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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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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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