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Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Meta is launching the first AI image generation model made by its Superintelligence Labs division. The Muse Image model now powers the
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* Samsung Messages has been killed off to make room for Google Messages * Right now it's just affecting US users, but a wider shutdown is likely to happen * We recommend making Google Messages your default SMS service After months of waiting, the dreaded day for Android users arrived: Samsung
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TL;DR Anthropic has expanded Claude Cowork, its general-knowledge-work agent, from desktop to web and mobile, rolling out in beta to Max subscribers first. A feature called Dispatch keeps one persistent thread that routes tasks to Claude Code or Cowork and lets work continue while the laptop is closed. Anthropic
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A Korean chip startup wants to sell Europe a cooler, cheaper alternative to Nvidia. Its first “renegade” accelerators just went live in a Lisbon datacentre. FuriosaAI has switched on its RNGD AI accelerators in Europe. The South Korean startup is installing RNGD servers at Equinix’s LS2 datacentre in Lisbon,
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Scotland’s governing party wants to freeze every new datacentre in the country. If ministers agree, a core pillar of the UK’s AI strategy could stall. The Scottish government is weighing a sweeping moratorium on new datacentres. Last Sunday, the Scottish National Party (SNP) voted to freeze all new
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TL;DR OpenAI is hiring an investment-banking “subject matter expert” for its Applied AI team, paying $185K-$205K plus equity, to define the quality bar for AI-assisted banking work. The move signals OpenAI’s push into finance, one of enterprise AI’s most lucrative verticals, where it is racing Anthropic.
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Google, Meta, Spotify and Sony have taken Belgium to Europe’s top court. They say its copyright law forces platforms to pay creators far beyond what the EU intended. Four of the biggest names in tech asked the EU’s Court of Justice on Tuesday to rein in Belgium. They
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TL;DR Toyota will invest $3.6bn to expand its San Antonio plant and shift some Tacoma pickup production from Mexico to Texas over about four years, adding 2,000 jobs. Trump claimed credit for tariffs, but Toyota did not attribute the move to tariffs and is not leaving Mexico.
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Oracle continues to invest heavily in embedded AI across Fusion Financials, and Oracle Payables Cloud is one of the areas where there are immediate, tangible benefits. With the introduction of AI Adaptive Learning, working alongside Intelligent Document Recognition (IDR), organizations can significantly reduce manual invoice corrections while improving invoice accuracy
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On Monday, Decagon CEO Jesse Zhang published a provocative new theory, posted under the title “Everyone is wrong about open source AI in the enterprise.” The post grapples with one of the most interesting contradictions of today’s AI economy: More mature AI deployments are switching to lighter models, he
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Veeam Software has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Data Security Council of India (DSCI) to strengthen cyber resilience, data governance and cybersecurity workforce development as Indian organisations prepare for the full enforcement of the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act in May 2027. Announced during VeeamON Tour
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In Brief 12:58 PM PDT · July 7, 2026 As AI costs continue to rise, companies are looking for ways to cut back. The most recent example is Microsoft, which has reportedly begun to deploy a cost-savings strategy by relying less on software from OpenAI and Anthropic and instead deploying
