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AI chatbots from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, DeepSeek and xAI often refuse to generate content critical of governments in restrictive regimes like China, Thailand and Saudi Arabia, according to a…

SAP has closed its acquisition of Prior Labs, a Freiburg-based AI lab specializing in foundation models for structured tabular data, for more than €1 billion over four years. The deal, which keeps Pri…

Google has expanded Google Vids with a feature that creates AI avatars resembling users' faces and voices from selfies and voice recordings, announced Thursday. The update, reported by TechCrunch, tra…

The European Commission ordered Google to open Android to rival AI assistants and share search data under the Digital Markets Act, aiming to curb Google's dominance. Google warned the rulings could un…

Barron's argues that Apple's 'Standard Oil' strategy of letting rivals fund AI research while controlling distribution has driven its stock to all-time highs, as Google delays Gemini 3.5 Pro, Meta fal…

Germany's Commission for Licensing and Supervision (ZAK) ruled on July 14 that Google AI Overviews and Perplexity AI are content publishers under the State Media Treaty, not neutral platforms, in the …

Alphabet shares closed down roughly 4.5% on July 16, wiping out approximately $200 billion in market capitalization after Bloomberg reported that Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro AI model is months behind sche…

Eoptolink, a Chinese maker of high-speed optical transceivers, has filed for a secondary Hong Kong listing that could raise up to $5bn, above the $3bn floated in April, according to Bloomberg. The com…

Google's Gemini 3.5 Pro has missed three consecutive launch targets, with Bloomberg confirming on July 16 that the rebuilt model still cannot clear Google's own internal coding benchmarks. Google has …

Meta-funded Oversight Board finds that 10 major AI models, including those from Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, Meta, and OpenAI, are significantly more hesitant to criticize governments in restrictive c…

The European Commission will require Google to make rival AI chatbots more accessible on Android and share internal search data with competitors, citing violations of the Digital Markets Act. Google m…

Google DeepMind philosopher Iason Gabriel admits the hardest part of AI alignment is choosing which values to encode into models, a decision that effectively lets Google decide what users are allowed …

Roblox launched Build, an AI-powered feature that lets users create games from a phone using text commands, announced Thursday. The tool, which requires no programming experience, has sparked develope…

Kimi K3, a new AI model from Moonshot AI, may be an inflection point for the industry, potentially negative for Anthropic and OpenAI but net positive for most other companies, according to an analysis…

The United Nations convened its inaugural Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva on July 6-7, with Secretary-General António Guterres calling for binding global rules and warning that "machines ca…

Chinese President Xi Jinping, in a speech marking 70 years since the Dartmouth workshop, called for global cooperation to ensure AI is developed for positive and good purposes, emphasizing a people-ce…

Google is adding AI image generation to AI Overviews and rebuilding the Google Images homepage, both timed to the service's 25th anniversary. Google Search Advocate John Mueller responded to a plan to…

San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu sent cease-and-desist letters to Apple and Google on Thursday demanding the removal of 13 AI face-swap apps that generate nonconsensual nude images, arguing the …

Best Buy is offering the 2025 Acer Chromebook Plus 516 laptop with Google AI for $329 shipped as part of its Deals of the Day lineup, marking one of the lowest prices tracked for the model that debute…

Microsoft, Hugging Face, Anthropic, and Google have released free resources on agentic AI, including a 15-lesson GitHub course, a hands-on framework-comparative course, a short engineering guide, a ri…