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Netherlands Fights US Bill That Would Ban ASML China Sales
The US Congress is advancing a bill that would force ASML, Europe's most valuable company, to stop selling and servicing chip-making machines to China, prompting the Dutch government to send a minister to Washington to push back, with real financial and diplomatic stakes on both sides.
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Google Now Uses Your Photos and Voice Searches for AI Training
Google has started rolling out a new account setting called Search Services History that saves the images, audio, and video you use in Google Search and feeds them into AI model training by default, and most users will not know to turn it off.
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Ex-Infosys CEO Launches Startup to Replace IT Services Firms
Vishal Sikka, who once ran one of the world's biggest IT outsourcing firms, just raised $32 million to build a company that uses AI to do the work those firms charge hundreds of billions of dollars for, and he already has paying customers.
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Companies Are Rationing AI After Runaway Spending
After months of pushing staff to use AI as much as possible, large companies are now hitting unexpected bills with little to show for it, and the reckoning has arrived for any business operator still treating AI as a free-for-all.
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Google Adds Computer Control to Gemini 3.5 Flash
Google has built the ability for its Gemini 3.5 Flash AI to see and control a computer screen, browser, or mobile device, moving AI agents from answering questions toward doing actual office work on your behalf.
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Agility Robotics Goes Public via SPAC at $2.5B
Agility Robotics, which makes humanoid robots already working in real warehouses and factories, is going public through a merger deal that values it at $2.5 billion, making it the first standalone publicly listed humanoid robot company in the US with proven commercial deployments.
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OpenAI Launches Its First Custom AI Chip
OpenAI unveiled Jalapeño, its first purpose-built chip, made with Broadcom to cut the cost of answering billions of daily ChatGPT requests, as the company bleeds $20 billion a year in operating losses and prepares to go public.
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ChatGPT Gets Voice Mode That Holds a Real Conversation
OpenAI is preparing a new ChatGPT voice mode that can listen and speak at the same time, remember the full thread of a conversation, and handle interruptions naturally, which matters because it makes AI voice tools significantly more useful for any business that deals with customers or staff over the phone.
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US Presses Meta to Let Government Review Its AI
The US government is pushing Meta to submit its AI models for national security review, making it the last major AI company that has not yet agreed to do so, as Washington moves toward mandatory pre-release checks on powerful AI.
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Qualcomm Buys Modular for $4 Billion to Challenge Nvidia
Qualcomm has acquired AI software startup Modular for nearly $4 billion, a deal that signals the chipmaker's serious push into data center AI and its effort to give businesses a real alternative to Nvidia's expensive, deeply entrenched software grip.
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Samsung Reverses ChatGPT Ban With Company-Wide OpenAI Deal
Three years after banning ChatGPT over a data leak scandal, Samsung has given its entire Korean workforce and global consumer-electronics division access to OpenAI's paid enterprise tools, in what OpenAI describes as one of its largest corporate deployments ever.
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AWS Launches Faster, Cheaper AI Infrastructure on NVIDIA GPUs
AWS has launched new GPU-powered server options on its cloud platform, cutting AI search costs by up to 75% and improving processing speed up to 10 times, directly lowering the cost and complexity of building AI tools for businesses of any size.
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Microsoft Azure Launches AI Agent to Monitor Cloud Systems
Microsoft has released an AI agent inside its Azure cloud platform that watches for system problems, investigates them automatically, and suggests fixes, which matters to any organisation running business software in the cloud.
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MoEngage Buys AI Marketing Startup Aampe
Indian marketing software firm MoEngage has acquired AI startup Aampe, which assigns a separate AI agent to every customer to decide what messages to send them, in a deal worth tens of millions of dollars, as MoEngage pushes to take enterprise clients away from Salesforce and Adobe.
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Mistral Launches OCR 4 for Document Processing at $4 per 1,000 Pages
Mistral AI has released OCR 4, a document-reading tool that not only extracts text from PDFs and scanned files but also tells you where each piece of text sits on the page and how confident the system is about each word, priced at $4 per 1,000 pages with an option to run it on your own servers.
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Tesla FSD Fatal Texas Crash Puts Blame Question in Focus
A Tesla on self-driving mode killed a 76-year-old woman in her Texas home, and while Tesla says the driver floored the accelerator to override the system, a federal investigation and a pattern of similar disputes show the full picture is rarely that simple.
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Anthropic Launches Claude as a Permanent Slack Team Member
Anthropic has launched Claude Tag, a tool that sits inside Slack as a permanent team member that reads your company's conversations, builds memory over time, and takes on tasks without needing to be told everything from scratch each time.
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OpenAI Launches AI Security Suite for Corporate Defenders
OpenAI expanded its Daybreak cybersecurity initiative on June 22 with a new AI model, updated tools, and a partner network spanning Cisco, IBM, and Palo Alto Networks, shifting its focus from finding software vulnerabilities to actually fixing them at speed.
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Google Cloud Launches Private AI Computing for Sensitive Data
Google Cloud has released a set of tools that let businesses run AI on confidential data without exposing it to anyone, including Google itself, arriving exactly as data privacy laws multiply and regulators begin treating AI-related data mishandling as a serious liability.
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Anthropic Asks Some Claude Users to Show ID
Starting July 8, Anthropic can ask flagged consumer Claude accounts to submit a government ID and a face scan, a policy change driven by U.S. export-control pressure and the broader shift toward AI tools that take real-world actions on your behalf.
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