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The advanced problem-solving model, first announced at I/O in May, is now available in the Gemini app for anyone signed up to Google’s $250 per month plan.

The search-engine-indexing feature recently went viral online — if you knew where to look, anyone on the internet could access public ChatGPT logs where people seemed to confess to crimes, share trade secrets, and more potentially damning scenarios.

After years of the US casting doubt on Huawei tech for alleged security threats, now China gets a turn. The country’s Cyberspace Administration reportedly called Nvidia execs in to explain “loopholes and backdoor” vulnerabilities in the H20 AI chips designed specifically to sell in China. It follows an antitrust investigation opened last year.

Earlier this year there were a lot of questions over the $100 billion investment into The Stargate Project, and Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was quick to defend the software giant’s investment in cloud and AI data center projects. Microsoft posted its Q4 2025 fiscal earnings yesterday, revealing that Azure surpassed $75 billion in revenue over the year. Microsoft is also spending $30 billion on its AI infrastructure investments next quarter, which totals $120 billion over a year if it keeps that spending up.

The amount of the investment in Fable, which is making a service called Showrunner, hasn’t been disclosed, Variety reports. The company’s CEO and co-founder also says that it is in talks with Disney about potentially licensing IP.

Called AlphaEarth Foundations, the model stitches together data from actual satellite images, radar, climate simulations, and more to map Earth’s land and coastal waters.

The deal, which includes access to the NYT, The Athletic, and NYT Cooking, will have Amazon paying $20 million to $25 million per year, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal. In May, the NYT said Amazon will use its content to train AI models and bring article summaries to Alexa.

The guy who renamed Facebook to Meta went long with a blog post this morning about a grandiose AGI-ish vision for artificial intelligence and why his company is so invested in it. It also might help explain why Meta is making huge offers to hire “post-money” AI experts who aren’t completely convinced Meta is the place to be.

The search giant has followed OpenAI in signing the EU’s voluntary AI code of practice, after Meta snubbed the agreement over “legal uncertainties.” Google also has its complaints despite signing, saying in a statement:

Blackstone’s Wesley LePatner, 43, died yesterday in a mass shooting. Bloomberg wrote her a real obit (and says she’s 43, as do The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal); Fortune generated some AI slop that says she’s 44. As of this writing, the Fortune obit also contained the following paragraph:

The company plans on holding mock interviews where it will give coding candidates access to an AI assistant, according to a report from 404 Media.

“Luke’s résumé didn’t pass muster,” says one former government official, but obviously that doesn’t matter to DOGE. Farritor is “designated a GS-15, the highest salary rank for civilians, earning $167,603,” Bloomberg reports. He’s chauffeured around in a black SUV. And he’s betting that even if DOGE is a failure, he’s written his ticket for life: “To gamble like that shows you understand the theater of Silicon Valley.”

ChatAI will help other headphone brands quickly add wake words or button shortcuts to talk to an OpenAI-powered assistant.

Big Tech has turned to everything from nuclear reactors to coal mines to get enough power to run new data centers demanded by the pivot to AI, but utility companies want to make sure they’re not stuck footing the bill.

Today’s example is a Men’s Health article on Luka Doncic and his offseason workout routine. Pretty standard stuff, until the claim about a 42-inch vertical leap at the NBA Combine -- big if true, but it’s not, and he didn’t participate.

You’ll start to see it as a tab in Search or in Google’s iOS and Android apps. Google initially launched the AI-powered search experience in May in the US.

The crosswords are “human-edited” and themed on “stories from current news,” according to a popup in the Particle app.

The vulnerability (CVE-2025-31199), which Apple patched in a March 31st update, could give bad actors access to files inside a device’s Downloads folder and data cached by Apple Intelligence. That includes geolocation data, media metadata, and facial recognition info, according to a report from Microsoft Threat Intelligence.

Click the icon to the left of a URL and you can see a star rating and an AI-generated summary of details about the store.

Plans are in place to revive a shuttered plant in Kentucky. The Trump administration and Big Tech are trying to revitalize the nuclear energy industry to meet growing electricity demand from AI data centers.

I reported yesterday that OpenAI is preparing to release GPT-5 in early August, and now references to a new GPT-5-powered “Smart Mode” have reportedly appeared in Copilot. Alexey Shavanov discovered code changes in Copilot that point toward a new smart option that uses GPT-5 to “think quickly or deeply.” Microsoft refused to comment on this alleged GPT-5 appearance.