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OpenAI appoints ex-Uber India head Prabhjeet Singh as its first managing director for India, to scale its presence in its second-largest market after the US (techcrunch.com)
8 days ago India Uber

Italy is investigating Microsoft 365's price hike, saying Microsoft failed to inform users that AI tools like Copilot were being integrated into the service (www.reuters.com)
8 days ago Italy Microsoft AI

YouTube rolls out changes to Shorts, including adding a setting to double playback speed, eliminating the “dislike” button, and more (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago YouTube

Source: Google is asking publishers that test new AI features in Google News to grant it broad rights to their content, including to potentially train AI models (www.theinformation.com)
9 days ago Google AI

Microsoft quietly extends the Extended Security Updates program for Windows 10 consumers by a year, letting eligible users get updates through October 12, 2027 (www.windowscentral.com)
9 days ago Microsoft

Microsoft quietly extends free Windows 10 ESU support to October 2027 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
9 days ago Microsoft

Google launches a Google Finance app for Android, with market data, financial news, and an AI-powered “Key Moments” feature, and plans an iOS version this year (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago Android IOS Google AI

Microsoft says the price of Xbox consoles will increase on August 1 by $100 for 512GB models and $150 for 1TB models, the third price increase since 2025 (kotaku.com)
9 days ago Microsoft Xbox

Google Starts Lowering Play Store Fees, Making Good On Epic Games Settlement (news.slashdot.org)
9 days ago Google

Sources: Google expands the scope of its months-old AI coding strike team to “midtraining” to better compete with Anthropic, after key executive departures (www.theinformation.com)
9 days ago Google AI

OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon, Microsoft, and others launch Raise Us, a new non-profit led by ex-Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo to help US workers adapt to AI (www.nytimes.com)
9 days ago Amazon Microsoft AI

IBM details a 0.7nm chip manufacturing process that utilizes a “nanostack” 3D transistor architecture, which it says can maintain chip innovation for 10 years (www.nytimes.com)
9 days ago IBM Manufacturing

Facebook brings back Facebook Creator Studio as a stand-alone app with built-in AI chatbot to help creators grow their audiences through personalized guidance (techcrunch.com)
9 days ago Facebook AI chatbot

An Amazon seller reveals how middlemen on chat apps offer access to Amazon employees who allegedly grant favors, like reinstating suspended accounts, for a fee (www.bloomberg.com)
9 days ago Amazon

Google releases new privacy controls for activity history, personalization (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
10 days ago Google

Cloudflare partners with Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla on PACT, a protocol to distinguish legitimate human or bot traffic from undesirable network requests (www.theregister.com)
10 days ago Google Microsoft Mozilla

Sources: Google AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel, both viewed internally as key contributors to Gemini, are planning to leave for Anthropic (www.bloomberg.com)
10 days ago Google AI

Bob Iger's Disney Wanted Apple, Twitter, and 007 (apple.slashdot.org)
10 days ago Apple Twitter

Google says computer use is now a built-in tool supported in Gemini 3.5 Flash, available via the Gemini API and Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (blog.google)
10 days ago Google

Boffin Claims Microsoft's 'Quantum Leap' Is Invalid Due To 'Basic Python Errors' (developers.slashdot.org)
10 days ago Microsoft Quantum

Nature publishes a peer-reviewed paper alleging that Microsoft's 2025 quantum breakthrough claims were based on “basic Python errors” and data cherry-picking (www.theregister.com)
10 days ago Microsoft Quantum

Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit says AI helped it link two separate hacking tools, Amadey and StealC, and file a single civil lawsuit to take them down (www.bloomberg.com)
10 days ago Microsoft AI

Google Home Speaker review: the $100 speaker, the company's first such device in six years, works for Gemini power users but has underwhelming music playback (www.bloomberg.com)
10 days ago Google

Amazon plans to expand Amazon Now to 300 Indian cities and towns, up from 100 at present, as CEO Andy Jassy visits India; a source says he is set to meet Modi (www.bloomberg.com)
10 days ago India Amazon

Q&A with AWS CEO Matt Garman on the parallels between early AWS and AI, Quick, AI coding, Amazon's $200B capex in 2026, hiring entry-level staff, and more (www.platformer.news)
10 days ago Amazon AI

YouTube settles a lawsuit ahead of a second California trial over social media harms to minors; Meta, TikTok, and Snap remain defendants (www.courthousenews.com)
11 days ago YouTube California

Google plans a 12-week incubator, picking 10 to 20 AI startups from its “Xoogler” alumni and providing up to $350K in cloud credits and $100K in direct funding (www.bloomberg.com)
11 days ago Google Startup AI

A US NLRB judge ruled that Amazon violated federal law by not recognizing the Teamsters union at a SF warehouse and must collectively bargain with the workers (www.bloomberg.com)
11 days ago Amazon

Microsoft Accidentally Breaks Replying To an Email On Outlook (it.slashdot.org)
12 days ago Microsoft

Google Invests $75 Million In A24 To Develop AI-Powered Filmmaking Tools (entertainment.slashdot.org)
12 days ago Google AI

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