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Sources: AI cloud computing provider Lambda raised ~$1B of private short-dated debt to finance the purchase of Nvidia GPUs, which will be leased by Microsoft (www.bloomberg.com)
23 days ago Microsoft AI Nvidia

Uber says weekly AI agent requests have grown 9.4x since February, but total AI spending has stayed stable since April, after using up its 2026 AI budget in Q1 (www.axios.com)
23 days ago Uber AI Budget

Sources: the FTC has been investigating whether YouTube broke consumer protection laws by violating its own policies when suspending accounts or banning content (www.bloomberg.com)
23 days ago YouTube

Alphabet agrees to pay £260M to settle a UK class action lawsuit claiming it levied “unfair” charges on software downloaded from the Google Play app store (www.ft.com)
23 days ago Google Alphabet

Google adds Expert Intelligence to Gemini Notebook, letting users import eligible titles they own in Google Play Books to ask questions, generate podcasts, more (www.theverge.com)
23 days ago Google Intelligence

YouTube adds Amazon to its shopping affiliate program, enabling US creators to tag Amazon products in Shorts, longform videos, and livestreams (www.engadget.com)
24 days ago Amazon YouTube

OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Microsoft, and 100+ companies warn there is “a limited window” to prepare for AI-enabled cyberattacks and call for “collective action” (www.axios.com)
24 days ago Microsoft AI

Google launches Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash, which it says delivers studio-quality video production, including the ability to extend a scene, 4K upscaling, and more (deepmind.google)
24 days ago Google

Operation Bluebird Launches New Twitter (tech.slashdot.org)
24 days ago Twitter

Google launches a pilot of double-blind AI evaluations, keeping external evaluations in a cryptographic “box” to stop benchmark contamination and protect IP (deepmind.google)
24 days ago Google AI

Meta's AG settlement says its age verification framework will use “reliable age signals” shared with it by “OS and app stores operated by Apple and Google” (www.theverge.com)
24 days ago Google Apple

CivilGrid, which collects data about utility assets, property ownership, and more to build a “Google Maps for the underground”, raised a $26M Series A (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago Google Asset

Google announces new performance thresholds for Android apps including memory-use limits, citing the AI-induced memory crunch (techcrunch.com)
24 days ago Android Google AI

Microsoft rolls out fix for Windows 11 crashes, gaming issues (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
24 days ago Microsoft

Webinar: How Google Workspace breaches happen and what to do next (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
24 days ago Google

Meta agrees to pay $18 bn to settle Facebook and Instagram addiction trial (www.rt.com)
24 days ago Facebook Instagram

Meta says its new teen safeguards on Facebook and Instagram are exclusively for US users; the changes will be closely watched by officials outside of the US (www.bloomberg.com)
24 days ago Facebook Instagram

YouTube and TikTok are yet to publicly acknowledge Meta's proposed changes under its AG settlement; some US lawmakers signal an appetite for industry-wide rules (www.nytimes.com)
24 days ago YouTube

Google starts rolling out the google.com/goto URL as a passthrough URL to help prevent scraping of its search results by third-party tools and AI companies (www.seroundtable.com)
24 days ago Google AI

SEC filing: OpenAI invests ~$400M in its second startup fund, after it raised $175M for its first fund in 2021 from outside investors, including Microsoft (www.wsj.com)
24 days ago Microsoft Startup

Thinking Machines Lab co-founder Barret Zoph is returning to Google as VP of research, after leaving OpenAI in June and Thinking Machines Lab in January (www.wsj.com)
24 days ago Google

Source: Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13B; Microsoft also met with Hugging Face, but talks are not ongoing (www.businessinsider.com)
24 days ago Microsoft Nvidia

Internal email: Google is moving DeepMind's ~90-person “AI responsibility” team, focused on the risks and societal impact of AI, to Google's global affairs unit (www.wsj.com)
24 days ago Google AI

China's Moonshot In Talks With Microsoft, Amazon, Google Over K3 Revenue Sharing (news.slashdot.org)
24 days ago China Google Amazon Microsoft

Inside the Warehouse Where Amazon Scans and Destroys Books For AI Training (news.slashdot.org)
24 days ago Amazon AI

Google debuts Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, a speech-to-text model that powers Gboard Rambler and is coming to Chrome, in public preview for developers and enterprises (9to5google.com)
25 days ago Google Chrome

Amazon to Acquire DuckLabs, Adding the Team Behind DuckDB (developers.slashdot.org)
25 days ago Amazon

Meta agrees to pay up to $18B to settle US states' claims that it designed Facebook and Instagram to addict children, misled consumers, and more (www.reuters.com)
25 days ago Facebook Instagram

The Trump administration has struck data-sharing deals with OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon, and other tech companies to track how AI is affecting jobs and hiring (www.axios.com)
25 days ago Trump Google Amazon AI

Amazon agrees to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam company behind open-source database DuckDB, for an undisclosed sum; DuckDB will remain open source (www.geekwire.com)
25 days ago Database Amazon

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