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AI has a water problem. Google thinks it has a fix

In the face of widespread backlash to the AI data center buildout throughout the US, Google is touting its efforts to minimize the environmental impact by actually increasing water for local communities. The company laid out five commitments around water use in a new blog post published Wednesday, including a goal to replenish more water […]

Google must let publishers opt out of AI Search features, rules UK

Online publishers are getting more control over whether their websites appear in Google's AI Search features, thanks to a UK regulatory ruling. The new conduct rule imposed by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) requires Google to let website owners keep their content out of features like AI Overviews and prevent it from being used […]

MIT researchers teach AI models to interpret charts

The new ChartNet training dataset could improve the accuracy of vision-language models that help analyze business trends or interpret scientific figures.

Cyera eyes $12B valuation at 80x ARR multiple despite operating losses

The cybersecurity company is nearing a $300 million round led by Evolution Equity Partners.

Microsoft Build 2026: the 7 biggest announcements

Microsoft just kicked off Build 2026 with a keynote from CEO Satya Nadella and other company leaders. As expected, it was filled with announcements, ranging from new Surface hardware to an always-on personal assistant and updates across Microsoft's in-house AI models. If you didn't watch the event live, you can catch up on all the […]

Uber caps employee AI spending after blowing through budget in four months

Uber's cutback has occurred after the company had reportedly encouraged staff to use AI as much as possible.

New Microsoft tool lets devs spin up AI behavior tests using text descriptions

Microsoft on Tuesday took the wraps off Adaptive Spec-driven Scoring for Evaluation and Regression Testing, an open-source framework for spinning up AI evaluations.

Trump signs executive order to review AI models before they’re released

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday creating a "voluntary framework" for AI companies to share their frontier models with the federal government before they're released "to promote secure innovation and strengthen the cybersecurity of critical infrastructure." The order says the US AI industry has succeeded in part "because we refuse to stifle this […]

Martin Scorsese becomes the latest — and most unlikely — Hollywood voice for AI

The caveat is that one of the world's most famous living directors is using the tech solely for storyboarding.

Microsoft’s first advanced reasoning AI is here

Microsoft announced a bunch of new in-house AI models at Build 2026, including a new "flagship" model: MAI-Thinking-1. It's an ambitious step into model development for Microsoft, which introduced its initial in-house models last year - before then, it had relied on OpenAI's models. The two companies recently renegotiated their deal to loosen ties. According […]

Microsoft launches Scout, an OpenClaw-inspired personal assistant

Launched at Build, Microsoft Scout is a new AI assistant meant to bring the power and flexibility of OpenClaw into the Microsoft 365 system.

Microsoft Scout is a new AI personal assistant built on OpenClaw

Much like Google, Microsoft is launching its own version of OpenClaw. Microsoft Scout is an always-on assistant that integrates into Microsoft 365 apps like Outlook, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams, allowing businesses to assign a virtual assistant to employees to help with organizing calendars, expense reporting, email drafts, and much more. Unlike Copilot that lives inside […]

Google’s Phone app will tell you if a scammer is impersonating one of your contacts

Google is launching a new feature for its Phone app that aims to protect you from AI impersonation scams. Now, when you receive a call from a scammer that appears to be coming from the same number as one of your contacts, Phone by Google will flag the call as suspicious so you can hang […]

Microsoft offers devs a better way to control AI agent behavior

The specification lets developer, compliance and security teams define their own policies for agents to follow in portable policy files.

Google rolls out fake call detection to protect against AI deepfake impersonation scams

As people increasingly refuse to answer calls from unknown numbers, scammers are shifting their tactics by spoofing trusted phone numbers and using AI deepfake technology to sound like authority figures, family members, or employers.

Amazon faces class action lawsuit over Ring facial-recognition feature

The class action lawsuit, filed in Seattle by Virginia resident Charles Sigwalt, claims that Ring's Familiar Faces feature stores images of passersby without consent.

Microsoft’s Project Solara is an OS for AI agent gadgets

Microsoft just announced "Project Solara," a new OS designed for gadgets that run AI agents, at Build 2026. The company is calling it "a new platform built from the ground up to power agent-driven experiences." It's built on Android, not Windows. Microsoft demonstrated two concept Project Solara devices at Build today: Desk concept and badge […]

Microsoft created the mini Surface dev box that Qualcomm couldn’t

Microsoft only just announced a new Surface Laptop Ultra at the weekend, and it's now revealing a miniature Surface PC aimed at developers. The new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box is powered by Nvidia's new Arm-based RTX Spark chips, just like the Surface Laptop Ultra, and is optimized for sustained workloads and local AI tasks. […]

Trump signs narrower executive order on AI oversight after industry objections

After industry objections, President Trump signed a revised AI executive order requiring only voluntary prerelease government reviews of advanced models.

