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OpenAI Hires Google's Top AI Researcher Before IPO
OpenAI has hired Noam Shazeer, the Google engineer who co-wrote the research paper that made modern AI possible, and a former White House AI policy official, as the company moves toward a public stock listing targeting a valuation near $1 trillion.
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FERC Orders Faster Grid Access for Data Centers
US energy regulators are pushing to speed up how data centers connect to the power grid, but the rule changes do nothing to fix the underlying shortage of electricity supply, and the costs are already showing up in higher bills for ordinary businesses and households across the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest.
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Amazon Plans to Sell Its AI Chips to Outside Buyers
Amazon is in early talks to sell its Trainium AI chips directly to outside companies for the first time, a move that would put it in direct competition with Nvidia and could reshape how businesses buy AI computing power.
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Retail AI Spending Rises, But Store Losses Hit $196B
A new industry report finds that U.S. retailers are spending more on AI tools than ever, yet in-store losses keep growing because most are buying the software in the wrong order.
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Tech Workers Launch $5M PAC to Counter AI Industry's $140M
A new political group backed by tech employees and unions is spending $5 million to support candidates who want rules on AI, going up against a much larger industry-funded group with over $140 million that is actively targeting those same candidates, and the first real test is a New York primary on June 23.
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Microsoft Sells OpenAI Models to Chinese Firms
Microsoft has built a major AI sales business in China, supplying OpenAI's models to companies like ByteDance through its cloud service, even as OpenAI and Anthropic refuse to deal with China directly, raising questions about whose rules actually govern AI access.
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SpaceX Debuts Public, OpenAI and Anthropic Both File for IPO
SpaceX completed the largest IPO in history on June 12, raising $75 billion and closing its first day up 19%, while OpenAI and Anthropic both filed confidential SEC paperwork within days of each other, setting up the biggest wave of AI company listings ever seen.
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UK to Scan Asylum Seekers' Faces to Guess Their Age
The UK government has signed a contract to use AI face-scanning to estimate the age of asylum seekers at the border, despite its own internal tests showing the technology gets it wrong by up to 4.6 years and performs significantly worse on the group it will most commonly be used on.
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France Builds Europe's Largest AI Infrastructure Push
France has moved from announcing AI ambitions to actively building data centers, deploying AI in major industries, and attracting over €109 billion in investment commitments, making it the most serious effort in Europe to create locally controlled AI infrastructure that complies with European data rules.
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Amazon Launches Quick Agents to Run Tasks While You Work
Amazon has added autonomous background agents to its Quick AI assistant, letting non-technical staff set up automated workflows across their business tools without writing a single line of code, putting it in direct competition with Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini at a lower price.
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ChatGPT Adds Scheduled Tasks Hub for Paid Users
OpenAI has given ChatGPT a dedicated page to create, view, and manage automated tasks that run on a schedule, replacing a previous feature called Pulse, and the practical implications for busy professionals are worth understanding now.
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Most Americans Use AI but Don't Trust It
A large Pew Research survey finds that only 16% of Americans expect AI to benefit society, while usage has quietly doubled since 2023, creating a gap that matters for any business deploying AI-facing tools or services.
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AWS Adds Knowledge Access and Self-Monitoring to AI Agents
Amazon Web Services announced new capabilities for its AgentCore platform that let AI agents read internal company documents, search the web, access paid data feeds, and automatically detect when they are quietly failing, addressing the most common reason enterprise AI agents underperform in real-world use.
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OpenAI Codex Can Now Control Your Browser
OpenAI has given its Codex tool direct access to the Chrome browser's internal controls, while also buying a German cloud company to let Codex run tasks for hours or days unattended, a combination that moves AI from answering questions to quietly operating software on your behalf.
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Canada Pension Fund Puts $741M into India Data Centers
Canada's largest pension fund is investing $741 million into Indian data center operator CtrlS, the latest in a wave of global capital pouring into India's fast-growing computing infrastructure, and a signal that this country is becoming one of the world's most fought-over building sites for AI.
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Pramaana Labs Raises $27M to Make AI Provably Correct
A new startup called Pramaana Labs has raised $27 million to build a verification layer that mathematically checks AI answers in high-stakes fields like tax, law, and drug discovery, where a wrong answer carries real consequences.
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Google Launches $100 Gemini Smart Speaker on June 25
Google's first new smart speaker in six years goes on sale June 25 for $100, replacing its old voice assistant with Gemini, and arrives just as Amazon and Apple are each racing to do the same thing with their own devices.
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Google Signs HSBC Deal at UK AI Summit
Google Cloud held its annual London summit today, announcing a multi-year AI partnership with HSBC, a new AI studio with Deloitte, and a cloud deal with secretive British startup Ineffable Intelligence, all part of a broader £5 billion push to make the UK a global center for AI.
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Pinterest Launches AI Shopping App Ask Pinterest
Pinterest has launched a standalone AI chat app called Ask Pinterest, designed for complex shopping questions, arriving just as Google, ChatGPT, and Meta have all moved to make conversational AI the new default for product discovery.
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GM Uses AI to Build Cars Twice as Fast
General Motors is using AI-driven virtual testing to cut car development from four-to-five years down to two, a direct response to Chinese automakers who already build new models at that speed, and the approach has broader lessons for any industry where long product cycles are a competitive liability.
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