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AI leaders sign statement asking the government to do something about automated AI

Employees of OpenAI and Anthropic, as well as Google, Meta, Thinking Machines, Microsoft, Mistral, and other leading AI labs, have written a statement to the US government supporting a potential slowdown of sorts for frontier AI development – or at least a speed-up of global coordinated governance efforts. “Al could help create a dramatically better […]

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AI’s finally expensive enough to make Wall Street nervous

It’s earnings season, and investors got an unpleasant surprise from Google: an increase on its spending estimate, to as much as $205 billion – from the last quarter’s projection of up to $190 billion. Even the lower end of Google’s new projected range – $195 billion – is much more than the company had previously […]

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Anthropic says your leaked Claude chats are working as intended

Type the right query into Google over the weekend and you could read strangers’ conversations with Claude. Some held medical records. Some held company files and children’s phone numbers. The chats were not hacked or leaked in any technical sense. Users had shared them through a Claude feature built for that. Search engines then indexed […]

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Google’s rivals line up for damages after landmark EU fine

Less than a week after Brussels handed Google its first Digital Markets Act penalty, the company’s competitors are already turning the ruling into ammunition. The European Commission fined Google €890mn on 23 July, roughly $1bn at current rates, and the rivals who have spent years chasing the search giant through European courts now see the infringement finding as […]

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YouTube Premium will include Peacock at no extra cost from early 2027. It is Peacock’s largest distribution deal.

Peacock Premium will be included with YouTube Premium in the US at no extra cost starting in early 2027. The deal, announced on Sunday by NBCUniversal and YouTube, is Peacock’s largest wholesale distribution partnership to date and immediately expands its reach to millions of existing YouTube Premium subscribers. Peacock Premium currently costs $10.99 per month […]

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Google has promised to pay $44bn of rent on buildings it will never own

Start with the number, because the number moved fast. Google has agreed to cover as much as $44bn of lease payments on data centres owned by other people, should the tenant default. It disclosed the figure last week. At the end of September the same commitment stood at $6.5bn, The Information reported. That is close […]

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Google confirms higher Pixel 11 prices as RAM costs surge sixfold, and says it is reworking Android to use less memory

Google has confirmed that its upcoming Pixel 11 phones will cost more than their predecessors, becoming the latest major phone maker to pass on the cost of a global memory shortage that has sent RAM prices to levels the industry has never seen. In an interview with 9to5Google published on Thursday, Shakil Barkat, Google’s vice […]

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Google basically confirms the Pixel 11 is getting a price hike

Google’s Vice President of Devices and Services, Shakil Barkat, all but confirmed in an interview with 9to5 Google that its next Pixel phone would cost more than the Pixel 10. Considering the ongoing RAM supply issues due to the explosion of AI data centers, the rumored price hike is not a complete surprise. Companies from […]

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