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“Hey, Samuel L. Jackson, where’d you go?” Amazon is discontinuing celebrity voices for Alexa, including the “Pulp Fiction” star who was first introduced in 2019. Using neural text-to-speech technology, the voices reported the weather, told jokes and more. Read more.

Tech Moves: Madrona investor joins Trilogy Equity Partners, and Seattle startup Gamesight hires a chief revenue officer. Read about the latest personnel changes. 

Bill Gates is out with his annual summer reading recommendations, but he's mixing it up this time by adding a recommended show to binge and a playlist with some of his favorite tunes. Read more on Gates Notes. Here are his picks.

• "Born in Blackness," by Howard French.

• "Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow," by Gabrielle Zevin.

• "Borgen," a Danish television show available on Netflix.

• “Bill’s Summer Mix,” a Spotify playlist.

Hot links:

• Terry Myerson, the former Microsoft exec who now leads health-tech startup Truveta, offers some ideas for how to regulate medical AI. (LinkedIn) 

• Are there hints of Windows 12 in the tea leaves of Microsoft’s upcoming PC operating system updates? That’s the speculation from some Windows followers. (TechRadar)

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