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AI Summary

  • OpenAI continues to expand its AI models and partnerships, announcing new capabilities, collaborations with major tech firms, and strategic initiatives aimed at advancing AI safety and accessibility.
  • The AI industry faces ongoing scrutiny regarding its economic viability, with companies grappling with the costs of compute and the challenge of monetizing AI services effectively.
  • Layoffs are impacting the tech sector, with companies like Canva reducing staff amidst slowing growth, highlighting a shift in market dynamics.
  • Cybersecurity remains a critical focus, with reports of sophisticated hacks, including a massive Binance heist, and increased investment in AI-driven security solutions.
  • New developments in AI include advancements in model identity verification, the use of AI for content creation and discovery, and evolving AI applications in sectors from finance to healthcare.

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The Verge

  • Does opting out of TV tracking work? an hour ago by John Higgins
    Gadgets, Tech, TVs

    TVs use automatic content recognition to gather viewing information about us, and opting out doesn’t always stop it. | Photo: John Higgins / The Verge The fact our TVs are gathering our information isn't new, but what and how they're tracking - and if we can stop it - is hard to figure out. Researchers at Northeastern University monitored 12 TVs from 10 manufacturers to test whether opting out of automatic content recognition (ACR) actually works . While opting out was effective for most TVs - including LG, Amazon Fire TV, a Sony Bravia running Google TV, and those with

  • Google hasn’t figured out how to make AI pay like its search engine 3 hours ago by Rani Molla
    AI, Google, Tech

    Google Chief Business Officer Philipp Schindler. | Bloomberg via Getty Images Search queries are growing at their fastest rate in five years, Google parent Alphabet said in its earnings report last week. However, Google's Search revenue growth slowed to 12 percent year over year in the third quarter, down from roughly 17 percent in the previous quarter. Meanwhile, growth in paid clicks - clicks on ads that generate revenue for Google - slowed from 13 percent to 8 percent. That's still substantial growth, but not the direction investors were hoping for from a company planning to spend about $200 billion

  • The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time never gets old 4 hours ago by Andrew Webster
    Entertainment, Games Review, Gaming, Nintendo

    Breath of the Wild changed everything. Two decades after The Legend of Zelda made the transformational shift to 3D, Breath of the Wild reinvigorated the franchise with an open-ended adventure that was built around player freedom and expression. Instead of following a set path, players could go wherever they wanted and tackle challenges in a variety of ways. That philosophy filtered down to subsequent games, letting players author their own creative solutions to puzzles in titles like Tears of the Kingdom and Echoes of Wisdom . As a result, Zelda has never been bigger , and the traditional, more linear

  • AMD rides data center riches to ‘largest and most profitable’ quarter in history 14 hours ago by Stevie Bonifield
    AMD, Business, News, Tech

    AMD CEO Lisa Su said in the company's quarterly earnings call on Tuesday that Q3 2026 was "was the largest and most profitable in our history." AMD reported a record $13.4 billion in quarterly revenue, and it's predicting it will hit another record high next quarter of $17 billion. The company's data center business is driving that growth, with $8.5 billion in data center quarterly revenue for Q3 2026. Su said AMD's expecting its revenue to "grow more than 80 percent in 2027," adding that "data center will be the largest contributor." Eventually, most of AMD's revenue might come from

  • All the news about The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake 14 hours ago by Verge Staff
    Entertainment, Gaming, News, Nintendo

    Ahead of the release of Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto VI , Nintendo is launching its own fall juggernaut: a Switch 2 remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time . The remake, which is releasing 28 years after the launch of the original version on Nintendo 64, has a much more realistic visual style and some modern improvements like a jump button, a way to sprint, full voice acting, and a “Threads of Time” feature that helps you keep track of your progress. But while the game has a new coat of paint, it appears many elements will


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Google AI

  • What’s new with Google Cloud 5 days ago by Google Cloud Content & Editorial
    Google Cloud, Inside Google Cloud

    Want to know the latest from Google Cloud? Find it here in one handy location. Check back regularly for our newest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. Tip : Not sure where to find what you’re looking for on the Google Cloud blog? Start here: Google Cloud blog 101: Full list of topics, links, and resources . aside_block Oct 26 - Oct 30 Simplify PostgreSQL Monitoring with the New AlloyDB Omni Web UI The newly released AlloyDB Omni Web UI delivers a centralized, graphical dashboard that simplifies the management of self-managed PostgreSQL workloads across hybrid, multi-cloud,

  • 3 Highlights from Thomas Kurian’s Keynote at the Goldman Sachs Communicopia & Technology Conference 2 months ago by Google Cloud Content & Editorial
    Inside Google Cloud

    On Tuesday, September 8, Thomas Kurian participated in the Goldman Sachs Tech Conference, providing an update on Google Cloud’s business and strategy. Here are the highlights: Full Stack Approach: Google Cloud is the only provider to offer solutions across the entire AI stack, which expands our total addressable market, differentiates our products from the point of view of performance, cost and quality; and enables us to diversify our revenue streams as the market grows. We have 17 product lines with more than $1 billion in revenues and our customers on average exceeded their commitments by more than 50%. We have

