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Apr 2024
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🐭 “Mouse Trap” — Disney’s epic sharehol...

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Disney’s Shareholder Day included an epic vote to determine the future of the company — CEO Bob Iger prevailed, but the activist investor won too. 

Billie Eilish, Nikki Minaj, Pearl Jam, and 200 other artists wrote an open letter asking tech platforms to cease using AI to steal their work — But can the tech genie be put back in the bottle?

And Amazon’s most ambitious new technology was supposed to be “Just Walk Out” — But now they’re shutting that business down, because it was more trick than magic.

Plus, new work data should that Thursday is the new Friday (literally). 


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