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Tech executives at Anthropic, OpenAI and Google once viewed the web as an endless mine of free training data. Billions of pages, posts and articles stood ready for scraping. Fair use, they argued, justified the practice. Content creators pushed back with terms of service and robots.txt files. Few barriers held. Now the tables have turned.

Xiaomi sells more smartphones than almost anyone else on Earth. The Beijing-based company ranks third globally. It commands just under 10% of the world market. Yet in the United States its devices barely register. Consumers here rarely encounter them in stores or carrier plans. Rumors of a ban swirl online every few months. They miss

Meta has developed an artificial intelligence system designed to identify images created by generative models, yet recent testing shows the tool fails to recognize content produced by its own technology. According to a report from Gizmodo, the company’s detector struggles significantly when confronted with images from Meta’s Imagine model, raising questions about the effectiveness of

Oliver Blume wants more time. The Volkswagen CEO told a German newspaper this weekend that smarter options exist than shuttering factories. His words landed amid fresh sales data that painted a grim picture. Group deliveries fell 8.6% in the second quarter to just under 2.1 million vehicles. China sales alone dropped more than one-third. Boardroom

Oren Etzioni has watched artificial intelligence evolve for decades. The longtime AI researcher and former chief executive of the Allen Institute for AI now sees a fractured public. Trust in the technology splits along sharp lines. Geography creates the biggest gulf. Gender follows close behind. Age and politics add their own wrinkles. Nearly nine in

Banks pulled in roughly $12 billion from overdraft and nonsufficient funds charges in 2025. The total marks a return to pre-pandemic heights. But this rebound comes after a sharp decline and a failed federal effort to rein in the practice. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule in December 2024. It would have forced

Apple’s chip strategy just took an unusual turn. The company will release a base M6 processor later this year. But the Pro, Max and Ultra variants? They won’t exist. AI Reshapes the Silicon Calendar This marks the first time Apple has skipped an entire tier of its M-series lineup. The decision stems from rapid advances

The Cosmic desktop environment from System76 continues to show steady progress that has Linux users comparing its direction against established options like KDE Plasma and GNOME. Recent updates suggest the project has moved beyond early experimental stages into something more refined and practical for daily computing tasks. While KDE and GNOME have dominated the Linux

Sixty-nine percent. That number lands with force. A fresh Verasight survey of 1,378 U.S. adults, conducted in June, finds most Americans now back forcing the largest artificial intelligence companies to hand over half their stock to a public sovereign wealth fund. The The Next Web reported the results on July 12, capturing a striking turn

Pat Gelsinger sees no ceiling. The former Intel chief, now at Playground Global, calls artificial-intelligence demand almost unlimited. Energy stands as the sole real constraint. Suppliers back his view. Lumentum reports its data-center components sold out five years in advance. Orders pour in. Yet chip stocks swing wildly. The PHLX Semiconductor Index sits up about