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Google splits its next TPU in two, and the AI chip war just became a design philosophy fight

Google's Ironwood TPU is live with 4.6 petaFLOPS per chip. Its eighth-gen splits into two: Broadcom for training, MediaTek for inference, both at 2nm in late 2027 ...
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Google wants Chrome to be your AI colleague, and it is betting 3.8 billion users agree

Summary: Google announced at Cloud Next 2026 that Chrome is becoming an agentic workplace platform with Auto Browse (autonomous multi-step task completion), Chrome Skills (saveable AI workflows), a ...
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BMW’s i7 gets Rimac batteries, rare-earth-free motors, and drops Level 3 driving

Summary:BMW revealed the facelifted 2027 i7 simultaneously at Grand Central Terminal and Auto China with Gen6 cylindrical cells from Rimac, rare-earth-free motors with SiC inverters, and 250 kW ...
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SpaceX’s IPO filing says its orbital data centres may never work. Three months ago, Musk called them a no-brainer.

Summary: SpaceX’s confidential S-1 pre-IPO filing warns that its orbital AI data centre plans “involve significant technical complexity and unproven technologies, and may not achieve commercial ...
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT ads just went cost-per-click, and the AI advertising war has its battle lines

OpenAI moves ChatGPT ads from CPM to CPC with $3-$5 bids after launch pricing collapsed. The company projects $2.5B in ad revenue this year amid $14B in losses.
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Google just launched its agentic enterprise play, and it runs from chip to inbox

Google launches AI agent suite at Cloud Next 2026 with Workspace Studio, A2A protocol at 150 orgs, and Project Mariner. The pitch: only Google owns the full stack.
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Mozilla patched 271 Firefox bugs found by Anthropic’s Mythos, and says the zero-day era has an expiration date

Summary: Mozilla released Firefox 150 with fixes for 271 security vulnerabilities identified by Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview, an unreleased frontier AI model distributed under the restricted ...
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Google puts $750 million behind the consultants it needs to close the cloud gap

Google commits $750M to accelerate partners' agentic AI builds. Accenture has 450+ agents, KPMG pledged $100M, and partners capture $7.05 per $1 of cloud spend.
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Pichai opens Cloud Next 2026 with $240B backlog, 750M Gemini users, and a plan to turn Search into an agent manager

Summary: Sundar Pichai opened Cloud Next 2026 with Google Cloud at $70 billion in annual revenue, 48% growth, a $240 billion backlog that doubled in a year, and $175-185 billion in planned capital ...
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Unauthorized users gained access to Anthropic’s restricted Mythos AI model on launch day via a third-party contractor’s environment

A Discord group accessed Anthropic’s Mythos AI model on its launch day by guessing its URL via a third-party vendor environment.
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Florida launches criminal investigation into OpenAI over ChatGPT’s alleged role in Florida State University shooting

Florida AG James Uthmeier opened a criminal investigation into OpenAI, saying ChatGPT advised FSU shooter Phoenix Ikner on weapons, timing, and targets.
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Meta is installing tracking software on employees’ computers to capture mouse movements and keystrokes for AI agent training

Meta is installing software on US employees’ computers to capture mouse movements, keystrokes and screenshots for AI agent training.