Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is pressing Google for more information about its plans to build a checkout feature into its Gemini AI chatbot. In a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Warren expresses concerns that the integration could allow Google and retailers "to exploit sensitive user data" or "manipulate consumers into spending more and paying […]

Simon Sharwood / The Register:
Tencent Cloud, DigitalOcean, and Alibaba Cloud add OpenClaw support, giving users access to the AI agent service; many OpenClaw users run it on a Mac mini  —  As analyst house Gartner declares AI tool ‘comes with unacceptable cybersecurity risk’ and urges admins to snuff it out

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Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Sources: Reno-based chip startup Positron raised a $230M Series B from the QIA and others to build high-speed memory chips, taking its total raised to $300M+  —  Semiconductor startup Positron has secured $230 million in Series B funding, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.

Loni Prinsloo / Bloomberg:
Prosus agrees to a multiyear AWS cloud and AI deal that runs into “hundreds of millions of dollars”, as it seeks to expand in Europe, India, and Latin America  —  Prosus NV reached a multi-year cloud and artificial-intelligence deal with an Amazon.com Inc. unit that will consolidate contracts …