DeepMind is developing AI tech to take raw pixels of videos and generate synced soundtracks; it's not too convincing, and there are no plans to release publicly (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/deepminds-new-ai-generates-soundtracks-and-dialog-for-videos/

http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p24#a240617p24

Apple says it is no longer offering Apple Pay Later, the "buy now, pay later" service that launched in the United States last year (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)

https://9to5mac.com/2024/06/17/apple-pay-later-united-states-ending/

http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p23#a240617p23

Finaloop, which offers accounting tools to e-commerce businesses, raised a $35M Series A led by Lightspeed and says its customer base grew 400% in the last year (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/from-sperm-freezing-to-accounting-tools-finaloops-founder-scores-35m-to-solve-e-commerce-retailers-bookkeeping-headaches/

http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p22#a240617p22

Uber says "tens of thousands of riders" in Phoenix have matched with a "Waymo (AI) driver" and have given "a nearly 4.9 average star rating" (Alan Ohnsman/Forbes)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2024/06/17/a-robotaxi-business-is-a-dream-for-elon-muskbut-already-a-reality-for-waymo/

http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p21#a240617p21

The US DOJ sues Adobe for allegedly harming "consumers by enrolling them in its default, most lucrative subscription plan without clearly disclosing" plan terms (Emma Roth/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/17/24180196/adobe-us-ftc-doj-sues-subscriptions-cancel

http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p19#a240617p19

Around two dozen sources detail Google's decision to form the Google DeepMind "super-unit" in April 2023, shifting the AI lab from research to products (Bloomberg)

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-17/google-deepmind-shifts-from-research-lab-to-ai-product-factory

http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p14#a240617p14

Naver-owned online comics platform Webtoon aims to raise up to $315M in a US IPO, offering shares for $18 to $21 each and targeting an up to $2.67B valuation (Arasu Kannagi Basil/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/navers-webtoon-entertainment-targets-up-267-bln-valuation-us-ipo-2024-06-17/

http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p18#a240617p18

Runway unveils Gen-3 Alpha, a model to generate high-quality, detailed, highly realistic video clips of 10 seconds in length, after releasing Gen-2 in June 2023 (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

https://venturebeat.com/ai/runway-unveils-new-hyper-realistic-ai-video-model-gen-3-alpha-capable-of-10-second-long-clips/

http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p17#a240617p17

TikTok expands its Symphony ad suite, adding AI dubbing and custom or stock Digital Avatars based on paid actors or created to resemble specific creators (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/17/24179971/tiktok-ads-ai-generated-avatars-creators-language-dubbing

http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p16#a240617p16

YouTube is testing Notes, an experimental crowdsourced tool to let users add context to videos, similar to X's Community Notes, on mobile in the US in English (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/youtube-is-experimenting-with-notes-a-crowdsourced-feature-that-lets-users-add-context-to-videos/

http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p15#a240617p15

Vietnam's state media says three of its five active international undersea internet cables are down, impacting connections with the US, Europe, and Asia (Khanh Vu/Reuters)

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/three-vietnams-five-undersea-internet-cables-are-down-2024-06-17/

http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p13#a240617p13

Swiss privacy-focused app developer Proton establishes the Proton Foundation to transition to a nonprofit foundation model, similar to Signal and Mozilla (Paul Sawers/TechCrunch)

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/17/privacy-app-maker-proton-transitions-to-non-profit-foundation-structure/

http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p12#a240617p12

The US Surgeon General says platforms should add a "warning label" saying that "social media is associated with significant mental health harms for adolescents" (Vivek H. Murthy/New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/opinion/social-media-health-warning.html

http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p11#a240617p11

Hacking group ShinyHunters claims to have breached contractor EPAM Systems to steal data from Ticketmaster and ~165 other Snowflake users; EPAM denies the claim (Kim Zetter/Wired)

https://www.wired.com/story/epam-snowflake-ticketmaster-breach-shinyhunters/

http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p10#a240617p10

How Terray Therapeutics uses AI to discover and develop drugs, generating 50TB of raw data daily, part of a wave of startups looking to harness AI in medicine (Steve Lohr/New York Times)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/business/ai-drugs-development-terray.html

http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p9#a240617p9

Kuo: the Apple Watch Series 10 will be thinner and its screen will grow from 41mm to 45mm and 45mm to 49mm; Apple will use 3D printing to make some components (Tim Hardwick/MacRumors)

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/17/kuo-apple-watch-series-10-larger-screen-thinner/

http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p8#a240617p8

Logitech unveils the MX Ink, a stylus for Meta Quest 2 and Quest 3, plus "future headsets", the Quest's first third-party input device, shipping in September (Scott Hayden/Road to VR)

https://www.roadtovr.com/quest-first-third-party-input-logitech-stylus/

http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p7#a240617p7

Google begins rolling out a "Listen to this page" feature on Chrome for Android, letting the browser read text-heavy web pages (Abner Li/9to5Google)

https://9to5google.com/2024/06/16/chrome-listen-tts-android/

http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p6#a240617p6

McDonald's ends its two-year IBM partnership to test automated Drive Thru order taking and plans to remove the tech from 100+ restaurants by July 26 (Jonathan Maze/Restaurant Business)

https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/technology/mcdonalds-ending-its-drive-thru-ai-test

http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p5#a240617p5

Experts say generative AI is set to make certain skills in finance and accounting redundant and free up time for workers to focus more on value-added tasks (Seb Murray/Financial Times)

https://t.co/D3va4RAXGS

http://www.techmeme.com/240617/p4#a240617p4