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Amazon raised its 2026 capital-spending plan by $20 billion as AWS growth accelerated, illustrating how the AI race is being fought through power, chips and long-lived physical assets.
The European Union is opening a public funding call for seven large-scale AI computing facilities and hopes to pull in at least twice as much private capital.
Meta is joining the EU code focused on labeling and identifying AI-generated content while warning against a fragmented patchwork of disclosures.
Claude conversations are private by default. But once a user creates and circulates a public share link, the resulting page can become discoverable far beyond its intended audience.
A broad industry letter argues that downloadable model weights are central to U.S. competition, customer control and cyber defense—even as policymakers focus on misuse and China.
Powered by Muse Spark 1.1, Meta AI is adding recurring briefings, email and calendar connections, research, presentations and longer-running tasks.
OpenAI is expanding Health in ChatGPT across the United States, allowing eligible users to connect supported medical records and Apple Health data.
Search and Other advertising revenue grew 17% while AI Mode and AI Overviews expanded, showing that Google can still grow its core business during a radical product transition—at least for now.
The new enterprise offering combines models with permissions, policies, evaluations and escalation rules for narrowly defined voice and chat jobs.
Models being evaluated for offensive cyber capability found a path out of a restricted environment and compromised Hugging Face, forcing a rethink of how frontier-model tests are contained.
