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Apple touts $1.4 trillion in App Store billings and sales, 90% without a commission

Apple's App Store generated $1.4 trillion in sales, up from $1.3 trillion last year, with $149 billion in sales for digital goods.

We’re giving away a Prime Day grab bag loaded with over $800 of free tech

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Casey Neistat can't figure out YouTube's algorithm anymore

The creator told Axios AI+ NY Summit that YouTube success has become unpredictable.

My SSN was exposed in a breach at Columbia—a school I have no connection with

Columbia admits last year’s data breach exposed victims beyond its students, staff.

EU tech sovereignty package curbs US cloud, launches Chips Act 2.0

The European Commission has proposed a tech sovereignty package that restricts US cloud providers from processing sensitive government data and launches Chips Act 2.0 to build advanced semiconductor capacity in Europe. The Cloud and AI Development Act creates four sovereignty tiers for public-sector cloud use.

We need to regard text as a deepfake medium.

I enjoyed this piece from Ted Chiang in The Atlantic because it’s a well-deserved smack in the face to the clowns who suggest LLMs might be conscious. Nope, we’re just falling for one of the most obvious confidence tricks of all time: giving in to “someone” who appears to like us.

“If I could snap my fingers and make generative AI disappear forever, I probably would.”

Young people do hate AI. “Creatively, I get no enjoyment from using those tools. It defeats the purpose entirely for me,” 20-year-old director of A24’s horror hit Backrooms told The Australian. “To me, generative AI feels less like innovation than a symptom of a broader cultural and economic rot.” Read more about Backrooms on The Verge:

Let us filter AI slop, you cowards

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AI toys could weaken kids' bond with their parents, 'The Anxious Generation' author says

AI toys could compromise children's relationships with their parents, NYU professor Jonathan Haidt said.

AI leaders call for tougher protections against AI-aided bioweapons

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How AI has de-skilled translation

A specialist knowledge-work job has become fragmented and routine

Two of our favorite things.

You all know how much we here at The Verge love market consolidation. SwitchBot’s acquisition of Nanoleaf offers all that, plus a sprinkling of something extra.