Nvidia GPUs running inside Google Cloud are now powering parts of Apple Intelligence, an unusual alignment between three fierce competitors that shows how compute scarcity is reshaping the AI industry.
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Brussels has ordered Google to open Android to rival AI assistants and share search data under the Digital Markets Act, a structural ruling with deadlines stretching into 2027.
Nvidia GPUs running inside Google Cloud are now powering parts of Apple Intelligence, an unusual alignment between three fierce competitors that shows how compute scarcity is reshaping the AI industry.
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 launches this week with US government-imposed rollout limits, part of a broader shift toward direct regulatory control over frontier AI releases that could affect how quickly the model reaches international developers, India included.
Meta's new Muse Image AI generator launched across Instagram and WhatsApp's 3 billion combined users, but the company had to pull a public-figure @-mention feature within days after backlash over consent and impersonation concerns.
Microsoft has begun quietly routing Excel and Outlook Copilot prompts to its own MAI models instead of OpenAI and Anthropic, aiming to cut AI costs, even as independent benchmarks show its models still trailing the frontier competition they're replacing.
Samsung's chip division posted an 1,810% profit surge to overtake Nvidia as the world's most profitable tech company, driven by the same AI-fueled memory shortage that's pushing up prices on phones, tablets, and consoles everywhere, including its own Galaxy lineup.
The EU's General Court dismissed all of Apple's challenges to its Digital Markets Act gatekeeper status, rejecting the company's five-App-Store argument and setting a procedural rule that now binds Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft too.
Community sleuthing points to July 16 for the Xbox Summer Sale, landing in a month packed with Halo: Campaign Evolved and 20+ Game Pass additions, and carrying extra weight as Xbox seeks digital revenue to offset its recent layoffs and console supply crunch.
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