Google has launched a pilot program to compensate approximately 100 digital publishers for content used in AI-generated answers. Payments range from less than $1,000 over several months to over $1 million annually per publisher.
The U.S. government introduced the America.gov portal, which utilizes Google’s Gemini and Elon Musk’s Grok to synthesize information from thousands of federal and local websites. Future updates aim to enable transactional services like passport applications.
DoorDash is expanding its platform with an AI-powered ordering agent integrated into Apple Messages and a business API. Additionally, the company is testing its DoorDash Air drone, a six-propeller aircraft designed for short-range autonomous food delivery.
Meta is leveraging research-and-experimentation tax rules to classify data-center development and Nvidia hardware investments as experimental research. This strategy has significantly reduced the company's federal tax liabilities.
Robinhood is launching AI agents capable of constructing and executing trading strategies for users. The platform is also introducing weekend stock trading, perpetual futures, and prediction contracts, moving beyond its traditional brokerage model.
The White House signed a voluntary AI safety agreement with OpenAI, Google, Meta, Anthropic, Nvidia, and xAI. The pact requires companies to monitor advanced models and submit to external audits, though it lacks formal enforcement mechanisms.
