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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Gemini Task Automation is rolling out for real.
Samsung Unpacked 2026: all the news from the July foldable launch
xAI's new Grok image and video generator has a 'spicy' mode
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A first (and second) look at the Android XR glasses launching this year
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Samsung’s Fold8 Ultra is its most ambitious yet
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Samsung’s wider Z Fold 8 feels just right
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Samsung and Google’s smart glasses get two new designs.
Samsung Unpacked 2026: all the news from the July foldable launch
Samsung Galaxy Unpacked 2026: The 6 Biggest Announcements
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Fire your CEO
That’s the premise of OverpAId, a satirical website proclaiming that AI is a more effective cost-cutting tool for replacing CEOs than other human employees. It’s a fun read that jabs at how the technology is impacting real workplaces and economics, and can’t be held accountable for making catastrophic decisions.
Oh great, another suitor.
In what seems very much like a desperate attempt to save face after failing to convince the world that Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is a bad film, Elon Musk says that Grok Imagine will generate a “historically-accurate” adaptation of Homer’s epic poem. One can only imagine what “historically-accurate” means here.
Meta made its own AI detection system. It should have just used Google’s
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