Data centers get ready — the Senate wants to see your power bills

Senators Josh Hawley and Elizabeth Warren want the Energy Information Administration to gather more details about how data centers use power — and how that affects the grid.

OpenAI abandons yet another side quest: ChatGPT’s erotic mode

It’s only the latest of several side projects that the AI startup has ditched over the past week.

16 of the most interesting startups from YC W26 Demo Day

From redirecting doomscrolling to training humanoid robots, these 16 startups stood out as the most interesting ones from an overflowing YC cohort.

Google Translate’s real-time headphone translations feature expands to iOS and more countries

The real-time headphone translations experience keeps each speaker’s tone, emphasis, and cadence intact, so it’s easier to follow the conversation and tell who’s saying what.

Mastodon is making its decentralized social network easier to use with its latest revamp

Mastodon is redesigning user profiles to simplify the experience and better appeal to mainstream users and organizations.

Netflix confirms it’s raising prices again

The standard plan without ads now costs $19.99 per month, a $2 increase from the previous $17.99 subscription fee, while the premium plan is also going up by $2 and will now cost $26.99 per month.

Wikipedia cracks down on the use of AI in article writing

The site, whose policies are subject to change, has struggled with the issue of AI-generated writing.

You can now transfer your chats and personal information from other chatbots directly into Gemini

Google is launching “switching tools” that, just as it sounds, will make it easier for users of other chatbots to switch to Gemini.

Anthropic wins injunction against Trump administration over Defense Department saga

A federal judge has ordered that the Trump administration rescind recent restrictions it placed on the AI company.

David Sacks is done as AI czar — here’s what he’s doing instead

Sacks will be much further from power center in Washington than since the outset of this second Trump administration.