Google is rationing Gemini access to Meta because it cannot provide enough compute
Google is rationing Gemini access to Meta because it cannot provide enough compute

Google has placed limits on Meta’s use of its Gemini AI models because it cannot provide as much computing capacity as the social media company wanted, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The restrictions have affected several Google clients, with …

India’s payments chief says AI will drive UPI from 750 million to a billion daily transactions
India’s payments chief says AI will drive UPI from 750 million to a billion daily transactions

India’s Unified Payment Interface has grown to over 750 million daily transactions, and the head of the body that oversees it says AI will be central to reaching a billion. Dilip Asbe, MD and CEO of the National Payments Corporation of India, told Tech…

Salesforce employees are confused about why the company is promoting a competitor inside Slack
Salesforce employees are confused about why the company is promoting a competitor inside Slack

When Anthropic launched Claude Tag on Tuesday, a high-profile AI product that works as a persistent teammate inside Slack channels, some employees at Salesforce, which owns Slack, were confused. Salesforce promoted Anthropic’s new product on social med…

The 33-year-old ex-Snap exec Nadella is trusting to fix Copilot now oversees 11,000 people
The 33-year-old ex-Snap exec Nadella is trusting to fix Copilot now oversees 11,000 people

Jacob Andreou, the 33-year-old executive Satya Nadella promoted to run Copilot in March after just one year at Microsoft, now oversees more than 11,000 people. He has merged the consumer and enterprise Copilot teams, eliminated redundant product versio…

Silicon Valley backed Trump to kill AI regulation, now the industry is begging for rules
Silicon Valley backed Trump to kill AI regulation, now the industry is begging for rules

The AI industry that donated heavily to elect Donald Trump on the promise he would leave the technology alone is now asking for formal regulation, Politico reported on Friday. Executives at frontier AI companies told the outlet they view the administra…

FBI says Russian intelligence hackers have a new trick for reading your Signal messages, and it works even after you change phones
FBI says Russian intelligence hackers have a new trick for reading your Signal messages, and it works even after you change phones

The FBI and CISA have warned that Russian intelligence hackers are now targeting Signal users’ backup recovery keys, an escalation of a phishing campaign that has already compromised thousands of accounts worldwide. The updated advisory, published Thur…

OpenAI poaches Uber India’s chief to run its biggest market outside the United States
OpenAI poaches Uber India’s chief to run its biggest market outside the United States

OpenAI has appointed Prabhjeet Singh, the outgoing president of Uber India and South Asia, as its first managing director for India. Singh will join in September and report to Kiran Mani, the company’s managing director for Asia Pacific, OpenAI told Te…

Trustpilot just partnered with Shopify to put its reviews where AI search engines are already looking
Trustpilot just partnered with Shopify to put its reviews where AI search engines are already looking

Trustpilot has struck a partnership with Shopify that will let the platform’s merchants display and manage Trustpilot reviews directly inside their online stores. The integration goes live on June 29 and is the Danish review company’s first native tie-…

A Tokyo startup and a Beijing security firm just launched AI tools to fill the gap Anthropic’s export ban created
A Tokyo startup and a Beijing security firm just launched AI tools to fill the gap Anthropic’s export ban created

Two Asian AI companies launched products this week that position themselves as alternatives to Anthropic’s suspended Mythos and Fable 5 models. Tokyo-based Sakana AI released Fugu, an orchestration model it says matches Fable 5 on key benchmarks, while…

FTC clears Musk to acquire SpaceX alumni startup Mesh, the optical hardware company his data centers need
FTC clears Musk to acquire SpaceX alumni startup Mesh, the optical hardware company his data centers need

The Federal Trade Commission has cleared Elon Musk to acquire Mesh Optical Technologies, a startup founded by three former SpaceX engineers who build optical transceivers for AI data centers. The FTC granted early termination of its antitrust review on…