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Google finds new ways to keep you from ever visiting a website directly again

TL;DRGoogle's Chrome will show AI answers alongside websites, reducing direct page visits.

Why it matters: Publishers lose traffic and ad revenue; Google captures more user attention and data.

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Google Deepmind's Gemini Robotics-ER 1.6 gives robots a sharper brain for planning and perception

Google's latest robot AI model improves planning, precision, and instrument reading.

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“Tokenmaxxing” is making developers less productive than they think

Developers using token-heavy AI tools produce more code but waste money and time rewriting it.

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Payouts King ransomware uses QEMU VMs to bypass endpoint security

Ransomware now hides in virtual machines to evade security software.

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Amazon's New Fire TV Sticks No Longer Support Sideloading

Amazon's new Fire TV Sticks block unofficial apps unless you're a registered developer.

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Meta Paid Broadcom $2.3 Billion in 2025

Meta paid Broadcom $2.3 billion to help design custom AI chips.

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The White House weighs whether Anthropic's Mythos is too valuable for the federal government to refuse

White House negotiating with Anthropic over a powerful cybersecurity AI model for federal use.

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Alibaba's open model Qwen3.6 leads Google's Gemma 4 across agentic coding benchmarks

Alibaba's efficient open-source model outperforms Google's on coding tasks using fewer active parameters.

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Betting on the news raises ethical questions for journalists

Journalists can now bet money on news events, creating conflicts of interest.

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Kraken Buys U.S. Crypto Derivatives Exchange for $550 Million

Kraken is buying Bitnomial for $550M to offer crypto derivatives domestically.

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Quantum-informed AI improves long-term turbulence forecasts while using far less memory

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