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The new Google image search will use your "unique interests" to create an always-updated gallery.

DeepSeek is already raising again. The Chinese AI lab just closed its first funding round and needs capital for its own data centers and chips to keep its aggressive pricing strategy going. The article DeepSeek needs more cash just weeks after closing its first $7 billion round appeared first on The Decoder .

Instagram head Adam Mosseri believes companies will eventually need to manage AI token spending the same way they manage payroll or other operating expenses, predicting that engineers could soon face limits on how much they spend using AI tools.

Google is adding AI image generation to Search's AI Overviews. When no matching image exists on the web, the new Nano Banana 2 Lite model generates one from the search query. The rollout starts in the coming weeks. The article Google Search now generates AI images when it can't find what you're looking for on the web appeared first on The Decoder .

AWS (Amazon Web Services) has explained how Bluesight developed Prism, an AI layer that connects hospital pharmacy and compliance data across its product suite. Prism Assistant for ControlCheck has reached general availability and operates across 20 health systems, according to AWS vendor statements. Meanwhile, a multi-product agent for 340B Group Purchasing Organisation (GPO) compliance remains […] The post AWS and Bluesight build AI for hospital 340B compliance appeared first on AI News .

Spotify is experimenting with a new AI feature that allows Premium subscribers to play and explore music, audiobooks, and podcasts by having conversations with a chatbot. The "Talk to Spotify" feature appears across the Home and Now Playing view on Spotify's mobile app. You can interact with the chatbot by typing your request in the […]

New York has become the first state to temporarily halt approval of large data centers, as Gov. Kathy Hochul argues the AI-driven building boom shouldn’t come at the expense of higher electricity costs, water supplies, or local control.

New York’s data center moratorium may become the blueprint for anti-AI movement.

Reflection AI has signed a $1 billion deal to access Nebius' compute. Reflection was founded in 2024 and is developing open source AI technology.

<p>Governor Kathy Hochul issued an executive order enacting a moratorium on the large, resource-intensive AI facilities</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/new-york">New York</a> became the first US state to enact a moratorium on new datacenters on Tuesday.</p><p>Governor <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/kathy-hochul">Kathy Hochul</a> issued an executive order mandating a one-year statewide pause on the large facilities used to power artificial intelligence products.</

<p><strong>PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2; Marimittu Games<br></strong>A soft puzzle game makes a sharp point about the over-optimised future ahead</p><p>In the far future, on a planet that is not Earth, AI is in charge. This entity is no Skynet-esque killer robot but a machine that cares for humanity. Manifesting most visibly as cute droids, the technology is pervasive – embedded in everything from the design of the sleek architecture to the gorgeous, mostly sunny

<p>PM to declare Australia the first country worldwide to bring economic, social, security and environmental issues from AI under single office in major speech</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>Anthony Albanese says the federal government

OpenAI has re-enabled ChatGPT on WhatsApp, but only in the European Economic Area, covering the 27 EU member states plus Liechtenstein, Iceland, and Norway. The article ChatGPT returns to WhatsApp in Europe after EU forces Meta to open the door to rival AI bots appeared first on The Decoder .

Google Deepmind CEO Demis Hassabis has published a sweeping proposal for how to handle advanced AI. He wants a new US standards body modeled after financial regulator FINRA that would develop evaluation protocols for frontier models and could coordinate a slowdown in AI development if needed. Startups and research models would be exempt. The article Deepmind CEO Hassabis says "nobody in the world knows what happens next" so "cautious optimism" means building guardrails now appeared first on The

Singapore-based AI video startup PixVerse is now valued at over $2 billion after an extended Series C round. The article PixVerse's $2B valuation shows investors still believe AI video generation has room for another winner appeared first on The Decoder .

A new Anthropic study maps hundreds of value concepts derived from thousands of individual terms onto four core dimensions. It reveals systematic differences across Claude models and languages, but also raises methodological questions. Anthropic has published a study examining which values Claude expresses in conversations and how those values shift depending on the model and language used. […] The article Claude responds with more warmth in Hindi and more rigor in Russian, showing how language

<p>A combination of fact and fiction leaves the celebrated documentarian’s puzzling project about software training wanting for depth</p><p>Marc Isaacs’ new film is a curious, intriguing, semi-sincere affair that I couldn’t make friends with. It is an odd, shallow piece of work about artificial intelligence that is itself exasperatingly artificial, a self-aware docudrama hybrid. Isaacs is, or rather pretends to be, licensing the vivid characters from his previous, acclaimed documentaries to a fi

In the 1960s an MIT professor named Joseph Weizenbaum created a chatbot called ELIZA. The conversations people had with it set precedents for the chatbots to come.

In response to a public records request, HUD has withheld documents about DOGE’s use of AI—in part by citing a privilege that doesn’t exist.

<p>Labor MP says ‘a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work’ was a founding principle of the ALP as media union calls for tougher new rules on AI use of creative work</p><ul><li><p><a href="http://theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/jul/14/australia-news-live-nt-police-peter-falconio-anthony-albanese-ai-artificial-intelligence-copyright-antisemitism-royal-commission-bondi-universities-ntwnfb">Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates</a></p></li><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www

Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal walks TechCrunch through the company's financial-services ambitions, its increasingly complicated relationship with Waymo, its new AV Labs data operation, and how AI is starting to show up in ways riders and drivers will actually notice.

