Google Unveils Major AI Shopping Upgrade for the Holiday Season - Holiday shopping doesn’t have to mean endless tabs and comparison chaos. Google’s newest AI upgrades cut through the noise with conversational search, local inventory calling, and agentic checkout that can buy items for you. Here’s how these tools can save you time, money, and sanity this season.

OpenAI and Foxconn Partner to Build Next-Gen U.S. AI Infrastructure - As global competition for compute heats up, OpenAI and Foxconn are taking a bold step to strengthen U.S.-based AI manufacturing. Their new collaboration aims to design and build advanced data-center hardware on American soil, tackling both performance needs and supply-chain vulnerability. This could signal a major shift in how AI systems are built and deployed.

Meta wants to get into the electricity trading business - Bloomberg reports that both Meta and Microsoft are asking for federal approval to trade power (Apple has already received this approval). According to Meta, this will allow it to make long-term commitments to buy electricity from new plants, while mitigating the risk by having the ability to resell some of that power on wholesale power markets.

Google DeepMind Hires Former CTO of Boston Dynamics as the Company Pushes Deeper Into Robotics - DeepMind’s chief says he envisions Gemini as an operating system for physical robots. The company has hired Aaron Saunders, CTO of Boston Dynamics, to help make that a reality.

Early experiments in accelerating science with GPT-5 - Scientific progress shapes everything from medicine to energy to national security — and AI may soon accelerate that progress. OpenAI’s new GPT-5 paper highlights early experiments where AI helped researchers analyze findings, speed up complex work, and generate new scientific ideas. Here’s why these early results matter.

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