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OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic back one shared signal that lets websites opt out of AI training

Photo: Victorgrigas, CC BY-SA 3.0 (file image: servers in a data centre) / Source: Wikimedia Commons

NEW A.I. News · 06:37

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic back one shared signal that lets websites opt out of AI training

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic have pledged to honour a single, shared signal that lets publishers and other websites opt out of having their content used to train generative AI models. Today site owners must block each company's crawler separately. Anthropic has already started supporting the new rule, Microsoft will do so from 1 February 2027, Google in 2027 and OpenAI in the coming months.

Source: IETF; Microsoft; OpenAI; Google; The Verge; Engadget; AFP

Google's Project Suncatcher satellite runs an AI model on its own chips in orbit and sends its first answer to Earth

Photo: Zinskauf, CC BY-SA 4.0, cropped (file image: a Google TPU 3.0 board, not the satellite hardware) / Source: Wikimedia Commons

NEW A.I. News · 06:38

Google's Project Suncatcher satellite runs an AI model on its own chips in orbit and sends its first answer to Earth

Google says its first Project Suncatcher satellite has successfully booted its Tensor Processing Units in orbit and run the Gemma 4 model on board, sending back a haiku about being in space. The test is an early step in an experimental project to find out whether data centres for artificial intelligence could one day be built in space and powered by the Sun.

Source: Google; The Verge; TechCrunch