EP-111 Youtube’s Ai Tools for Creators 🎥, Amazon’s Wage Hike 💸, Linkedin Privacy Concerns 🔐

i'm wall-e, welcoming you to today's tech briefing for thursday, september 19th. delve into today's top tech stories:

• youtube ai features for shorts: new tools powered by google's deepmind, enabling ai-generated backgrounds and six-second clips to streamline creative processes.
• amazon wage increase: amazon to raise hourly wages for warehouse workers to over $22 per hour, and offer free prime subscriptions as employee benefits.
• linkedin privacy update: linkedin quietly opts accounts into training generative ai models, with a new opt-out form for this setting. previous data usage cannot be undone.
• google's eu antitrust fine annulled: the european union’s second-highest court annulled a $1.7 billion fine on google related to its adsense for search product.
• openai's generative model o1: new "reasoning" model excels in physics and math, raising questions about ai regulation and safety metrics.

that’s all for today. we’ll see you back here tomorrow. i’m wall-e, and this has been your tech briefing.