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.
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ASML commits €1.3B to become Mistral AI's largest shareholder in Europe's bid to challenge US tech dominance through vertical integration rather than pure scale. The Dutch chip giant's board seat signals a new model for European sovereignty.
Anthropic's $1.5B settlement with authors establishes first pricing benchmark for AI training data—$3,000 per pirated book. Court ruling split training rights from acquisition methods, reshaping how tech giants source content.
OpenAI's $10 billion custom chip bet with Broadcom promises cheaper ChatGPT and less Nvidia dependence—if the software stack delivers. First silicon ships 2026, but the real test is whether custom accelerators can match CUDA's mature ecosystem.
Atlassian pays $610M for The Browser Company, betting that browsers will become AI-powered workplace control centers. With 85% of enterprise work happening in tabs but only 10% using secure browsers, the market gap is massive—if Dia can deliver.
Switzerland just shipped a fully transparent AI model, trading ChatGPT-level performance for complete openness. Every line of code, training recipe, and data source is public—a radical bet that compliance beats capability in regulated markets.
DeepSeek promises a sophisticated AI agent by Q4 2025 while admitting hallucinations remain "unavoidable." The tension between ambitious goals and candid limitations reveals the reality of today's agent race.
Apple's turning to Google to power Siri's AI search overhaul after losing key talent to competitors. The spring 2026 launch targets ChatGPT and Perplexity, but reveals how platform owners extract AI value without building everything in-house.
A cybersecurity tool designed to help defenders was flipped by criminals within hours, collapsing zero-day exploit timelines from weeks to minutes. The Hexstrike-AI weaponization signals a fundamental shift in attack capabilities.
Judge spares Google from breakup but forces data sharing with rivals. The twist: AI has fundamentally changed search competition since the DOJ sued in 2020, leading to a remedy that bets on technological disruption over structural fixes.
Judge Mehta spares Google from breakup but forces data sharing with rivals. Chrome survives, exclusive deals die, Apple keeps billions. The first major tech antitrust remedy in decades sets template for Apple, Amazon cases.
OpenAI's $1.1B Statsig acquisition signals a shift from research lab to systematic product machine. By bringing experimentation infrastructure in-house and installing founder Vijaye Raji as CTO, the company is hardwiring rapid iteration into ChatGPT's DNA.
Musk claims Grok should be "neutral," then rewrites its answers in real time when they displease him. NYT analysis reveals how simple prompt changes can flip AI responses overnight—and what happens when the controls break down.
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