Internet/e-commerce

eMarketer: chatbots like ChatGPT and Google AI Mode will generate less than $1B in ad revenue in 2026; OpenAI projected $2.5B in ChatGPT ad revenue this year (www.adweek.com)
2026-7-14 Google AI chatbot

Google agrees to buy 100% of the initial output from the Steel River Energy Center's 1.6GW solar project in Arkansas when it becomes operational in 2029 (www.ft.com)
2026-7-14 Google Energy Solar

Microsoft Promises To Fix Search With Major Windows 11 Overhaul (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-14 Microsoft

Microsoft announces a Windows 11 search overhaul that prioritizes local results, removes promotional web content, and more, rolling out to Windows Insiders (www.windowscentral.com)
2026-7-14 Microsoft

Apple Reportedly Agreed to Intel Chips To Avoid White House Tariffs (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-7-14 Intel Apple

Intel plans to invest €5B to expand chip manufacturing at its Leixlip facility in Ireland; in 2025, Intel canceled a planned €30B factory in Magdeburg, Germany (www.ft.com)
2026-7-13 Germany Intel Manufacturing Ireland

Docs: Uber lobbied for a “phased transition” to AVs, giving it an edge over self-driving developers; Uber says AV industry proposals overlook drivers' rights (www.wired.com)
2026-7-13 Uber

AI-driven Datacenter Builds Increased Microsoft's Emissions 25% In One Year (slashdot.org)
2026-7-13 Microsoft AI

Id Co-founders Carmack and Romero Respond to Microsoft's Layoffs (games.slashdot.org)
2026-7-12 Microsoft Layoffs

AirDNA: during the FIFA World Cup group stage, platforms such as Airbnb saw 52K+ new listings in US host cities, while hotel bookings fell short of expectations (www.ft.com)
2026-7-12 Airbnb

A look at Bending Spoons' hiring process: the company, which owns Vimeo, AOL, and Evernote, received 800,000 job applications last year and made only 286 hires (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-12 Evernote

People Keep Sneaking Into an Empty IBM Campus - and Then Getting Arrested (slashdot.org)
2026-7-12 IBM

DuckDuckGo's Browser Now Blocks Most YouTube Ads (news.slashdot.org)
2026-7-12 YouTube Browser

Filing: Google urged the European Commission not to target DNS resolvers, VPNs, or IPs to fight piracy, calling the measures ineffective and easily circumvented (torrentfreak.com)
2026-7-12 Europe Google

EU targets Meta over ‘addictive' Facebook and Instagram design (www.rt.com)
2026-7-12 Europe Facebook Instagram

Sources detail the Trump admin's heavy-handed intervention to aid Intel, including pushing it to expand local capacity and pressuring Apple to use Intel's fabs (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-11 Trump Intel Apple

OpenAI and Google sold AI services to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, reigniting calls for tighter US regulation of AI models (www.ft.com)
2026-7-11 Google Alibaba AI Tencent Singapore

Disney+ Explores a Free Tier As YouTube Draws TV Viewers (entertainment.slashdot.org)
2026-7-11 YouTube

Analysis: Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle, the top spenders on new US data centers, collectively added ~$350B in debt over the past five years (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-7-11 Amazon Microsoft Oracle Alphabet

The UK designates Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Oracle as critical third-party financial sector suppliers, bringing them under direct regulatory oversight (www.reuters.com)
2026-7-10 Google Amazon Microsoft Oracle

Microsoft to Retire OWA Light Client In Exchange Server (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-10 Microsoft

In preliminary findings, the EU Commission said Facebook and Instagram's addictive design violates the DSA, telling Meta to make changes or risk a hefty fine (www.nytimes.com)
2026-7-10 Facebook Instagram

OpenAI and Google are providing advanced AI models to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, exposing a gap in US AI controls (www.ft.com)
2026-7-10 Google Alibaba AI Tencent Singapore

Google Search Hits All-Time Usage Record (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-7-10 Google

Sources: Netflix executives are increasingly worried about declining engagement and are exploring adding live TV and bundling streaming services like Peacock (www.wsj.com)
2026-7-10 Netflix

Google says it will automatically add a disclosure to ads that are made with its AI advertising tools, expanding the disclosure beyond election ads to all ads (techcrunch.com)
2026-7-10 Google AI

Google Hands Open Health Stack To the Linux Foundation (news.slashdot.org)
2026-7-10 Linux Google

Microsoft expects more Windows security updates from AI-discovered flaws (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-10 Microsoft AI

Microsoft President Brad Smith says the US now has AI “regulation without transparent or complete rules” and “businesses can't plan” without rules (fortune.com)
2026-7-10 Microsoft AI

New Forg365 phishing platform uses AI to target Microsoft 365 accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-7-10 Microsoft AI

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