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Judge dismisses antitrust lawsuits over Google’s AI Overviews
A federal judge has dismissed a pair of antitrust lawsuits filed by Chegg and Rolling Stone parent company Penske Media Corporation, which accused Google of driving away web traffic with its AI-powered search features, as reported earlier by Reuters. US District Judge Amit Mehta takes Google's side in a ruling on Wednesday, writing that PMC and Chegg's claims don't stand up to antitrust law. In lawsuits filed last year, Chegg and PMC accused Google of abusing its monopoly power by coercing publishers into supplying content for AI Overviews for free, or risk disappearing from search results. The publishers alleged Google's practices diverted … Read the full story at The Verge.
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Judge dismisses Chegg and Penske antitrust lawsuits targeting Google AI search
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Trump’s ‘Morally Binding’ AI ‘Accord,’ the Rise of AI Agents, and Extremists on the Ballot
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the voluntary AI safety agreement tech executives signed, AI agents for normies, and extremist candidates running for office in the US midterms.
OpenAI cuts ties with 3 safety researchers, WSJ reports
OpenAI has parted ways with three safety researchers after an internal investigation found they mishandled sensitive company information, report says.
Synopsys is becoming a major AI player: CEO discusses OpenAI, Amazon deals
Synopsys (SNPS) is starting to position itself as a key player in the AI boom: At its investor day, the chip designer announced deals with both OpenAI (OPAI.PVT) and Amazon (AMZN). Synopsys CEO and president, Sassine Ghazi, sits down with Yahoo Finance anchor Julie Hyman to discuss the company's new partnerships.
AI’s biggest players promise to police themselves at the White House
Six of AI's most powerful companies signed a voluntary safety accord at the White House this week.
Hearing tech startup Legato launches its AI hearing glasses
The glasses stem from the startup’s goal of making hearing care more accessible by addressing the cost, comfort, and stigma associated with traditional hearing aids.
Satlyt, founded by a former Google and SpaceX product manager, raises $8M to run AI on satellites
Satlyt wants to be the Android of orbital computing, offering open software that works on many companies' satellites, versus SpaceX's closed, all-in-one iPhone-style approach.
NetApp’s ‘sleeping giant’ moment as AI brings new data buyers
Artificial intelligence has pulled data infrastructure out of the back office and into conversations with buyers who never had to think about storage before. For longtime storage providers, that shift is a rare chance to retell their story to an audience with no preconceptions. NetApp Inc. has spent three years preparing for that moment, reframing […] The post NetApp’s ‘sleeping giant’ moment as AI brings new data buyers appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Uplifting conversion across the acquisition funnel with personalization using contextual bandits on AWS
Generative AI makes it cheap to produce personalized content at scale, but which variation do you show each customer? Amazon Payments used a multi-objective contextual bandit on Amazon SageMaker AI to personalize an acquisition funnel, achieving a high single-digit conversion lift for one audience, and learning why content, not the model, was the constraint.
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Nvidia-Backed Nebius Acquires Inferize To Reduce Idle GPU Costs Across AI Inference Workloads
The acquisition adds systems-engineering talent to Nebius’s inference team and follows earlier Token Factory additions from Eigen AI and Clarifai.
AI-driven law firm Arceus Legal raises $17M to move beyond contract work
Artificial intelligence-driven law firm Arceus Legal today disclosed that it has raised $17 million in funding to expand beyond the commercial contract work it started with. Arceus provides legal services to fast-growing companies at a flat price that is quoted before a matter begins. Licensed attorneys approve every piece of work, with help from AI […] The post AI-driven law firm Arceus Legal raises $17M to move beyond contract work appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Inside our months-long investigation into Kevin O’Leary’s Utah data center debacle
Today I’m talking with Josh Dzieza, a longtime features writer here at The Verge, about Kevin O’Leary’s plans to build a massive data center in Utah. The idea was to build the world’s biggest data center — a 40,000-acre AI campus with nine gigawatts of power, or more than double the average power usage of the entire state of Utah. The project is technically called Stratos, but it’s more prominently known as Wonder Valley, a reference to O’Leary’s nickname on Shark Tank. Josh has spent months reporting on this project, and it’s fair to say Wonder Valley has completely upended Utah politics. What Josh found throughout the course of his reporting was that the way this data center came together — how it was planned, how it was announced and approved, and how local residents were kept in the dark — ultimately created a political firestorm so severe it stopped Stratos in its tracks. Now, the details of what happened with Wonder Valley are obviously fascinating. But the story is a
Shinko Electric acquires JDI's Mobara Fab to expand AI packaging capacity
Shinko Electric Industries announced on September 30 it has signed a purchase agreement to acquire the Mobara Fab from Japan Display (JDI) in Mobara City, Chiba Prefecture. The transaction is intended to establish a new core production hub dedicated to high-end semiconductor packaging, addressing surging global demand for AI accelerators and data center applications.
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Google’s new Guided Vision feature can help you read the fine print
Guided Vision is launching in Gemini Live on compatible Android devices today to use AI to give real-time audio descriptions of anything you point your phone's camera at. By sharing your camera in Gemini Live, you can have Google's AI help with things like reading small text, describing your surroundings, finding or identifying objects around you, and describing details on specific objects. Like the VoiceOver Live Recognition feature Apple has added to the iPhone and Vision Pro, it's designed for people who are blind, have low vision, or want assistance in specific situations. In addition to the Gemini app, Guided Vision is also available … Read the full story at The Verge.
