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OpenAI Ramps Up Stock Pay to to $4.4 billion to Combat Meta’s Costly Talent...

OpenAI is boosting its stock-based pay to over $4.4B to fend off Meta's aggressive talent raids, revealing the steep financial cost of the AI talent war.

Alibaba Releases WebSailor, an Open-Source AI Agent Aiming for ‘Superhuman’ Reasoning

Alibaba has released WebSailor, a new open-source AI web agent designed for complex reasoning, claiming state-of-the-art performance that closes the gap on proprietary models.

Apple Appeals €500M EU Fine, Escalating DMA Showdown Over App Store Rules

Apple has formally appealed the EU's €500M fine over App Store anti-steering rules, escalating its legal battle against the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
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CoreWeave Acquires Bitcoin Miner Core Scientific for $9 Billion to Fuel AI Data Center...

AI cloud provider CoreWeave acquires crypto-miner Core Scientific in a $9B all-stock deal, securing over 2.3 GW of power for its AI data center expansion.
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Azure AI Foundry Agent Service Gains Model Context Protocol Support in Preview

Microsoft has added preview support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to its Azure AI Foundry Agent Service, aiming for universal AI agent interoperability amid rising security concerns.
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Huawei Rejects Claims It Copied Alibaba’s Qwen AI Model for “Pangu Pro”

Huawei's AI lab denies claims from research group HonestAGI that its Pangu model is a copy of Alibaba's Qwen, based on a novel 'fingerprint' analysis.
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The $4 Trillion Power Couple: Why Microsoft’s AI Future is Far Riskier Than Nvidia’s

Microsoft and Nvidia race to $4T, but Microsoft's AI strategy faces huge risks from its OpenAI feud, chip delays, and rising cloud competition. A deep dive.
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Microsoft Open-Sources GitHub Copilot Chat to Build a Transparent AI Editor

Microsoft has open-sourced its popular GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code, a key step towards a transparent, community-driven AI editor.
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Researchers Embed Hidden Prompts in Academic Papers to Manipulate AI Reviewers

Researchers from prominent universities worldwide are hiding secret commands in their academic papers to trick AI-powered review systems into giving positive feedback. An investigation...
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Microsoft Sunsets Publisher: Here Are Your Best Alternatives

Microsoft is discontinuing its Publisher desktop publishing software in 2026. We explore the best replacement options, from professional tools like InDesign to free alternatives like Canva.
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Deepseek R1-0528: German Firm Releases Version of DeepSeek’s AI Model That Runs Twice as...

German firm TNG has released DeepSeek-TNG R1T2 Chimera, an open-source variant twice as fast as its parent model thanks to a new 'Assembly-of-Experts' merge technique.
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Fairphone 6 Earns Perfect 10/10 Repairability Score, Lands in US with a Catch

The Fairphone 6 has earned a perfect 10/10 repairability score from iFixit. It's now in the US via Murena, but only works on T-Mobile's network.
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Xbox Manager Advises Laid-Off Microsoft Staff to Get Help from AI, Sparking Outrage

An Xbox manager has ignited a firestorm of criticism after advising recently laid-off Microsoft employees to seek emotional and career support from AI chatbots....
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Study: AI Benchmarks Deeply Flawed, Can Overestimate Performance by 100%

A new study from resarchers of Amazon, Stanford, MIT, and others reveals major flaws in AI agent benchmarks, finding they can misestimate performance by up to 100%.
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OpenAI Forced by Court to Keep Billions of Deleted User Chats, Sparking Privacy Uproar

A judge forces OpenAI to retain all ChatGPT user logs for the NYT lawsuit, overriding user deletions and sparking a major privacy debate over AI data.
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Google’s AI Overviews Challenged by EU Antitrust Complaint as Publisher War Escalates

A coalition of independent publishers has filed an EU antitrust complaint against Google, alleging its AI Overviews feature abuses market dominance and harms media.
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EU Rejects Industry Push for Two-Year AI Act Delay, Confirms Rollout Timeline

The European Commission has rejected a call from over 45 tech companies to delay the EU AI Act, confirming the original timeline for the landmark regulation.
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Tech Engineer Goes Viral for Juggling Four Startup Jobs, Igniting Debate on ‘Overemployment’ Ethics

An engineer's scheme to work four remote jobs at once has exposed the 'overemployed' subculture, raising critical questions about tech work ethics and trust.
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Microsoft Sunsets Password Autofill in Authenticator, Pushing Users to Edge

Microsoft is removing password management from its Authenticator app by August 2025, moving the feature to Edge and refocusing the app on passkeys and 2FA.
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Mistral Launches ‘AI for Citizens’ to Offer Sovereign AI Solutions to Governments

Mistral AI is offering governments sovereign, customizable AI solutions as a direct challenge to dominant, non-European tech giants.