BREAK/THE WEEK is your weekly tech talk from BASIC thinking that takes you behind the scenes of the tech world. In the new issue we discuss AI surveillance in the supermarket, fraud with CO2 certificates and automatic AI labels on YouTube.
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The topics of this issue:
- AI surveillance in the supermarket: How Rewe, Penny and Aldi Süd use cameras and AI to prevent theft and for cashier-free purchases
- Ride-sharing app at the University of Magdeburg: Fewer cars, less CO2, more networking on campus
- Free apartment cleaning in exchange for camera data: A startup trains AI and robots in real apartments
- Billion-dollar fraud with CO2 certificates: European oil companies paid 1.5 billion euros for never-existent climate projects in China
- YouTube automatically labels AI videos: No more responsibility for uploaders
- New network fees for solar system owners: up to 100 euros basic price per year from 2029
- Google search spells “Google” incorrectly
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