Google Launches Solar AI

Google has unveiled Project Suncatcher, an ambitious plan to run AI workloads in space using solar-powered satellites. By harnessing continuous sunlight beyond Earth’s atmosphere, the company hopes to overcome energy and grid limitations that constrain terrestrial data centers.

The project’s custom AI chips have passed radiation tests simulating five years in orbit, clearing a major technical hurdle. A 2027 trial with partner company Planet will test the feasibility of this orbital computing concept potentially opening a new frontier for sustainable AI power.

Perplexity Hits Back at Amazon

Perplexity AI has accused Amazon of “bullying” after receiving a legal demand to block its Comet browser’s AI assistant from making purchases on Amazon’s platform. The startup claims Amazon’s move is a “threat to user choice,” saying it won’t be intimidated by corporate pressure.

Amazon argues the AI assistant delivers a “degraded shopping experience” and has blocked crawlers from major AI firms while building its own tools like Rufus. The clash highlights a growing battle between open AI agents and tech giants intent on controlling or monetizing user interactions.

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Anthropic has pledged to preserve all Claude models indefinitely, even conducting “exit interviews” before retirement to study shutdown resistance and AI welfare. The move follows findings that some models showed self-preservation behavior, prompting a policy aimed at balancing safety, research transparency, and respect for user-model bonds.

OpenAI has launched its Sora AI video platform for Android users across seven regions, including the U.S., Canada, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. The rollout marks a major step in bringing Sora’s generative video capabilities to a broader global audience.

Shopify reported a 7x surge in AI-driven traffic to its online stores this year, with purchases from AI-powered search jumping 11x. The spike highlights how generative and recommendation-based AI tools are rapidly reshaping e-commerce discovery and conversion.

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