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The French Disruption: How Microsoft’s $3 Billion Bet on Mistral AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft invests $3 billion in Mistral AI. The startup’s performance surges 70%, challenging ChatGPT’s dominance.
Cato Institute Warns a Government AI Pause Would Shield Dominant Firms
Policy scholar Jennifer Huddleston argues voluntary safeguards beat a mandated halt, as Sanders and Casar push a pause and Jack Dorsey warns against rules built for incumbents.
The AI Industry Says You Have Months. It Did Not Say What It Will Do.
More than 100 companies set out a four-part plan for surviving AI-enabled attacks on hospitals and water plants — with no commitments, deadlines or funding attached to their own part of it.
Google Tells Android Developers to Cut Their Memory Use, or Else
Per-app limits arrive with Android 17 as a direct response to the RAM crisis — and the Play Store will enforce them.
ATF Declares a 'Major Incident' as a Ransomware Gang Claims the Hack
The compromised system held information including the targets of ATF investigations. The classification triggers notification to Congress.
Google, Microsoft and OpenAI Among 100 Firms Demanding Better Cyber Defences
An open letter warns AI-driven attacks will outpace current security 'in a matter of months' and calls the under-resourcing of critical infrastructure historic.
Huang Says Nvidia Has 'Achieved AGI' — and That the Milestone Is Senseless
The industry's supposed finish line got announced and dismissed in the same breath on an earnings call. He has a point.
Sony Finally Has a Cheap Enough OLED to Fight Samsung and LG
The Bravia 6 is the company's first OLED with four HDMI 2.1 ports, in five sizes from 48 to 83 inches.
Google's AI Mode Will Now Track Flight Prices and Book Your Hotel
Prices from over 300 airlines and travel sites, itinerary building, points and miles pricing — and price alerts in 180 countries.
Americans Are Cheering for the People Taking Down Flock Cameras
Unplugged, smashed, spray-painted, blocked for hours. The licence-plate readers have become a bipartisan flashpoint.
A Former PG&E Engineer Is Building 'Google Maps for the Underground'
Utility strikes happen 200,000 times a year in the US because nobody has a single map of what is buried where.
Hugging Face Is Selling a $399 Open Source Duck Robot
The Microduck waddles, picks things up with its beak, gets back up when it falls, and roller skates. It ships before Christmas.