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Google DeepMind and WRI launch ForTy, a six-category global forest map: Google DeepMind and the World Resources Institute released ForTy, a global map that classifies forests and other land into six categories, including primary forest, plantations and tree crops. It identifies only about half of planted forests and tree-crop areas, and 60% of plantations.

Environmental AI • The Decoder

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic to adopt a shared AI-scraping opt-out token: OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic said they will adopt a new standard that lets publishers opt out of AI scraping, as Search Engine Roundtable reported. A shared "policy token" lets publishers apply AI training preferences across multiple AI companies instead of setting them individually.

AI Policy • The Verge AI

Did Google just dethrone OpenAI and Anthropic?: Fireship compared Google’s new model with GPT-6 and Opus 5.5 after Google claimed it outperforms both. The description does not report the test results.

Google • Fireship

Google releases developer tool to run PyTorch apps off Nvidia GPUs: Google released a developer tool that lets PyTorch users move their apps off Nvidia GPUs. It joins Amazon in targeting Nvidia's stronghold with AI app developers.

AI Infrastructure • TechCrunch AI