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Red, white, and blew it? Trump tariffs may cost America the AI race

2 days 17 hours ago
Whole thing gonna be a real PITA for tech sector, says ABI Research

World War Fee  US tariffs - should they go ahead - are likely to result in price bumps for essential components and construction materials in the datacenter industry, and may even cost America its lead in the AI race as investments are paused or canceled.…

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Google is Putting AI Mode Right in Search

2 days 18 hours ago
A "small percentage" of Google's users in the US will begin seeing an AI Mode tab in Google Search "in the coming weeks," the company said Thursday, marking the tool's first deployment outside the company's experimental Labs environment. Unlike traditional search results that display URLs based on user queries, AI Mode generates conversational responses from Google's search index. The feature will appear as a dedicated tab positioned before the standard "All," "Images," and other search filters. The deployment represents Google's direct challenge to LLM-powered search engines like Perplexity and ChatGPT. AI Mode differs from existing AI Overviews in Google Search, which merely insert AI summaries between the search box and web results.

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Video Game Website Polygon Sold To Valnet And Hit With Mass Layoffs

2 days 18 hours ago
An anonymous reader shares a report: The video game website Polygon has been sold to click-farm powerhouse Valnet and much of its masthead has been laid off, Kotaku has learned. The sale was subsequently announced in a press release. Multiple staff members have posted online about losing their jobs or about colleagues now being out of work.

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