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Lightyear claims its EV with integrated solar panels can run for months without being plugged in. Spotify plans to make audiobooks the third pillar of its business while also acquiring the AI voice platform Sonantic. What could these two mean for the future of Spotfiy’s business? The Washington Post reports Google placed engineer Blake Lemoine on paid leave after he broke its confidentiality policies. Blake made a social media post with transcripts with LaMDA the AI chatbot he was working with while also declaring it to be a sentient personality.
Security researchers found leaked developer credentials from Travis CI, Google places an AI engineer on leave after expressing concerns that it’s LaMDA language model is sentient, and the Netherlands accepts Apple’s changes it its App Store payment rules.