What everyone's reading this week.
TechCrunch reports that congressional Democrats have opened another investigation into Nvidia’s sales to China and dealings with Trump. Their letter criticizes CEO Jensen Huang over an alleged arrangement with the president.
Muse has added an AI feature that calls U.S. businesses on your behalf. The feature requires payment.
Google says Gemini 4 Hydrogen is coming to Search globally and to the Gemini app. The model is designed to better handle multi-part questions, typos and specific instructions, with more visual responses in Search.
Google researcher Pietro Miotti credited AI agents with finding a potentially unmapped Maya site in Mexico. But the site had already appeared in an academic journal last year, drawing criticism from archaeologists.
Representative Bill Foster told MIT Technology Review that Nvidia representatives said proposed anti-smuggling safeguards were technically possible. That contrasts with an industry group’s public doubts about whether measures in the Chip Security Act could work.
Nebius plans to pay for a $40 billion AI infrastructure expansion using loans and money customers pay upfront. Delays at a Microsoft data center are raising questions about that funding approach.
Amplitude’s Wave agent helps teams choose improvements, make changes with AI coding tools, and check the results. OpenAI says the company ships improvements in one to two days using a system built mainly on its models.
Nvidia says its DLSS 5 graphics technology is coming to War Thunder and Where Winds Meet. Separately, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV is heading to its GeForce NOW cloud gaming service.
An OpenAI customer story says Gondola doubled its revenue while using Codex and ChatGPT. The platform, which helps creatives get recognition and find work, reports a 50% increase in its lead engineer’s output with Codex.
OpenAI describes how Holiday Extras is using Codex to turn its knowledge of customers into app improvements. The customer story reports a higher share of visitors completing bookings.
OpenAI is committing $2 million to research into AI and children’s safety. The funding supports shared tools for assessing both risks and potential benefits for young people.
Google introduced a tool that lets developers use its Gemini Decision model in their software. It is designed to make quick decisions using different kinds of input.