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In a letter to staff, CEO Eddie Wu says Alibaba is merging its food delivery platform Ele.me and online travel agency Fliggy into its core e-commerce business (Wency Chen/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-t…

Alibaba folds delivery app and travel agency into e-commerce group
CEO Eddie Wu said the restructuring ‘marks a strategic upgrade from an e-commerce platform to a comprehensive consumer platform’.

"Can This #OpenAccess Publishing #Platform Attract Researchers’ Attention?"

Polytopality criteria for the mix of polytopes and maniplexes
Gabe Cunningham, Isabel Hubard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19334 https://

Polytopality criteria for the mix of polytopes and maniplexes
The mix of two maniplexes is the minimal maniplex that covers both. This construction has many important applications, such as finding the smallest regular cover of a maniplex. If one of the maniplexes is an abstract polytope, a natural question to ask is whether the mix is also a polytope. We describe here a general criterion for the polytopality of the mix which generalizes several previously-known polytopality criteria.

Xfinity launches StreamStore, an aggregation platform that lets viewers to browse, subscribe to, and manage streaming subscriptions (David Satin/The Streamable)
https://thestreamable.com/xfinity-launching-streamstore-aggregation-platform

Xfinity launches StreamStore to allow subscribers to purchase and manage streaming subscriptions more easily
StreamStore will help viewers shop for new streaming subscriptions, and keep those subscriptions all in one place.

Blaine Cook, an original Twitter architect is one of the backers of the new Canadian social platform #Gander
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/busi…

Tech leaders ready launch of Canadian social-media platform Gander to buck U.S. dominance
Founders aim to create alternative that addresses content, data sovereignty concerns

Salesforce Agentforce 3: offener Standard für KI-Agenten
Die Salesforce-Plattform Agentforce 3 verspricht mehr Transparenz beim Einsatz von KI-Agenten, die etwa Kundenanfragen selbstständig bearbeiten sollen.

Daydream, which raised a $50M seed in June 2024 to build a generative AI shopping agent for fashion, launches in beta, with an app expected later this summer (Hilary Milnes/Vogue Business)
https://www.voguebusiness.com/story/techno

Is Daydream’s AI platform the answer to fashion’s discovery problem?
Founder Julie Bornstein raised $50 million last year to create the ultimate AI shopping experience. Today, it launches in beta.

AI Slop: Die Schattenseite der KI-Revolution
Immer wieder trifft man auf Social-Media-Plattformen auf den Begriff "AI Slop". Wir erklären, was dahinter steckt.
https://www.heis…

The UK CMA giving Google "strategic market status" could allow publishers to opt out of Google AI Overviews without removing websites from search (Dominic Ponsford/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/platforms/cma-to…

CMA set to force Google to work more fairly with UK publishers
CMA sets out plans to start curbing Google power in the UK and will address secrecy and unfairness around Google AI Overviews.

A US judge rules Anthropic use of copyrighted books to train AI was fair use, but its storage of pirated books in a "central library" used for training was not (Olivia Sophie Rafferty/ai fray)
https://aifra…