Microsoft Coaches Its Sales Team to Take Down OpenAI and Anthropic
Microsoft is coaching its sales force to argue its AI products beat OpenAI's and Anthropic's on cost, security and completeness, turning on the partners whose models...
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Elon Musk’s xAI Quietly Polluted Black Neighborhoods to Power Its AI Supercomputer
A Reuters analysis found xAI installed 59 unpermitted gas turbines to power its Colossus 2 data center, releasing pollution near predominantly Black Memphis-area communities.
OpenAI’s First Device Is a Screenless AI Companion Speaker
OpenAI's first hardware, reportedly designed with Jony Ive, is a portable, screenless smart speaker built as a proactive AI companion that learns its owner and moves...
Meta Sued Over Claims AI Drove Discriminatory Layoff Choices
Twenty-six Meta workers sued the company, alleging its AI systems used metrics like token consumption to select layoff targets, disadvantaging people on medical or family leave.
Payments Giants Back x402 Standard for AI Agent Transactions
Visa, Mastercard, Stripe, Google and 36 others formed a Linux Foundation body to steward x402, an open standard letting AI agents pay for services directly over...
OpenAI Tells Developers to Stop Over-Prompting GPT-5.6
OpenAI's new GPT-5.6 prompting guide urges developers to write shorter, outcome-first prompts, saying leaner instructions raised scores 10-15% while cutting tokens and cost sharply.
IBM Shares Plunge 23% After Warning of a Quarterly Earnings Miss
IBM shares sank about 23% after it warned that preliminary second-quarter results fell short, as clients diverted spending toward memory and servers ahead of price increases.
DeepMind’s Hassabis Calls for a Frontier AI Testing Body
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis proposed a US-led standards body to test the most powerful AI models before release and coordinate an industry slowdown if risks...
Google Trains Health AI on a Trillion Minutes of Wearable Data
Google unveiled SensorFM, a health AI trained on over a trillion minutes of smartwatch data from 5 million people, that predicts 35 health measures from cardiovascular...
Tencent Leads Bid to Unwind Meta’s $2 Billion Manus Deal
Tencent is in talks to become Manus's largest shareholder as investors race to reverse Meta's $2 billion purchase of the AI agent startup, after Beijing ordered...
Grok 4.5 Ties for Top Spot on a Coding Comprehension Benchmark
SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5 tied GPT-5.6 Sol for first on the SWE-Atlas-QnA coding benchmark, a narrow win that highlights the model's real edge: efficiency and low cost.
Anthropic Billing Tried to Charge a Free User $16.6 Million
A South Korean developer says Anthropic's billing system tried to charge him $16.6 million despite being on the free plan with zero API usage, one of...