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Amazon wants companies to build public-facing chatbots using its Q Business assistant. On Wednesday, the company said Q Business, its AWS-hosted AI assistant that can answer questions, provide summaries and complete tasks, now supports anonymous user access. This effectively means that AWS users can now create Q Business chatbots for websites, support portals, and more to help their customers search through documentation, complete self-service requests, and so on. “This capability allows guest users to use Amazon Q Business generative AI capabilities to quickly find product information, get technical answers, navigate documentation, and troubleshoot issues,” explains Amazon in a blog post. “With…

Second, as he was explaining the services of Unchained and how they openly work with your financial advisors — legal, tax, planning, estate — to create sound structures and procedures, he said it’s like building your own “personal Fort Knox.” The third highlight with Trey is how he has adapted the FIRE concept of “Financial Independence, Retire Early” to the ultimate freedom asset. You can jump right into the podcast linked above and hear Trey’s story in his own words, but be sure to come back to this article as I have some goodies for you. Millions of Stories, Only…

Nvidia’s CEO Jensen Huang delivers his keystone speech ahead of Computex 2024 in Taipei on June 2, 2024. Sam Yeh | AFP | Getty ImagesNvidia CEO Jensen Huang has made tens of billions of dollars in recent years from his stake in the chipmaker, but he’s getting his first salary increase in a decade.Huang’s base salary rose to $1.5 million, a 49% increase from 2024, according to a proxy filing with the SEC on Thursday. His variable cash also went up by $1 million, or 50%, from the 2024 fiscal year. Stock awards grew to $38.8 million, bringing total pay to…

Pinterest says it’s finally going to do something about the AI slop that’s taken over its platform. After an increasing volume of complaints, the social networking and image pinboarding site announced Wednesday a plan to begin labeling AI-generated and AI-modified images. It will also introduce a new option that allows users to reduce the number of generative AI Pins they see. The new features are an indication of how serious a threat generative AI is to platforms built on top of user-generated content, crowdsourcing, and social sharing. AI technology has made it possible for bad actors to flood these platforms…

What may or may not have been a blow-off top last week in the price of gold appears to have benefitted bitcoin (BTC) and that trend could be set to continue. Already among the best-performing global assets in recent months, gold’s rally powered to new heights in the weeks following President Trump’s Liberation Day tariffs in early April. The price ultimately peaked above $3,500 per ounce on April 21, with bitcoin at the time changing hands at $87,000 — roughly flat from Liberation Day, but lower by about 20% from its record high hit in January. Since, though, gold has…

Instagram Threads, Meta’s X competitor, has now grown to over 350 million monthly active users, CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed during the company’s Q1 2025 earnings call on Wednesday. That’s an increase of 30 million users since the prior quarter, where Meta reported that Threads had 320 million users. The new figure represents increased growth, as Threads added 30 million in the first quarter of this year, compared with 20 million in Q4 2024. It’s also worth noting that in a single quarter, Threads added nearly the same number of users to its network as one of its newer competitors, Bluesky.…

Apple CEO Tim Cook said Thursday that the majority of iPhones sold in the U.S. in the current fiscal quarter will be sourced from India, while iPads and other devices will come from Vietnam as the company works to avoid the impact of President Trump’s tariffs on its business. Apple’s earnings for the first three months of the year topped Wall Street’s expectations thanks to high demand for its iPhones, and the company said tariffs had a limited effect on the fiscal second quarter’s results. Cook added that for the current quarter, assuming things don’t change, Apple expects to see…

A woman cleans the store window of the Amazon house after activists sprayed paint on its logo during a protest on the opening day of the 55th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 20, 2025.Yves Herman | ReutersAmazon reported a 19% increase in online ad revenue in the first quarter, beating analysts’ estimates.Ad sales climbed to $13.92 billion, while analysts on average were expecting $13.74 billion, according to StreetAccount.The numbers were contained in Amazon’s first-quarter earnings report. The company reported total first-quarter sales of $155.67 billion, compared to Wall Street projections of $155.04 billion.Although…

Artificial intelligence is not just infiltrating the startup world. Now credit card giants Visa and Mastercard are getting into the AI game. Visa announced on Wednesday “Intelligent Commerce,” which it says enables AI “to find and buy.” AI agents will be able to shop and make purchases on behalf of consumers, based on preselected preferences. In a statement, Visa chief product and strategy officer Jack Forestell said: “Each consumer sets the limits, and Visa helps manage the rest.” Visa says that it is collaborating with a mix of tech giants and startups to develop AI-powered shopping experiences that are “more…

Bitcoin (BTC) mining companies with high-performance computing (HPC) exposure underperformed the world’s largest cryptocurrency for the third month in a row in April, Wall Street bank JPMorgan said in a research report on Thursday. Some bitcoin miners have pivoted into new business areas, such as offering HPC services to the fast growing artificial intelligence (AI) market, to reduce their dependence on crypto. “We note miners with HPC exposure (IREN, RIOT, WULF, HUT) underperformed BTC performance for the third consecutive month,” analysts Reginald Smith and Charles Pearce wrote. Mining profitability fell in April as the network hashrate increased. Daily block reward…