Amazon just shut its AGI Lab, and quit a race it never led
Amazon is retreating from the race to build the smartest AI. This week it closed its AGI Lab, a San Francisco team working on artificial
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Stripe wants to own the toll booth between AI models, for ~$10bn
Stripe wants a foothold in AI, and it is willing to pay dearly for it. The payments company is in talks to buy OpenRouter for
Wildfire forces evacuation of NASA’s Deep Space Network complex in Spain
A fast-moving wildfire, one of many raging across Spain, bore down on the Madrid Deep Space Communications Complex on Friday, forcing an evacuation and temporarily
Paramount/WBD merger delayed for months as states’ lawsuit moves toward trial
Paramount Skydance agreed to a longer-term delay of its $111 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, preventing the companies from combining until after a judge
10 Platforms for AI Visibility and Link Building in 2026
Millions now choose products through ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews appear in nearly half of all search queries. According to Muck Rack
SAP’s cloud is still booming, and that was enough to calm the AI-doom fears
SAP gave investors the number they wanted. Europe’s biggest software company said cloud revenue grew 22% to €6.28 billion in the second quarter, beating forecasts
Google fined $1 billion for anticompetitive search and mobile app practices in EU
The European Commission has fined Google a total of €890 million ($1 billion) for its breaches of the Digital Market Act (DMA). Just over half
Claude Opus 5 matches Fable on coding at half the price, and Anthropic says it is the most aligned model it has ever shipped
Anthropic on Thursday released Claude Opus 5, a model that matches or exceeds its flagship Fable 5 on most coding and knowledge-work benchmarks at half
Tesla’s self-driving software is selling faster than ever, and it still needs a human driver
Tesla now has nearly one and a half million active Full Self-Driving subscribers after adding 200,000 users in the second quarter, the largest single-quarter gain
Ubuntu 26.04 Stopped Notifying Users About Updates, But That Was Intentional
If update notifications have stopped showing up on your Ubuntu 26.04 LTS install, that isn’t some random glitch. OMG Ubuntu’s Joey Sneddon has traced it
Codeberg Has Drawn a Hard Line on Use of AI With Community Backing
📋 TLDR: – Codeberg e.V. members voted on two AI-related proposals at their annual assembly, and both passed.- The first formalizes that Codeberg will never
Remote worker with anxiety wins discrimination case after employer refused to let her turn off her camera
A UK employment tribunal has ruled that forcing a remote worker with anxiety, ADHD, and autism to turn on her camera during a video training
Two Volkswagen engineers charged with insider trading after buying Rivian stock before the joint venture they helped build was announced
Federal prosecutors on Friday arrested two Volkswagen engineers in San Jose, California, and charged them with insider trading for buying Rivian stock before VW’s multibillion-dollar
As White House monitors latest OpenAI incident, Congress eyes an AI ‘kill switch’ for DHS
The White House is monitoring developments after OpenAI revealed earlier this week that one of the company’s AI systems went beyond its intended parameters during