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Wikipedia is facing a massive surge in traffic from AI crawlers, consuming 65% of resources. Multimedia bandwidth is up 50% since January as bots gather training data. Wikimedia's infrastructure is overwhelmed by this exponential growth in bot activity.

Anthropic introduces Claude for Education, an AI assistant designed for colleges. It supports students, faculty, and administrators with tasks like tutoring and policy comprehension, featuring a Socratic 'Learning Mode'.

GitHub Copilot introduces 'premium requests' and will charge for access to advanced AI models. Users who choose models beyond the base for tasks like agentic coding will face rate limits and additional costs, potentially making Copilot more expensive for some.

Trump's tariffs are shaking up Big Tech! Hardware giants like Apple, Dell, Oracle are expectedly hit. But surprisingly, even Meta, less reliant on hardware, is feeling the pinch. Global supply chains and tech stocks feel the tariff tremors.

OpenAI has put ChatGPT-5 on hold to integrate new features. Instead, they are releasing new 'o3 and o4-mini' models in a couple of weeks. These smaller models are the current focus as ChatGPT-5 is further developed.

A vulnerability in LocationSmart's API allowed anyone to retrieve incoming call records, including timestamps, of millions of users from a major US cell carrier just by knowing a phone number. This breach bypassed device security and user alerts, exposing sensitive call data.

Google is shaking up the leadership of its Gemini AI team. Sissie Hsiao is stepping down, and Google Labs head Josh Woodward is taking over. This change comes after the release of Google's most capable AI model yet.

MediaTek and Google are collaborating to develop next-gen TPUs, diversifying Google's AI chip supply and reducing reliance on Broadcom. This partnership aims to enhance AI processing and lower costs for Google's future AI hardware.

NASA faces a $420M budget cut due to pressure from Elon Musk's DOGE task force, impacting climate science, lunar research, & education programs.