VeryCodedly Today: Kenya Lands Amazon, AWS Backtracks, and LinkedIn Finally Joins the Party

Against all odds, more things happened. Here's today.

German Court Makes Google Liable for AI Answers

Google's AI Overviews falsely claimed that two Munich-based publishers were involved in scams, subscription traps, and "dubious business practices". The AI hallucinated information and made up connections that weren't in any of the linked sources. The publishers were not satisfied with Google's response to their cease-and-desist letter so they sued.

The verdict from the Regional Court of Munich was a temporary injunction barring Google from repeating those false claims and 80% coverage of the legal costs. This is a preliminary injunction from a regional court, not a final judgment, so Google can appeal. This could happen to any AI.

Amazon Enters Africa Through Kenya

Kenya is Amazon's choice for its first African satellite ground station for Project Kuiper. Kenya has over 27 million internet users (about 48% penetration). Starlink is already active there and is now the country's eighth-largest ISP with over 22,000 subscribers. Amazon is late, but on the way.

Starlink has already set up shop across Africa, so with Kenya as the entry point, Amazon is finally putting boots on the ground in Africa's satellite internet war.

Anthropic Launches Fable 5 and Mythos 5

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, the first publicly available version of Mythos, after keeping it locked down to a chosen few because of its immense, life altering, enormous, groundbreaking, powerful… powers. It was considered too good at cybersecurity and potentially dangerous if in the wrong hands, so they created this safer alternative. Word on the street: third-party tests are impressive.

There's a catch though. Claude will hold onto your data for 30 days. Anthropic says this is to track new jailbreaks and attacks.

AWS Requires Data Sharing for Anthropic Models

Before AWS's AI platform (Amazon Bedrock) added Fable 5 and Mythos 5, prompts and completions stayed inside AWS's boundary, so model providers (like Anthropic) never saw the data. Now the only way to use Fable 5 or Mythos 5 on Bedrock is to opt into "provider_data_share" mode, which means your data leaves AWS's security boundary and is shared with Anthropic, retained for 30 days, and subject to human review.

By flipping this switch, Anthropic becomes a "sub-processor" of your data, which is both a technical and legal change. Companies using AWS Bedrock may need to revise privacy policies, and re-evaluate whether they can legally use these new models at all.

LinkedIn Launches a Creator Marketplace

The company launched a section within its ad platform to help brands find relevant creators to partner with. Brands can boost creator content or connect directly for speaking engagements, advisory roles, and consulting projects. So instead of influencers with the biggest reach like we've seen with TikTok or Instagram, LinkedIn's marketplace focuses on "subject matter experts" and "practitioners". The feature launches first in the US and Canada.

They're late to the creator economy, but with 1.3 billion members, they'll figure something out.

Gemini Gets Real-Time Voice Translation

Gemini 3.5 Live Translate works across 70+ languages, and the selling point: it doesn't wait for you to finish speaking like traditional translation which makes you pause, then translates. This one runs continuously, just a few seconds behind.

Devs can use it via the Gemini Live API. It's not natural, but close.

That's all for Things That Happened. Enjoy.