After a decades-long career at two of Silicon Valley’s biggest names, Marissa Mayer is setting her sights on a smaller problem: Your contacts list.

The former Yahoo CEO and early Google executive co-founded Sunshine, the maker of an app that uses AI to organize your network’s phone numbers and email addresses. The company next plans to tackle social groups and event scheduling with other products, including an upcoming app called Sunshine Circles.

And yes, she’s aware that these might not sound like the most exciting AI applications these days, but she thinks they can make a big difference.

“We mused about naming the company Mundane AI,” Mayer told Tech Brew. “How do you take cutting-edge AI and just apply it to everyday problems that we all have to deal with?”

Beyond how AI can clean up your phone, we spoke with Mayer—who holds two AI-focused degrees from Stanford—about the state of the search wars, her time at Yahoo, and where she stands on the fears around the technology’s future.

Keep reading here.—PK

You’ve heard of SaaS, but how about CaaS? That’s right: Compliance as a service has entered the chat, and it’s gonna make waves in the security and privacy world. Streamlined compliance? Sounds like a dream.

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It’s time to say goodbye to the Chevy Bolt. GM CEO Mary Barra told investors on the company’s first-quarter earnings call in April that this year will mark the end of production for both the Bolt EV and Bolt EUV.

GM plans to manufacture 70,000 of the EVs in 2023 before sunsetting them at the end of the year. The Orion Township, Michigan, plant where the Bolt is assembled will be closed and renovated, with plans for the newly spruced-up plant to nearly triple the number of employees and aid in a company-wide goal of building 600,000 electric trucks annually when it reopens in 2024.

The axe is falling on the EV not because of poor sales or even a lingering distaste among consumers due to recalls related to the fire-prone batteries in earlier Bolt models—indeed, Bolt sales increased 50% in 2022. It’s something much simpler: The Bolt is out of date with modern EVs.

Keep reading here.—JM

Stat: 30%. That’s the percentage of back-office roles at IBM that CEO Arvind Krishna told Bloomberg he “could easily see...getting replaced by AI and automation over a five-year period.”

Quote: “We don’t need another pinkie promise from a tech company that they’re going to safeguard our data. We need meaningful limitations on what data they can collect and use.”—Sara Geoghegan, a lawyer at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, to the Washington Post, regarding the terms patients must agree to before they can use Amazon Clinic

Read: Tesla’s magnet mystery shows Elon Musk is willing to compromise (Wired)

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Bluesky from now on? Morning Brew broke down the buzz around Bluesky, “a social media app that’s gaining traction as an alternative to Twitter.” It’s currently invitation-only, but notable very online names including AOC, Dril, and Chrissy Teigen have signed up for Jack Dorsey’s new project.

I always feel like somebody’s watching me: Nonprofit newsroom The Markup recently introduced a tool it calls Blacklight, which lets web browser users (so that’s…you and me and everyone we know) see “the specific user-tracking technologies” being used by a particular site. If you plug a few of your favorite websites into Blacklight and are disturbed by the results, The Markup offers a guide for beefing up your browser’s privacy settings.

Catch up on the top Tech Brew stories from the past few editions:

• Why vertical-farming company Oishii picked berries over leafy greens
• Virtual humans aim to put a face on AI
• Survey finds most Americans oppose use of AI in hiring process