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Judge Amit Mehta dismissed antitrust suits from Chegg and Penske Media over Google's AI Overviews, writing that publishers' expectation of traffic in exchange for content is "simply how a general search engine works." He said he was not unsympathetic to creators but that antitrust law cannot stand in for legislation.
Google is rolling out Guided Vision in Gemini Live on compatible Android devices, describing small text, surroundings and objects in real time through the camera. It is also available in TalkBack with an accessibility shortcut, and Google warns it should not be used for navigation or obstacle detection.
OpenAI launched two ChatGPT shopping features globally: a Try On button that renders clothing and accessories on a user's photo, and Favorites that save products and try-on images to a Library. Both rely on the new ChatGPT Images 2.5 model, and they follow an Instant Checkout feature that TechCrunch says underperformed.
OpenAI has parted ways with three safety-team researchers accused of sharing confidential information with a third-party AI safety organization, according to the Wall Street Journal as relayed by TechCrunch. A spokesperson said they "mishandled sensitive information outside established company procedures." The researchers and the organization were not named.
NVIDIA’s DOCA agent skills turn BlueField coding agents from guessers into checklist passers — 19% to 100% on a 65-prompt eval.
DIN Deploy open-sources C++ ONNX Runtime + TensorRT RTX samples — Whisper to FLUX.2 — aiming at real local apps, not notebook demos.
The Verge's account of Judge Amit Mehta's dismissal of the Chegg and Penske Media antitrust suits adds two details: The Information's report that Google is paying around 100 publishers in a pilot covering AI Overviews, AI Mode and Gemini, and The Verge's disclosure that it is owned by plaintiff Penske Media.
In a long essay, OpenAI argues that human insight has outrun the capacity to carry ideas out, citing research-productivity work associated with Nick Bloom. It calls frontier intelligence and execution economic complements and suggests advanced AI may spend most of its time on "institutional intelligence."
Amazon Web Services released Strands Decider 2B, a small open-source model that picks among preset options with calibrated confidence scores, the same week OpenAI announced a similar model class. TypeSafe, whose Jev model started the trend, says it still does not see real competition.
In an OpenAI customer story, Albertsons Companies says it is expanding ChatGPT Enterprise and API use internally and launching a Safeway experience inside ChatGPT that turns recipes, photos or prompts into a cart with savings. The company plans to extend it to other banners.
The Verge's look at OpenAI's Dots agents, built on GPT-6 Astra, frames them as a challenge to Meta's Muse, which includes a free dedicated virtual machine for anyone with a Meta account. Dots are limited for now to ChatGPT Pro at $100 a month and above, and voice demos stumbled at DevDay.
In a company blog post, Nvidia argues that AI factories get financed only when earning capacity, useful life and demand all clear the bar, and pitches its stack on throughput per megawatt, multi-year hardware value and workload flexibility. It cites SemiAnalysis AgentX data claiming large gains for Vera Rubin NVL72 over GB300.