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Canada Bans Social Media for Under-16s, Adds AI Chatbot Rules
Canada introduced Bill C-34 today, blocking anyone under 16 from holding a social media account and placing new legal obligations on AI chatbot services, part of a wave of similar laws spreading across Australia, the UK, and beyond that will force global platforms to change how they operate.
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xAI Sued Over Engineer Fired for Grok Safety Warnings
A former xAI engineer is suing Elon Musk's company and SpaceX, claiming he was fired for pushing safety checks on Grok, the AI chatbot that later generated antisemitic content and a flood of nonconsensual sexual images, with the lawsuit landing days before the largest IPO in stock market history.
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Fable 5 Data Rules Block Microsoft Internally
The day after Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5, a mandatory 30-day data retention rule attached to its safety system has blocked the model from Microsoft's own internal tools, raised compliance concerns for any enterprise handling confidential information, and triggered a separate controversy over hidden restrictions that silently degrade the model's answers for AI researchers.
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Amazon Borrows $31B in 48 Hours for AI Infrastructure
Amazon raised $31.5 billion in two days through a bank loan and a Canadian bond sale, part of a much larger shift where the world's biggest tech companies are now borrowing hundreds of billions rather than spending their own cash to build AI data centers.
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Google Launches DiffusionGemma, a Free Open AI Model
Google has released DiffusionGemma, a free, open-weight AI text model that generates responses up to four times faster than standard AI models by writing whole blocks of text at once instead of word by word, though it trades some accuracy for that speed.
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German Court Rules Google Owns What Its AI Says
A Munich court has ruled that Google is directly responsible for false claims made by its AI Overviews feature, a decision that could reshape how any company deploying AI-generated answers is held accountable worldwide.
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Google Is Now Anthropic's Investor, Customer, and Backstop
Google has secretly been guaranteeing the lease payments on a $35 billion chip financing deal for Anthropic, meaning the two companies that compete on AI products are now so financially intertwined that one's failure could directly hit the other.
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Databricks Connects AI Tools to On-Premises Data
Databricks launches a storage partner program that lets its AI and analytics tools read data stored on company servers without moving it to the cloud, addressing a real problem for banks, manufacturers, pharma companies, and any large organization whose data cannot leave its own walls.
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Jedify Raises $24M to Feed AI Agents Your Business Data
New York startup Jedify has raised $24 million to solve one of the most common reasons AI deployments fail inside large companies: the AI does not know how your business actually works.
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EU Forces Meta to Reopen WhatsApp to Rival AI Chatbots
The EU has ordered Meta to restore free WhatsApp access for competing AI assistants within five working days, using an emergency antitrust power it has only invoked once before in 17 years, a signal that regulators will not wait years for AI market cases to reach a verdict.
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Meta Builds Its First India Data Center With Reliance
Meta and Reliance Industries announced a deal to build a 168-megawatt data center in Gujarat, India, a move that reflects how global companies are now treating India as a serious location for AI infrastructure, partly driven by new Indian data rules that require customer data to stay inside the country.
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Seattle Bans New AI Datacenters for One Year
Seattle's city council unanimously voted to block all new large-scale datacenter construction for one year, making it the largest US city to do so, as rising electricity bills from the AI buildout turn public opinion sharply against the infrastructure behind AI.
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Google Cuts AI Subscription to $5, Undercutting Rivals
Google dropped its AI Plus subscription from $8 to $5 a month, doubling included storage, at the exact moment OpenAI and Anthropic are preparing for stock market listings where their pricing power will face public scrutiny for the first time.
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Anthropic Launches Claude Fable 5 With Hard Safety Limits
Anthropic has released Claude Fable 5, its most powerful AI model available to the public, but the model automatically blocks or redirects questions on cybersecurity, biology, and chemistry to an older, less capable model, a design choice that matters for any business exploring AI for technical or scientific work.
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Top Voice AI Tools Now Handle Bilingual Callers
A new benchmark reveals which AI voice tools can accurately transcribe customers who mix two languages mid-sentence, a common behavior among the world's 3.3 billion bilingual speakers that until now had no real industry test.
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Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 Now on Google Cloud
Anthropic's latest flagship AI model, Claude Opus 4.8, is now available on Google Cloud's enterprise platform alongside Claude Sonnet 4.6, giving businesses a new option for running complex, long-running document and workflow tasks inside infrastructure many already use.
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Google Launches Real-Time Voice Translator in 70 Languages
Google has released Gemini 3.5 Live Translate, a voice-to-voice translation tool that works across 70+ languages in near real-time, now available in the Google Translate app and coming to Google Meet for business users, which matters because it removes the need for human interpreters in everyday multilingual calls and meetings.
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Sandstone Raises $30M for In-House Legal AI
Sandstone, a startup building AI tools specifically for corporate legal departments at small and mid-sized businesses, has raised $30 million in Series A funding, entering a market where big AI players are now openly competing for the same lawyers.
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Google DeepMind Picks 15 European Robotics Startups
Google DeepMind has named the first cohort of its European robotics accelerator, a three-month, no-equity program giving 15 startups from nine countries access to Google's AI tools, cloud computing credits, and engineering expertise, at a moment when robotics investment in Europe more than doubled in 2025.
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Pentagon Labels Alibaba and Baidu as Military-Linked
The US Defense Department has formally designated Alibaba, Baidu, BYD, and dozens of other Chinese companies as linked to China's military, a move that will bar the Pentagon and its suppliers from doing business with them starting this month, and signals wider pressure on companies globally that still rely on these firms.
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