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Google reportedly signs classified AI deal with US Pentagon

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Tech company is latest Silicon Valley firm to sign agreement with US military despite widespread employee oppositionGoogle has reportedly signed a deal with the US Pentagon to use its artificial intelligence models for classified work. The tech company joins a growing list of Silicon Valley firms inking agreements with US military.The agreement allows the Pentagon […]

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Tech giants face new levy to pay for Australian news as Meta calls position ‘simply wrong’

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Google also rejects need for reform after Albanese government reveals draft news bargaining incentive scheme Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has urged Google, Meta and TikTok to make deals with Australian media outlets to avoid a dedicated 2.25% levy on

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EU tells Google to open up AI on Android; Google says that’s “unwarranted intervention”

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In January, the European Commission began an initial investigation, known as a specification proceeding, into how Google has implemented AI in the Android operating system. The results are in, and the EU says Android needs to be more open, which is not surprising. Meanwhile, Google says this amounts to “unwarranted intervention,” which is equally unsurprising.

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Google warns malicious web pages are poisoning AI agents

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Public web pages are actively hijacking enterprise AI agents via indirect prompt injections, Google researchers warn. Security teams scanning the Common Crawl repository (a massive database of billions of public web pages) have uncovered a growing trend of digital booby traps. Website administrators and malicious actors are embedding hidden instructions within standard HTML. These invisible

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Google will invest as much as $40 billion in Anthropic

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Google will invest at least $10 billion in Anthropic, and that amount could rise to $40 billion if Anthropic meets certain performance targets, Bloomberg reports. The investment follows Amazon’s $5 billion initial investment in Anthropic a few days ago; the Amazon deal also leaves the door open to further investment based on performance. Both investments value

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US accuses China of “industrial-scale” AI theft. China says it’s “slander.”

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The US is preparing to crack down on China’s allegedly “industrial-scale theft of American artificial intelligence labs’ intellectual property,” the Financial Times reported Thursday. Since the launch of DeepSeek—a Chinese model that OpenAI claimed was trained using outputs from its models—other AI firms have accused global rivals of using a method called distillation to steal

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Google unveils two new TPUs designed for the “agentic era”

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Most of the companies that have fully committed to building AI models are gobbling up every Nvidia AI accelerator they can get, but Google has taken a different approach. Most of its cloud AI infrastructure is based on its line of custom Tensor processing units (TPUs). After announcing the seventh-gen Ironwood TPU in 2025, the

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Now you can break up with big tech at a bar: ‘cybersecurity disguised as a party’

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These digital security organizers bring the fight for online privacy to dance parties, wine meetups and reading groupsImani Thompson shows up at Wonderville Bar in Brooklyn looking ready for a DJ set, or to drink, or to dance the night away with friends. While she’ll probably do the latter, she’s also a cybersecurity organizer leading

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Google Broke Its Privacy Promise — Now ICE Has Your Data

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Google handed ICE a student journalist’s data without warning, breaking a decade-long promise. Here’s what happened and what it means for your privacy. The post Google Broke Its Privacy Promise — Now ICE Has Your Data appeared first on 1redDrop.

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Gemini can now create personalized AI images by digging around in Google Photos

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Google began rolling out “personal intelligence” in Gemini early this year, giving AI subscribers the option of a more customized experience when using the company’s chatbot. Today, it’s using personal intelligence to tie its image-generation model to Google Photos. If you opt in, generated images will have access to your photos and associated labels to

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