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Google AI Mode Now Connects Directly to Third-Party Apps
Google has added app integrations to its AI Mode search experience, starting with Instacart, Canva, and YouTube, a move that extends a wider pattern where AI assistants are replacing the step of opening a separate app to get things done.
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AI's Power Hunger Is Raising Everyone's Electricity Bill
Energy companies are raising money publicly at the fastest pace in over two decades, as the scramble to power AI data centers creates a genuine electricity shortage that is already pushing up costs for manufacturers and households worldwide.
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AI Data Centers Are Pushing Up Your Power Bill
Power companies in the US are seizing private land through eminent domain to build transmission lines for AI data centers, while ordinary households are simultaneously being charged higher electricity bills to fund that same infrastructure.
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Open-Source AI Is Now Good Enough for Most Business Work
Open-source AI models have closed most of the quality gap with paid services, cost 50 times less to run than three years ago, and a June 2026 US government order that shut down Anthropic's newest models overnight gave every business a live demonstration of what it means to rent intelligence from someone else.
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UK Investigates TikTok Over Child Age Checks
Britain's online regulator has opened a formal investigation into TikTok's age-checking methods, finding they may have missed a significant number of children, as the UK prepares a full ban on social media for under-16s by early 2027.
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Hyundai Now Fully Owns Boston Dynamics
Hyundai has completed its full takeover of Boston Dynamics by buying SoftBank's last 9.65% stake for $325 million, giving the South Korean carmaker total control of the Atlas humanoid robot right as it moves from demonstration videos to real factory work.
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AI Is Reshaping Police Work, With Little Oversight
A booming industry is selling AI tools to police departments across the US and beyond, from automated report-writing to systems that decide where to send officers, and the legal, accountability, and bias risks that follow affect every citizen in those jurisdictions.
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EU Orders Google to Open Android and Search to AI Rivals
The EU has issued binding orders requiring Google to give rival AI assistants the same deep access to Android phones that its own Gemini enjoys, and to share core search data with competing search engines and AI services, with deadlines running into 2027 and fines of up to $35 billion for non-compliance.
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Wells Fargo Gives Financial Advisers an AI Chat Assistant
Wells Fargo has launched an AI chat tool called AI Teammate that lets financial advisers ask questions in plain language to find information faster, part of a broader $1 billion technology overhaul, as major banks race to use AI to cut costs and boost staff output.
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Musk Buys $1B Gas Turbine Firm to Power AI Centers
Elon Musk quietly acquired APR Energy, a company that operates a fleet of portable gas and diesel power generators, for over $1 billion, with the clear aim of using its turbines to fuel his AI data centers in Memphis, adding fossil fuel infrastructure to a business empire that once loudly championed clean energy.
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xAI Sues Its Own User Over AI-Generated Child Abuse Images
Elon Musk's xAI filed a civil lawsuit against a South Carolina man for using Grok to create child sexual abuse images, making it one of the first times an AI company has gone on legal offense against a user, even as xAI itself faces multiple lawsuits over the same platform's design.
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Big Tech Is Cutting Jobs While Spending More on AI
Microsoft's 4,800-person layoff is part of a broad pattern across major tech companies: cut people, pour the savings into AI infrastructure, and the pressure to follow suit is now spreading well beyond tech into finance, manufacturing, and professional services.
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Thinking Machines Launches First AI Model You Can Own
Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab released its first AI model, Inkling, as a freely downloadable open-weight model that companies can customize on their own infrastructure, directly challenging the subscription-based model sold by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
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Whatnot Buys AI Startup to Fix Live Shopping Discovery
Whatnot, a livestream shopping platform processing over 500,000 hours of live video weekly, has acquired Shaped, an AI company that builds real-time product recommendation systems, as the race to personalize online shopping intensifies across every major resale platform.
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US Launches AI Cyber Clearinghouse Gold Eagle
The White House launched Gold Eagle, a government-run hub to coordinate AI-powered software security fixes, arriving just as industry groups had already launched their own competing programs to solve the same problem.
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Apple Looks to Buy AI Chip Companies for Servers
Apple is actively talking to chip startups and investment bankers about potential acquisitions to fix its AI server problem, a significant shift for a company that has almost never spent big on buying other businesses.
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OpenAI Trains an AI to Attack Its Own Models
OpenAI has built GPT-Red, an AI model trained specifically to find and exploit weaknesses in its other AI models, and used it to make GPT-5.6 far harder to manipulate, a development that matters to any business deploying AI agents that touch real data.
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US AI Safety Rules Are Taking Shape, State by State
Three US states covering roughly 40% of the AI market have now passed aligned AI safety laws, creating a de facto national standard before Congress has acted, and that convergence is beginning to shape what a federal law may look like.
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Apple Gets China AI Approval via Alibaba Deal
China's internet regulator approved Apple Intelligence for launch in the country, with Alibaba's AI model Qwen powering the features, giving Apple a path back into AI competition in its second-largest market.
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xAI Grok Build Sent Entire Codebases to Cloud Without Disclosure
A security researcher proved that xAI's Grok Build coding tool silently uploaded entire code repositories, including passwords and API keys, to cloud storage by default, and that the privacy toggle did nothing to stop it.
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