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Google has made its personalized image generation feature, powered by Nano Banana, free for all eligible US users, removing the previous paywall. The feature pulls context from users' Gmail, Google Photos, YouTube histor…
A class action lawsuit filed in California on June 25th accuses Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron of colluding to reduce supply of consumer DRAM while shifting production to high-margin AI memory, causing consumer memory pri…
AWS announced managed entitlements for Amazon Bedrock, allowing organizations to subscribe to third-party models like Anthropic Claude from a central account and distribute access across multiple AWS accounts without gra…
Google's 2025 Environmental Report shows total greenhouse gas emissions reached 11.5 million tons of CO2-equivalent in fiscal 2024, a 51% increase from 2019, driven by AI workloads. Data center electricity consumption ro…
An Associated Press investigation reveals that scammers trafficked to Myanmar are using AI models from US tech companies like OpenAI and Google to target victims at unprecedented scale, with one trafficked worker imperso…
Google co-founder Sergey Brin sold his stake in a New York real estate fund for six cents on the dollar, highlighting the financial pain facing landlords in the city due to rising costs and strict rent regulations. The f…
Billionaire venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, a former Democrat who now supports Donald Trump, has been appointed to the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board. The board, led by former Trump trade representative Robert Light…
Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck announced the $8 billion acquisition of Iridium Communications to challenge SpaceX's dominance in the satellite communications market, particularly in direct-to-mobile services. The deal positio…
A Democratic majority in Congress is expected to prioritize oversight and investigations of the administration and its business partners, focusing on AI governance, emerging technology, and national security supply chain…
Anthropic embedded hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code that covertly targets Chinese users, sending information such as timezone and proxy data by injecting it into prompt messages. The code routes metadata without u…
An unconfirmed leak on X claims Anthropic will release Claude Sonnet 5 on June 30 with a promotional API price of $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens, a 1 million token context, and a January 20…
The final matchups for three San Jose City Council seats are set for November, with Genny Altwer facing Gordon Chester in District 9, incumbent Peter Ortiz challenging Nora Campos in District 5, and incumbent Bien Doan r…
Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-N.J.) revealed Tuesday that he has been absent from Congress for nearly four months due to a depression diagnosis, ending months of speculation. Kean missed 142 votes since March 5 and faces a compet…
Federal Reserve-chefen Beth Hammack varnar för att AI-investeringar kan driva på inflationen, vilket kan kräva stramare penningpolitik. Uttalandet går emot andra bedömare som menar att AI kan öka produktiviteten och dämp…
A developer claims Anthropic's Claude Code CLI tool secretly encodes China-related proxy signals into system prompts sent to its AI model, potentially creating a covert classification channel. The alleged mechanism check…
A Las Vegas nurse practitioner, Marizel Yukee, was charged in a $906 million healthcare fraud scheme that used stolen funds to buy a $594,000 Ferrari and an $865,000 necklace. The Department of Justice announced charges …
Microsoft unveiled the Majorana 2 quantum chip at Build conference on June 2, claiming a 1,000-fold improvement in qubit reliability, while President Trump signed two executive orders on June 22 to accelerate US quantum …
Google's algorithm update in late 2024 eliminated 45% of AI-generated content from search results, forcing B2B marketing teams to adapt. Survivors focused on original research, expert insights, and user-first content str…
The Bank of International Settlements warned that the AI investment boom poses systemic risks, with hyperscalers set to spend over a trillion dollars on AI capex from 2025-2026, outpacing earnings and free cash flow. Dis…
The Presidential Physical Fitness Test has been revived with only three tests, down from seven, after President Donald Trump signed an order in May restoring the program. Children exercised alongside Robert F. Kennedy Jr…