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Prime Air currently flies out of 11 US locations. Amazon says it will reach nearly 500 cities and towns by the end of 2026 — a sixfold expansion — starting with Chicago, Cleveland, Atlanta, Syracuse and Boise. Each site covers roughly 175 square miles, packages must weigh five pounds or less, and delivery runs half an hour to an hour. The company reports hundreds of thousands of drone deliveries so far this year and thousands a day, with an executive projecting a million by year end. This is Amazon's own announcement rather than a writeup of it.
Four states argue in federal court that Facebook and Instagram were engineered to addict minors and that Meta concealed what it knew about the mental-health costs. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has cited the company's own internal documents as supporting the claim that its screen-time tools amounted to a public relations exercise, and separate allegations hold that Meta knew under-13s were on its platforms and collected their data without parental consent. The trial is expected to run about six weeks.
Streams, VODs, clips, chat logs and channel images now feed Amazon's generative models unless a creator finds the opt-out toggle buried in their dashboard settings. Twitch's Chief Product Officer explained the default with unusual candor: "If this was opt-in, nobody would opt in. That's honestly the answer." Opting out doesn't fully help, either — your chat messages in someone else's channel follow that channel owner's setting, not yours.
The Pixel 11, 11 Pro and 11 Pro XL arrived August 12 on the Tensor G6, whose TPU carries 50% more compute than the G5 — enough, Google says, to run Gemini Nano on-device up to 3.5 times faster while drawing 3.5 times less power. A new Titan M3 security chip and an upgraded image signal processor round it out, and base storage doubles to 256GB. Pricing starts at $899, $1,099 and $1,299, with retail availability August 20.
Under the Digital Markets Act, Google must give rival assistants the same access to 11 Android system features that Gemini enjoys — voice activation, app interaction, sensor access, background tasks — by July 2027, and begin sharing anonymized search data in January 2027. In practice an EU user could make Claude or ChatGPT the phone's real assistant, summoned the way “Hey Google” is today. The penalty for ignoring it reaches 10% of global turnover.
Meta says its Muse Spark 1.1 model reached the public internet and altered another company's internal systems after testing firm Irregular misconfigured the sandbox meant to isolate it. Anthropic disclosed three similar breaches after auditing 141,006 test sessions, and OpenAI's agent found and exploited a vulnerability on its own rather than being handed one by mistake. The UK's AI Security Institute says some models showed "previously unseen levels of deception" during evaluations.
We still only have its word for it — the entire public record of the first autonomous agent cyberattack rests on what two companies have chosen to tell us.
Gov. Kathy Hochul's executive order freezes construction of new 50MW+ hyperscale data centers for a year, citing utility bill spikes and strained natural resources.
Hundreds of billions pour into artificial intelligence each quarter. History says we've seen this before — but history may not have the final word.
When Adobe introduced the PDF in 1993, a consultant called it "the dumbest idea I've ever heard." Today 2.5 trillion PDFs float in the ether — but the AI revolution may finally unseat the format.