  • From AI potential to agentic reality: Driving the UK’s next chapter 5 months ago by Maureen Costello
    AI & Machine Learning, Data Analytics, Security & Identity, Sustainability, Customers, Partners, Startups, Inside Google Cloud

    The United Kingdom, and London in particular, continues to be one of the great hubs for AI development in Europe and the world. We’re home to Google DeepMind, of course, as well as significant AI unicorns — and Google Cloud customers — like Ineffable Intelligence , which is today announcing an important partnership with us. A year ago, we joined you for the London Summit to showcase the vast potential of generative AI , including a major investment in upskilling the UK civil service. Today, as we welcome our partners once again to the historic vaults of Tobacco Dock, that

  • What’s new with Google Cloud - 2025 10 months ago by Google Cloud Content & Editorial
    Google Cloud, Inside Google Cloud

    Want to know the latest from Google Cloud? Find it here in one handy location. Check back regularly for our newest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. Tip : Not sure where to find what you’re looking for on the Google Cloud blog? Start here: Google Cloud blog 101: Full list of topics, links, and resources . Dec 22 - Dec 26 To design production-ready AI agents, you must choose the right tools for memory, reasoning, and orchestration. To simplify this process, Choose your agentic AI architecture components provides an iterative framework to help you select products and

  • The Year in Google Cloud — 2025 a year ago by Google Cloud Content & Editorial
    Inside Google Cloud, Google Cloud

    In the AI era, when one year can feel like 10, you’re forgiven for forgetting what happened last month, much less what happened all the way back in January. To jog your memory, we pulled the readership data for top product and company news of 2025. And because we publish a lot of great thought leadership and customer stories, we pulled that data too. Long story short: the most popular stories largely mapped to our biggest announcements. But not always — there were more than a few sleeper hits on this year’s list. Read on to relive this huge year,


The Deep View

  • ChatGPT is becoming Google's biggest threat 2 hours ago by The Deep View

    Welcome back. Data from Menlo Ventures reports an explosion in enterprise AI spending compared to last year, but many are still navigating the ROI question. Meanwhile, coding agents are quickly taking over some of the most common tasks in software engineering, making human judgement more valuable than ever. And ChatGPT may represent the biggest rival to Google's monopoly on search. — Nat Rubio-Licht IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. ChatGPT is becoming Google's biggest threat 2. Surge of coding agents reveal humans' changing role 3. Can enterprise spending sustain the AI boom? CONSUMER OpenAI challenges Google on its home turf Not long

  • Anthropic’s spending exposes AI’s profit problem a day ago by The Deep View

    Welcome back. OpenAI has a plan to ease the strain on the power grids as it pushes forward with its infrastructure buildout. Meanwhile, Hume has unveiled an audio-native decision mode, bringing the power introduced by Jev to voice interactions. And Anthropic's nearly $900 billion in spending commitments underscore the daunting question of frontier AI's path to profitability. — Nat Rubio-Licht IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Anthropic’s spending spree tests AI economics 2. Hume AI launches the Jev of voice AI 3. OpenAI’s power plan targets a PR crisis MARKETS Anthropic’s spending exposes AI’s profit problem The cost to develop and serve

  • OpenAI’s ad bet depends on user trust 2 days ago by The Deep View

    Welcome back. Though coding agents have transformed the work of software developers, Github's Kyle Daigle discusses ways to make these agents more efficient and affordable. Meanwhile, Google celebrates a major milestone with Project Suncatcher, its orbital data center research initiative. And OpenAI's ad team gives us a look behind the curtain at how it's built LLMs into its ad stack. — Nat Rubio-Licht IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. OpenAI’s ad bet depends on user trust 2. Google’s orbital AI bet raises bigger questions 3. GitHub’s case against defaulting to frontier AI CONSUMER ChatGPT could rewrite the rules of digital ads Large

  • Your finance team ships software now. Who's securing it? 4 days ago by The Deep View

    Hello, friends. Thanks for tuning into this special edition, presented in partnership with Coder . Someone on your finance team wants an AI agent to build their monthly report. It can write the code, but it also needs access to company files. What should it be allowed to read, change, or send elsewhere? That's a lot for them to work out when they just wanted to stop building the same spreadsheet every month. And if they don't work it out, who does? — Jason Hiner Read Coder's AI Operating Layer whitepaper You shouldn't need to be a developer to use

  • Mistral tests China’s open-model advantage 5 days ago by The Deep View

    Welcome back. The PHP vulnerabilities uncovered last week had been dismissed as unexploitable for years, until AI changed the math. AI putting an end to security-by-obscurity puts smaller, less-resourced organizations most at risk. Meanwhile, Amazon unveiled a new lineup of Echo devices and an upgraded AI-powered Alexa, but its real edge may be the habits it has built in millions of homes since 2014. Finally, Mistral released the open weights of its trillion-parameter Large 4 model, pitching enterprises frontier performance without lock-in and taking aim at China’s open-model lead. — Jason Hiner IN TODAY’S NEWSLETTER 1. Mistral tests China’s open-model


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