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TechCrunch Amazon debuts Project Amelia, an AI assistant for sellers Amazon sellers now have access to an AI assistant designed to help grow their business by answering questions about their metrics, and later, helping to resolve issues that arise. The assistant, code-named Project Amelia and built on AWS's Amazon Bedrock, is available in beta to U.S. sellers, starting Thursday. The goal with Project Amelia, explains Amazon, is to offer sellers tools that can then manage and grow their business.

The EU gives Apple six months to make cross-device interoperability easier The European Commission plans to come up with its own measures that Apple has to follow to ensure interoperability if it doesn't want to pay huge fines.

Brightband sees a bright (and open-source) future for AI-powered weather forecasting Research certainly suggests so, and a newly funded startup called Brightband is taking a shot at turning machine learning forecast models into both a business and open source standard. Today's weather prediction and climate monitoring techniques are rooted in statistical and numerical models that are going on decades old.

Yahoo Sports Fantasy Film Room: Is Saints' success sustainable? Why is scoring way down otherwise? | Yahoo Fantasy Forecast It's Thursday and 'Fantasy Film Room' is back with Nate Tice and Matt Harmon. The duo dives into the Saints offensive explosion in the first two weeks of the season and examine if what they're doing is sustainable. The two also look at why scoring is way down across the league. Tice explains why it's never been harder to play QB in the NFL against these modern defenses.

Luminate's hair-saving chemo helmet nears release, as new funding goes toward home cancer care Luminate's wearable device for hair retention during chemotherapy treatment is getting the testing it needs for commercial release, but the startup is already looking ahead to its next goal: powering at-home cancer care. A new $15 million funding round should help it make a start on it. The pitch sounds a bit sci-fi: a helmet called Lily that people undergoing chemotherapy wear to prevent hair loss, which is a common side effect of the treatment.

US government 'took control' of a botnet run by Chinese government hackers, says FBI director Last week, the FBI took control of a botnet made up of hundreds of thousands of internet-connected devices, such as cameras, video recorders, storage devices, and routers, which was run by a Chinese government hacking group, FBI director Christopher Wray and U.S. government agencies revealed Wednesday. The hacking group, dubbed Flax Typhoon, was "targeting critical infrastructure across the U.S. and overseas, everyone from corporations and media organizations to universities and government agencies," Wray said at the Aspen Cyber Summit cybersecurity conference on Wednesday.

Generative AI startup Runway inks deal with a major Hollywood studio Runway, a startup developing AI video tools, including video-generating models, has partnered with Lionsgate — the studio behind the "John Wick" and "Twilight" franchises — to train a custom video model on Lionsgate's movie catalog. Lionsgate vice chair Michael Burns said in a statement that the studio's "filmmakers, directors and other creative talent" will get access to the model to "augment their work." Runway says it's also considering ways to license models as templates for individual creators to build and train their own custom models.

Neuralink's 'breakthrough device' clearance from FDA does not mean it has cured blindness Neuralink, the Elon Musk-owned brain-computer interface company, on Tuesday received "breakthrough device" clearance from the FDA. The breakthrough devices program at the FDA is a voluntary program that developers can apply to that, if granted, "offers manufacturers an opportunity to interact with FDA experts through several different program options to efficiently address topics as they arise during the premarket review phase." The designation also lines up recipients for priority FDA review.

Al Gore roasts corporations and politicians, comparing their climate crisis promises to 'New Year's resolutions' Al Gore has enjoyed a very successful career, including as a U.S. senator, U.S. Vice President, U.S. presidential nominee, and even Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2007 for "informing the world of the dangers posed by climate change." This past May, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his lifetime of service. What continues to elude him, however, is the amount of progress he expected to see by now on the climate crisis, roughly 45 years after he attended his first congressional hearing about fusion.

Google will begin flagging AI-generated images in Search later this year Google says that it plans to roll out changes to Google Search to make clearer which images in results were AI generated — or edited by AI tools. In the next few months, Google will begin to flag AI-generated and -edited images in the "About this image" window on Search, Google Lens, and the Circle to Search feature on Android. Similar disclosures may make their way to other Google properties, like YouTube, in the future; Google says it'll have more to share on that later this year.