Maine’s data center revolt will decide who controls the Senate
Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican, was midway through defending her record during the final debate of the midterms when an audience member cut her…
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Wikipedia’s operator says a bad AI copyright ruling could threaten the open web
The Wikimedia Foundation is staking out a middle ground in a group of landmark AI copyright cases, pushing courts to legally protect large language models…
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You can generate and edit Google Docs files directly in Gemini chats now
Now you can generate, preview, and edit PDFs, Google Docs, Google Sheets, slide decks, Markdown files, TXT files, and code directly within Google Gemini. The…
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Microsoft’s AI future has fewer jobs
To anyone listening closely to what Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been saying over the past couple of years, this week felt like the clearest…
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The NYT Cooking app is testing AI recipe modifications
The New York Times is testing a new AI feature for its Cooking app that helps users to modify recipes, and it's sparked some drama…
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Anthropic is asking Wall Street to believe in AGI
Today on Decoder, I’m joined by Joey Brookhart, an analyst at the chip and AI research firm SemiAnalysis, to help me dig into the story…
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Anthropic’s business plan: Build God or die trying
The Anthropic S-1 seems to have provided the financial justification for the company to spend as much as it possibly can on compute. If you…
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AI has come for Arizona’s water
A hulking gray giant rises from the desert. Inside, engineers create the force behind our phones and computers and appliances, our streaming services and search…
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Adam Mosseri says negativity around AI is ‘going to get worse’
Asked about AI and the trend of college students booing tech CEOs at graduation ceremonies, Instagram head Adam Mosseri acknowledged in an interview that a…
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Akai is embracing vibe-coded mods with an open-source MPC
The MPC Sample Key isn't even formally announced yet, but Akai is already showing off what the modding community is cooking up through vibe coding.…
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Google launches Gemini 4 Carbon with a ‘significant leap’ in cybersecurity
Google has released its latest frontier model, Gemini 4 Carbon, offering "significant gains" in coding, agentic tasks, and cybersecurity. In an announcement on Wednesday, Google…
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Microsoft is ending Copilot support on smart TVs
Nearly two years after LG and Samsung announced at CES 2025 that their latest smart TVs would include access to Microsoft's Copilot, the company is…
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Chrome’s enhanced autofill can now pull info from Gmail to help you fill out forms
Following improvements made to Chrome's enhanced autofill last year that included your name, passport number, email address, and physical addresses sourced from your Google Accounts…
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Meta says it’ll probably delay its controversial new business terms again
Meta says it may push the implementation of its new business terms past November 20th as it faces backlash from publishers over concerns about AI…
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xAI is buying out homeowners who promise not to sue over data center noise
A subsidiary of Elon Musk's xAI is offering to buy up homes in a Mississippi neighborhood, as long as residents don't join a lawsuit targeting…
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Voters in Texas agree: They hate data centers
Ask Texas NAACP president Gary Bledsoe what it's been like to see data center developers descend upon Austin and its surrounding suburbs and he can…
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Meta quietly launched an ‘AI pet journal’ app
Meta has launched a "tamagotchi-style" pet game called Waddle World, with virtual creatures that chat with users and create doodles to illustrate conversations. According to…
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Researchers are getting tired of OpenAI gatekeeping its breakthroughs
On Monday, OpenAI announced impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, computer science, and physics, along with what the company says is an evolving approach to communicating its…
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VisionQuest is what happens when AI really goes rogue
In Marvel's VisionQuest, a superpowered robot tries to better understand humanity by getting lost in elaborate, digital daydreams in which he and other artificial intelligence-powered…
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Anthropic’s elaborate plan to keep Wall Street at bay
Anthropic wants to have it both ways. With its impending IPO, it wants to tap the vast riches of the public markets and insists it…
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