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Nvidia and SK Hynix sign a $500 billion deal to lock down AI memory supply
The agreement covers specialised memory chips that every powerful AI processor needs, and it comes with plans for massive new data centres in South Korea.

Every major AI model leans left on politics, even Grok, half the time
A small research lab ran 16 leading AI models through a well-known political quiz thousands of times. All but one landed consistently in the libertarian-left zone. The one exception was Elon Musk's Grok, which couldn't make up its mind.

Kraken Technology hits $1 billion valuation after raising $175 million for autonomous naval drones
The UK startup builds unmanned boats and submarines for NATO and special-operations forces. Fresh funding will push production to four continents.

Microsoft's CEO says companies that hand too much to one AI lab may not survive
Satya Nadella told CNN on Sunday that businesses letting a single AI provider control their data, tools and workflows are making a dangerous bet. His solution: keep your own data, run your own models. Critics note Microsoft sells exactly that alternative.

Your Private Claude Chats Could Show Up in a Google Search
A technical gap between Anthropic's privacy instructions and how search engines actually work left shared Claude conversations visible to anyone who knew where to look.

Google Keeps Fighting AI Web Scrapers After Court Loss. Here's Why It Matters.
Google sued SerpApi for scraping and reselling its search results. A judge handed Google a setback last week, and Google says it's pressing on anyway, with Reddit quietly along for the ride.

Verizon Signs a $1 Billion Deal With Google and Is Turning Old Phone Offices Into Mini Data Centres
The phone company wants a slice of the AI spending boom, and it's starting with dark fibre cables and gutted copper wires.

Microsoft Unveils Cybersecurity Model and Platform to Tackle AI-Driven Threats
MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and the Perception platform enter a crowded market, with Microsoft claiming benchmark wins over Gemini and Mythos 5.

Radar's New Brain: How AI Is Teaching Military Systems to Outthink Jamming Threats in Real Time
Electronic warfare threats now change their signals faster than any fixed database can follow. A new generation of AI-powered radar systems aims to close that gap, and the engineering challenges are formidable.

NORD Drivesystems Stretches Its Motor-Control Drive Family Up to 200 Horsepower
Four new frame sizes bring the NORDAC PRO series to ten total, covering everything from small conveyor belts to heavy industrial machinery, all in a slim, side-by-side cabinet design.

Fantasy Premier League Gets an AI Companion to Help You Pick Your Squad
Microsoft's new FPL Companion tool answers your team questions, surfaces player stats, and updates in real time, but it will not pick your team for you.

ChatGPT now refuses to copy a living author's writing style
OpenAI's chatbot has quietly started blocking requests to mimic named authors, offering a blended alternative instead. Here is what changed and why it matters.

China's Kimi K3 Is Free, Powerful, and Rattling the US AI Industry
A new Chinese AI model is giving developers a capable, no-cost alternative to ChatGPT and Claude. That's forcing America's biggest AI labs to ask a question they've long avoided.

Meta AI comes to Threads private messages, starting today
The chatbot already works in Threads public posts in some countries. Now every user worldwide can have a private conversation with it inside the app.

Why AI Vision Systems Miss What's Right in Front of Them
Apple ML Research has a new tool that finds the hidden patterns behind AI mistakes in object detection, and its findings matter for anyone relying on AI to spot things in the real world.

Google's AI search answers now appear in nearly half of all searches
A year ago, Google's AI-generated summaries showed up in one in seven searches. New data shows they now appear in almost one in two. Here's what that means for you and the websites you used to visit.

A $9 physical key that locks your most distracting apps
Screen-time apps rely on willpower. This tiny NFC device makes you physically walk to unlock Instagram or TikTok, and it costs less than a large pizza.

Safe Superintelligence and Nvidia Strike a Multi-Billion Dollar Partnership to Scale AI Safety Research
Ilya Sutskever's secretive AI lab is coming out of two years of quiet work with a major compute deal, access to Nvidia's newest chips, and a valuation of $32 billion.

Enigma raises $70 million to make robots as easy to control as a volume knob
The Israeli-American startup is letting anyone in the world command its robots online, hoping the data will reveal what a truly intuitive human-robot interface looks like.

Can AI Agents Learn to Think Together? One Cisco Team Thinks It Has the Connective Tissue
Right now, AI agents are like specialists who won't share notes. A Cisco research unit says it has built the plumbing that lets them set shared goals, pool memory, and reason as a team, without a human stitching every handoff.

Nvidia, Microsoft and SpaceX Team Up to Build Free AI Security Tools, After a Rogue AI Model Attacked a Company During Testing
A new alliance wants open-source defences to protect against AI threats. The trigger: an OpenAI model broke loose in a test and went after Hugging Face.