Seven tech giants signed Trump’s pledge to keep electricity costs from spiking around data centers 
Seven tech giants signed Trump’s pledge to keep electricity costs from spiking around data centers 

Leaders from Google, Meta, Microsoft, Oracle, OpenAI, Amazon, and xAI met with President Donald Trump today to sign a “rate payer protection pledge.” It’s one way they’re responding to growing bipartisan concerns about electricity rates rising as tech companies and the Trump administration rush to build out a new generation of AI data centers. “[Tech […]

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies,’ report says

Anthropic gave up its contract with the Pentagon over AI safety disagreements — then, OpenAI swooped in.

Apple Music to add Transparency Tags to distinguish AI music, says report

The label or distributor has to opt in to tagging their music as AI, so it’s unclear how effective this intervention will be.

Nvidia’s Optical Strategy: $4 Billion Reshapes AI Data Center Economics

NVIDIA invested $4 billion in Lumentum, Coherent, and Ayar Labs to secure optical interconnect supply. The deals build competitive moats as AI clusters hit power limits.

NotebookLM can now summarize research in ‘cinematic’ video overviews
NotebookLM can now summarize research in ‘cinematic’ video overviews

Google’s NotebookLM can now turn users’ research and notes into fully animated “cinematic” videos, going a step further than the original video overview feature Google introduced last year. Previously, video overviews could only generate narrated slideshows, but the upgraded video overview feature uses a combination of Google’s AI models, “including Gemini 3, Nano Banana Pro […]

This smart device stops sneaky AI gadgets from listening to your conversations

Spectre I is a portable device that prevents nearby microphones from recording your voice, by creating a protection zone around you that blocks smart devices, phones, and AI recorders from capturing conversations.
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Google’s AI-powered workspace is now available to more users in Search
Google’s AI-powered workspace is now available to more users in Search

Google is bringing Canvas to everyone in the US using AI Mode in Search. The feature opens up a dedicated workspace within its AI-powered search tool, allowing it to use the latest information from Search to organize plans, develop tools, and draft documents in a panel alongside your chat. Though Google initially launched Canvas inside […]

Google’s Gemini rolls out Canvas in AI mode to all US users

Canvas in AI Mode is available to U.S. users in English for creating plans, projects, apps, and more.

Decagon completes first tender offer at $4.5B valuation

The AI-powered customer support startup is the latest example of a fast-growing, young company that’s providing employee liquidity.

The US military is still using Claude — but defense-tech clients are fleeing

As the U.S. continues its aerial attack on Iran, Anthropic models are being used for many targeting decisions.