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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.