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A Microsoft analysis of 37.5M Copilot conversations from January-September 2025 finds health-related topics dominated users' questions, and more (www.axios.com)
35 minutes ago Microsoft

Operation Bluebird, a Virginia-based startup, has petitioned the USPTO to acquire the “abandoned” Twitter trademark and launch its own social network (arstechnica.com)
35 minutes ago Startup Twitter Virginia

Google DeepMind plans to open its “first automated science laboratory” in the UK in 2026, focused on using AI tools to develop new materials for chips and more (www.ft.com)
2 hours ago Google AI

A group of state AGs sent a letter to Meta, Microsoft, Google, Apple, and others warning their chatbots' “delusional outputs” could be violating state laws (www.reuters.com)
3 hours ago Google Microsoft Apple chatbot

Operation Bluebird Wants To Relaunch 'Twitter' For a New Social Network (tech.slashdot.org)
3 hours ago Twitter

Google tests AI-powered overviews on some publications' Google News pages; publishers like Der Spiegel, El País, and WaPo in commercial partnerships get paid (techcrunch.com)
4 hours ago Google AI

Google Faces Fines Over Google Play If It Doesn't Make More Concessions (news.slashdot.org)
4 hours ago Google

Google ads for shared ChatGPT, Grok guides push macOS infostealer malware (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
4 hours ago Google

Spotify will begin testing a feature that lets a user write a prompt for a playlist and receive a unique set of songs based on the user's earlier behavior (techcrunch.com)
4 hours ago Spotify

Internal memo: Google is naming Amin Vahdat, who leads the company's AI and infrastructure team, to the new role of chief technologist for AI infrastructure (www.semafor.com)
5 hours ago Google AI

India Proposes Charging OpenAI, Google For Training AI On Copyrighted Content (tech.slashdot.org)
5 hours ago India Google AI

Amazon now offers same-day perishable grocery delivery in 2,300+ US markets and has expanded the service's grocery offerings by 30%+ since its August launch (www.grocerydive.com)
5 hours ago Amazon

Google rolls out Preferred Sources globally, letting users customize “top stories” in Search, and launches highlighted links from users' news subscriptions (searchengineland.com)
6 hours ago Google

ChatGPT was 2025's most downloaded free app in the US iOS App Store, up from No. 4 in 2024, followed by Threads, Google, TikTok, WhatsApp, and Instagram (techcrunch.com)
7 hours ago IOS Google Instagram WhatsApp

Reddit starts a limited test of verified profiles, an opt-in feature that places a gray checkmark beside the usernames of notable people or businesses (techcrunch.com)
7 hours ago Reddit

Permalink to IBM to acquire Confluent for $11 billion (sdtimes.com)
8 hours ago IBM

Google releases fully managed, remote MCP servers to help developers connect AI agents to services such as Maps, BigQuery, Compute Engine, and Kubernetes Engine (techcrunch.com)
8 hours ago Google AI

Sources: Google is set to be hit with a potentially large EU fine in Q1 2026 if it does not do more to ensure Google Play complies with EU competition rules (www.reuters.com)
8 hours ago Google

Kiev devising new scheme to steal Western taxpayers' money – Russian intel (www.rt.com)
9 hours ago Russia Intel

Microsoft Teams to warn of suspicious traffic with external domains (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
9 hours ago Microsoft

Google unveils Emergency Live Video, similar to iOS' Emergency SOS Live Video, letting US users on Android 8 or later to share live video with 911 responders (www.theverge.com)
11 hours ago Android IOS Google

Amazon Changes How Copyright Protection is Applied To Kindle Direct's Self-Published Ebooks (news.slashdot.org)
11 hours ago Amazon

Amazon plans to let authors offer their DRM-free ebooks in the EPUB and PDF formats through Kindle Direct Publishing, starting January 20, 2026 (techcrunch.com)
12 hours ago Amazon

YouTube TV plans to launch over 10 genre-specific, cheaper YouTube TV Plans in early 2026, including a Sports Plan featuring ESPN Unlimited and Fox Sports 1 (variety.com)
12 hours ago YouTube

Shopify launches Product Network, an ad tool that lets merchants recommend and advertise products on other merchants' storefronts (www.adweek.com)
13 hours ago Shopify

Starcloud, which launched a satellite with a Nvidia H100 chip in November, says the satellite is running and querying responses from Google's Gemma (www.cnbc.com)
13 hours ago Google Nvidia

Geothermal energy company Fervo, which aims to power data centers and more, raised $462M from Google and others, taking its total funding to $1.5B since 2017 (www.wsj.com)
13 hours ago Google Energy

In a series of lawsuits, Intel, AMD, Texas Instruments, and Berkshire were accused of failing to keep their tech out of Russian-made weapons used in Ukraine (www.bloomberg.com)
13 hours ago Russia Intel Ukraine Berkshire Texas AMD

Amazon Kindle Scribe Colorsoft review: the $630 pen-enabled e-reader is a tough sell for most people, even with its big 11" display and productivity features (www.bloomberg.com)
14 hours ago Amazon

Google launches a cheaper AI Plus plan in India, costing ~$2.21 per month for the first six months and ~$4.44 thereafter, to compete with ChatGPT Go (techcrunch.com)
15 hours ago India Google AI

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