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Dutch shops pull Meta camera glasses over privacy fears
Two retailers have stopped selling them while the Dutch government looks at a ban.
CNBCInterpol says AI makes scams faster and harder to spot, so protect what matters most first
Businesses are using more AI and paying less for it, says the Ramp AI Index
The VergeMicrosoft rebuilds Copilot as the "OS for work", with Office and agents inside
A US judge throws out publishers' antitrust cases over Google's AI Overviews
The Verge· 1 OctUS District Judge Amit Mehta dismissed antitrust lawsuits from Chegg and Penske Media, which said Google pushed publishers to feed AI Overviews for free or vanish from search, costing them traffic and revenue. Mehta wrote that an expectation of search traffic "is not an agreement" and that the wider economic question is one for lawmakers. Traffic to news outlets and small websites has fallen steeply since AI search arrived.
- Check how much of your website traffic still comes from Google search, month by month, so a drop does not take you by surprise.
- Put more effort into the channels you own, such as your email list, your WhatsApp community and repeat customers.
Source: The Verge. This is our short summary of their reporting. The paragraphs marked "Our read" and the things to do are SeedFoundry's opinion. The summary is drafted with AI tools. The picture is our own graphic. How we source and credit
Cloudflare's AI Search is now generally available, with billing from 1 November
Business InsiderAI firms pay creators five to seven figures, and creators worry about their fans
Ars TechnicaAI demand for memory is now raising the price of old hardware too
AnthropicBarclays rolls Claude out across the bank, sorting 120,000 emails a day
The VergeMeta open-sources code to build your own Muse gadgets
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