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It’s official: Google Search has “entrenched market power” in the UK.

It only took nine months, but the Competition and Markets Authority has designated Google Search with “strategic market status,” meaning it’s eligible for extra UK regulation. AI Mode has been factored in, but not AI assistants like Gemini. Similar decisions on Android and iOS are due this month.

Elon Musk invests $2 billion in Elon Musk.

In its earnings report today, Tesla disclosed a $2 billion investment in xAI “as part of their recent publicly-disclosed financing round.” Bloomberg reported earlier this year that xAI, which also owns X.com and the Grok AI chatbot, burned about $7.8 billion in the first nine months of 2025. Tesla claims that the investment in xAI is “intended to enhance Tesla’s ability to develop and deploy AI products and services into the physical world at scale.”

ServiceNow chooses Claude to power customer apps and increase internal productivity

As enterprises move beyond experimenting with AI and start putting it into production across their core business operations, scale and security matters just as much as capabilities.

Google adds Gemini AI-powered ‘auto browse’ to Chrome

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ServiceNow inks another AI partnership, this time with Anthropic

ServiceNow partners with Anthropic just a week after announcing a partnership with OpenAI as the company takes a multi-model approach.

Clawdbot’s bad day.

Peter Steinberger, the creator of the trending Moltbot (former Clawdbot) AI agent, talks to TBPN about how Anthropic contacted him to rebrand the project, which he named after Claw’d, the Claude Code mascot.

SpaceX sends list of demands to US states giving broadband grants to Starlink

SpaceX won’t make specific promises on Starlink network capacity or subscribers.

YouTube’s top AI slop channels are disappearing

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I used Claude to vibe-code my wildly overcomplicated smart home

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AI data labeler Handshake buys Cleanlab, an acquisition target of multiple others

The deal is structured as an acquihire of nine key Cleanlab's researchers.

Google begins rolling out Chrome's "Auto Browse" AI agent today

The Auto Browse agent is available to AI Pro and AI Ultra subscribers, but there are some limits.

Chrome takes on AI browsers with tighter Gemini integration, agentic features for autonomous tasks

Google Chrome is adding Gemini in sidebar and is rolling out an agentic feature for AI Pro and Ultra users