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During its Search antitrust trial yesterday, a DOJ attorney produced a document showing that “80 billion of 160 billion ‘tokens’ — snippets of content — after filtering out the material that publishers had opted out of allowing Google to use for training its AI,” according to Bloomberg.

In a video posted by the Amazon Project Kuiper LinkedIn account, we see what Ars Technica calls the first look at the low-Earth orbit satellites Amazon launched earlier this week to face off with Starlink.

TechCrunch found that the RAW dating app actually exposed its user’s personal information and location data. That’s... not great! As for why that even matters, earlier this week I wrote about how the folks behind the app are also creating a smart ring for couples that some have described as a “dystopian loyalty tracker.” The company has since fixed the bug, and the RAW Ring doesn’t exist yet. But this definitely isn’t a great look.

He is planning to sell up to 25,000,000 Amazon shares over a period ending May 29th, 2026, according to an SEC filing. (Perfect timing to be able to afford GTA VI.) The shares are worth up to $4.75 billion, The Guardian reports.

Drop-shipping packages straight from China to shoppers’ homes was kind of the whole point of retailers like Temu. In response to Donald Trump’s tariffs, Temu now tells Wired that it’s switching to a “local fulfillment model” where orders come from US warehouses. With the de minimis exception officially dead (at least for now), it’s no surprise that retailers are scrambling — especially sites like Temu, whose wide product offerings depended on the exception.

Per The New York Times:

A UK court has ordered it to pay patent troll Optis $502m — just a little up from the $56m set in 2023, before Optis appealed. Apple will appeal too, of course, but already paid the same company $300m in a related case in Texas.

You can now pre-register to get the app on the App Store and on Google Play. The App Store version is expected to release on May 20th, and I’d guess the same applies for the Google Play version.

CEO Andy Jassy shared the stat on today’s earnings call, reports TechCrunch. Given how many Alexa-enabled devices are out there, though, that’s still probably a pretty low number, relatively.