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A suspicious email with a forged 'from' address, '[email protected]', claimed to be a critical security alert from Google about saved passwords being found online. The email address contains a hyphen in the domain, indicating it is not legitimate. The article advises verifying sender addresses and avoiding scams by not visiting suspicious websites.

Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google accuse competitors of harvesting their AI model outputs via 'distillation' to bypass costly research. The companies face criticism for mirroring their own past practices of scraping internet content without permission, creating a symmetrical ethical and legal dilemma.

Google is rolling out a privacy setting called Search Services History that allows the company to save user activity, including images, voice searches, and uploaded files, which may be used to improve its AI models. The update expands data collection beyond traditional search history to include media interactions, raising privacy concerns.

Mark Lanier and his client Kaley achieved a landmark victory in a lawsuit against Meta and Google, proving that Instagram and YouTube were designed to be addictive and harmful to children's mental health. The case marked a significant moment where tech giants faced accountability for their platform designs, not just content.

Datacentres operated by big tech companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google are responsible for carbon emissions equivalent to a third of France's total emissions. The article highlights the growing environmental impact of these companies' infrastructure.

An anti-AI protest named 'Freeze AI on Slushy Day' marched from OpenAI’s Mission Bay headquarters to Anthropic and Google, with a detour to a16z. Protesters used slushies, a Barney costume, and jeered at the companies.

Microsoft is shifting from large AI models to smaller, domain-specific models (MAI family) to improve efficiency and cost-effectiveness. These models are replacing OpenAI's models in Microsoft products, with benefits including better hardware utilization and targeted deployment for specific tasks like coding, image generation, and speech-to-text.

The article compares the Nano Banana 2 Lite and Nano Banana 2, discussing when to save money or upgrade. It highlights Google's image model as the cheapest and fastest but notes its limitations in high-performance scenarios.

Microsoft, Amazon, and Google's collective carbon emissions increased by nearly 20% in the past year due to datacentre construction, reaching 119m mTCO₂e—equivalent to a third of France's emissions. All three companies still aim to achieve net zero carbon output despite the construction boom.

Microsoft, Amazon, and Google’s collective carbon emissions rose by nearly 20% in the past year due to datacentre construction, reaching 119 million metric tonnes of CO₂ equivalent—about a third of France’s emissions. The companies maintain their commitment to achieving net-zero carbon output despite the construction boom.

Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging it stole trade secrets by recruiting engineers and using confidential information to advance its hardware ambitions. Similar past allegations include Masimo's 2020 claim that Apple used its expertise to develop the Apple Watch's blood oxygen sensor and A123 Systems' accusations about battery technology. Apple has also been involved in a secret pact with other tech giants to restrict employee recruitment.

Meta has appealed a jury verdict that found it negligent for designing social media platforms to addict young users, following a case involving a 20-year-old woman who claimed addiction worsened her mental health. The jury awarded $3 million in damages and $3 million in punitive damages, with Google-owned YouTube also named as a defendant. Both companies plan to appeal after post-trial motions to overturn the verdict were denied.

Meta has appealed a jury verdict that found it negligent for designing Instagram and Facebook to hook young users, leading to addiction and mental health issues. The case involved a 20-year-old plaintiff, KGM, who was awarded $3 million in damages, with Meta and Google-owned YouTube both planning appeals. The verdict challenged tech companies' Section 230 protections by focusing on platform design features like 'infinite scroll'.

Meta has appealed a jury verdict that found it negligent for designing social media platforms to addict young users, awarding a 20-year-old plaintiff $3 million in damages. The case, which also named Google-owned YouTube as a defendant, focused on platform features like infinite scroll and autoplay, with the jury citing negligence in harming the plaintiff, identified as KGM. Both companies plan to appeal after post-trial motions were denied.

Quantum error correction can dynamically recalibrate processors by using error correction data, addressing calibration challenges in superconducting qubit hardware. Google has developed this method to mitigate drift issues during complex quantum computations.

Meta's Superintelligence Labs introduced Muse Image, an AI image bot competing with OpenAI's ChatGPT Images 2.0 and Google's Nano Banana 2. The feature allows others to use Instagram photos in AI-generated images, with an option to opt out.

The European Parliament passed Chat Control 2.0, a law allowing companies like Google, Meta, and Microsoft to scan users' messages for child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

A Reddit user reports frequent phishing attempts targeting their Google/YouTube account, including unauthorized sign-in prompts, scam calls, phishing emails, and a suspicious job interview link. They express frustration over the increasing sophistication of these scams and seek solutions beyond reporting.

Wearable device manufacturers like Qualcomm, Meta, and Google are developing products such as smart glasses and digital watches to collect user data, aiming to enhance personalization and lock users into their ecosystems. Qualcomm's Ziad Asghar highlighted efforts to store data locally to address privacy concerns, while analyst Carolina Milanesi noted data control as a competitive strategy.

Elon Musk's companies SpaceXAI and Cursor collaborated to release Grok 4.5, an AI model integrated into Cursor. The partnership, formed in April, accelerated a $60 billion acquisition, highlighting Musk's rapid execution in the AI sector despite questions about sustaining his pace.

