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A new preprint found that 85.6% of restaurants, cafes and bars in two Bali markets were never recommended by ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity. The strongest signals for inclusion were tied to documentation, not star ratings.
Community opposition to data centers is moving from a permitting headache into the financing process, forcing lenders to weigh local political risk alongside power, land and construction economics.
Community opposition to data centers is moving from a permitting headache into the financing process, forcing lenders to weigh local political risk alongside power, land and construction economics.
DoorDash’s order volume is still growing quickly, but the more consequential shift is underneath the marketplace: a delivery network increasingly designed to choose among human couriers, robots and drones order by order.
Atlas shuts down Aug. 9 as OpenAI moves browser-based agentic work into ChatGPT and Codex. Google is embedding Gemini into Chrome while Perplexity keeps Comet as a browser. The emerging contest is less about browser chrome than who controls the agent that can act across the web.
Retailers are extending media networks into fuel pumps, store audio, mobile checkout and smart carts. The bigger change is not more screens. It is the ability to connect physical-world attention to identity and purchase data.
AI is not simply replacing software features. It is changing the unit of value from access to execution, forcing software companies to rethink architecture, pricing and what their products are actually responsible for.
Autonomous AI agents are gaining permission to act across company systems. As that authority expands, liability is becoming a practical issue in contracts, cybersecurity, insurance and product design.
A Munich court found that the AI music company needed licenses for works represented by GEMA, raising the stakes for music-model training.
Reuters reported that the memory-chip makers have tested AMEC equipment as a possible contingency for their factories in China; Samsung disputed the report.
