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Webtoon’s animated AI avatars want to chat with you.

Hot on the heels of its new AI-powered localization tools, Webtoon is partnering with AI avatar firm Genies to launch a new chatbot feature that will allow users to “talk” with characters from comics featured on the platform.

Meta’s latest energy deal is for 24/7 orbit-to-grid solar power.

Meta announced a new deal this morning with Overview Energy, a space-based solar company with plans to demo beaming “energy wirelessly from space to a solar farm on Earth” in 2028, ahead of commercial delivery in 2030.

OpenAI and Microsoft renegotiated their deal for the second time in 6 months. See what's new.

Under its new agreement with Microsoft, OpenAI has the green light to work with other cloud providers like Amazon — with some strings attached.

What’s behind Europe’s efforts to ditch US software in favor of sovereign tech

Governments across Europe are looking to rely less on American tech providers.

OpenAI could be making a phone with AI agents replacing apps

The phone could go in mass production in 2028, an analyst says.

What GPT-Image-2 actually changed

OpenAI shipped an image model this week that plans before it draws, searches the web while it composes, and checks its own work before returning the result. GPT-Image-2 scored 1,512 on Image Arena, 242 points above the next closest model, four times the largest jump anyone had recorded.

Executive Briefing: The AI cost curve your strategy is riding just broke + 3 prompts to find your exposure

The Ternus pick is being read as continuity. Apple lifer, quiet succession, stable handoff, business as usual. That is the wrong read.

Exclusive: Adobe brings agentic AI to Firefly, with Claude next

The move comes as chatbots are increasingly able to automate tasks that once required dedicated design tools.

Rebuilding the data stack for AI

Enterprise AI hinges on high-accuracy outputs, requiring better data context, unified architectures, and rigorous measurement frameworks, says Bavesh Patel, senior vice president at Databricks, and Rajan Padmanabhan, unit technology officer at Infosys.

Meta signs a deal to beam solar energy from space to its AI data centres

Overview’s satellites will collect sunlight continuously in geosynchronous orbit and beam it as near-infrared light to existing ground solar installations, which convert it to electricity. The approach extends solar farm output through the night without new land, new grid connections, or new infrastructure on the ground.

Musk v. Altman goes to trial in Oakland

A four-week federal case over OpenAI’s soul, a diary entry, $150 billion in claimed damages, and the question of whether a nonprofit can become the world’s most valuable AI company.

Google DeepMind to open its first AI campus in the world in Seoul

Demis Hassabis met South Korean President Lee Jae Myung at Cheong Wa Dae on Monday and signed an MOU with the Ministry of Science and ICT. The campus is expected to open within 2026. Hassabis accepted a request to send at least 10 Google researchers to Korea. He presented President Lee with a Go board signed by himself and Lee Se-dol.