OpenAI acquires Ona to deepen Codex infrastructure
OpenAI’s purchase of the Gitpod-linked cloud sandbox company points Codex toward managed development environments, not just code suggestions.
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View archive →Deezer opens a free detector for AI-generated music
Deezer’s tool scans playlists across major streaming services, reflecting mounting pressure to label synthetic songs and protect royalty pools.
Google opens DiffusionGemma for faster text generation
DiffusionGemma applies diffusion-style decoding to text, generating chunks in parallel and showing another path beyond autoregressive language models.
OpenAI weighs a giant Ohio data-center lease
The reported 10-gigawatt lease would shift OpenAI from owning more infrastructure to long-term capacity commitments backed by partners such as Nvidia.
German court says Google can be liable for AI Overviews
The ruling marks an early legal warning that AI-generated search summaries may expose platforms to responsibility for inaccurate or harmful content.
Gemini suffers a global outage lasting more than six hours
The interruption showed how dependent users have become on hosted AI assistants and why AI infrastructure now faces cloud-service reliability expectations.
Dario Amodei calls for pre-release tests on powerful AI
Anthropic’s CEO wants governments to block or pull the strongest models if they fail independent safety tests, a proposal that also raises competition questions.
Google pushes Gemini onto the World Cup screen
Google is using the 2026 World Cup to place Gemini across Search, lock-screen scores, Maps, Waze and fan image tools.
Anthropic funds Claude Corps for nonprofits
Anthropic is committing $350 million to send 1,000 fellows into nonprofits and to study workers displaced by AI.
Bezos takes the CEO chair at Prometheus
Prometheus raised $12 billion at a $41 billion valuation, with Jeff Bezos returning as CEO to pursue an “artificial general engineer.”