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The Federal Trade Commission sued Amazon on Wednesday, alleging the retailer worked for years to enroll consumers into its Prime service without their consent, while knowingly making it difficult for them to cancel their subscriptions. The complaint, which was filed in federal court in Seattle, alleges that Amazon used “manipulative, coercive, or deceptive user-interface designs” […]

FTC sues Amazon over ‘deceptive’ tactics used to sign up customers for Prime by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

DeepMind says that it’s developed an AI model, called RoboCat, that can perform a range of tasks across different models of robotic arms. That alone isn’t especially novel. But DeepMind claims that the model is the first to be able to solve and adapt to multiple tasks and do so using different, real-world robots. “We […]

DeepMind’s RoboCat learns to perform a range of robotics tasks by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

With the explosion of different kinds of data, companies are struggling to realize meaningful value from their stored data. Data teams are overworked, meanwhile — forced to cater to the needs of disparate departments within an organization while trying to maintain data policies consistently. That’s the shared thesis of Shirshanka Das and Swaroop Jagadish, at […]

Acryl Data raises $21M to grow its enterprise data catalog platform by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show where we niche down to a single topic and dig deep. All the cool kids are filling out the Equity listener survey. We want to hear from you!  […]

The startup boom failed to build a creator utopia by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch

Although the focus of the fund is not just to solely back women, it hopes to focus its efforts there when possible.

20SALES closes $5M inaugural fund to invest in early-stage B2B SaaS startups by Dominic-Madori Davis originally published on TechCrunch

Apple will automatically assign a passkey to each user so they can log into Apple accounts on the web without needing any password. The company will allocate a passkey to Apple IDs starting with iOS 17, iPadOS 17, and macOS Sonoma. The feature already works on iCloud.com and appleid.apple.com on the web for people running […]

Apple will automatically assign an Apple ID passkey for users with iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch