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Amazon wins court order to block Perplexity’s AI shopping agent
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Amazon wins court order to block Perplexity’s AI shopping agent

The Perplexity app in the Apple App Store on a smartphone arranged in Washington, June 1, 2025. Stefani Reynolds | Bloomberg | Getty Images A federal judge temporarily blocked startup Perplexity from accessing Amazon‘s site with its Comet artificial intelligence browser, according to court filings. Amazon sued Perplexity in November, alleging the startup took steps […]

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Google deepens Pentagon AI push after Anthropic sues Trump administration
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Google deepens Pentagon AI push after Anthropic sues Trump administration

People walk near a sign outside of Google headquarters in Mountain View, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images News | Getty Images A day after Anthropic sued the Trump administration for designating the artificial intelligence company a supply chain risk, Google is deepening its relationship with the Defense Department and expanding the role of its […]

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Amazon plans ‘deep dive’ internal meeting to address AI-related outages
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Amazon plans ‘deep dive’ internal meeting to address AI-related outages

The logos of World Economic Forum (WEF) and Amazon are displayed during the 56th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting, in Davos, Switzerland, Jan. 20, 2026. Romina Amato | Reuters Amazon plans to address a string of recent outages, including some that were tied to AI-assisted coding errors, at a retail technology meeting on Tuesday, […]

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OpenAI to buy cybersecurity startup Promptfoo to better safeguard AI agents
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OpenAI to buy cybersecurity startup Promptfoo to better safeguard AI agents

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, Feb. 19, 2026. Prakash Singh | Bloomberg | Getty Images OpenAI said Monday that it is acquiring the cybersecurity startup Promptfoo, which provides tools to help safeguard and test complex artificial intelligence systems. The Sam Altman-led firm did not disclose the […]

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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber stepping back, former WordPress parent chief Toni Schneider named interim boss
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Bluesky CEO Jay Graber stepping back, former WordPress parent chief Toni Schneider named interim boss

CEO, Bluesky Social Jay Graber speaks on stage during 2025 Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies Summit & Gala at Jacob Javits Center on June 5, 2025 in New York City. Eugene Gologursky | Getty Images Bluesky CEO Jay Graber said Monday that she will be stepping down and transitioning to the company’s chief innovation officer. […]

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Anthropic was the Pentagon’s choice for AI. Now it’s banned and experts are worried
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Anthropic was the Pentagon’s choice for AI. Now it’s banned and experts are worried

Dario Amodei, chief executive officer of Anthropic, at the AI Impact Summit in New Delhi, India, on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026. Ruhani Kaur | Bloomberg | Getty Images Last August, Pentagon technology chief Emil Michael, a former Uber executive and attorney, took on the added role of overseeing the Defense Department’s artificial intelligence portfolio. A […]

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Anthropic sues Trump administration over Pentagon blacklist
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Anthropic sues Trump administration over Pentagon blacklist

U.S. President Donald Trump, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth behind, speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One on a flight from Dover, Delaware, to Miami, Florida, U.S., March 7, 2026. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters Anthropic filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Monday after the artificial intelligence startup was blacklisted and labeled a threat […]

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Amazon’s Zoox expands robotaxi testing to Phoenix and Dallas
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Amazon’s Zoox expands robotaxi testing to Phoenix and Dallas

A Zoox autonomous robotaxi in San Francisco, California, US, on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon‘s self-driving unit Zoox plans to start testing its autonomous vehicles in Dallas and Phoenix, the company announced Monday. To start, Zoox will deploy a “small number” of its retrofitted Toyota Highlander SUVs, […]

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Google joins Microsoft in telling users Anthropic is still available outside defense projects
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Google joins Microsoft in telling users Anthropic is still available outside defense projects

Google CEO Sundar Pichai gestures to the crowd during Google’s annual I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, on May 20, 2025. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Google said it will continue offering Anthropic’s artificial intelligence technology for clients, excluding for defense work, a day after Microsoft issued a similar statement to […]

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Samsung reveals first details of its AI smart glasses to CNBC
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Samsung reveals first details of its AI smart glasses to CNBC

The Samsung exhibition stand features the prominent ”A new era of mobile agentic AI” slogan by the South Korean company Samsung Electronics. Joan Cros | Nurphoto | Getty Images Samsung’s upcoming smart glasses will have a camera and be connected to a smartphone, a top executive told CNBC, as the tech giant prepares to make […]

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