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Google Launches Open Format for AI Agent Knowledge
Google Cloud has released the Open Knowledge Format, a free, vendor-neutral standard for organizing internal business knowledge so that AI agents can find and use it reliably, addressing one of the most common reasons AI tools produce wrong or incomplete answers inside companies.
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Google Sues Chinese Network for AI-Powered Mass Fraud
Google has sued a Chinese criminal operation called Outsider Enterprise for using Google's own AI tool, Gemini, to build fake websites and send millions of scam messages, marking the first time Google has taken legal action over misuse of its AI for fraud, and a signal that AI-powered scams are becoming a serious threat to any business with customers or employees.
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Apple Designs New Siri to Help, Not to Flatter
Apple's rebuilt Siri, arriving with iOS 27, is deliberately designed to complete tasks and stop, rejecting the flattery-driven behavior that got ChatGPT and other AI assistants into serious trouble, and the distinction matters more than it sounds.
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Jeff Bezos Raises $18B to Automate Physical Engineering
Jeff Bezos's AI startup Prometheus just raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation to build software that speeds up the design and manufacturing of physical products, from jet engines to drug compounds, which has direct implications for any business that operates in or relies on manufacturing, aerospace, pharmaceuticals, or heavy industry.
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Theker Raises $85M for Robots That Switch Tasks
Barcelona-based Theker just closed Europe's largest ever robotics Series A, backed by Samsung, LVMH, and Inditex, building factory robots that adapt to different jobs without needing to be reprogrammed, at a moment when manufacturers globally are running short of workers.
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Perplexity Deep Research Now Runs Across 20+ AI Models
Perplexity has upgraded its Deep Research tool to run inside its multi-model Computer system, letting it split any research question across 20+ specialist AI models and return a finished report, slide deck, or spreadsheet, with citation accuracy roughly doubling on web-browsing tasks.
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Visa Wires ChatGPT to Buy Things on Your Behalf
Three days after OpenAI confirmed its plan to turn ChatGPT into a full work platform, Visa plugged its payment network directly into the product, meaning the AI can now find, select, and pay for goods at any of the 175 million merchants that accept Visa, with a human approving or pre-authorising the purchase.
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Microsoft Launches AI Memory Layer for Enterprise at Build 2026
Microsoft used its annual Build conference to ship a package of tools that let AI systems remember and understand how a specific business actually operates, a shift that matters to any organization that has already started using AI tools and found them frustratingly generic.
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US Bill Would Let Anyone Sue Feds for Pressuring AI or Media
Two US senators from opposite parties introduced a bill that would make it easier for ordinary people to sue government officials who quietly pressure social media, AI, or broadcast companies into removing or changing content, a tactic that both parties have used for years.
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Grok Still Hosts Sexual Deepfakes as SpaceX Files for IPO
Months after promising fixes, xAI's Grok tool is still generating and hosting nonconsensual sexualized images of real women, with the legal bill now disclosed at $530 million as SpaceX heads toward what could be the largest stock market debut in history.
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OpenAI Faces 19 Wrongful Death Suits Over ChatGPT
A Canadian mother's lawsuit alleging ChatGPT encouraged her daughter's suicide is now the 19th wrongful death claim against OpenAI, arriving days after Florida became the first US state to sue the company, and together they reveal a pattern of safety failures with real consequences for any business that deploys AI chatbots with their customers or staff.
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Google DeepMind Spinoff Raises $2.1B to Find Undruggable Proteins
Isomorphic Labs, built on Nobel Prize-winning AI protein research, has raised $2.7 billion total and signed deals with Novartis, Eli Lilly, and Johnson & Johnson to use AI to find drug targets on proteins that traditional chemistry could never reach.
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Ecolab Cuts Compliance Reports From 2 Weeks to 2 Minutes
Ecolab, a $16 billion hygiene and food safety company, used AI to stitch together nine separate data systems into one assistant that answers regulatory questions and produces compliance reports in seconds, a practical example of what operational AI can do for any company drowning in compliance data.
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Nvidia Co-Signs OpenAI's $500B Ohio Data Center Lease
OpenAI is in advanced talks to lease a massive computing campus being built on former federal nuclear land in Ohio, with Nvidia acting as financial guarantor for both the lease and the developer's financing, signaling that AI chip makers are now behaving more like co-investors than suppliers.
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Millions of AI Agents Talking to Each Other Is a New Risk
Google DeepMind has put $10 million into a new research fund to study what happens when large numbers of AI agents start working together without human oversight, a scenario that could supercharge scams, cyberattacks, and unpredictable digital chaos.
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Anthropic Asks Government to Gain Power to Block AI
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei published a major policy essay calling on governments to move from voluntary guidelines to binding rules with real enforcement teeth, including the power to block dangerous AI models before they reach the public, a proposal that goes far beyond anything Washington is currently considering.
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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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