Google Maps Becoming More Like Waze 🍭

Today’s Menu 🥠

• Google Maps Becoming More Like Waze

• Uber Deal Bringing 100K EVs To The Road

• Wix’s AI Can Write Entire Blog Posts

• Everything Else You Need To Know

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Google Tweaks Search To Hide Explicit Deepfakes
Google is improving its search capabilities to better handle explicit deepfake content, and they’ll also demote sites that host such content... 

Reddit CEO Demands Payment From Microsoft 
Microsoft, Anthropic, & Perplexity refused to negotiate payment terms, and now, Reddit has started blocking their web crawlers. After their recent deals with Google & OpenAI, they want more of that sweet cash…

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Google Maps Becoming More Like Waze

Google Maps now includes improved incident reporting with larger icons and new destination guidance showing building entrances and nearby parking.

Meanwhile, Waze is adding support for reporting various traffic cameras and a dedicated experience for event information, launching with the 2024 Olympic games.

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Uber Deal May Bring 100,000 EVs To The Road

Uber is partnering with Chinese automaker BYD to bring 100,000 electric vehicles to its ridesharing platform over several years. 

The partnership will begin in Europe and Latin America, offering drivers financing deals and potential discounts on charging and maintenance.

This initiative supports Uber's goal to electrify its rides while expanding the program to regions including the Middle East, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

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‘Top-Notch’ Content
Wix’s AI Can Write Entire Blog Posts

Wix is introducing generative AI tools that can generate drafts or outlines, suggest topics based on previous content, and provide recommendations for titles, copy, and images.

The AI-generated content is designed to help users produce blog posts efficiently, although many are pretty peeved about having more AI content being littered across the web.

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Everything Else You Need To Know

Circle-To-Search Can Quickly Find If An Image Is Fake: The new "About this image" tab in Android's Circle to Search feature can instantly pull up an image's metadata, source, and check for Google AI watermarks to help determine its authenticity.

Meta Still Has a Drug Problem: The Wall Street Journal reports that Facebook and Instagram continue to run ads promoting online marketplaces for illegal drugs, despite Meta's promise to combat this activity and ongoing federal investigations.

Microsoft Is Removing Ads From Skype: Microsoft announced an update that will eliminate ads from Skype chats and channels across all platforms.

TikTok One of Microsoft’s Biggest AI Cloud Computing Customers: TikTok has been paying Microsoft nearly $20 million per month to access OpenAI's models, contributing significantly to Microsoft's cloud AI revenue.

SEC Charges IRL’s Former CEO: The SEC charged former IRL CEO Abraham Shafi with fraud and misuse of company funds for personal expenses, following the app's closure in June 2023 after discovering 95 percent of its users were fake.

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