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White House improvises AI rules as Anthropic standoff drags into week two
Claude Mythos and Fable 5 remain offline nearly a week after Trump administration export directive — and no one will say what Anthropic did wrong.
Match survey: 47% of U.S. singles view AI in dating negatively
Match Group polled 1,000 singles aged 18–39 and found resistance to AI companions but openness to profile and chat assists.
Snap spins off generative AI video team into new company, Dotmo
CTO Bobby Murphy leads the new venture as an outside investor while Snap takes equity and licenses its tech for interactive gaming.
Baseten nears $1.5B round at $13B valuation, up 160% in five months
The AI inference startup is closing a split-priced round five months after a $300M Series E, riding the inference gold rush.
OpenAI adds spend controls and usage analytics to ChatGPT Enterprise
Admins get finer-grained visibility into who is using ChatGPT Enterprise, how often, and at what cost — a response to budget creep at scale.
AWS opens talks to sell Trainium chips to outside buyers, targeting Nvidia
Amazon's AI chip business is on a $50B run rate. Selling to third parties would put it in direct contact with Nvidia's $326B engine.
FERC clears faster grid hookups for AI data centers, with 60-day study path
New large-load interconnection rules let AI factories fund their own upgrades and qualify for accelerated reviews if they offer flexible load.
Adobe puts AI assistants inside Photoshop, Premiere, Illustrator, InDesign and Frame.io
A public beta gives five Creative Cloud apps a bespoke chatbot that runs app-specific tasks from natural-language prompts.
FERC orders grid operators to fast-track AI data center connections
Six major grid operators have 30 days to report spare capacity and 60 days to defend rates as data center demand is set to nearly triple by 2035.
Amazon employees say HR threatened termination over Seattle data center testimony
Three engineers from Amazon Employees for Climate Justice filed a civil rights complaint after backing Seattle's one-year data center moratorium.
General Intuition in talks for $300M round at $2B valuation
The Medal spinout building world models to train AI agents has drawn checks from Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt eight months after its seed.
Anthropic pulls Claude Fable 5 after Trump administration 90-minute ultimatum
A jailbreak warning from Amazon researchers triggered emergency export controls, taking Anthropic's newest public model offline within hours.
Nvidia's GeForce NOW adds cross-store library sync, cuts annual pricing
Ultimate tier drops $70 for 12 months as cloud service ties together Steam, GOG, Ubisoft+, EA app and Xbox libraries.
Nvidia turns Cannes Lions into a pitch for AI-run advertising
Alembic, AWS, Criteo, Higgsfield, KERV.ai and Taboola show off Blackwell-powered adtech stacks built around autonomous agents.
Intel jumps 9% after Trump announces Apple chip design deal
The president said on Truth Social that Apple will design and build chips with Intel in the U.S., extending a run that has lifted Intel 464% in 12 months.
JPMorgan blocks Anthropic AI access for Hong Kong staff
The bank is carving its Hong Kong workforce out of Anthropic deployments, citing data and jurisdictional concerns.
UK to deploy facial age estimation on asylum seekers in 2027
Internal Home Office tests show the AI misjudged Sub-Saharan African women's ages by 4.6 years on average — and ministers are proceeding anyway.
France's AI buildout goes live: Mistral data center hits 18,000 GB200s
Mistral's 44MW Bruyères-le-Châtel site is operational, anchoring a 200MW European compute roadmap by 2027 and a planned 1.4GW Campus AI hub.
Midjourney pivots to hardware with a full-body ultrasound scanner
CEO David Holz unveiled the Midjourney Scanner and a San Francisco spa concept, claiming image quality that rivals MRI in 60 seconds.
Google Docs users hunt for the off switch on Gemini pop-ups
Google buried the controls in two different menus — here is how to silence the 'write with Gemini' prompts without playing whac-a-mole.
Gemini co-lead Noam Shazeer leaves Google for OpenAI
Shazeer's exit lands less than two years after Google paid to bring him back from Character.AI, and weeks before OpenAI's IPO.
IO-AI Tech turns Shenzhen workers into humanoid robot pilots
The startup pays operators to wear VR rigs and steer factory humanoids, harvesting the teleoperation data needed to make the bots autonomous.
Nvidia's ENPIRE lets AI coding agents train robots overnight, hits 99% success
Teams of up to 8 agents from OpenAI, Anthropic and Moonshot taught robots to insert GPUs and cut zip ties without human input.
NEA's Tiffany Luck: enterprises still can't pin down AI ROI
Uber blew its annual AI budget in months, Meta killed an internal leaderboard, and CFOs are asking what tokenmaxxing actually bought.
Snap stock slides 5% after $2,200 Specs AR glasses unveiling
Shares fell from $5.86 to $4.83 after Snap priced its decade-in-the-making AR glasses at nearly $2,200 — well outside its teen demographic's budget.
Threads, Instagram and TikTok hand users the algorithm dials
Threads' new Your Algo, Instagram's expanded controls, and TikTok's Smart Keyword Filters mark a shift toward user-tunable feeds.
Anthropic joins Frontier as first AI startup in $1.8B carbon removal pact
Anthropic's pledge helps double Frontier's funding to $1.8B and marks the lab's first climate-related deal amid an AI energy buying spree.
G7 leaders push back on US after Trump blocks Anthropic model exports
Macron and Modi warn that overnight US revocation of AI access threatens both foreign economies and American AI firms themselves.
Pew: 63% of Americans say AI is advancing too quickly
Chatbot usage jumped from 33% to 49% in two years, but only 16% think AI will help society.
Only 16% of Americans see AI as a net positive, Pew finds
Pew's new survey shows 40% expect a negative societal impact, yet 44% of U.S. adults now use ChatGPT — more than double 2023.
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