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AI coverage on Europa Now: models, rules and what European teams actually do with both.

Amazon wants Alexa for Shopping, not Muse, to be how people shop its store

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Amazon Bets on Alexa for Shopping as Its Answer to Meta's Muse

Amazon reported 400 million customers used Alexa for Shopping over the past year, as CEO Andy Jassy dismissed rival AI shopping agents as not yet ready for mainstream adoption.

AWS grows 39% and Amazon will spend even more on AI in 2027

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Amazon's AI spending spree pushes free cash flow into the red as AWS accelerates

Andy Jassy outlined plans for Amazon to potentially operate two $1 trillion revenue businesses within a decade, even as the company's massive infrastructure investments drain its cash reserves.

AI is easy to fake, Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz tells SF Standard

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AI's credibility crisis: Theranos whistleblower warns of easy deception and chilling NDAs

Tyler Shultz, who exposed Theranos fraud, says artificial intelligence capabilities are simple to fabricate and that restrictive agreements silence workers who might raise safety concerns.

Pope Leo urges a ban on lethal autonomous weapons before Geneva talks

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Vatican calls for international AI weapons controls ahead of Geneva negotiations

Pope Leo XIV has urged world governments to establish binding restrictions on lethal autonomous weapons systems, emphasizing that decisions affecting human life must remain under human control.

Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic back one AI training opt-out

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Four AI Giants Adopt Unified Training Opt-Out Standard for Publishers

Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic have committed to recognizing a single robots.txt signal that lets publishers block their content from generative AI training, eliminating the need for separate rules per company.

Sam Altman meets Samsung’s presidents days after his DRAM remark

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OpenAI's Altman visits Samsung amid debate over cloud versus local AI computing

Sam Altman met with roughly 50 Samsung executives in South Korea just days after arguing that personal computers waste the world's scarce memory chips. The meeting underscores deepening ties between OpenAI and Samsung on AI infrastructure.

Microsoft ships emergency .NET fixes for a critical Brotli flaw

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Malicious Claude Code Extension Compromised 5,000 Cursor Users Before Removal

A weaponized version of Anthropic's Claude Code extension distributed through Cursor's marketplace for 11 hours planted SSH backdoors on developer machines. Anthropic denies any breach of its own infrastructure.

John Ternus tells WIRED Apple won’t ship AI for AI’s sake

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Apple's Ternus: AI Must Serve the Product, Not the Hype

In his first major interview as CEO, John Ternus tells WIRED that Apple will not deploy artificial intelligence merely for its own sake, and that the company's focus remains on building products people genuinely love.