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Law professor says Tesla threatened to fire law firm over Musk's huge payout
The Guardian· 2024-05-14 15:59
A leading professor of corporate governance has accused Tesla of threatening to fire one of its law firms over his objections to Elon Musk’s claim to a massive $56bn compensation package.Retired professor Charles Elson of the University of Delaware alleged in a legal filing on Monday that Holland & Knight, a law firm that he has worked for over close to three decades, told him that Tesla threatened to end its relationship with the firm unless he dropped plans to submit a legal brief to a shareholder lawsuit ...
Amazon Web Services chief to step down, veteran named successor
The Guardian· 2024-05-14 15:35
The chief of the wildly profitable Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing unit will step down next month after a three-year term.Adam Selipsky, 57, who is also a member of Amazon’s team advising CEO , will leave the company on 3 June, according to an Amazon statement on Tuesday. He will be replaced by Matt Garman, a senior vice-president who has overseen sales and marketing at AWS.Selipsky has spent 14 years at AWS over two stints. He was the CEO of Tableau Software, a unit of Salesforce, from 2016 to 20 ...
GameStop shares up nearly 100% as ‘Roaring Kitty' returns to social media
The Guardian· 2024-05-13 15:02
文章核心观点 - 视频游戏零售商GameStop的股价周一早盘上涨接近100%,这是由于"咆哮的小猫"(Roaring Kitty)在社交媒体X上重新发帖,此人被认为是2021年"记忆股"(meme stock)股价飙升的关键人物[1][2][3] - GameStop股价创一年新高,引起了个人投资者的关注,Roaring Kitty和交易平台Robinhood也在X.com上成为热门话题[4][5] - 分析师表示,尽管Roaring Kitty的重新出现可能是导致GameStop股价上涨的最可能原因,但不应将参与这一现象的人视为投资者,因为这些公司并没有发生任何基本面的变化[5][6] 公司相关 - GameStop在3月裁减了不确定数量的工作岗位以降低成本,并报告了第四季度收入下降[6] 行业相关 - 2021年1月,GameStop股价曾飙升21倍,随后在几天内跌回到暴涨前的水平,这被称为"Reddit股市暴涨"[2]
With its new iPad Pro ad, Apple is offering us the thin end of the wedge | Alex Clark
The Guardian· 2024-05-12 09:00
It was my birthday last week, and being these days a quiet rural dweller with a sweet pea obsession rather than the inner-city Dorothy Parker wannabe of yesteryear, I welcomed my appropriately gentle gifts: flowers, plants, an original exhibition catalogue from decades ago, some scent promising to recreate beach walks. I counted among my blessings a recent eye test that showed no further deterioration, an unbroken Duolingo streak (Irish), a roof repair that seems to be holding – what we might call the joy o ...
Eight hundred protesters attempt to storm German Tesla factory
The Guardian· 2024-05-10 17:45
Protesters opposed to expansion of the US electric vehicle maker Tesla’s plant in Grünheide near Berlin clashed with police as some of them attempted to storm the facility on Friday.Some 800 people took part in the protest, according to the organising group Disrupt Tesla, which claims the expansion would damage the environment.Video showed dozens of people wearing blue caps and masks coming from a nearby wooded area and attempting to storm the company’s premises with police officers trying to prevent them, ...
‘Destruction of the human experience': Apple iPad ad prompts online backlash
The Guardian· 2024-05-09 15:17
Apple has faced an online backlash over an advert for its new iPad that features an industrial-sized hydraulic press crushing a collection of objects and gadgets including musical instruments and books.The ad, launched by Apple’s chief executive, Tim Cook, on Tuesday, shows the machine squashing an array of items – ranging from a piano and a metronome to tins of paint and an arcade game – before a single iPad Pro then appears in their place. A voiceover then states: “The most powerful iPad ever is also the ...
No refund after I was sold a stolen £3,300 bike on eBay
The Guardian· 2024-05-08 06:00
二手电动货车被盗事件 - 买了一辆二手电动货车,发现车架上有切口,查询车架号确认被盗[1] - 联系卖家无果后报警,警方扣押了车辆并提供了犯罪参考和财产登记号码[2] - 联系银行要求退款,提供了车辆被扣押的证据[3] - 报告了此事给eBay,但因为是通过银行转账直接支付给卖家,eBay不承担责任[4] 银行处理及警示 - 银行拒绝了退款请求,理由是这是一辆电动自行车,不明白为什么这会有所不同[5] - 银行重新审查后发现错误,确认这是一起授权推送支付(APP)诈骗案件,提供全额退款[8] - 银行提醒客户在网上购物时要谨慎,不要在非认可的支付平台上进行交易,注意支付时的欺诈警告[9] - 银行提到了签署APP诈骗条件赔偿模型的重要性,要求银行采取措施保护客户并对受骗客户进行赔偿[10]
Amazon CEO broke US law with anti-union comments, judge rules
The Guardian· 2024-05-02 18:11
A federal administrative law judge ruled that the the Amazon CEO, Andy Jassy, violated labor law by making certain anti-union comments during media interviews two years ago.Jassy said in 2022 that unions make workplaces “much slower” and “more bureaucratic”.The ruling, issued Wednesday, follows a complaint filed in 2022 by the National Labor Relations Board that accused Jassy of crossing the line during sit-down interviews in which he said that workers were better off without a union.In the ruling, National ...
Amazon sales soar with boost from artificial intelligence
The Guardian· 2024-04-30 20:57
Amazon sales surged once again in the first quarter of 2024, the company announced on Tuesday – the latest in a series of robust earnings reports for the retail giant. The company attributed the boost to artificial intelligence.In a statement accompanying the report, the chief executive, Andy Jassy, said Amazon’s continuing focus on AI has “reaccelerat[ed]” the growth rate of Amazon Web Services (AWS), the company’s cloud computing sector. Revenue at AWS increased 17% year-over-year to $25bn.The company rep ...
Eight US newspapers sue OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement
The Guardian· 2024-04-30 18:29
文章核心观点 - 八家美国报纸起诉ChatGPT制造商OpenAI和微软,指控其未经许可和付费使用数百万篇受版权保护的新闻文章来训练人工智能聊天机器人 [1] 诉讼相关 - 周二《纽约每日新闻》《芝加哥论坛报》《丹佛邮报》等报纸在纽约联邦法院提起诉讼 [1] - 参与诉讼的其他报纸包括MediaNews Group旗下的《水星新闻》《丹佛邮报》《橙县纪事报》《圣保罗先锋报》,以及Tribune Publishing旗下的《奥兰多哨兵报》和《南佛罗里达太阳哨兵报》,所有报纸均由奥登全球资本所有 [2] 各方态度 - MediaNews Group和Tribune Publishing执行编辑Frank Pine表示,公司花费数十亿美元收集信息和报道新闻,不能允许OpenAI和微软窃取其作品来发展业务 [1] - 微软周二拒绝置评,OpenAI未立即回应置评请求 [2] 类似案例 - 去年12月《纽约时报》以类似理由起诉OpenAI和微软,称ChatGPT的创建和训练涉及非法使用受版权保护的材料,其产品“威胁到《纽约时报》提供服务的能力” [2]