Big Tech’s AI Week: Protocols, Power Plays, Paywalls, and Courtroom Drama

Google’s New “Universal Commerce Protocol” Aims to Make AI Shopping Agents Actually Work Google announced a new open standard called the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) to streamline how AI agents handle shopping across the web—covering everything from product discovery to checkout and post-purchase support. The idea is to reduce the messy world of one-off integrations […]

AI’s New Power Struggle: Governments, Platforms, and Chip Giants Tighten the Screws

India Puts Grok on Notice After “Obscene” AI Outputs India has directed Elon Musk’s X to make immediate technical and procedural changes to its AI chatbot Grok after complaints that it was generating “obscene” content, including AI-altered images of women. The order tells X to restrict Grok from producing material involving nudity, sexualization, sexually explicit, […]