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Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am launches electric car

The smart car has three wheels and an AI agent.

How AI Demand Propelled Google to 1 GW Milestone

Google’s 1 GW demand response milestone scales AI infrastructure, yet its reliance on existing grids sparks a debate over true energy sustainability

Siemens and Rittal: Sustainable Power Systems for AI

Siemens and Rittal unite to tackle soaring energy demands from AI, targeting 2030 projections where individual racks will require 1MW of power to operate

Google’s AI Inbox expands to Ultra subscribers.

If you’re the type that pays Google $249.99/mo for its AI Ultra plan in the US then you’ve earned yourself early access to Gmail’s new semi-useful-perhaps-someday-in-the-future AI Inbox. It’s still in beta, so take care.

Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise of open-source LiteLLM project

The AI recruiting startup confirmed a security incident after an extortion hacking crew took credit for stealing data from the company's systems.

If SaaS Is Dead, Linear Didn’t Get the Memo

The product management tool has successfully reinvented itself as an agent-native business

Computer in Slack: From Shared Context to Finished Work

Like many breakthrough technologies, Perplexity Computer began as an internal tool at Perplexity. Computer was born in the place where we do most of our work: Slack.

Anthropic is having a month

A human really borks things at Anthropic for the second time this week.

I think Google is taking a couple digs at OpenAI about Sora.

OpenAI gave up on Sora last week, but in a post about Google’s new “cost efficient” Veo 3.1 Lite AI video model, DeepMind staffer Logan Kilpatrick says that “video’s here to stay.” And in a blog post about the model, the authors discuss Google’s “commitment to making video generation more available to developers.”

AI companies that want to work with the state of California will have to meet new privacy and security standards.

Despite the Trump administration’s efforts to try to limit states from regulating AI, California Governor Gavin Newsom issued an executive order on Monday with the new guardrails.

Anthropic leaked its own source Code

The company marketing itself as the safety-first AI lab just had its second major security blunder.

Running local models on Macs gets faster with Ollama's MLX support

Apple Silicon Macs get a performance boost thanks to better unified memory usage.