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ENHYPEN Drops Latest Installment in ‘THE SIN’ Series With ‘BLISS’: Stream It Now
ENHYPEN have released their eighth mini-album, THE SIN : BLISS, marking the second instalment in the group’s THE SIN series and their first record since member Heeseung announced he would pursue a solo career. The K-pop act now performs as a six-piece – Jake, Jay, Sunghoon, Sunoo, Jungwon and Ni-ki – and the release lands…
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Jill Lepore on why the artificial state is ‘doomed’ – podcast
This is a podcast episode from the Guardian’s Politics Weekly America series, in which host Jonathan Freedland speaks to historian Jill Lepore about a growing backlash against artificial intelligence and datacentres, and how it might shape the November US midterm elections. With the vote less than three months away, voters are weighing concerns about grocery…
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House Democrat: Rein in data centers without losing tech race to China
Democratic Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (Va.), whose own district lies in a hotbed of data center activity, pushed to rein them in on Thursday, but not enough where the U.S. would lose the technology race to China. “The reality is, if we want to grow and develop some of these emerging technologies like AI and others,…
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Migrant rape claim, courts weigh Anthony verdict and Lil Durk trial, Musk’s satellite waste plan
Two Afghan migrants are accused of raping a 14-year-old girl on a Kent–London train, as a US judge fast-tracks a Karmelo Anthony verdict review and Lil Durk faces a murder-for-hire trial; also Musk’s satellite plan, OpenAI’s maths claims, DuVernay’s 14th and Foo Fighters’ AC/DC stand-in.
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Udio and GRAI Adopt UMG and Liquidax-Backed AI Music Patents
Music IP Holdings (MIH), a company formed by Universal Music Group and Liquidax Capital, has announced that AI music start-ups Udio and GRAI are the first to license patents from its portfolio for use in their AI products. The move matters because it establishes a framework through which UMG and its partners can be compensated…
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AI data startup Micro1 reaches $500M gross run rate amid AI training boom
Micro1, a four-year-old AI data-labelling startup, has seen its gross annual run rate surge from $100 million to $500 million over the past eight months, reflecting soaring demand from AI labs and corporations for high-quality training data. The company, which contracts domain experts such as doctors, lawyers and scientists, retains roughly 60-70% of that revenue,…
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Google tethers Antigravity to enterprise controls amid AI shakeup
Google has folded its Antigravity agentic coding platform into Gemini Enterprise app subscriptions, bringing the tool under Google Cloud’s administrative and security controls. The move follows requests from corporate customers, who wanted stronger compliance, governance and IT oversight for the AI coding assistant, as well as easier access through familiar development environments. Antigravity, which spun…
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Rogers pushing for 1-year pause on data center construction
{beacon} Technology Technology The Big Story Mike Rogers calls for one-year data center moratorium Former Rep. Mike Rogers, the GOP nominee in a critical Senate battle in Michigan, on Thursday called for a one-year pause on data center construction, the latest sign of the political toxicity of the server warehouses fueling the AI boom….
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OpenAI is gaining on Anthropic with business users, new data indicates
New data from corporate card provider Ramp suggests OpenAI is starting to claw back ground from Anthropic among US business customers, after losing the lead in May 2026. The figures matter because both companies remain private ahead of expected IPOs, making third-party spending data one of the few available proxies for how their commercial businesses…