OpenAI's updated GPT-5.5 Instant is better at shopping, complex constraints, and understanding user intent — and it's already in the API

OpenAI is moving away from models that require heavy hand-holding and toward systems that can better infer the user’s goal, ...

Samsung SmartThings API fees could impact your favorite smart home apps

Samsung has announced that it is ending free access to SmartThings API. The company will roll out paid commercial tiers and a ...
Search Engine Land

Google Ads API v24.2 adds AI transparency, stronger security and new reporting

API v24.2 introduces AI visibility tools, stronger security controls and new PMax reporting features for advertisers and developers. Google has released Google Ads API v24.2, an update that introduces ...
The Next Web

Hackers are mass-exploiting a Gravity SMTP flaw to steal API keys from 100,000 WordPress sites

Wordfence has blocked 17M+ exploit attempts targeting a Gravity SMTP bug that leaks API keys, OAuth tokens, and full system reports without authentication.
The Conversation

How much water and power will AI data centres use in Australia? Ironically, we don’t have the data to know

Australia’s data centre rush now rivals the mining boom. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman last week said Australia could become a “data centre capital of the world”. This would come at an ...

CData targets AI developers with governed data access tools

CData CLI, is a command-line tool that enables developers to build and test integrations using CData’s connectors. The company says the tool is optimized for AI-assisted development environments while ...
Opinion
Database Trends and ApplicationsOpinion

CData Delivers Free Access to Governed Enterprise Data with Connect AI Developer Edition, Python SDK, and CLI

CData Software is launching three products for developers building AI applications on enterprise data: Connect AI Developer Edition (free), the CData Connect AI Python SDK (open source), and CData CLI ...
Reuters

EU plans energy standards for data centres amid concerns over soaring power use

EU eyes minimum efficiency rules for data centres Capacity set to double by 2030, lifting power demand Sustainability label planned amid energy concerns BRUSSELS, June 3 (Reuters) - The European Union ...
Reuters

Microsoft limits employee use of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 over data retention concerns, The Verge reports

June 10 (Reuters) - Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab is limiting employees' use of Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 because of the AI startup's new data retention requirements, The Verge reported on ...
Snopes.com

Will Utah data center use 16B gallons of water and span almost 3 Manhattans? What to know

In spring 2026, social media users spread a rumor that a new data center in Utah would use about 16 billion gallons of water a year and that the center would be 2.7 times the size of Manhattan. Utah ...
Time

AI Could Use as Much Water as 1.3 Billion People by 2030, U.N. Report Warns

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PC Magazine

The Best Personal Data Removal Services for 2026

When the IBM PC was new, I served as the president of the San Francisco PC User Group for three years. That’s how I met PCMag’s editorial team, who brought me on board in 1986. In the years since that ...