Global mobile consumer spend with soar by 267% to $2.2 trillion by 2030 according to app analytics platform data.ai. The report also forecasts 2.9 trillion global downloads and almost 16 billion hours spent per day. Despite these mammoth figures, the CAGR in each case will be lower between now and 2030 than it was between 2017 and 2023, perhaps reflecting the diminishing numbers of non-mobile users out there.

Amazon is set to abandon its experiment with checkout-free grocery stores. Apparently automated, the process actually required more than 1,000 remote “cashiers” in India to monitor video of checkouts. This was followed by reports that AWS plans to eliminate hundreds of positions both in its physical stores and across its sales, marketing and global services divisions.

There’s no shortage of lawsuits by publishers against genAI platforms for copyright infringement; now major studios are getting with the program. Walt Disney and Comcast’s Universal are accusing Midjourney of using some of their best known characters (think Darth Vader and the Minions) in its AI image generator — a “bottomless pit of plagiarism,” they say. No response yet from Midjourney.