UN opens Google-backed Data Commons for AI-queryable statistics
The United Nations on Thursday announced the UN System Data Commons with Google, replacing the UNData portal with a natural-language platform that supports the Model Context Protocol so AI systems can query official statistics dir...
AWS adds Gemma 4 open-weight models to Bedrock in EU sovereign cloud
Amazon Web Services said Gemma 4, an Apache 2.0 open-weight model family, is generally available on Amazon Bedrock's next-generation inference engine in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud. AWS called it the first open-weight family...
Unredacted Times filing quotes Microsoft scientist calling AI scraping historic theft
Newly unredacted material in The New York Times copyright lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft quotes Microsoft director of Applied Science Brent Hecht calling the firms' training-data practices "the largest theft of labor in huma...
Google pilots payments to sites whose content appears in AI Overviews
Google is testing an AI contribution pilot that pays websites when their content is used in AI Overviews and other AI results, Digiday reported. The program includes at least dozens of publishers, mainly small and mid-sized, and ...
Instinct and Meta's Muse add business-calling features
Instinct has begun early access rollout of Concierge, a feature that lets its AI agent place calls for tasks such as restaurant bookings and account problems, TechCrunch reported. Meta's Muse has also gained the ability to call U...
Times filing cites ChatGPT head and Microsoft executive on AI training harm
A New York Times court filing quoted ChatGPT's head as writing that publishers face an "existential threat," and a Microsoft executive as calling AI training "an astonishing theft," the Financial Times reported. Lawyers said AI co...
