🕵️♀️ EU opens antitrust probe into Google’s AI content use
Brussels is taking aim at how Google trains and showcases AI-especially AI Overviews and YouTube data. The core gripe: creators and publishers say they can’t fairly opt out or be compensated. If the allegations hold, the penalties could be brutal-and the precedent even bigger for everyone building AI on top of the open web.
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🤝 New Agentic AI Foundation launches under the Linux Foundation
A bunch of rivals are now, somewhat awkwardly, collaborators. The Agentic AI Foundation aims to set open standards for AI agents-MCP, goose, AGENTS.md and friends are moving in. Neutral governance sounds dull, but it matters. Interop beats lock-in, and honestly, agent ecosystems need a Switzerland.
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🏗️ Qatar and Brookfield unveil $20B AI infrastructure JV
Qatar’s new national AI outfit and Brookfield are dropping serious cash on compute-data centers, high-performance gear, the works. The bet: a regional hub propelled by global demand. It’s the physical side of AI’s boom-racks, power, cooling-the bit you don’t notice, until you do.
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🏭 EU Council backs plan to create AI “gigafactories”
Ministers agreed a position to revamp EuroHPC so Europe can stand up AI gigafactories and a proper quantum pillar. Policy scaffolding first, industrial muscle after-or so it seems. Think of it as Europe trying to own more of the compute stack, not just rent it. Ambitious, a bit bureaucratic, but ambitious.
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🎓 OpenAI rolls out its first certification courses
Two tracks to start: AI Foundations inside ChatGPT and a Coursera course for teachers. The pitch is pretty direct-certify practical skills and help people get hired. Skeptics will squint, sure, yet the demand signal is loud. Credentials meet chatbots, with a jobs platform lurking nearby.
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💼 OpenAI names Denise Dresser as Chief Revenue Officer
Fresh exec energy for the monetization push. Dresser-ex-Slack boss-will steer enterprise revenue and customer success. Translation: more focus on paying deployments, less on vibes. A necessary pivot in a market that loves usage but, weirdly, prefers revenue.
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