Snopes used Google's invisible SynthID watermark to debunk a viral AI-generated image of Senator McConnell in a hospital bed. The watermark survived screenshots.

HubSpot has scrapped a plan to pool customer data for an AI feature after a four-day backlash, a lesson in how touchy the AI-data grab has become.

Michał Sołowow's SGE plans 14 GE Vernova Hitachi BWRX-300 small modular reactors across three UK sites, a £35bn bet on AI-era power, by 2034.

Samsung Heavy Industries plans a purpose-built, 50MW floating data centre by 2028, as land, water and local opposition squeeze AI projects on shore.

SpaceXAI has launched Grok 4.5, the first model built with Cursor. Musk calls it "Opus-class" but cheaper, aimed at coding, legal and finance work.

A Meta contractor flushed a rare bacterium into Cheyenne's water system, so the Wyoming city suspended all data centre discharge, the Guardian reports.

Fi's new Fi Ultra is the first dog collar to run on Starlink's direct-to-cell satellites, keeping pets trackable beyond phone towers, Fortune reports.

New York bans smart glasses from all 1,240 courts as Meta tamper-proofs its recording light, even while testing always-on "super-sensing" glasses.

Venus Aerospace has raised a $91m Series B to turn its rotating detonation rocket engine into hardware for missiles and high-speed space vehicles.

City Labs' BOHR is the first commercial nuclear power source in orbit, a tritium betavoltaic battery built to run where solar panels cannot.

Matrix's inference chips in a joint system, the latest sign it would rather befriend chip rivals than fight them.

Live, a full-duplex ChatGPT voice that listens and speaks at once, with live translation. It rolls out to all users, free ones too.