AT&T Commits $250B to Network Expansion, Fiber, and 5G over Five Years, Oversight Board Demands Meta Overhaul AI Content Policy After Labeled Video Flap, Gemini Deeply Integrated into Google Workspace with New Docs, Sheets, and Drive Features.
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Google DeepMind and OpenAI Employees Back Anthropic in Pentagon Lawsuit
Over 30 employees from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, and other rival AI companies filed an amicus brief supporting Anthropic’s lawsuit against the U.S. government. The suit challenges the Pentagon’s “supply-chain risk” label for Anthropic. The brief supports Anthropic’s request for a temporary restraining order to continue military partnerships, arguing the sanction harms U.S. AI competitiveness. The employees stated blacklisting Anthropic “undermines American innovation” and “chills professional debate,” stressing that Anthropic’s sought-after contractual protections against AI misuse are necessary in the absence of public law.
Read more: Wired
AT&T Plans $250 Billion U.S. Network Expansion
AT&T plans a major investment of over $250 billion across the U.S. over five years to significantly expand its network infrastructure. This expansion is driven by the rising data demand from AI, cloud computing, and connected devices. The investment will focus on accelerating the deployment of fiber broadband, 5G home internet, and satellite connectivity to enhance coverage across all regions. The company will also hire thousands of new technicians as part of this initiative. Furthermore, AT&T aims to strengthen its network security, leverage AI-driven threat detection, and compete with cable providers, using its AST SpaceMobile partnership to reach remote areas.
Read more: Reuters
Meta Oversight Board Calls for New AI Content Policies
The Oversight Board is pressuring Meta to overhaul its AI-generated content policies, urging a separate rule from misinformation, better detection tools, and improved digital watermarking. This follows the board overturning Meta’s failure to label a viral, unlabelled AI video about the 2025 Israel-Iran conflict. The board criticized Meta’s system as inadequate, relying too heavily on user disclosure and fact-checkers, and stressed the company must improve its internal capacity to counter deceptive AI content, especially from inauthentic networks during crises.
Read more: Engadget
Google Integrates Gemini More Deeply Into Workspace
Google is deeply integrating the Gemini AI assistant into its Workspace applications for subscribers, adding a dedicated chat window in Google Docs, AI-driven spreadsheet generation, and a new search feature in Drive. The new Gemini chat in Docs can generate and format full document drafts by pulling information from across the web and Workspace, including the ability to match an existing document’s style. Additionally, collaborative editing is enhanced with a “Match writing style” feature and the ability for Gemini to suggest private, in-line changes throughout a document based on user prompts.
Read more: The Verge
Meta Acquires AI-Agent Social Network Moltbook
Meta Platforms has acquired Moltbook, a social networking platform for AI agents, primarily to hire its co-founders, Matt Schlicht and Ben Parr, for its Meta Superintelligence Labs, reflecting the fierce competition for AI talent. Moltbook, a niche site for AI bots to exchange code and gossip, quickly grew but faced a major cybersecurity flaw, later fixed, that exposed over a million credentials through its “vibe coding” method. The acquisition signals that autonomous agents are the next major focus in the tech industry.
Read more: Reuters
FAA Launches Pilot Programs for Electric Air Taxis
The FAA launched eight pilot programs across 26 states to fast-track Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) and eVTOL integration, as mandated by a presidential executive order. This three-year initiative lets companies like Archer Aviation, Beta Technologies, and Joby Aviation test applications such as air taxis and cargo delivery as early as this summer, partially bypassing standard regulations. The programs, in partnership with local governments, aim to develop safety standards and a scalable framework to ensure U.S. leadership in the new technology.
Read more: TechCrunch
Adobe Expands Creative Cloud With Agentic AI Features
Adobe is significantly enhancing its Creative Cloud suite with “agentic AI” features, allowing users to edit images and documents through descriptive prompts. This includes the public beta launch of an AI Assistant in Photoshop on web and mobile for tasks like removing distractions and changing backgrounds, following similar releases for Express and Acrobat. Additionally, Adobe is integrating Express and Acrobat directly into Microsoft’s Copilot service for enterprise customers, enabling conversational adjustments within the Microsoft platform.
Read more: The Verge
Adobe Adds Conversational Editing to Creative Cloud
Adobe’s Creative Cloud now features agentic AI for conversational editing. A public beta of the AI Assistant in Photoshop on web and mobile allows edits like removing distractions and changing backgrounds, mirroring existing features in Express and Acrobat. Though the desktop app lacks the chatbot, Adobe is integrating Express and Acrobat into Microsoft Copilot 365, giving enterprise users conversational editing options within the Microsoft platform.
Read more: TechCrunch
Zoom Launches AI Office Suite and Photorealistic Avatars
Zoom is significantly expanding its AI features, launching photorealistic avatars for meetings and video messaging, and introducing new proprietary AI productivity applications (Docs, Slides, Sheets) in preview this spring. The company is also enhancing its platform with deepfake detection, a voice translator, and an AI agent builder for custom agent creation. Furthermore, Zoom’s AI Companion 3.0 is being integrated into its desktop app and Workvivo, connecting with services like Slack and Gmail, and the company is unifying its design across platforms for easier access to these new AI tools.
Read more: TechCrunch
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Steps Down
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is transitioning to Chief Innovation Officer, with advisor and investor Toni Schneider taking over as interim CEO. Graber, who led the decentralized social platform’s growth to 43 million users since 2021, stated the company now needs an experienced operator like Schneider, the former Automattic CEO, to focus on scaling while the board searches for a permanent replacement. Graber will remain on the board and focus on new developments in her new role.
Read more: Engadget
Microsoft released more details about Project Helix, their next generation Xbox including the ability to play Xbox and PC games. Plus Nvidia announced new DLSS 4.5 native integration coming to 20 games. And our listeners ask us how to parse out our time between listening to news and entertainment podcasts. Finally there’s a new quiz this week that will test your knowledge of the two Ryans. Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds. Who starred in what movies?
But we also have confirmation on PC gems coming to Xbox and a more immersive Google Maps experience.
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