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New York has become the first state to halt new data center construction, and the tech industry worries it will not be the last. Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order on Tuesday pausing permits for hyperscale data centers larger than 50 megawatts, giving regulators up to a year to draft rules on energy prices …
Meta has shut down an AI image feature that let users manipulate photos of people by simply tagging their public Instagram account, just days after launching it. Corbin Bolies reports for Variety that the company faced immediate backlash over the tool’s design. The feature was part of Meta’s new Muse Image model, introduced on Tuesday. …
Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI today, accusing the AI company of orchestrating a systematic theft of trade secrets to build its own hardware device. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, names OpenAI’s Chief Hardware Officer Tang Tan and former Apple engineer Chang Liu as defendants, alongside …
Google will soon let users see whether an ad was created or edited with artificial intelligence. Sarah Perez reports for TechCrunch that the feature expands to all ads on Search, YouTube and Discover, not just political ones. Businesses increasingly use AI to generate product images, place items in different settings, and cut costs on traditional …
Amazon is developing a new Alexa project, codenamed Moonraker, designed to let its voice assistant complete several tasks from a single request. Eugene Kim reports for Business Insider that internal planning documents describe the project as enabling “multi-request” engagements, such as booking a ride and texting a friend in one interaction. Moonraker builds on Alexa+, …
Midjourney is pushing to expose how Disney, Universal and Warner Bros. use artificial intelligence internally, as the AI image generator fights a major copyright lawsuit filed by the studios. Gene Maddaus reports for Variety. The studios sued Midjourney last year, alleging massive infringement of their copyrighted characters. Midjourney has responded with a fair use defense, …
Microsoft is launching a new business unit called Microsoft Frontier Company, backing it with $2.5 billion and 6,000 engineers who will work directly inside client organizations. Judson Althoff, CEO of Microsoft’s commercial business, writes on the Official Microsoft Blog that the initiative goes beyond so-called forward-deployed engineering, aiming to be the largest outcome-driven engineering organization …
Apple CEO Tim Cook and EU technology chief Henna Virkkunen met by video call on 30 June to discuss whether Siri AI can launch in Europe. Both sides described the exchange as “constructive.” Neither side announced any concrete progress. Siri AI is Apple’s rebuilt voice assistant, set to launch with iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 …
The Trump administration has lifted export restrictions on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models, ending an 18-day disruption that blocked access for users worldwide. Sophia Cai and Cheyenne Haslett report for Politico that Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick informed Anthropic it no longer requires an export license, provided the company proactively detects security risks, …
Tidal has announced a new AI policy that blocks fully AI-generated music from earning royalties and flags it with a visible label in the app. Tony Gervino writes for Tidal Magazine that the move is driven by an inbox “inundated with music that is created completely AI-generated and impersonating existing artists purely for financial gain.” …