David Sacks, a former White House AI advisor, claimed a Chinese startup's AI model matches the capabilities of leading U.S. models like OpenAI and Anthropic. The article highlights China's systematic intellectual property theft and large-scale data breaches as part of a national strategy to advance its AI capabilities, citing cases like a Google engineer convicted of economic espionage and breaches at OPM, Anthem, and Equifax.

Google has moved to the Delhi High Court to appeal a decision requiring it to pay ₹30 lakh in damages over the use of its AdWords trademark. The court has scheduled a hearing for July 24.

Tennessee is experiencing significant data center growth, including xAI's 'Colossus' supercomputer in Memphis, but faces rising energy costs and community opposition due to environmental and grid concerns. ThinkTennessee reports conflicting electricity bill impacts and varying data center counts between industry trackers.

Dieter Schwarz, Germany's wealthiest person, made his fortune in supermarkets and now aims to challenge Google, Microsoft, and Amazon, potentially benefiting an entire region.

Big Tech companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta are facing scrutiny over their transparency regarding AI's environmental impact, including rising emissions and water use. The UN has called for full disclosure of data-center footprints, but companies vary in their reporting standards and willingness to share details.

Aimen Moten moved from Pakistan to the US for a computer science degree and secured a software engineering role at Google through strategic internship applications and networking. She now focuses on reviewing AI-generated code and believes AI's impact on her work does not threaten her job.

OpenAI and Google sold AI models to blacklisted China groups. US groups have been supplying AI services to Singapore-based subsidiaries of Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent.

OpenAI is integrating its Codex AI coding tool into the ChatGPT desktop app to create a unified work hub, alongside releasing new GPT-5.6 AI models. The company aims to compete with rivals like Anthropic, Google, and Meta while expanding Codex's use beyond coding to areas like data analysis and research.

Meta launched its first paid AI model, Muse Spark 1.1, with 'very aggressive' pricing to compete in the AI coding market. CEO Mark Zuckerberg criticized rivals for high costs and claimed the model outperforms Google's Gemini in coding and agents. The move aligns with Meta's AI expansion amid corporate cost-cutting and could generate new revenue.

Meta released Muse Spark 1.1, an AI model it claims outperforms competitors in coding and reasoning tasks. The update is part of Meta’s AI push under Alexandr Wang, who reorganized the company’s AI efforts into Superintelligence Labs. The release follows Meta’s acquisition of a stake in Scale AI and includes new visual AI models, though user privacy concerns arose over Instagram’s AI features.

Cloudflare's data reveals Anthropic's AI bots have the highest crawl-to-refer ratio, scraping webpages 2,800 times for every referral, far exceeding OpenAI and others. DuckDuckGo shows a more balanced ratio of 3 scrapes per referral, while Anthropic's practices raise concerns about the web's economic model as AI companies prioritize content extraction over traffic generation.

Google and researchers at the University of California San Diego are repurposing retired smartphones into cloud servers by using their motherboards in a low-carbon computing system. The project, called phone cluster computing, aims to launch a data center with 2,000 Pixel smartphones in 2026 to provide low-cost cloud computing while reducing reliance on new hardware.

Three AI trends are accelerating: models are becoming more powerful (e.g., Anthropic's Fable, OpenAI's Sol, SpaceXAI's Grok 4.5), governments are developing regulatory frameworks, and the U.S. and China are considering restricting access to their most advanced AI. The global AI race is shifting toward national security concerns as autonomous agents and open-source models like China's GLM-5.2 redefine competition.

Gu Yichen secured an H-1B visa and a job at Google, but was laid off shortly after starting, highlighting the instability of H-1B visa holders in tech jobs. He later returned to Amazon, realizing career success depends on timing as much as effort.

Instagram now allows public users to reuse and modify posts, including profile pictures, via Meta's new AI model, Muse Image. Users must manually disable this feature in the app's 'Sharing and reuse' settings. Meta's rollout is part of its broader AI competition strategy, drawing criticism from privacy advocates.

A voicemail from a local area code number claimed to be about a claim number, instructing the recipient to contact their business. The number was linked to their cell phone on Google, used their full name, and provided an unverified 877 number. The recipient's business has no known claims.

Waymo, the Google-owned robotaxi company, is expanding fully autonomous operations to four new cities: San Diego, Las Vegas, Tampa, and Denver. The move marks a significant step in the company's rollout of driverless ride services.

Atrium Health agreed to a $1.8 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit alleging it shared patient data via Meta Pixel on its website, allowing Facebook and Google to use the data for targeted ads. Atrium Health denied wrongdoing, and individuals with specific accounts between 2015 and 2024 can file claims until Sept. 28, with a final hearing on Sept. 30.

AI distillation, a technique where models are trained using outputs from other AI systems, is becoming a competitive tool that threatens the profitability of major AI companies. US firms like Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google warn that rivals, including Chinese companies like Alibaba and Z.ai, may use distillation to replicate their models cheaply, undermining investments in data and computing power.