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AXIOS (Amy Harder) - Amazon touts water savings amid data center pushback

Amazon says its data centers use water more efficiently than the industry average and is urging others to improve as scrutiny of data centers intensifies. Why it matters: Water use has emerged as one of the biggest pressure points in the AI data center buildout, pushing companies like Amazon to publicly defend their efforts. Driving the news: Amazon revealed Thursday it was 75% of the way toward its 2030 goal — first set in 2022 — to replenish more water into communities with its data centers than it's consuming. - The tech giant also said its data centers are seven times more water-efficient than the industry average. Friction point: Roughly 70% of Americans oppose building data centers in their communities, with water use for…

NYTIMES (Emmy Martin) - Microsoft C.E.O. Satya Nadella Says ‘Everyone Is a Stakeholder’ in A.I.

At The New York Times’s Hard Fork Live event, Mr. Nadella addressed the backlash against artificial intelligence and President Trump’s comments about Americans sharing in the wealth of A.I. companies

NYTIMES (Tripp Mickle, Ana Swanson and Cecilia Kang) - Trump Muses About Government Taking a Piece of A.I. Companies

President Trump touched on what is an increasingly hot topic in Washington: how average Americans can get a piece of the tech industry’s A.I. windfall.

AXIOS (Sam Sabin) - Anthropic and OpenAI spark new race for frontier AI access

Frontier AI labs are converging on a new strategy for controlling their most cyber-capable models while still commercializing them: selective access. Why it matters: OpenAI's trusted-access program and a pending program from Anthropic are creating a new power center in cybersecurity where AI companies help decide which defenders can use the most advanced cyber capabilities. - For decades, competitive advantage in cybersecurity largely came from talent, data and infrastructure. Now, it also comes from access to models. Driving the news: Anthropic announced Tuesday it will make a version of its Mythos class of models, Fable 5, available to the general public. - Fable 5 includes protections that block some high-risk cybersecurity and…

AXIOS (Ina Fried) - Apple finally ships its AI assistant upgrade

Apple is finally delivering the conversational and context-aware AI that it promised two years ago . Its rivals have already moved on to agents. Why it matters: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and other AI companies are pushing beyond chatbots toward agentic tools that can write code, search through complex file structures, use apps and handle workplace tasks. Driving the news: At its annual developers conference Monday, Apple announced that its long-delayed Siri overhaul will arrive this fall, built through Apple's partnership with Google . - Apple says its new conversational assistant is "profoundly more capable" and includes greater "personal context understanding" that can surface relevant information from texts, emails, photos, and more.…

JUSTTHENEWS (Misty Severi) - OpenAI announces it has filed confidential paperwork to go public

OpenAI, which created ChatGPT, said in a post on X that it “recently submitted” the filing, but did not give specific details on the exact day it was filed or when the company plans to go public.