Meta has announced that it is expanding Meta AI’s presence on Threads by rolling out chatbot access directly within the platform’s DMs, giving users a private way to interact with the assistant. The company had previously tested Meta AI in Threads’ public posts in select markets, similar to how Grok functions on X, but this…

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PJM Interconnection, operator of the largest power grid in the United States, has said it will curtail electricity to data centers and other large users during power shortages after an auction to secure additional generating capacity fell short. The decision comes as data center construction accelerates nationwide, with facilities expected to consume four times more…

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Read Online | Sign Up | Advertise Good morning, {{ first_name | AI enthusiasts }}, and welcome to the 3,210 new readers who joined us yesterday. Frontier AI labs don’t agree on much. But today, 1,000+ of their employees found one thing worth co-signing: the option to slow down. The statement, signed by members of…

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Google’s AI-generated summaries appeared in 43% of US searches measured by Similarweb, up from 15% a year earlier, according to the market intelligence firm’s 2026 Generative AI Landscape report. AI Overviews display generated summaries within conventional Google results, while AI Mode provides a conversational interface for longer questions and follow-up prompts. Users can move from…

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OpenAI has released a new field report tracking eight scientific computing projects where coding agents cut runtimes. The report documents projects that used Codex on its own in five cases and a combination of Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code in three others. Worth flagging upfront: this is a vendor publishing a survey of its own…

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Insider Brief The FCC added foreign-produced advanced robotic devices and connected power inverters to its Covered List, restricting new models from receiving authorization for import, marketing or sale in the U.S. The action covers mobile robots such as humanoids and quadrupeds, with national-security agencies citing supply-chain and cybersecurity risks tied to networked robots and connected…

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Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella issued a warning to enterprises this week, arguing that companies relying entirely on proprietary AI labs for their AI needs risk losing control of their own operations. Speaking on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” Nadella said businesses should retain ownership of their usage data and metadata so they can eventually train their…

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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei pushed back Monday on suggestions that his company supports banning open-weight AI models, stating clearly that Anthropic has never advocated for such bans. His comments followed an open letter from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and other companies, including Hugging Face, Meta, Microsoft, and Mistral, urging policymakers to avoid broad restrictions on…

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Recursive Superintelligence, an AI company focused on building self-improving systems, has signed a $410 million multiyear compute deal with Amazon Web Services. The company, which emerged from stealth in May with $650 million in funding, said the agreement represents the majority of its fundraising to date and will support its compute-intensive approach to AI development.…

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Insider Brief LG Innotek and TDK are partnering to develop sensing modules for physical AI systems, including robot vision and tactile sensing. The companies said the work will combine LG Innotek’s optical and precision module-design capabilities with TDK’s sensor technologies, with a vision module using an inertial sensor planned for 2027. LG Innotek said the…

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