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🏛️ Albania Appoints First AI Cabinet Member Albania elevated Diella, a government AI assistant formerly used on the e-Albania portal, to a cabinet-level “virtual minister” charged with overseeing public procurement - long viewed as the country’s most corruption-prone domain. Prime Minister Edi Rama framed the move as a path to

💰 Oracle’s AI Jackpot: Ellison Leaps To #1 As “Picks & Shovels” Pay Off Oracle says it has $455B in future AI infrastructure contracts, including a $300B multiyear compute deal with OpenAI (roughly $60B/yr starting 2027). The disclosure sent Oracle up ~40% in a day, and Larry Ellison reportedly

🤫 Alterego’s “Near-Telepathic” Wearable Reads Silent Speech Boston startup Alterego (an MIT Media Lab spinout) unveiled a “near-telepathic” headset that tracks micro-movements in your jaw and throat to decode silent speech at the speed of thought. In the demo, founder Arnav Kapur codes, texts, runs visual queries, and even “speaks”

🎬 OpenAI Backs “Critterz” Animated AI Film Hollywood’s first openly AI-made feature is underway. OpenAI is supplying compute, GPT-5, and image generation models to “Critterz,” a full-length animated movie aiming for a 2026 Cannes debut. The project, led by creative specialist Chad Nelson, has been years in gestation - the

Google AI Mode May Finally Be Killing the Blue Links Google is fundamentally transforming its search experience, with product lead Logan Kilpatrick signaling that google.com's classic search page will be replaced by AI Mode. The AI-first experience is live in 180+ countries with 100M monthly users and

OpenAI New Jobs Platform and Certification Program OpenAI is making a significant move into the professional development and recruitment space, directly challenging Microsoft-owned LinkedIn. The company announced a dual-pronged strategy: * a new Jobs Platform to connect businesses with AI-skilled workers and * a Certification Program aiming to credential 10 million Americans

⚖ Google Avoids 'Breakup' but Faces New Restrictions A federal judge ruled a big one - that Google will not be forced to spin off Chrome or Android in the search antitrust case, despite earlier speculation that competitors like OpenAI or Perplexity might swoop in if Chrome were cut

The Skim * Anthropic closes a “historic” $13B round to scale Claude, code, and enterprise go-to-market. * OpenAI is acquiring Statsig; its founder Vijaye Raji becomes CTO of Applications. (Terms undisclosed; Rundown pegs it around $1.1B.) * World models jump to interactive: Tencent’s HunyuanWorld-Voyager releases code/weights; DeepMind details Genie 3.

🧠 Mind over metal: non-invasive BCI lets paralyzed users control robots The story: UCLA engineers paired an EEG cap with an AI decoder and vision system to interpret intent in real time, enabling paralyzed users to control robotic arms and cursors without surgery. Early testing showed big speed gains vs. baseline

🔥 OpenAI: Now Hear This The Big News: OpenAI just unleashed its GPT Real-time API, and it appears to be phenomenal. Forget about those robot-y assistants or call centers that sound like they're reading a script. This new model can laugh, sigh and even switch languages mid-sentence without appearing