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Google turns Search and Gemini into a study lab

Google is adding a broad set of study tools to Search and Gemini, moving its AI products closer to a persistent learning workspace rather than a simple answer box. The announcement includes interactive visuals, custom quizzes, 3D simulations, document-based study guides and background research. TechCrunch reports that the features are aimed at students across subjects including science, maths, humanities and languages. In Search, a student can ask for an interactive pH scale, then refine it to

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Enterprise AINews
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AI Regulation

OpenAI's privacy bet changes how AI misuse is monitored

OpenAI is testing a new way to detect misuse across multiple AI conversations without keeping the customer’s underlying data, putting privacy at the centre of its latest competitive move. The company calls the system Private Safety Processing and says it is being previewed with selected customers. TechCrunch reports that the system extends OpenAI’s existing zero-data-retention approach beyond one session at a time. The distinction matters because malicious users can distribute a harmful projec

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Enterprise AI

OpenAI Offers Codex Credits to 844,000 Ohio Students

OpenAI will make up to $84 million in Codex credits available to about 844,000 eligible Ohio college, community-college and technical-school students during the 2026–2027 academic year. The offer, announced in the company’s PORTS-Pike project update, gives students aged 18 and older access to Codex, OpenAI’s software-building tool inside ChatGPT. The programme is not a small campus pilot. Its scale makes it a statewide test of whether broad access to an AI coding agent changes what students ca

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Anthropic's Text Watermark Raises a Harder Question Than Detection

Anthropic is changing Claude's output so that its own systems—and people who can decode the pattern—can identify text generated by the chatbot. The company disclosed the move over the weekend, saying the watermarking approach will leave a signal in the writing. The Guardian reports that the change is intended to address provenance, but may affect quality. The distinction matters. A watermark that survives copying, editing and translation could help publishers, schools and platforms establish w

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Mystery AI buyers are reshaping the secondhand book trade

Secondhand booksellers across the UK and Ireland are reporting an unusual surge in large, random orders from opaque buyers, a pattern that has prompted speculation that AI companies are buying printed material for training data. The Guardian reported that sellers have received requests from buyers in North America, Europe and the UK, often with no obvious subject or collecting theme. At Barter Books in Alnwick, co-owner Stuart Manley said three buyers had purchased hundreds of unrelated books

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Microsoft abandons Copilot clutter as it merges consumer and business apps

Microsoft is merging its consumer Copilot app with Microsoft 365 Copilot and cutting several features that failed to gain traction. The changes, reported on August 13, will remove Group Chats, AI-generated podcasts, Copilot Labs experiments, Deep Research and the animated Mico character from the consumer experience by August 18. TechCrunch reports that professional users will be directed toward Researcher as the replacement for Deep Research. Microsoft says the aim is a simpler, more cohesive

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IBM and OpenAI turn consulting into the next enterprise AI battleground

IBM and OpenAI are joining forces to sell enterprise AI as a service, with IBM committing a dedicated consulting practice and training tens of thousands of consultants over the next several months. The partnership, announced on August 13, covers financial services, government, telecommunications and retail. TechCrunch reports that IBM will train staff on OpenAI's Codex, API, cybersecurity tools and consulting credentials. IBM will also integrate GPT-5.6, Codex and ChatGPT Work into IBM Consult

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Blacksmith raises $45m as AI-generated code makes validation the new bottleneck

Blacksmith has raised $45 million to build the quality-control layer for an AI-accelerated software industry. The Series B values the code-testing startup at $550 million, up from $60 million less than a year ago, according to TechCrunch. Peak XV Partners led the round, with existing investors GV and Y Combinator participating. Blacksmith says it now serves more than 5,000 customers, including Mercury, Supabase, Clerk, Ashby and Expensify, compared with more than 700 customers a year earlier.

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Enterprise AIFunding
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Cognition’s $40bn ambition puts AI coding agents on the enterprise balance sheet

Cognition is reportedly seeking a valuation of more than $40 billion only months after its last funding round, a sharp new test of whether enterprise demand for AI coding agents can support frontier-lab economics. TechCrunch reports that the company behind Devin is discussing a new round with investors, citing Bloomberg sources. The proposed valuation would be tied to an annualised revenue run rate of roughly $1 billion. Cognition raised $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation in May. Founder Sc

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Meta Bets Its AI Future on an Open-Weight Model Called Muse Glimmer

Meta released Muse Glimmer on August 10 as its most powerful open-weight AI model yet, putting a 30-billion-parameter multimodal system at the centre of Mark Zuckerberg’s latest argument for open development. Reuters reports that Meta is positioning the release against the closed-weight strategies of OpenAI, Anthropic and Google. The move is more than another model launch. Open weights let developers inspect, adapt and deploy a model outside the vendor’s hosted API, although the practical free

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SpaceX’s AI bill is now a test of whether Starlink can pay for ambition

SpaceX says its AI spending is already producing returns faster than expected, but the company’s first public earnings call left investors focused on a harder question: how long can Starlink profits finance a rapidly expanding data-centre and Nvidia-chip operation? Reuters’ latest AI Weekly report put that tension at the centre of its August 6 coverage. The spending is part of Elon Musk’s broader attempt to connect launch capacity, satellite communications and artificial intelligence into one

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Meta's Muse Code brings parallel coding agents to large repositories

Meta has released Muse Code, a beta terminal coding agent designed to handle complete engineering tasks across large software repositories, according to TechCrunch on August 5. Mark Zuckerberg said the tool can plan changes, write code and validate results rather than stopping at autocomplete. Muse Code is powered by Meta's Muse Spark coding model and is installed with a single command. Its defining feature is orchestration: for a sufficiently large task, it launches sub-agents that work simul

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