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OpenAI Reportedly Shelves ChatGPT’s Adult Mode Plans Indefinitely
OpenAI's Adult Mode feature for ChatGPT is reportedly facing another hurdle. As per the report, the feature, which will let users have explicit conversations of a sexual nature with the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, is being put on hold indefinitely. The decision was reportedly made after several staff members and investors raised concerns about the feature and questioned whether the small upside was worth the ethical debate it would stir. Notably, the feature was already delayed twice in the past.
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Google Launches Gemini 3.1 Flash Live Voice Model With Lower Latency & Improved Reasoning
For consumers, Gemini 3.1 Flash Live powers updates to Gemini Live and Search Live.
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Agentic AI is Pushing Satellites Beyond Observation in Space
Specialised satellites can detect and geolocate radio frequency data, effectively mapping communication activity on Earth.
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Anthropic Wins Injunction Against Pentagon in Landmark AI Safety Showdown
A federal court has blocked the Department of Defense’s attempt to blacklist the Claude-maker, setting a precedent for how AI companies can resist government overreach on safety guardrails.
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Google Lets Users Bring ChatGPT & Claude History Into Gemini
The company has launched a data portability tool that lets users switch to Gemini without leaving their AI memory behind.
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Why Adobe’s Future Depends on Dismantling Its Past
The company faces its toughest transition yet as leadership change collides with AI disruption, reshaping how creativity is produced, priced, and controlled.
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Kyndryl, Gloplax Partner to Build & Scale GCCs for Enterprises
The companies’ joint capabilities will help enterprises establish and modernise GCCs with integrated advisory, technology and operational excellence.
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Anthropic wins injunction against Trump administration over Defense Department saga
A federal judge has sided with Anthropic in its twisty legal battle with the Trump administration, awarding the tech company an injunction against the government’s recent order that labeled it a “supply chain risk,” the Wall Street Journalreports. On Thursday, Judge Rita F. Lin of the Northern District of California ordered the Trump administration to rescind itsrecent designationof Anthropic as a security risk, as well as to back off its order that federal agencies cut ties with the company. “It looks like an attempt to cripple Anthropic,” Linreportedly saidduring the court proceedings. Lin ultimately argued that the government’s orders had flouted freespeech protections for the company. The drama between the Pentagon and Anthropic erupted last last month over a dispute concerning guidelines for the government’s usage of the AI company’s software. Anthropic had reportedlysought to enforce certain limitson how the government could use its AI models, such as banning their use in autonomous weapons systems or mass surveillance. The government disagreed with those limitations, ultimatelylabeling the company a supply chain risk—a designation typically reserved for foreign actors. President Trump furtherorderedfederal agencies to cut ties with the company. Not long afterward,Anthropic sued the agency, along with Hegseth. The White House has spent recent weeks attacking the company,characterizingit as “a radical-left, woke company” that is jeopardizing America’s “national security.” Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, meanwhile, hascalledthe Defense Department’s actions “retaliatory and punitive.” On the heels of Judge Lin’s ruling, Anthropic sent TechCrunch the following statement: “We’re grateful to the court for moving swiftly, and pleased they agree Anthropic is likely to succeed on the merits. While this case was necessary to protect Anthropic, our customers, and our partners, our focus remains on working productively with the government to ensure all Americans benefit from safe, reliable AI.” TechCrunch has separately reached out to the White House for comment.
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Sora is Gone. Here’s What Creators are Using Instead in 2026
With Sora no longer available, a new wave of AI video generators, from Kling to Veo 3.0, is redefining how creators produce cinematic content.
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Wikipedia cracks down on the use of AI in article writing
As AI makes inroads into the worlds of editorial and media, websites are scrambling to establish ground rules for its usage. This week, Wikipedia banned the use of AI-generated text by its editors — although it stopped short of banning AI outright from the site’s editorial processes. Ina recent policy change, the site now states that “the use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited.” This new language updates and clarifies previous,vaguer languagethat stated that LLMs “should not be used to generate new Wikipedia articles from scratch.” AI in Wikipedia articles hasbecome a contentious issueamong the site’s sprawling, volunteer-driven community of editors. 404 Mediareports thatthe new policy, which was put to a vote by the site’s editors, garnered majority support — 40 to 2. That said, the new policy still makes room for continued AI use in some editorial processes. “Editors are permitted to use LLMs to suggest basic copyedits to their own writing, and to incorporate some of them after human review, provided the LLM does not introduce content of its own,” the new policy states. “Caution is required, because LLMs can go beyond what you ask of them and change the meaning of the text such that it is not supported by the sources cited.”
