Washington Post)
• Inflection AI Raises $1 Billion (Forbes)
• Halo Car launches remotely piloted rental car deliveries in Las Vegas (TechCrunch)

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