Claude's voice mode is now available for Opus and Sonnet
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Patreon is laying off 20 percent of workers
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Tesla’s robotaxi promises are clashing with reality
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OpenAI is making big claims as it rolls out ChatGPT Health to everyone
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Uber is laying off 10 percent of customer service workers as it continues to “embrace AI.”
An Uber spokesperson tells Bloomberg that the move comes as the company works “to simplify operations, strengthen in-person collaboration, and continue to embrace AI.” Uber is also asking remote customer service employees to return to the office, Bloomberg reports.
The new Halo remake is a reminder of what Xbox used to be
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Jeff Bezos is getting involved with centering Amazon’s AI in Prime Video.
Like Sergey Brin going hands-on with Google’s AI push (and in addition to a rumored bid for Liverpool), Reuters reports Bezos has made an unusual move to become personally involved in the “Lighthouse” project updating Prime Video’s homepage, recommendations, and voice control.
Lawmakers prepare bill requiring AI ‘kill switch’
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What Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit is really about
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The right-wing boomers protesting data centers have a lot in common with the left
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Google hit with $1 billion fine for breaking EU antitrust rules
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Trump’s ‘Genesis Mission’ is supposed to solve AI’s issues with more AI.
The goal is to speed scientific breakthroughs on key priorities including meeting soaring energy demand that’s raising electricity costs for Americans.
Google says Gemini now has 950 million monthly users.
It’s a sizeable jump from the 750 million Gemini users Google reported in February. Alphabet, Google’s parent company, shared the stat as part of its Q2 2026 earnings report (pdf), which also revealed a 24 percent increase in revenue to $119.8 billion.
Trump administration announces hundreds of “Genesis Mission” AI science projects.
The push to solve issues, including the soaring energy demands of AI data centers, using AI, revealed “more than $5 billion in Federal commitments” across 278 awards and 342 institutions in its list of awards.
China’s Moonshot trained its AI model on a restricted Nvidia chip, White House claims.
Michael Kratsios, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy director, writes on X that Moonshot accessed Nvidia’s high-end GB300 processors in Thailand, which are subject to strict export controls. Kratsios also accuses Moonshot of distilling Anthropic’s Fable AI model to build Kimi K3, an open-source AI system claimed to rival flagship models from US companies.
Amazon is cutting jobs on its AGI team.
In a statement to The Verge, Amazon spokesperson Jackie Burke says the company is “eliminating some roles within parts of our AGI [artificial general intelligence] organization” as the company focuses on “initiatives that matter most for customers.” It’s not clear how many workers are impacted.
Here’s what Samsung’s smart glasses actually look like
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The machines are taking both the content and the readers at an industrial scale, too.
This is a story about how AI destroyed a long-running site of film data. It’s not just that search no longer refers traffic or that the site itself, The Numbers, is getting scraped. It’s also that there’s no way to defend 30-year-old webpages against malicious actors attempting to get the data early so they could win their Polymarket bets.
Microsoft is bringing original Xbox games to PC
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AMD commits up to $5 billion to Anthropic
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