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Microsoft turns to Amazon for help with GitHub’s AI-driven capacity issues

Microsoft is turning to its biggest cloud rival, Amazon, to help address capacity issues on its GitHub coding platform following a series of AI-driven outages, according to two people familiar with the plans.GitHub, which Microsoft acquired in 2018, is a popular place for engineers to store and manage code, and…

Your candy ads are about to get a lot more personalized, Mars says

Rankin Carroll, chief brand officer of Mars Snacking, says the company behind your favorite candies like M&M’s, Snickers, Skittles, and Twix is reworking how it advertises to consumers — and the shift could mean people start seeing very different versions of the same candy campaign.In an interview on Business Insider’s…

Trump officials meet with Anthropic to discuss a truce

Anthropic staff met Monday with senior Trump administration officials for their first in-person sit-downs after a federally imposed export ban forced the artificial intelligence startup to pull its latest model from the market Friday night, two administration officials, a person familiar with the discussions and a person close to the…

Aldi is giving away free boxes of groceries for 4 days. Here’s how to get one.

Aldi is betting that shoppers’ love of mystery boxes extends to the grocery aisle.The discount grocer, known for its low prices and private-label products, announced Monday that it will give away free “Aldi Blind Boxes” for four days, with a limited number of mystery grocery packages available daily through AldiBlindBox.com.A…

Rivian CEO says company will release tech similar to Tesla FSD later this year

Rivian’s CEO says the company is on track to release a supervised self-driving system similar to Tesla’s Full Self-Driving later this year.During a fireside chat at a Masters of Scale event in Anaheim on Thursday, CEO RJ Scaringe said Rivian will release an advanced driver-assistance system (ADAS) that could enable…