Apple’s revamped Siri is more than a voice assistant; it’s now the backbone of the iPhone user experience. You can try it now through the iOS 27 public beta.

In a surprising blog post on Monday, Microsoft CEO is warning enterprises of the dangers of using proprietary models like Anthropic's and OpenAI's.

OpenAI accused of conspiring with former Apple employees to steal trade secrets.

Apple’s trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI contains allegations that range from employees joking about unauthorized access to Apple’s systems to claims that job candidates were asked to bring Apple hardware to interviews. Here are the complaint’s most eye-catching claims.

OpenAI has released a prompting guide for everyday users, not developers. Instead of rigid formulas, it suggests four optional building blocks: goal, context, format, and constraints. The core advice is simple: describe the result you want, not the steps to get there. It's the first time OpenAI covers both Chat and Codex in a single framework. The article OpenAI's new prompting guide tells users to stop overthinking and start with the result appeared first on The Decoder .

Richard Sutton, 2024 Turing Award winner and co-founder of modern reinforcement learning, has launched a new startup called Oak Lab in Toronto. He calls current deep learning methods "weak and inefficient" and wants to build AI agents that learn continuously from their environment. The article Turing Award winner Rich Sutton founds Oak Lab to build AI agents that learn on their own appeared first on The Decoder .

A Tesla representative at a DC hearing said the vehicle is “an active product being built.” But its timeline isn’t clear.

More than 200 economists and AI researchers, including 16 Nobel laureates and representatives from Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, are calling for immediate action in a coordinated statement. The AI transformation could surpass the Industrial Revolution but unfold in a fraction of the time. The paper doesn't propose concrete measures, and studies so far have found no significant AI-driven effects on the labor market. The article Nobel laureates and AI leaders warn the window to prepare for AI's e

Claude users in India are starting to see Indian rupee-denominated subscription plans.

"Context bombing" tricks hacking agents into shutting down before they can do harm.

<p>The AI revolution is here, and with it a fear that soon it will replace many of us in the workplace.</p><p>The Australian government is grappling with how to deal with the multi-layered disruption, but so far reform has been slow as it weighs up regulation against the claims of investment opportunities an AI boom presents.</p><p>Could that change this Wednesday when the prime minister delivers a landmark speech addressing the government’s approach to the technology?</p><p>Chief political corr

<p>Labor sources say the PM will discuss safety concerns in speech this week but will not provide an update on copyright reforms to protect artists</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>Anthony Albanese will describe the progress of AI as an

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is calling out OpenAI and Anthropic for what he calls a "reverse information paradox." They train on public data under fair use but ban distillation of their own models, all while learning from customer interactions. Nadella wants companies to control their own learning infrastructure. Microsoft, of course, sells exactly that. The article Nadella calls out AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic for banning distillation while training on everyone else's data appeared first

Some of the new features are powered by Google's Gemini AI assistant, which reflects the tech giant's broader push to integrate Gemini across its products while also better positioning Waze to compete with rival services such as Apple Maps.

<p>The union for 12 nurses laid off by Montefiore hospital say company broke contract they recently won through a strike</p><p>Marilyn Shuler has worked as a utilization review nurse for 39 years at Montefiore hospital in the Bronx in New York City, helping to read patient charts and communicate with insurance companies over coverage.</p><p>After nearly four decades in her job, Shuler is one of 12 nurses who was laid off Sunday after being replaced with AI-powered software, according to the New

A German research consortium has released Soofi S 30B-A3B, an open language model trained entirely on Deutsche Telekom's cloud infrastructure in Munich. The model uses an efficient hybrid architecture that activates only a fraction of its 31.6 billion parameters per token, keeping throughput steady even at very long contexts. With a training dataset deliberately weighted toward German, Soofi S tops all fully open competitors on both German and English benchmarks. The article German AI consortium

AI agent crawlers, the bots that fetch pages in real time on behalf of a person waiting for an answer, will be blocked by default on a slice of the web from September 15 onwards. Cloudflare announced the change on July 1, and most of the coverage since then has focused on Google. The more useful part […] The post AI agent crawlers now need permission. Here’s how to get it appeared first on AI News .

Google Research's SensorFM is a foundation model trained on more than a trillion minutes of wearable data from five million Fitbit and Pixel Watch users. It beats existing benchmarks on 34 of 35 health and behavioral tasks. SensorFM could eventually power Google's AI health coach, but the company hasn't announced any integration plans yet. The article Google’s SensorFM turns messy wearable sensor data into a general-purpose health intelligence layer appeared first on The Decoder .

Anthropic is keeping Claude Fable 5 in its subscription plans through July 19, 2026. The model was supposed to switch to pay-per-use today. Subscribers can use up to 50 percent of their weekly limit for Fable 5. The extension is likely a response to pricing pressure from OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and cheaper competing models. The article Anthropic extends free Fable 5 access for subscribers as OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol heats up the pricing war appeared first on The Decoder .