OpenAI, Oracle, and SoftBank Launch $400B U.S. AI Data Center Expansion Under Stargate - Five new Stargate sites across the U.S. will add nearly 7 gigawatts of AI infrastructure, accelerating toward a $500 billion, 10-gigawatt commitment by 2025.

Meta and Big Tech Pour Millions Into PACs to Fight AI Regulation - Meta and Silicon Valley allies are investing hundreds of millions into political action committees to oppose state-level AI rules, while critics warn deregulation threatens public safety.

Google Opens Data Commons MCP Server to Make Real-World Data AI-Ready - Google’s new Data Commons MCP Server allows AI systems and agents to access real-world statistics in natural language, grounding models in reliable data.

Apple Tests MCP Support to Bring Agentic AI to Mac, iPhone, and iPad - Apple’s latest developer betas show groundwork for Model Context Protocol integration, paving the way for ChatGPT, Claude, and other AI agents to act across apps.





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AI can forecast your future health – just like the weather - Artificial intelligence can predict people's health problems over a decade into the future, say scientists. The technology has learned to spot patterns in people's medical records to calculate their risk of more than 1,000 diseases. The researchers say it is like a weather forecast that anticipates a 70% chance of rain – but for human health. Their vision is to use the AI model to spot high-risk patients to prevent disease and to help hospitals understand demand in their area, years ahead of time.

Google launches an AI-powered mood board app, Mixboard - Google announced the launch of Mixboard, software that enables anyone to create AI-powered mood boards. With Mixboard, there’s no need to have an established image collection to pull ideas from. Instead, users can start their own project using text prompts to have AI fill in the ideas.

Google’s AI Mode arrives in Spanish globally - Google Search is bringing its AI Mode feature — its AI-powered search experience — to Spanish-speaking users. This expansion will introduce Google’s conversational search interface to a broader market, allowing users to ask questions using natural language queries, engage in back-and-forth conversations, upload images, dig deeper on complex topics, and more.

Go to Google Gemini, click "Create images," and enable the Nano Banana tool

Use this prompt: "First ask me to upload an image, then create a 1/7th scale commercialized figurine of the characters in the picture in a realistic style in a real environment. The figurine is placed on a computer desk with a transparent acrylic base and a toy packaging box"

Upload your reference image when prompted and let Gemini generate your figurine scene with desk setup, monitor, and premium packaging

Take the generated image to Luma Labs, create a "New Board," and animate with prompts like "Front camera view of this figurine. He takes the phone, tosses it up like a serve, then smashes it toward the camera"

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