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Google partners with five football clubs to bring Gemini and Pixel to fans

Gemini will deliver match insights and stats while Pixel cameras capture behind-the-scenes content for supporters.

Zuckerberg’s AI future vision meets skepticism over Meta’s social media history

TechCrunch Equity panelists cite broken social media promises as a reason to doubt personal AI agents.

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Google partners with five football clubs to bring Gemini and Pixel to fans

Gemini will deliver match insights and stats while Pixel cameras capture behind-the-scenes content for supporters.
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Zuckerberg’s AI future vision meets skepticism over Meta’s social media history

TechCrunch Equity panelists cite broken social media promises as a reason to doubt personal AI agents.
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Anthropic CEO Amodei says AI backlash is fundamentally a crisis of trust

Amodei argues the AI backlash stems from a decades-long crisis of trust in companies, governments, and tech.
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Woman joins lawsuit alleging stepfather used Grok for explicit images

The stepfather allegedly created over 7,000 explicit images from a photo taken when she was 11.
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Anthropic details Claude watermarking approach and detection API

The company will use Google DeepMind's SynthID-Text and release a detection API for EU AI Act compliance.
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SpaceX completes $60B acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor

The AI coding startup now belongs to SpaceX, which gives it access to the largest GPU fleet and data center infrastructure.
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Google lets users remove visible watermarks from AI-generated content

Google's move to make visible watermarks optional keeps invisible SynthID and C2PA metadata for transparency.
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Kog’s software unlocks faster inference on GPUs enterprises already own

The French startup's software-only approach aims for 30x faster LLM decoding on conventional data center GPUs.
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Flock restricts license plate searches while cloning and pediatric cell mapping advance

Flock will require case numbers for searches but will not verify them, leaving potential loopholes.
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SpaceVIP founder turns luxury travel into commercial spaceflight agency

Roman Chiporukha built a booking platform for private ISS missions and suborbital flights after recruiting Axiom's first crew.
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Databricks raised $5B at $190B valuation after investor demand spiked

The round exceeds the company's original ask by five times after investor interest reached $15 billion.
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OpenAI launches new Ultrafast mode for GPT-5.6 Sol at 14x speed

The preview mode delivers up to 750 output tokens per second and runs on Cerebras hardware.
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