Bloomberg: Documents: Amazon plans to impose a new 2% fee per sale on merchants who ship products themselves, on top of the ~15% fee they already pay, starting in October — –... Read more »
Caitlin Harrington / Wired: An OSHA investigation and 11 interviews: Amazon’s in-house first aid clinics put warehouse staff at risk by keeping them working and not referring them to care — A... Read more »
Leah Nylen / Bloomberg: Two directors quit Nextdoor after the DOJ raised concerns over also serving on Pinterest’s board; filing says Leslie Kilgore and Andrea Wishom left on August 1 — –... Read more »
Chris Vallance / BBC: Sama CEO Wendy Gonzalez says the company will no longer take on harmful content moderation work from Meta and she regrets the work, after staff sue the company ... Read more »
Bloomberg: Sources: as part of a long-running DOJ investigation into Visa, officials are looking at how the company charges merchants for using its “tokenization” service — – Merchants get charged more if... Read more »
Nico Grant / New York Times: Documents: Google DeepMind has been working with generative AI to perform at least 21 different types of personal and professional tasks, including life advice — The... Read more »
Timmy Shen / The Block: Coinbase says the exchange received regulatory approval from the CFTC-backed National Futures Association to offer futures trading services to eligible US users — – Coinbase is now... Read more »
Politico: By the end of August, the EU DSA will force online platforms with 45M+ EU users to prove that they are ensuring that their products are not harming children — Glazed... Read more »
Ian King / Bloomberg: Intel terminates its $5.4B deal to acquire Israeli company Tower Semiconductor after failing to win regulatory approval; the deal was announced in February 2022 — – $5.4 billion... Read more »
Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: As San Francisco opens to 24/7 robotaxis, a look at Cruise and Waymo cars causing traffic jams and obstructing emergency vehicles, unraveling the public’s trust — ... Read more »