Addressing Digital Harassment: Tools and Inadequacies

Amazon calls off its iRobot acquisition. Is Arc Search the future of search we were talking to Baratunde about this weekend? Why you can’t search for Taylor Swift on X at the moment. How many ads will be in streaming? And who is quietly killing it in subscription gaming? The answer may surprise you.

Links:

• Amazon Drops $1.4 Billion iRobot Deal; Vacuum Maker Cuts Jobs (Bloomberg)
• Arc Search combines browser, search engine, and AI into something new and different (The Verge)
• Arc’s new iPhone browser wants to be your search companion (TechCrunch)
• X Halts Taylor Swift Searches After Explicit AI Images Spread (WSJ)
• Chinese AR Glasses Maker Raises $60 Million to Compete With Apple (Bloomberg)
• Amazon Is Now Charging Prime Members Extra for Ad-Free Streaming. For Some, That’s a Deal Breaker. (WSJ)
• Games are helping the New York Times thrive amid media chaos (Axios)

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