Apple just admitted its AI wasn't good enough. The company will pay Google roughly $1 billion annually to license Gemini for Siri, after years of failed internal development. The privacy-first company now depends on its biggest data rival.
Britain's media regulator has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk's X over AI-generated sexual images of women and children. The platform restricted the feature to paying subscribers—turning abuse into a premium service.
San Francisco | January 12, 2026 Anthropic announced Claude for Healthcare five days after OpenAI's competing launch. Same conference,
Britain's media regulator has opened a formal investigation into Elon Musk's X over AI-generated sexual images of women and children. The platform restricted the feature to paying subscribers—turning abuse into a premium service.
On Monday morning, Labour MP Jess Asato opened her phone to find herself pregnant. Not actually pregnant. AI-pregnant. Someone had used Grok to generate an image of her as a "tradwife" with an enormous belly. The message was clear enough. This is where you belong. This is your role. Baby-making machine.
"This has disturbed me weirdly more than the bikini pictures," Asato told the Guardian. She has received thousands of hateful messages since speaking out against Elon Musk's platform. The harassment continues even as regulators prepare their case against X.
Ofcom, Britain's media watchdog, launched a formal investigation into X today under the Online Safety Act. The charges: failing to prevent the spread of non-consensual intimate images and potential child sexual abuse material. The potential penalties range from an £18 million fine to 10 percent of global revenue to, in extreme cases, a court-ordered block of the platform across the UK.
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Apple just admitted its AI wasn't good enough. The company will pay Google roughly $1 billion annually to license Gemini for Siri, after years of failed internal development. The privacy-first company now depends on its biggest data rival.
Anthropic announced Claude for Healthcare five days after OpenAI's rival launch. Both entered a market that has already buried Microsoft HealthVault and Google Health. The question is whether AI models can succeed where human engineers kept failing
Within 72 hours of publishing its AI adoption report, Microsoft's messaging saturated LinkedIn. The coordination wasn't secret—it was architectural. When you own the platform, distribution is just moving furniture between rooms.
Google unveiled the Universal Commerce Protocol at NRF, with Shopify, Walmart, and twenty other partners. The "open standard" routes AI shopping through Google's surfaces. Merchants trade customer relationships for visibility.
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