Google Revenue Soars on AI Boom, But Investors Sour on Spending Increase

Katherine Blunt / wsj - The search giant is spending tens of billions of dollars on infusing its products with artificial intelligence capabilities.

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Walmart Taps Instacart Executive to Lead Its AI Ambitions

Sarah Nassauer / wsj - Daniel Danker will become Walmart’s head of global AI acceleration, product and design, reporting to the CEO.

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Google Photos Lets You Turn Any Image Into A Video - Here's How The New AI Feature Works

bgr - Google Photos is adding a new AI-powered feature that lets you turn any photo in your library into a video using the company's Gemini AI.

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Holistic AI report: Red teaming could have prevented Grok 4’s public collapse

Kyt Dotson / siliconangle - Artificial intelligence large language models are being deployed more frequently in sensitive, public-facing roles, and sometimes they go very wrong. Recently Grok 4, the LLM developed by X.AI Corp. and deployed on X, made headlines for all the wrong reas…

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New Pew Study Confirms Google AI Overviews Decimate Publisher Traffic

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - A new Pew Research study confirms Google's AI Overviews devastate publisher traffic, with data showing only 1% of users click source links, fueling a global fight.The post New Pew Study Confirms Google AI Overviews Decimate Publisher Traffic appeared firs…

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Trump’s AI Action Plan Is a Crusade Against ‘Bias’—and Regulation

Kate Knibbs / wired - The Trump administration’s new AI policy blueprint calls for limited regulation and lots of leeway for Big Tech to grow even bigger.

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Proton is launching a privacy-focused AI chatbot

Emma Roth / theverge - Proton, the company behind the encrypted email service Proton Mail, has launched an AI assistant aimed at preserving user privacy. The new chatbot, called Lumo, can summarize documents, generate code, write emails, and more, while storing data locally on …

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McKinsey halts China generative AI work amid geopolitical tensions

McKinsey has abruptly barred its Chinese practice from engaging in generative AI consultancy, a decision prompted by escalating geopolitical tensions and regulatory unease. The firm’s move, underscored by a mix of caution and a hint of industry exasperation, could shift the consultancy landscape significantly.

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Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507

Simon Willison / simonwillison - Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507Significant new model release from Qwen, published yesterday without much fanfare.This is a follow-up to their April release of the full Qwen 3 model family, which included a Qwen3-235B-A22B model which could handle both …

Back to Top / Tuesday, July 22, 2025, 6:20 pm / permalink 10686 / 5 stories in 7 months

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is now stable and generally available

Simon Willison / simonwillison - Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is now stable and generally availableThe last remaining member of the Gemini 2.5 trio joins Pro and Flash in General Availability today.Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the cheapest of the 2.5 family, at $0.10/million input tokens and $0.40/…

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Google AI Overviews are killing the web, Pew study shows (again)

Thomas Claburn / theregister - Summarizing online content is good for the search giant, not so much for publishers ai-pocalypse Google Search users are less likely to click on search result links when those pages have AI Overviews, according to the Pew Research Center.…

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The UK and OpenAI plan to work together on AI safety and potential infrastructure investments

Maximilian Schreiner / the-decoder - The UK government has announced a strategic partnership with OpenAI focused on joint research into AI safety and potential investments in British AI infrastructure, including new data centers.The article The UK and OpenAI plan to work together on AI safet…

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Microsoft is using your poop and other waste to offset its AI energy emissions

John Kanellakos / pocket-lint - Microsoft is putting its money and influence behind a new effort to reduce AI-fueled carbon emissions, and the strategy is certainly a sludgy one.

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Amazon Acquires AI Wearable Startup Bee

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Amazon acquires Bee, the startup behind an 'always-on' listening AI wearable, intensifying the AI hardware race and raising significant privacy questions.The post Amazon Acquires AI Wearable Startup Bee appeared first on WinBuzzer.

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Microsoft poaches top Google DeepMind staff in AI talent war - Financial Times

google - Microsoft poaches top Google DeepMind staff in AI talent war Financial Times

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xAI’s High-Stakes Gamble: $12B New Fundraising Bet Fuels AI Arms Race

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Elon Musk's xAI seeks $12B in new funding to compete in the AI arms race, facing controversies over Grok 4's ethics and environmental lawsuits in Memphis.The post xAI’s High-Stakes Gamble: $12B New Fundraising Bet Fuels AI Arms Race appeared first on WinB…

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OpenAI and Softbank’s $500 Billion Data Center Project Is Already Stumbling

Bruce Gil / gizmodo - Six months after a White House press conference, Stargate reportedly hasn't secured any data center deals.

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21-year-old MIT dropouts raise $32M at $300M valuation led by Insight

Tage Kene-Okafor / techcrunch - Karun Kaushik and Selin Kocalar weren’t planning to raise a Series A so soon. Their AI compliance startup, Delve, which announced a $3 million seed round in January, was growing fast and signing customers at a steady clip. Then, inbound interest started r…

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Seemplicity adds AI-powered features to streamline security remediation workflows

Duncan Riley / siliconangle - Security risk reduction and productivity platform provider Seemplicity Security Ltd. today announced major product updates, including three new AI-driven features — AI Insights, Detailed Remediation Steps and Smart Tagging and Scoping — aimed at helping e…

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Stability AI and AMD Launch On-Device Stable Diffusion 3 for Ryzen AI Laptops

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Stability AI and AMD have released an optimized Stable Diffusion 3 Medium model that runs locally on laptops with new Ryzen AI 300-series NPUs.The post Stability AI and AMD Launch On-Device Stable Diffusion 3 for Ryzen AI Laptops appeared first on WinBuzz…

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