Amazon's Retail Ambitions and Autonomous Vehicle Milestones

People are saying Elon is showing you his tweets whether you asked to see them or not. More fodder for the charge that these chat bots are being rolled out quick and dirty. More fodder for the charge that US regulators are fencing in crypto. TikTok is trying to court the olds. And Amazon’s autonomous shuttle service his hit real world roads.

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• Twitter is just showing everyone all of Elon Musk’s tweets now (The Verge)
• Twitter delays new paid API launch by 'a few more days' (AppleInsider)
• Microsoft’s Bing AI, like Google’s, also made dumb mistakes during first demo (The Verge)
• US Crackdown Seeks to Push Crypto Back to the Fringes of Finance (Bloomberg)
• TikTok Turns to New Tactics to Spur Growth as Boom Times End (The Information)
• Amazon chief vows to ‘go big’ on physical stores (FT)
• TikTok’s Parent Takes On Meta in Battle for Virtual-Reality Market (WSJ)
• Amazon’s Self-Driving Car Shuttles People on Public Roads for the First Time (Bloomberg)

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