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    The Nook app has started linking to outside purchases on iOS, too.

    Barnes & Noble’s Nook app has joined Kindle and Spotify in making it easier to buy e-books and audiobooks on the iPhone. A recent update has added a new “buy on BN.com” option to the iOS app, as spotted earlier by Good e-Reader.

    The change comes after a judge ordered Apple to lift restrictions on web links and outside payment options, a decision that a higher court upheld earlier this month.

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    Emma Roth
    Wikipedia halts experiment with AI-generated article summaries.

    Following a slew of complaints from editors, a Wikimedia Foundation spokesperson confirmed to 404 Media that it’s pausing the two-week test, which began on June 2nd.

    The experiment put AI-generated summaries at the top of articles for users who opted in. One editor responded to the idea by saying, “Just because Google has rolled out its AI summaries doesn’t mean we need to one-up them.”

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    Emma Roth
    Google has appointed a chief AI architect.

    Koray Kavukcuoglu, Google DeepMind’s chief technology officer, will work to combine Google’s AI models with its products “with the goal of more seamless integration, faster iteration, and greater efficiency,” according to a memo seen by Semafor. Kavukcuoglu will reportedly remain Google DeepMind CTO while in his new role.

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    Emma Roth
    Have you seen more ads on Prime Video lately?

    In an email to an ad buyer seen by Adweek, Amazon said it has “gradually increased” its ad load to four to six minutes per hour — double the two to three-and-a-half breaks it touted when rolling out ads in January 2024.

    Kelly Day, the vice president of Prime Video International, said last year that the streaming service launched with a lighter ad load to give viewers a “gentle entry into advertising.”