Spotify pushes audiobooks, IRS to use AI to target billion-dollar firms

A three-judge panel in a US appeals court found that the Biden administration, CDC, and FBI likely violated the First Amendment by influencing tech companies to remove or suppress posts on COVID and elections - Link

WSJ sources: As part of a content push, Spotify will offer a free audiobook bundle to paying subscribers, including up to 20 hours/month of content - Link

The IRS announced it has started using AI to investigate complex forms of tax evasion at multibillion-dollar PE, real estate, and legal firms - Link

Peter Kiefer’s sources: Apple paid $5M for the film rights to Michael Lewis’s new book “Going Infinite” which covers the rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried; the book is scheduled to come out October 3rd - Link

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Poshmark CEO Manish Chandra joins Jason to discuss the expansion of the “Circular Economy” (2:47), consumer-to-consumer shopping (18:30), building a community with Poshmark (32:59), and much more! - Link

The FBI announced that Lazarus Group, a hacking group affiliated with North Korea, was behind the recent $41M theft from Stake.com, a crypto-enabled sports betting platform - Link

Uber appears to be working on a TaskRabbit-like service that allows users to hire gig workers for various tasks, according to code in the company’s iOS app; the project is codenamed Chore - Link

Brand Engagement Network, a Wyoming-based company that offers conversational AI to enterprise customers in automotive, healthcare, and customer service industries, has agreed to go public via SPAC at a $358M valuation - Link

Google announced that North Korea-backed hackers are targeting security researchers in an attempt to hack devices used to perform sensitive cybersecurity investigations - Link

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