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9 Hidden Perks of Your Amazon Prime Membership
Are you getting the most out of your Amazon Prime membership? Whether you’re already signed up or still on the fence, here are 9 Prime perks you should be taking advantage of.
Not long ago, shopping meant making lists and visiting multiple stores—or even entire malls—just to find what we needed.
Then Amazon came along and changed the game. For many, free two-day shipping and access to exclusive shows and movies are already worth the $14.99/month.
But there’s more to Prime than just fast delivery and entertainment. From free music and podcasts to Whole Foods discounts and members-only deals, plenty of lesser-known perks make Prime even more valuable.
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🚕 Waymo scales back robotaxi service nationwide
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- Waymo is limiting robotaxi service in San Francisco, Austin, Phoenix, and Atlanta after several vehicles were attacked during recent Los Angeles anti-ICE protests.
- Operations in Los Angeles will pause completely, where multiple Waymo vehicles were set ablaze by protesters during these same city demonstrations this week.
- These nationwide service adjustments reflect concerns over the high cost of its expensive robotaxis and their history as targets during periods of civil unrest.
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👁️ Neuralink chip might give humans infrared sight
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- Neuralink's Blindsight brain implant, currently tested in monkeys, intends to restore vision and might one day enable new capabilities like infrared sight.
- At a recent conference, Neuralink engineers reported the Blindsight device successfully stimulated vision-linked brain areas in a monkey during experimental tests with the animal.
- The monkey involved in Blindsight tests responded by moving its eyes toward what researchers wanted it to visualize over sixty-six percent of the time.
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❌ Google plans to cut ties with Scale AI after Meta deal
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- Google intends to stop using AI data-labeling startup Scale AI, its top data provider, after learning competitor Meta is taking a 49% stake in the firm.
- This move stems from Google's fear that Meta could access its proprietary data and AI model development plans, shared with Scale for annotating data.
- Consequently, Google is already seeking other data-labeling services for its AI models like Gemini, impacting a planned $200 million annual payment to Scale AI.
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🎧 Google can now generate a fake AI podcast of your search results
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- Google now generates a fake AI podcast of your search results where two nonexistent people discuss findings, available as an "Audio Overviews" test.
- This experimental feature is in Search Labs, requiring a click on a "generate" button to create the summary which appears below initial search results.
- The embedded player for this AI conversation lists sources from the overview and offers playback speed controls, extending a similar NotebookLM function.
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🥷 Chinese AI firms smuggle hard drives to evade chip restrictions
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- Chinese tech workers reportedly flew to Malaysia, each carrying fifteen hard drives holding 80 terabytes of data apiece for training AI models.
- Once in Malaysia, this data was processed using 300 rented Nvidia AI servers within a local data center to build the AI model.
- This data export strategy to Malaysian facilities emerged as U.S. bans made importing advanced Nvidia chips into China increasingly difficult for AI development.
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