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Ryanair is doubling down on cloud infrastructure, signing a five-year deal with Google Cloud just weeks after renewing a separate five-year agreement with Amazon Web Services. The Irish budget carrier will roll out Google Workspace and cloud services to its thirty-five thousand employees as it chases a target of three hundred million passengers a year by two thousand thirty-four. It's a rare and deliberate bet on two rival platforms at once.
Meanwhile, US Customs and Border Protection is back in the headlines for the wrong reasons. Officers are accused of misusing surveillance databases that pull from sources including license plate readers and facial recognition systems. It's a recurring tension in law enforcement technology — powerful tools deployed faster than the oversight frameworks meant to govern them.
And OpenAI is quietly retiring the GPT creation feature inside ChatGPT, a tool that once let users build and share custom versions of the AI. The move signals a broader shift in how OpenAI is thinking about its product architecture, pulling back a feature that never quite found the mainstream foothold the company may have hoped for.
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