NotebookLM shows demand for voice, visuals, source-grounded AI replacing text-heavy interfaces and workflows.
Andy Jassy’s annual shareholder letter reads something like a diss track to a wide range of competitors as he defends spending $200 billion in capex.

Today on Decoder, let’s talk about the looming AI monetization cliff, and whether some of the biggest companies in the space can become real, profitable businesses before they careen right off it. My guest today is Hayden Field, who’s our senior AI reporter here at The Verge. She’s been keeping close tabs on both Anthropic […]
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Gen Z uses AI more than anyone, but a new Gallup survey shows their optimism has taken a sharp hit.

YouTube Shorts is rolling out a new AI-powered feature giving creators an easy way to realistically clone themselves on camera. The launch, hinted at earlier this year, reflects the platform’s fraught relationship with AI-generated content, adding more generative features while struggling to contain AI slop, deepfake scams, and impersonations. YouTube says the new tool will […]
Headlines abound on “any lawful use” of AI. What is the controversy? Why does it matter? I answer those crucial questions. An AI Insider scoop.
Anthropic plans massive TPU-based compute expansion, building U.S. data centers to support rapid AI growth.

Google’s Gemini is getting a feature called “notebooks” to help you organize things about certain topics in a single place while using the AI chatbot, the company announced on Wednesday. You can pull in things like files, past conversations, and custom instructions into notebooks that Gemini can then use as context while you’re talking with […]
Elon Musk recently unveiled Terafab, a proposed semiconductor megafactory to produce unprecedented levels of AI computing hardware. Will he be able to pull it off?