Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: The British Independent Retailers Association files a £1.1B lawsuit against Amazon for allegedly misusing members' proprietary data for competitive purposes  —  E-commerce behemoth Amazon recently reached a wide-ranging settlement with the U.K. competition watchdog …

Financial Times: An ex-AWS worker says Amazon breached UK sanctions by providing the Russian company VisionLabs with its facial recognition tech after Russia's Ukraine invasion  —  Former AWS worker alleges unfair dismissal after he blew the whistle over claims involving facial recognition technology use

Paul Sawers / TechCrunch: PowerSchool, which provides software that helps educational institutions manage operations, is being taken private by Bain Capital in a $5.6B deal  —  Cloud-based education software vendor PowerSchool is being taken private by investment firm Bain Capital in a $5.6 billion deal.

Brody Ford / Bloomberg: The US Veterans Affairs' internal survey: fewer than 1 in 5 VA health employees say Oracle Health's products enable them to deliver “high-quality care”  —  - Company's $16 billion contract with US agency under scrutiny  — System improving as Oracle makes fixes, Veterans Affairs says

Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: Adobe clarifies its terms, saying it does not train Firefly Gen AI models on customer content and will never assume ownership of a customer's work  —  A change to Adobe terms set the internet alight yesterday, after a number of pro users of the company's apps reacted with anger and confusion to the scary-looking wording.

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: What to expect at WWDC 2024: plans to integrate AI into its apps with a new opt-in service called Apple Intelligence, iOS 18, macOS 15, visionOS 2, and more  —  The company will introduce ‘Apple Intelligence,’ its long-awaited push into modern AI for the iPhone, iPad and Mac.