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Web Search on Amazon Bedrock reaches general availability for grounding

Amazon's built-in tool uses a web index and knowledge graph to ground foundation models without third-party vendors.

Spotify brings Merlin labels into its AI remix and covers project

The licensing partner adds more than 30,000 independent labels to the fan-made remix and covers product.

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Web Search on Amazon Bedrock reaches general availability for grounding

Amazon's built-in tool uses a web index and knowledge graph to ground foundation models without third-party vendors.

Spotify brings Merlin labels into its AI remix and covers project

The licensing partner adds more than 30,000 independent labels to the fan-made remix and covers product.

Apple expands trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI with new injunction request

Apple claims more ex-employees may have shared confidential data with OpenAI, seeking expedited discovery.

EON Emerges From Stealth With $10.75M for Space Laser Network

EON will build a 20-satellite laser network to carry data between data centers at 2.4 terabits per second.

Alex Karp calls AI industry Marxist after Palantir posts record quarter

Palantir's strong quarter saw $1.9B revenue and $1.1B profit, while Karp accused AI labs of Marxist tactics.

How we built a realtime system for responsive voice AI in six months

GPT-Live enables continuous voice interaction with AI, using a turnless speech model and low-latency architecture for faster, more natural conversations.

Apple’s Siri AI debuts in iOS 27 beta, but feels anticlimactic

The assistant finally delivers on Apple's promises while competitors push ahead with agents and coding tools.

Congress’s favorite AI tool? ChatGPT

In Brief Posted: Rebecca Bellan Congress’s favorite AI tool?

The Download: reward hacking explained, and suspected Iranian cyberattacks

This is today's edition of The Download , our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology.

A Marc Benioff-backed startup thinks AI can solve the AI deployment problem

It’s so hard for big businesses to get AI tools working reliably that whole new organizations of forward-deployed engineers or FDEs— specialists wh...

Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals

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Altman calls for pacing AI development after OpenAI agent breaches Hugging Face

OpenAI CEO says society needs time to adapt to new AI capabilities, but critics question whether labs can balance safety with revenue goals.