ChatGPT refuses to answer questions containing the name 'David Mayer,' freezing up and displaying an error message. The cause is not a conspiracy but an underlying technical issue with the chatbot.

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Amazon's AI assistant platform for businesses, Q, gets updates for integration with more third-party tools and actions across Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and Smartsheet. Q can now perform tasks on behalf of users in these applications, and bring in data from over 40 enterprise tools.

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Amazon has partnered with Orbital to test a new material that removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at an AWS datacenter, which is expected to remove more CO2 than the electricity used by the datacenter.

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Clarifai unveils a vendor-agnostic platform to orchestrate compute resources across multiple sources.

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An Apple employee sued the company due to its monitoring policies, which require employees to allow Apple access to personal devices and iCloud when using them for work. The lawsuit alleges that this allows Apple to monitor employees' activities even when off duty, potentially harming their employment prospects.

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Amazon Music introduces a year-in-review feature, '2024 Delivered', similar to Spotify Wrapped, providing users with their top artists, songs, and podcasts, and offering a special message from their favorite artist through Amazon's virtual assistant, Alexa.

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Spotify Wrapped 2024 is coming soon, providing a personalized summary of listening habits. Other companies, such as Amazon Music, offer similar year-in-review experiences, including playlists and statistics.

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AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li's startup, World Labs, has developed an AI system that generates interactive 3D scenes from a single image, with controllable camera and adjustable depth of field. This system is part of the 'world models' category of AI, which can simulate games and 3D environments, although with some artifacting and consistency issues.

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Users of ChatGPT found that the AI chatbot fails to respond when asked about 'David Mayer'. Attempts to make it spell out the name cause it to freeze or break off mid-name. This unusual behavior has sparked curiosity and various theories, but the reason remains unclear.

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KPay founders noticed inefficiencies in traditional financial solutions for SMEs and created a one-stop financial management platform to address these issues.

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