Google began rolling out the August 2026 spam update on August 18, its third spam update this year, and the rollout may take a few days. Separately, Google expanded generative UI from AI Mode into AI …
Google has begun rolling out generative UI to AI Overviews, enabling interactive tools and simulations to be generated directly within search results, following its global English launch in AI Mode. T…
The Macaulay Library and eBird, community-driven citizen science projects, are facing a surge in AI-manipulated and AI-generated photos that threaten the scientific value of their archives, according …
Google has begun rolling out generative UI into AI Overviews, expanding the feature beyond AI Mode, where it launched globally in English in November 2025 alongside Gemini 3. The capability builds cus…
Adobe Firefly's AI image generator now offers multiple models—Adobe's Firefly Image 4, Image 4 Ultra, and Image 5 Preview, plus partner models GPT Image 2, Gemini 3 with Nano Banana, and Flux 1.1 Pro—…
Adobe launched Firefly Image 4, Image 4 Ultra, and Image 5 Preview, alongside partner models GPT Image 2, Gemini 3 with Nano Banana, and Flux 1.1 Pro, in its Firefly AI image generator, which is integ…
A developer spent nine months building agent memory and concluded the product they envisioned cannot exist. The journey began with Google's Antigravity IDE and the agent Coda, which struggled with con…
Alphabet Inc., the parent company of Google, surpassed Apple Inc. to become the world's second-largest public company by market capitalization, closing at $3.88 trillion on January 7, 2025, compared t…
Alibaba's Qwen 3.8 Max, a 2.4 trillion parameter multimodal model with 95 billion active parameters, ranked fourth on the LM Arena leaderboard and matched Anthropic's Opus 4.5 on coding and agentic be…
AI search grew, token spending surged, software stocks fell, and publishers lost traffic in H1 2026, according to a report by Growth Memo. Google's AI Mode reached 1 billion monthly active users with …
Google is falling behind in the AI coding race due to internal bureaucracy and power struggles, according to a report. The search giant, which caught up with OpenAI and Anthropic last year with its Ge…
A study by researchers at the University of Vermont found that large language models (LLMs) exhibit systematic gender bias when detecting intimate partner violence (IPV), with abuse and intent detecti…
Google shut down three older Veo video generation models in the Gemini API on June 30, 2026, forcing developers to migrate to Veo 3.1 preview or GA versions to avoid service interruptions. The depreca…
A German court ruled Google directly liable for false claims in AI-generated search summaries, granting an injunction to two publishers whose AI Overviews falsely linked them to scams. The court rejec…
An analysis by Oumi of Google's AI Overviews found that while accuracy improved from 85% on Gemini 2 to 91% on Gemini 3 on the SimpleQA benchmark, the rate of ungrounded claims among correct answers i…
Google hosted a Kaggle hackathon challenging developers to train non-reasoning Gemma-2-2B and Gemma-3-1B models into general reasoning models using Tunix and Kaggle TPUs. Over 11,000 entrants and 300+…
A developer built and benchmarked A2A protocol agents across Python, Go, Rust, and JavaScript, using the Antigravity CLI as an MCP client. The project measured the time each language spent running an …
A developer abandoned Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK) in favor of LangGraph for building AI agents, citing the ADK's dense documentation, lack of clear looping examples, and excessive telemetry d…
The article announces that Google DeepMind's Gemma 4 E2B model, released on April 2, 2026, can run on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8 GB of RAM using only 1.5 GB of memory at INT4 quantization. This capabilit…
On April 2, 2026, Google DeepMind released Gemma 4, a family of open-weight AI models built from Gemini 3 research and available under a permissive Apache 2.0 license. The models are natively multimod…