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Mike Rogers calls for 1-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. Rogers said in a statement that he is pushing for a yearlong moratorium on new…
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ChatGPT can now send texts for you with new Apple Messages plugin
OpenAI has released an Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT, letting users link their Messages inbox directly to the chatbot. The move extends ChatGPT’s reach into personal communications, enabling the AI to sort, analyse, edit, draft and even send texts on a user’s behalf, while also raising fresh privacy questions given how much sensitive conversation data…
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Google Discover is getting an AI chatbot-tuned feed
Google is rolling out a new AI-powered customisation tool for its Discover feed, allowing users to describe in natural language what content they want to see. The feature, arriving in the Google app “in the coming days,” uses a chatbot-style interface to let users state their preferences, which the system will then remember and apply…
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Go updates may delight diehard gophers but displease AI overlords
Go’s maintainers released version 1.27 on Wednesday, bringing a major expansion of generics to now cover methods, not just functions and data types. Generics let developers write code that works across different data types without duplicating logic for each one (integers, strings, floats and so on), and the update is being welcomed by many programmers…
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Apple Music to slap AI labels on Suno music – but pushes the onus onto record companies
Apple Music has told industry partners it will start showing “Made With AI” labels on tracks generated using AI platforms such as Suno, later this year. However, the system relies on record labels and distributors voluntarily tagging content as AI-generated before it reaches the platform, rather than Apple detecting it independently, meaning enforcement depends on…
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UMG-backed Music IP Holdings unveils AI music patent portfolio, aiming to ‘set a standard for how AI and music grow together’
UMG-backed Music IP Holdings (MIH) has launched a portfolio of AI music patents, aiming to establish an industry standard for how licensed AI-generated content is created, tracked and protected. The move gives digital services a route to build authorised AI tools such as covers, remixes and interactive music experiences, while also equipping rights holders with…
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OpenAI chases Anthropic’s biz customers with zero data retention pledge
OpenAI has unveiled Private Safety Processing, a system designed to let it scan customer interactions with its AI models for safety risks without breaching its Zero Data Retention (ZDR) commitments. The move appears aimed at winning over business customers who prioritise data privacy, positioning OpenAI as offering stronger data protection guarantees than rival Anthropic, which…
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Apple Music to tag AI-generated songs this year
Apple Music has announced it will introduce “Made With AI” labels on its platform later this year, requiring record labels and distributors to tag tracks where a substantial portion of content was created using artificial intelligence. The move builds on the AI Transparency Tagging system Apple introduced in March, and reflects growing pressure across the…
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Google gives publishers a new way to fight AI-driven traffic losses
Google has launched a new “Preferred Sources” button that publishers can embed directly on their own websites, letting readers mark a site as a favourite they want to see highlighted more often across Google Search, Discover and Google News. The move comes as Google faces growing criticism that its AI-powered search features are diverting traffic…
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Meta’s app for creating generative AI minigames is now available in the US
Meta has launched Pocket, an app that lets users generate simple AI-driven minigames, called “gizmos,” from text prompts, in the US following a brief test run in Brazil. The release marks the latest step in Meta’s broader push into generative AI tools that blend creation with social sharing, as the app combines “vibe-coding” with a…