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Amazon secretly tracked consumers through their cellphones, lawsuit alleges


SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Ever feel like your phone is listening to you? Like when you talk about something aloud, and suddenly your web browser serves you ads for what you were talking about? Well, a lawsuit filed Wednesday against Amazon alleges the e-commerce giant has been using consumers phones to get information about them. […]

The Hefei-based company has developed a consumer-grade chip using the advanced chipmaking node, a notable achievement amid ongoing US sanctions, according to a report from Canadian integrated circuits (IC) research firm TechInsights. For instance, a China-based AI lab called DeepSeek dominated headlines this past week because of its latest large language models (LLMs), which offer a significant leap in efficiency compared to those that currently lead the industry. The forecast comes after Apple delivered a slight drop in iPhone revenues for the holiday shopping quarter and lagged Wall Street estimates, hampered by a lack in some markets of artificial intelligence features meant to be the chief selling point of its latest devices.

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