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AI Gave Pakistan's Judges a $38 Return Per Dollar Spent
A large-scale academic trial in Pakistan found that AI tools paired with proper judge training cleared thousands of extra court cases per year, offering a blueprint any institution with a backlog problem and a tight budget can learn from.
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AI Data Centers Are Pushing Electricity Bills Up for Everyone
A new BloombergNEF report finds US data centers will consume one-fifth of the country's electricity by 2035, and the grid strain is already showing up in higher energy bills for manufacturers, businesses, and households across multiple states.
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Microsoft Backs Mistral's European AI Infrastructure Build-Out
Microsoft has committed billions of dollars to Mistral's European data centers and embedded the French AI company's models into its own software, giving regulated industries in finance, healthcare, and manufacturing a way to use AI without sending their data outside Europe.
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US Threatens Sanctions on Chinese AI Over IP Theft
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the US will examine Chinese AI models for signs of stolen American technology and may impose sanctions, a move that follows months of documented cases and is happening as Washington prepares for formal AI talks with Beijing in September.
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Hackers Now Target AI Developer Tools to Reach Your Business
A new class of self-replicating malware is quietly spreading through the software tools that developers use to build AI-powered products, and the downstream risk reaches any business that buys or uses that software.
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OpenAI Ads Are Far Behind Their Own Revenue Targets
OpenAI's advertising ambitions are running well short of its own projections, with independent analysts estimating the entire chatbot ad market will reach only $5 billion by 2030 against OpenAI's $100 billion target, raising real questions about the financial story the company will tell investors ahead of a planned 2027 IPO.
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Google Launches Three New Gemini Models for Business AI Agents
Google released three new AI models today targeting businesses running automated workflows, with the main model cutting the cost per task by generating fewer words to get the same result, a speed-first option for high-volume processing, and a restricted security model for finding and fixing software vulnerabilities.
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US Government Can Switch Off Your AI Tools Overnight
The US government used export control law to force Anthropic to shut down its two most advanced AI models globally for 19 days, with no warning and questionable legal authority, and the episode proves that any business running workflows on top-tier US AI tools is exposed to a risk most vendor contracts do not cover.
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Tech Workers Are Unionizing Over AI Job Fears
As AI-driven layoffs pile up across the technology sector and beyond, workers who once laughed off unions are now organizing, and the contract protections they are winning offer a preview of what employees in every industry may soon be demanding.
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AI Robots Speed Up Solar Farm Construction
A startup called Gritt has raised $34 million to put AI-controlled robots on solar construction sites, promising to nearly quadruple the number of panels a crew can install in a day, at a moment when the industry faces a shortage of 53,000 workers.
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US Army Burned Its Annual AI Budget in Weeks
The US Army ran out of its allocated AI usage budget just weeks after promising unlimited access to staff, joining Uber, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon in a growing list of large organisations that dramatically underestimated what it costs to let employees use AI freely.
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Bristol Myers Squibb Buys Nvidia AI Supercomputer for Drug Discovery
Bristol Myers Squibb has purchased Nvidia's newest and most powerful AI computing system to run predictions and train its own AI models across every stage of drug research, a move that signals AI is now core infrastructure in big pharma, not a side project.
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Nine Cuts 30 Newsroom Jobs, Blames AI Search
Australia's Nine Entertainment is cutting 30 jobs at the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, citing AI as the force eating into reader traffic and subscription revenue, a pattern now playing out at news organisations globally.
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Anthropic Pays $1.5B to Settle AI Copyright Case
A federal judge gave final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement with authors, closing the largest copyright payout in U.S. history, though the legal question of whether training AI on copyrighted material is generally lawful remains wide open across dozens of other cases.
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AI Bills Are Rising Even as AI Gets Cheaper
Enterprise AI spending is climbing fast despite falling prices per unit of AI use, and most companies are discovering the hard way that their contracts, budgets, and governance structures were not built for how AI actually bills today.
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US AI Testing Agency Loses Third Director in Months
Chris Fall, the director of the U.S. government's main AI safety testing body, resigned after just three months, continuing a pattern of leadership instability at an agency that is already being sidelined by the White House on key AI security decisions.
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MLB Bans AI Decision-Making Tools from Dugout iPads
Major League Baseball has shut off a software loophole that let up to one-third of its teams use AI to recommend pitches and substitutions in real time during games, a move that signals how quickly AI is slipping into professional decisions and what happens when the people in charge decide it has gone too far.
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Microsoft Picks AMD Over Nvidia for AI Cloud Expansion
Microsoft has committed to deploying AMD's new Helios AI system on its Azure cloud, with Meta, OpenAI, and Oracle also signed on as early customers, marking the clearest sign yet that Nvidia's near-total hold on AI computing is starting to loosen.
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An AI Agent Hacked Hugging Face Autonomously
For the first time publicly confirmed, an autonomous AI agent broke into the infrastructure of one of the world's biggest AI platforms, exposing a new class of attack that operates faster than any human hacker and, crucially, one that defenders' own AI tools were too restricted to help fight.
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OpenAI and Anthropic to Test AI in US Public Health Agencies
A structured US pilot program called PULSE will put AI tools from OpenAI and Anthropic into 10 public health agencies this autumn, with results published as guidance for wider adoption, arriving at the exact moment those agencies face the deepest budget cuts in a generation.
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