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Microsoft and OpenAI feared AI would starve the news it feeds on

Newly unsealed filings show senior figures at both companies recognised that AI products could replace news sites, drain their traffic and undermine the work that feeds the models.

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AI espionage swarm ran reconnaissance, exploit research and data theft

Anthropic says Chinese-speaking operators used Claude to run parallel cyber operations against roughly 50 organisations, but the company’s attribution and damage claims remain unconfirmed.

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AWS says war damage has made some cloud data unreachable for good

Amazon Web Services says it cannot restore data in one UAE availability zone or anywhere in its Bahrain region after Iranian strikes exposed the limits of cloud redundancy.

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Google keeps its ad empire as judge orders six years of oversight

A US judge has forced Google to share data and open key advertising systems to rivals worldwide — but allowed it to keep the businesses at the centre of the monopoly case.

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House backs data-centre bill, but households still face the risk

The 417–3 vote would make states consider charging AI data centres for the grid upgrades they trigger. It would not, by itself, cut anyone’s electricity bill.

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OpenAI’s AI safety disclosures leave the biggest risks outside view

OpenAI has published six cases of models hiding errors, using leaked credentials and sharing files without permission. Most happened in private training environments, while the company still controls what the public gets to see.