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Amazon is trying to lure big corporate customers to it AWS cloud computing service with a new chatbot for Business es, and by offering to guard them against legal and reputational damage that can come from the output of artificial intelligence. The new chatbot, called Q, is designed to help with productivity by helping workers summarize important documents and support tickets and chat via communication apps such as Slack, the company announced at its annual cloud computing conference Tuesday in Las Vegas. The software can also automatically make changes to businesses source code, speeding development, the company said. The new software arrived roughly a year after OpenAI’s ChatGPT burst onto the scene, setting off a frenzy of investment in generative AI startups. Alphabet and others have announced their own chatbots, which can have human-like conversations with users to help with daily tasks. AWS CEO Adam Selipsky, at Amazon’s annual cloud computing conference in ...

TikTok on Thursday joined Meta in appealing against the " gatekeeper " status under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), an EU law that brings in tougher rules for tech companies and makes it easier for users to move between com Pet ing services. Meta on Wednesday challenged the " gatekeeper " designations for its Messenger and Marketplace platforms but did not appeal against the status for Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. The European Union in September picked 22 "gatekeeper" services, run by six tech companies - Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet's Google, Amazon, Meta and ByteDance's TikTok. While Microsoft, Google and Amazon did not challenge their designations, Apple is yet to comment on its plan. Nov. 16 is the last date to appeal. "Our appeal is based on the belief that our designation risks undermining the DMA's own stated goal by protecting actual gatekeepers from newer competitors like TikTok,...

WASHINGTON:  The US Federal Trade Commission on Thursday asked an appeals court to temporarily stop Microsoft from closing its $69 billion purchase of "Call of Duty" maker Activision Blizzard, just hours after a federal judge rejected a similar request. The San Francisco federal court had ruled in favor of Microsoft on Tuesday, saying the FTC had failed to show the deal would be illegal under antitrust law. The FTC appealed that loss late on Wednesday, and Microsoft said it would fight that appeal. On Thursday evening, the FTC filed an emergency motion to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals asking for a "temporary pause " on Microsoft's closing of its planned deal to buy Activision. Any outstanding regulatory hurdle makes it more likely the agreement between Microsoft and Activision will expire on July 18 without the deal having been completed. After July 18, either company will be free to walk away unless they negotiate an ex...