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You can now transfer your chats and personal information from other chatbots directly into Gemini
When it comes to AI chatbots, there’s currently a war on for consumer attention. All the big chatbot providers are looking to increase their user count and, in a minor coup for itself, Google just made it significantly easier for users of those other chatbots to defect to Gemini. On Thursday, the companyannouncedwhat it calls “switching tools,” new widgets that are designed to allow users to transfer “memories” (basically chunks of personal information) and even entire chat histories from other chatbots directly into Gemini. Users can easily share “key preferences, relationships, and personal context” in this way, the company says. The idea is to make it significantly easier to adopt Google’s AI asststant, as users won’t have to spend large amounts of time re-training Gemini on who they are and what they want. The memory feature works like this: Gemini will suggest a prompt that the user can enter into their current chatbot, which will then generate a response that can be copied and pasted back into Gemini. In this fashion, Gemini coaches the user on what kinds of information it would be helpful to know about them, while also helping facilitate the transmission of that information back into its own archive. “Once you import these memories, Gemini will understand the same key facts you’ve shared with other apps, like your interests, your sibling’s name, or where you grew up,” the company says. “Instead of starting over from scratch, you can quickly get Gemini up to speed on what matters most to you.” When it comes to importing chat histories, Google says that all you need is to upload them in a zip file. It’s relatively easy to export chat logs via zips from most chatbots—including fromChatGPTandClaude. This allows users to “seamlessly pick up right where you left off,” the company says. Google says users also have the ability to search through those old chats. ChatGPT remains the big kahuna in the consumer chatbot market, with OpenAI announcing last month that it has reached900 million weekly active users. Gemini — despite Google’s vast distribution advantages, including its default placement across Android devices and the Chrome browser — has lagged in consumer mindshare. Last month, it shared its own numbers during Alphabet’s fourth-quarter earnings call, saying Gemini had surpassed750 million monthly active users. This move is clearly aimed at helping Google catch up.
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Data centers get ready — the Senate wants to see your power bills
Two U.S. senators on Thursday fired the latest salvo in an increasingly active front against data centers and their energy use. Senators Josh Hawley and Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) asking it to collect details on energy use from data centers — and how that use is affecting the grid. The senators urged the EIA “to establish a mandatory annual reporting requirement for data centers and other large loads,” they wrote in the letter, which TechCrunch has viewed. “As electricity demand growth continues to accelerate after years of relative stagnation, the lack of reliable, standardized data on large load energy consumption poses significant risks to effective grid planning and oversight.” Wired was first toreporton the letter. The letter isn’t the first move by politicians to try and place new regulatory requirements on data centers. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Wednesday they wouldintroduce legislationthat would halt new data center construction until Congress could come to an agreement on how to regulate AI. Energy use by data centers has exploded in recent years. Google’s data centers, for example,doubled their consumptionbetween 2020 and 2024. The trend isn’t likely to change in the near future. By 2035, planned new data centers willnearly triplethe sector’s energy demand. The EIA is a government agency tasked with collecting and analyzing data related to the energy system — sort of like a Census bureau for the grid. It was established in 1977 under the Department of Energy in the wake of the oil shocks of the early 1970s. For decades, the EIA has gathered a wealth of information about energy use in the U.S., including costs, generating sources, and energy-efficiency programs. It also tracks how different sectors use energy, though it only focuses on four very broad categories: residential, commercial, industrial, and transportation. Hawley and Warren are also asking the EIA to collect more granular information on data centers, including how energy consumption differs between AI computing tasks and general cloud services. The senators have very specific requests regarding what that data should look like, including hourly, annual, and peak energy loads and the rates companies pay. They also want to know about any grid upgrades required by the addition of new large loads, how those upgrades are paid for, and whether data center customers participate in demand response programs, in which utilities pay heavy users to reduce their use for a period of time. The letter calls out the EIA administrator Tristan Abbey, who in December said the agency will be an “essential player” in collecting data regarding energy demand from data centers. Hawley and Warren requested the agency reply to their letter by April 9. It’s possible the process is already underway, though the EIA hasn’t publicly shared if it is. Changes to the EIA surveys must go through the Office of Management and Budget process, which requires a public comment period. “We get requests for analysis very often. We get requests for an actual new product less frequently,” Abbeysaidat the public event in December. “It takes probably about two years to launch a new survey from scratch. But there are authorities that exist where you can avoid the two-year process by conducting surveys of smaller scope, but potentially a sharper signal.”
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