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President Trump announced a "ratepayer protection pledge" this week, where Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, xAI, OpenAI and Amazon promise to pay for their own data center electricity costs. The President claims this will lower our power bills and protect us from rising energy costs tied to the AI boom. The pledge is completely voluntary with zero enforcement mechanisms. Continue Reading →

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told employees Tuesday they don't get to make "operational decisions" about how the military uses their AI technology: "Maybe you think the Iran strike was good and the Venezuela invasion was bad," Altman said in an all-hands meeting. "You don't get to weigh in on that." Continue Reading →

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Stephen Thaler's appeal over whether AI-generated art can receive copyright protection. Thaler applied for a copyright in 2018 covering a visual work his AI system DABUS created autonomously. The Copyright Office rejected it. A federal judge upheld that decision. The D.C. Circuit affirmed it. Now, the Supreme Court has let the ruling stand. The legal chain is complete: no human author, no copyright. Continue Reading →

If you've spent this weekend scrambling your engineering teams, you already know the news. In an unprecedented move, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced he is directing DoD to designate Anthropic a “Supply Chain Risk to National Security.” This is a radioactive tag historically reserved for foreign adversaries like Huawei or Kaspersky. If your organization (or any company you do business with) does business with the U.S. military or federal government, based on the available information, using Claude is now a serious compliance escalation for any DoD-linked work. Continue Reading →

Google yesterday launched Nano Banana 2, the consumer brand for Gemini 3.1 Flash Image. The upgrade includes sub-second 4K image synthesis across multiple aspect ratios, character consistency for up to five characters, fidelity for up to 14 objects in a single workflow, and precise text rendering accurate enough for marketing mockups and greeting cards. Continue Reading →

Burger King is rolling out an AI platform called "BK Assistant" with a voice assistant named Patty. Patty takes drive-thru orders, monitors restaurant operations, and notifies managers when equipment needs maintenance or products run low. Every U.S. Burger King will have one by the end of 2026. Sounds reasonable, except… Continue Reading →

Anthropic is doing its best to transform Claude into an enterprise platform. They've announced the creation of private plugin marketplaces for Cowork that will let organizations build, customize, and distribute AI agents across departments. Continue Reading →

Stanford and Yale researchers extracted 95.8% of a copyrighted novel, word for word, from Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Gemini 2.5 Pro gave up 76.8% of Harry Potter without even requiring a jailbreak. Grok 3 handed over 70.3%. GPT-4.1 was the most resistant at 4.0%, but it still coughed up text after enough attempts. Thirteen books were tested. The words came out. Continue Reading →

Almost every major marketing analytics platform shipped AI visibility features in 2025. What does not yet exist is a simple, unified measurement framework that connects AI visibility to revenue. The tools can tell you whether ChatGPT mentioned your brand. They cannot yet tell you what that mention was worth, how it compares to your paid search investment, or when you should reallocate budget. Here's how I'm thinking about it. Continue Reading →

Google Labs just launched Pomelli Photoshoot, a free tool that turns any product photo into a professional studio or lifestyle shot. Pick a product image, choose a template, generate, and refine. The tool applies your brand's visual identity (what Google calls "Business DNA") to keep everything on-brand across campaigns. The target audience is small and medium-sized businesses that cannot afford professional product photography. I tested it. It works as described. Continue Reading →