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Jeff Bezos plans to sell off billions in Amazon shares, a Tuesday securities filing revealed.
  • Jeff Bezos filed a plan to sell 25 million Amazon shares worth nearly $5 billion on Tuesday.
  • Bezos' move follows Amazon stock hitting a record of $200.43 and a $2 trillion market cap last week.
  • Bezos, the world's second-richest person, still holds over 900 million Amazon shares.

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Google started testing facial recognition technology for security purposes at its Kirkland, Washington location.
  • Google is testing facial recognition security at its Kirkland campus to prevent unauthorized access.
  • Some employees have privacy concerns about facial data collection. Others were fine with the tech.
  • Google has faced past security issues, including protests and a 2018



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Insider's reporter got no sleep in a couchette on an overnight train through Europe.
Business Insider's reporter took an overnight train through Europe.
  • I spent 12 hours in a regular seat on an overnight train from Berlin, Germany, to Vienna, Austria.
  • For less than $50, I got a reclining seat in a seating carriage cabin with five other people.
  • I've traveled on Amtrak sleeper cars but in private rooms. I didn't adjust well to the shared space.

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The UK leads Europe for generative AI patent filings — but Germany is closing the gap. That’s according to new data from the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), a UN agency that tracks patents. WIPO today released a report on 54,000 GenAI inventions from the decade ending in 2023. Over 25% of them emerged in the last year alone. The findings show that China has built a wide lead in



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If you use Authy, update your app immediately. Twilio, the messaging company that owns the two-factor authentication service, confirmed to TechCrunch on Wednesday that hackers breached Twilio and acquired mobile phone numbers for 33 million users.

Twilio published a statement on its website also confirming the hack. “Twilio has detected that threat actors were able to identify data associated with



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Google CEO Sundar Pichai (left) and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg (right).
Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg are among the tech executives who've been excited about AI.
  • Big Tech is finally acknowledging AI's risks. Consumers have mentioned them for months.
  • SEC filings show that Meta, Microsoft, and others are concerned about the issues AI might present.
  • Misinformation and harmful content are