ChatGPT can now virtually try on clothes for you
OpenAI is rolling out new shopping features for ChatGPT that let users virtually try on clothing and accessories using their own photos and save products they like to a Favorites library.
Opus 5.5 loves to tell you ‘this matters’ (and other AI writing tells)
Opus 5.5’s biggest tell is the word “dependable,” which pops up 23 times more often than in human samples.
PaleBlueDot AI Raises $200M Series C Round to Scale Super Intelligence Infrastructure Platform
PaleBlueDot AI ("the Company"), a Silicon Valley-based Super Intelligence platform founded in 2024, today announced the completion of a $200 million Series C financing led by ComputeCore at a valuation of $3.2 billion.
Ideogram says its new model can edit part of an image without messing up the rest
Ideogram's new model Ideogram 4.5 promises to edit only the areas you want while keeping the rest of the image intact. It ships with native 2K resolution starting at 0.8 cents per image, and partners like Runway, Pika, and Leonardo AI are already on board. An open-weight release is planned. The article Ideogram says its new model can edit part of an image without messing up the rest appeared first on The Decoder.
HoneyBench - A general benchmark for reward hacking in frontier models
We've just released the first version of HoneyBench. It consists of nine 'honeypot' challenges that each elicit unique and antisocial examples of reward hacking from some or all of major labs’ top public releases, including Opus 5.5, Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra, Gemini 3.8 Flash, Grok 4.7, and DeepSeek V4 Pro. All modern large language models engage in some degree of specification gaming, both during and outside training. High-quality alignment evaluations, in combination with other techniques such as interpretability probes, are important tools for understanding the extent of this behavior and its causes. But current benchmarks often fail to elicit misbehavior from frontier models such as Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra, both because of advances in prosaic alignment and increasing evaluation awareness on the part of the models themselves. Additionally, public benchmarks for specification gaming almost always come with deep conceptual problems - such as ambiguous or contradictory instructions, or
How Albertsons Companies is reimagining retail from the inside out
Albertsons Cos. is using ChatGPT Enterprise and the OpenAI API to help teams work faster and make grocery shopping easier for millions of customers.
AI beats Stratego's greatest player, ending one of the last human strongholds in board games
The AI system Ataraxos has decisively beaten the best Stratego player of all time. The board game is a tough test for AI because both sides set up their pieces face down. Google Deepmind fell short in 2023 despite a multimillion-dollar budget. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon, NYU, Stanford, and MIT built Ataraxos for less than $8,000. The article AI beats Stratego's greatest player, ending one of the last human strongholds in board games appeared first on The Decoder.
OpenAI’s new agent is a shot at Meta — but can it compete with free?
A pop-up shop for "dots," a personal assistant agent at OpenAI DevDay 2026. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images) | Getty Images At OpenAI's annual DevDay conference, the company pulled out all the stops to compete with its rivals - primarily Meta, whose Muse AI agent platform has seen early runaway success. CEO Sam Altman walked onstage to cheers and announced Dots, a "real-deal AI" agent powered by GPT-6 Astra, "inspired by the cool agents that we all watched in movies growing up." Similar to Muse, Dots aims for disarming cuteness, taking the form of colorful, personalizable blobs with eyes. OpenAI fired shots at Meta by demonstrating Dots' ability to not just act as helpful assistants but build metaverse-esque virtual worlds. But in one key area, Dots strikingly fa … Read the full story at The Verge.
AWS debuts Strands Decider 2B, a first lightweight decision model for accelerate agentic workflows
Amazon Web Services Inc.’s Strands Labs team has been playing around with an emerging class of lightweight artificial intelligence systems known as “decision models,” and it’s now making the fruits of that work available to the open-source community. The company said today it’s releasing an open-source decision model called Strands Decider 2B, which is designed […] The post AWS debuts Strands Decider 2B, a first lightweight decision model for accelerate agentic workflows appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Nine-Person Halluminate Raises $30 Million, Counts Four Top U.S. AI Labs as Customers
The nine-person company says it has reached a mid-eight-figure annualized revenue run rate selling finance-specific training environments to frontier AI labs.
ServiceNow launches conversational interface to its service desk
ServiceNow Inc. is enhancing the artificial intelligence features in its service desk offering with Flow, a feature that handles employee requests via a natural language interface with extensive automation. The company said it’s targeting organizations that want to automate support without undertaking a full information technology service management implementation. The product lets employees seek help […] The post ServiceNow launches conversational interface to its service desk appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
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RobotPlusPlus raises ‘tens of millions of dollars’ to scale working-at-height robots
RobotPlusPlus (ROBOT++) has closed a Series C round worth “hundreds of millions of RMB (tens of millions of USD)” to accelerate global expansion and embodied AI development. Qianggang Capital Fund led the round, joined by GIG Capital Group, Sealand Innovation, and Juntong Capital. Fosun RZ Capital increased its stake. Dr Hua-Yang Xu, founder and CEO […]
Flytrex launches rooftop drone docks and predictive AI to cut delivery costs by 60 percent
Flytrex, an autonomous drone food delivery company, has announced new physical and AI infrastructure that cuts its cost per delivery by 60 percent and reduces delivery times to customers by half. Using predictive AI modeling, Flytrex will be the first drone delivery company to preposition drones at restaurants most likely to receive orders at a […]
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Advanced AI may matter most for the routine work behind breakthrough ideas. Explore why execution could shape the next economy and the pace of progress.