OpenAI launches new Codex tools for white-collar work

OpenAI released a set of six plug-ins aimed at specific jobs: data analytics, creative production, sales, product design, equity investing, and investment banking. Available from within the Codex app, each of the new tools bundles integrations, instructions, and context to allow Codex to approximate a specific job.

Microsoft Build 2026: All the news about Windows, AI, RTX Spark, and more

Microsoft’s annual developer conference is kicking off on June 2nd in San Francisco with the keynote presentation streaming live at 12:30PM ET / 9:30AM PT, and we will be following along here with everything as it’s announced. The Verge’s Tom Warren reports that we can expect to hear about new AI models and agentic OpenClaw-like […]

Anthropic scales Claude Mythos to critical infrastructure in 15+ countries

Anthropic is expanding Project Glasswing, its security vulnerability program, and access to Mythos to 150 organizations across 15 countries — targeting critical infrastructure in power, water, healthcare, and communications where a cyberattack could affect 100 million people.

Holo3.1: Fast & Local Computer Use Agents

Gemini Spark is the most impressive and terrifying AI experience I’ve had yet

According to every product demo from the last four years, planning a trip is a killer use case for AI. Just tell it where you're going, they all promise, and your chatbot / agent / other buzzword will exhaustively search travel options, read up on all the fun things to do, check all the local […]

ZeroDrift raises $10M to protect AI models from themselves

A new AI compliance service sits between AI models and end users to flag and replace any messages that might present a compliance problem.

Rocket engine startup Impulse raises $500 million to hire people, not AI

Engineering physical systems still depends on human talent, according to Impulse Space president Eric Romo.

Travelers deploys AI-powered claims countrywide with OpenAI

Travelers built an AI-powered Claim Assistant with OpenAI to guide customers through filing claims, provide 24/7 support, and scale operations during peak demand.

Rehumanizing global health care with agentic AI

The global health care sector is under increasing strain. Decades of chronic underinvestment and constraints in recruitment have coincided with a surge in demand for services for aging populations. Gaps in provision are already taking a toll, with fragmented access to care and high rates of stress and burnout among staff. And it’s getting worse.…

How small businesses can leverage AI

This article is from Making AI Work, MIT Technology Review’s limited-run newsletter examining how to apply LLMs across industries. To receive it in your inbox,sign up here. From accounting to design to market research and product development, there’s a staggering breadth of skills needed to run a business. A large company can hire experts to…

Codex for every role, tool, and workflow

Discover new Codex plugins, sites, and annotations that help analysts, marketers, designers, investors, and other teams get more done with AI.

Advancing youth safety and opportunity through global leadership

OpenAI calls for global action on youth AI safety, proposing an international institute to strengthen safeguards, standards, and opportunities for young people.

Codex is becoming a productivity tool for everyone

The Next Era of Knowledge Work report explores how Codex is transforming productivity through AI-powered research, data analysis, workflow automation, and content creation.

Alphabet plans to raise $80B to pay for AI buildout

"The company is experiencing strong demand for its AI solutions and services from enterprises and consumers, at levels that are exceeding the company’s available supply," Alphabet said in its statement.

Nvidia chases $200B CPU market with AI agent PCs from Microsoft, Dell, and HP

If Nvidia has cracked a way to bring AI agents easily, safely, and usefully to the masses, it could — and should — be big.

Florida sues OpenAI, Sam Altman, in first-of-its-kind lawsuit over violent incidents

The lawsuit partially revolves around a shooting at Florida State University last year, and ChatGPT's alleged role in the incident.

