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Spotify launches a feature to buy physical books in the US and UK, powered by Bookshop.org, and expands its Page Match scanning tool to support 30+ languages (Lauren Forristal/TechCrunch)

Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch:
Spotify launches a feature to buy physical books in the US and UK, powered by Bookshop.org, and expands its Page Match scanning tool to support 30+ languages  —  In February, Spotify made an exciting (and a bit unusual) move when it entered the world of physical book sales.

Memo: Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says the company plans to lay off ~1,000 full-time employees, or 16% of its global workforce, to cut costs and achieve profitability (Alexandra S. Levine/Bloomberg)

Alexandra S. Levine / Bloomberg:
Memo: Snap CEO Evan Spiegel says the company plans to lay off ~1,000 full-time employees, or 16% of its global workforce, to cut costs and achieve profitability  —  Snap Inc. is laying off roughly 1,000 full-time employees, or 16% of its global workforce, part of an effort …

Weapons and Resident Evil director Zach Cregger is making a sci-fi movie next

Coming from Warner Bros. in 2028, the movie is also produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin and Cregger says it's 'the best thing I ever wrote'

A US judge issues a $322.2M judgment against pirate library Anna's Archive for scraping Spotify, a largely symbolic victory as the site is anonymously operated (Rachel Scharf/Billboard)

Rachel Scharf / Billboard:
A US judge issues a $322.2M judgment against pirate library Anna's Archive for scraping Spotify, a largely symbolic victory as the site is anonymously operated  —  At least for now, the court judgment is largely a symbolic victory, as no one has identified the anonymous internet users behind Anna's Archive.

Sources: SoftBank invites more banks to join its $40B loan backing its OpenAI investment, requiring them to commit ~$5B each; SoftBank has already invested $30B (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg:
Sources: SoftBank invites more banks to join its $40B loan backing its OpenAI investment, requiring them to commit ~$5B each; SoftBank has already invested $30B  —  More banks are being invited to join SoftBank Group Corp.'s $40 billion loan backing its investment in US tech giant OpenAI …