Intel's new CEO wants to abandon a multibillion-dollar chip technology his predecessor championed. The risky pivot to next-gen 14A aims to win back Apple and Nvidia from TSMC—but could cost billions in write-offs. Stakes couldn't be higher.
Silicon Valley's biggest tech companies spent months lobbying for a 10-year ban on state AI regulation. The Senate voted 99-1 to kill it. Meta, Microsoft, and venture capital firms learned that money can't buy everything in Washington.
Grammarly bought email app Superhuman for an undisclosed sum, part of its plan to build an AI productivity empire. With $1 billion in fresh funding, the grammar company wants to put AI agents at the center of your workday.
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Google just made its AI assistant a lot more personal. The company is rolling out Gemini 2.0 across web and mobile apps, with a suite of upgrades that transform the chatbot from a know-it-all into more of a digital confidant.
The headline feature is a new experimental personalization model that taps into your Search history to provide tailored responses. Want vacation ideas? Gemini will consider the destinations you've been researching. Looking to start a YouTube channel? It'll factor in your viewing habits.
"We're building an AI that doesn't just answer questions, but understands you," says Google, in what might be either exciting or mildly unsettling, depending on your perspective.
The rollout also democratizes some previously premium features. Deep Research capabilities, which generate detailed reports on complex topics, are now available to free users. There's also universal access to file uploads and Gemini Apps integration.
Google's model naming continues to be charmingly confusing. The new lineup includes "2.0 Flash," "2.0 Flash Thinking (experimental)," and "2.0 Pro (experimental)" - because apparently regular thinking wasn't flashy enough.
For power users, the Advanced tier now offers expanded language support, with chat memory features coming to over 45 languages. The system can also now handle larger documents with a massive 1M token context window.
The personalization features currently only use Search history, but Google hints at future integration with YouTube and Photos. Soon your AI assistant might reference that embarrassing dance video you posted in 2019 when suggesting new hobbies.
Why this matters:
Intel's new CEO wants to abandon a multibillion-dollar chip technology his predecessor championed. The risky pivot to next-gen 14A aims to win back Apple and Nvidia from TSMC—but could cost billions in write-offs. Stakes couldn't be higher.
Cloudflare now blocks AI bots by default and lets publishers charge per scrape. With AI companies taking 17,000+ crawls per referral while Google takes just 14, the internet's biggest traffic handler is reshaping data collection rules.
Apple considers ditching its own AI technology for Siri, eyeing Anthropic's Claude or OpenAI's ChatGPT instead. The potential reversal exposes Apple's struggle in the AI race and internal talent exodus.
Meta hired four more OpenAI researchers this week, escalating Zuckerberg's talent war with $100M packages. The exodus follows Meta's disappointing Llama 4 launch as the CEO personally hunts AI stars to close the innovation gap.
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