Automation in Retail: The Rise and Fall of Robotics

So, that November 10th Apple event might see a full slate of Mac laptops with Apple Silicon inside. Why has Ant Group’s IPOs been called off? Why has Walmart called off plans to allow robots to roam its store aisles? And someone explain to me why Spotify’s proposed new algorithm changes aren’t a modern form of Payola?

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Links:

• Apple to Launch MacBooks With Own Chips Next Week (Bloomberg)
• China Halts Ant Group’s Blockbuster I.P.O. (NYTimes)
• China Halts Ant’s Record IPO, Throwing Ma’s Empire Into Turmoil (Bloomberg)
• AWS launches its next-gen GPU instances (TechCrunch)
• Walmart Scraps Plan to Have Robots Scan Shelves (WSJ)
• NASA objects to new mega-constellation, citing risk of “catastrophic collision” (ArsTechnica)
• Spotify will now allow artists and labels to promote tracks in your recommendations (TechCrunch)

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