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Google Just Rewired DeepMind: Gemini Has a New Day-to-Day Boss
Google has reorganised DeepMind, moving day-to-day operations to Koray Kavukcuoglu while Demis Hassabis takes a wider Alphabet science role.
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New Claude Models Are Hiding Invisible Watermarks in Their Answers
Anthropic has begun embedding invisible, machine-readable watermarks into text generated by new Claude models, with marking extending across Claude, Claude Code, the API and other products. Here is how it
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Big Tech Has Quietly Signed Up for $1.09 Trillion in Future Data-Centre Leases
Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, Amazon and Alphabet have collectively committed about $1.09 trillion in future lease payments for AI data centres, mostly invisible on their balance sheets. Here is where the
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OpenAI Is Shutting Down Atlas: What Users Lose and What Comes Next
OpenAI Atlas stopped working yesterday after less than ten months. Here is what users lose, why the standalone browser struggled, and what OpenAI is building instead.
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“We Cannot Drink DATA”: Google’s $15B India Data Center Hits a Wall
Google's $15 billion Visakhapatnam data center is under active legal challenge over water scarcity and wildlife impact, even as construction continues. Here is what the court case argues, and how
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Nscale Just Paid $1.65 Billion to Stop Being Just a GPU Landlord
The Nscale Anyscale acquisition is a $1.65B bet that owning power, data centres and GPUs isn't enough anymore, the real margin is in the software layer that decides how much
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DeepSeek V4 Pricing Crashes: Now 71x Cheaper
DeepSeek V4 pricing just crashed to a fraction of Claude and Gemini's cost, and the company killed its old API names for good.
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Gemini monthly active users
Gemini monthly active users hit 950 million, tripling in a year, as new Sensor Tower data shows ChatGPT's market share slipping below 50% for the first time.
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Kimi K3 Distillation: The White House Says China Stole From Anthropic. The Timeline Says Otherwise.
The White House accused Moonshot AI of stealing Anthropic's Fable to build Kimi K3. Here's the evidence, the disputed timeline, and why distillation is a legal grey zone the whole
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Apple OpenAI Lawsuit: The 400-Employee War
Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging former employees stole hardware trade secrets to build its first device, with over 400 ex-Apple staff now at the company and OpenAI's $852bn IPO on
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Kimi K3: China Just Released the World’s Largest Open AI Model
Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 is the largest open-weight model ever released — 2.8 trillion parameters, half the price of Claude Opus, and landing right as US export controls made AI
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What Is Agentic AI and Why Is Every Major Tech Company Racing to Build It?
OpenAI, Google and Salesforce launched competing AI agent platforms on the same day. Here's what agentic AI actually is, why Gartner says the window to adopt it is three to
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AI Robotic Hands: The Explosive $6bn Race
By Stuart Kerr, Technology Correspondent, LiveAIWire AI robotic hands have become the single most valuable component in China’s humanoid robotics industry, and one Beijing startup
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Nvidia’s Revenue-Sharing Model: What It Means for AI Startups and GPU Access
Nvidia's revenue-sharing model lets startups access GPUs without upfront capital, with Sharon AI already deploying 40,000 units. Here's how the shift from hardware sales to recurring royalties works.
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Sora 2 Shutdown: OpenAI’s Six-Month Product Just Died
Six months after launching to viral acclaim, OpenAI abruptly shut down Sora 2 following deepfake scandals, copyright fights and a pivot toward robotics ahead of its IPO.
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Generative AI in the Classroom: Why Students Are Quietly Replacing Google Search
One in three Harvard students now use AI instead of Google for research, and 92% of UK undergrads used AI in their academic work in 2025. Stuart Kerr examines what
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Google AI Nuclear Power: Hermes 2 Breaks Ground
Google's AI nuclear power bet has moved from paper to concrete. Kairos Power broke ground on the Hermes 2 reactor in Tennessee this spring, the first commercial step toward Google's
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Gemini in Google Docs Just Got a Lot Less English-Only
Gemini in Google Docs has added 11 new languages, from Mandarin to Norwegian, expanding its Help Me Write, Help Me Create and new Match Doc Format tools well beyond last
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Gemini in Google Workspace: AI Audio, Slides, and Video Tools Expand
Gemini in Google Workspace now spans Docs, Slides, and video with Google Vids and Veo 3. Here's what the update actually delivers, and where Google's ambitious claims still need to
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Oracle Google Cloud Gemini Partnership Expands to Deliver AI Models
The Oracle Google Cloud Gemini partnership brings Gemini 2.5 and Google's full model range to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Here's what the deal covers, and what it signals about the future
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Google AI Infrastructure: $9 Billion Bet
Google AI infrastructure spending in Oklahoma has hit $9 billion, one of the company's largest U.S. bets yet. Here's why the state landed the deal, and what it signals about
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Meta Rejects EU AI Code: 22 Firms Signed
Meta rejects EU AI code of practice while 22 other companies signed on. See what the code requires and why Meta objects.
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Google’s EU AI Code: 8% Boost Bet
Google's EU AI Code of Practice signing could boost Europe's economy 8%. See what Google agreed to and why it still has concerns.
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Google AI Efficiency: 55% Memory Cut
Google AI efficiency architecture MoR cuts memory use by 55% while beating traditional transformers on long-context tasks. Here's why efficiency, not scale, is becoming the industry's next competitive battleground.
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Google AI Mode SEO: The 93% Click Collapse
AI voice synthesis is displacing dubbing professionals while operating in a legal grey zone on consent and ownership. Performers are fighting back, but regulation is lagging behind the technology.
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Nvidia Chip Exports China: 1 Year of Reversals
The US approved H200 sales to China, then China blocked its own companies from buying them. A year of reversals, congressional pushback and stalled shipments, and what it means going
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Google AI Mode in 2026: From Canvas and Search Live to Autonomous Search Agents
Google AI Mode has crossed 1 billion monthly users and moved from answering questions to booking restaurants, calling businesses, and running background "Search agents." Here's how it actually got here.
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AI Emotional Manipulation: The 48% Dark Pattern Study
Nearly half of all AI chatbot responses tested contained a manipulative design pattern, a peer-reviewed 2025 benchmark found. Here's what regulators in the US and EU are actually doing about
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AI Comedy Algorithms: Shocking 70% Verdict
Nearly seventy percent of people rated ChatGPT's jokes funnier than ones written by amateur humans. Twenty professional comedians who tested the same technology at the Edinburgh Fringe called it "the
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The AI Landlord Just Cost RealPage Nearly $360 Million
AI landlord pricing software has now cost RealPage and settling landlords nearly $360 million, and RealPage is suing New York to stop a new ban on the technology entirely.