This could be Windows’ M1 moment — but expect it to cost a ton

Nvidia's announcement that it's getting into the consumer laptop chip space with RTX Spark is huge. Apple has proved for years that Arm-based chips can perform incredibly well while also delivering great battery life - at least on the Mac. In the Windows world, performance hasn't fully matched up under Qualcomm chips, mostly in the […]

Gemini’s new AI agent is about as good as Google’s demo

Google's new "24/7" AI agent, Gemini Spark, can be shockingly good at doing things on your behalf. But I'm not sure it's worth the financial cost and potential privacy tradeoffs. The company gave me access to Spark last week. Google advertises Spark as an AI agent that can take on tasks and work on them […]

Meta’s own AI was exploited to hijack Instagram accounts

Meta's AI support chatbot helped hackers hijack Instagram accounts, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a video shared on Telegram, a hacker shows how they could take over an account by asking Meta's chatbot to switch the email associated with someone else's profile and then reset the password. The issue, which Meta says has […]

Water access is now a risk factor in SpaceX’s IPO

The company says it needs "significant" water resources to cool its data centers, and that access to abundant, affordable water is a challenge.

Our views on AI policy and political advocacy

Our approach to AI policy and political advocacy, transparency, support for thoughtful regulation and AI safety, and that no outside political group speaks on the company’s behalf.

Anthropic has officially filed to go public

After months of speculation about whether OpenAI or Anthropic would be first in their race to IPO, Anthropic on Monday reached a key milestone: filing to kick off the process with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The filing sets the stage for what's sure to be a massive IPO. As of its fundraise last […]

Anthropic files to go public

The company said Monday it has filed confidentially for an IPO.

This AI weather startup is out-forecasting government agencies

Windborne Systems' newest weather forecasting model beats the best government predictions by days.

How we used Gemini to build Google I/O 2026

Learn how Googlers used AI to produce Google I/O 2026.

Introducing Mellum2: A 12B Mixture-of-Experts Model by JetBrains

DuckDuckGo makes its ‘no-AI’ search engine easier to access as its traffic booms

Alternative search engine DuckDuckGo launches 'no AI' web extensions for Chrome and Firefox users.

Microsoft to unveil new AI models and Windows improvements at Build

Microsoft is heading to San Francisco this week in a bid to win back developers at its Build conference. I've been attending Build since the days when Microsoft called it the Professional Developers Conference, and I can't remember a more pivotal moment. As Microsoft continues to reshuffle its entire business around AI, it's moving Build […]

AI is blowing up music. How should the Grammys handle it?

Today I’m talking with Harvey Mason Jr., who is CEO of the Recording Academy — that’s the outfit that puts on the Grammy Awards. I last talked to Harvey in 2024, when it was obvious that generative AI would upend the music industry, but still not exactly clear how that would happen. Well, it’s been […]

Strava blames zero-code AI apps and scrapers as it tightens API access

The popular fitness-tracking platform, Strava, is restricting access to its API as part of efforts to clamp down on AI scraping, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. Developers who want to build an app using Strava's data now need to pay for a flat $11.99 / month subscription. In an update on its developer hub, Strava […]

Beyond LLMs: Why Scalable Enterprise AI Adoption Depends on Agent Logic

Building the infrastructure for the Intelligence Age in Michigan

OpenAI breaks ground on a 1GW data center project in Michigan as part of Stargate, building AI infrastructure to expand access, create jobs, and support communities.

OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS

OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now generally available on AWS, giving enterprises a new path to build with OpenAI through the AWS environments, controls, and procurement workflows they already use. Customers can get started with OpenAI on AWS and move faster from evaluation to production.

Welcome NVIDIA Cosmos 3: The First Open Omni-model for Physical AI Reasoning and Action

Erin Brockovich takes aim at data center secrecy

Environmental activist Erin Brockovich has a new mission.

Making sense of the debate over AI psychosis

On the latest episode of Equity, we debate whether tech CEOs are "uniquely prone to AI psychosis."

I went looking for the AI weed vape that gives you Bitcoin for smoking

The crypto weed vape found me on 4/20, the high holiday of cannabis enthusiasts everywhere. It arrived over Slack with the thumbnail of a man exhaling a plume of vapor, the words "every hit delivers Bitcoin" emblazoned across it. It claimed to be advertising a device called Gudtrip, and I thought everything about it sounded […]

SoftBank says it will invest up to €75 billion to build French data centers

The goal, the firm said, is to develop and operate up to 5 gigawatts of additional data center capacity.

‘What a joke’: Github Copilot’s new token-based billing spurs consternation among devs

The golden age of Microsoft's Github Copilot appears to be at an end.

Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant

Meta seems to be making big bets on AI-powered hardware.

I put Google’s 24/7 AI assistant Gemini Spark to work, and it’s actually pretty useful

Gemini Spark helps automate everyday tasks, from inbox summaries to local event planning, but it’s unclear why Google made it a separate product.