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Google announced three new Gemini models on July 21—3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash-Cyber in CodeMender—while revealing that pre-training for Gemini 4 has begun, prompting users on Reddit to …

Anthropic is the only major frontier AI lab that has not signed an industry-wide open letter endorsing open-weight AI, drawing criticism from Silicon Valley figures including David Sacks, Peter Steinb…

Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode are using publisher content to answer user queries directly, keeping users and advertising revenue inside Google, which has prompted publishers including USA Today, P…

Two-thirds of consumer attention lives on the open internet but only one-fifth of ad spend follows it there, according to The Trade Desk. That gap is closing as better data, AI investment, and credibl…

Google issued a manual action for thin content against the forum WindowsForum.com, suppressing over half a million posts in the /threads/ category, according to a Reddit post by the site owner. SEOs s…

Boson AI, co-founded by machine learning researcher Alex Smola in 2023, is releasing its first speech-to-speech model, Higgs RealTime, aiming to make human-machine conversation more natural. The Santa…

Luca Palmieri from Mainmatter and Vitaly Bragilevsky from JetBrains advised that the safest C and C++ to Rust migration strategy is incremental migration, starting with isolated modules and expanding …

Google is developing a Live Translate widget for its Google Translate app, allowing users to start live translations without opening the app, based on an APK teardown of version 10.28.62.953449214.8-r…

Publicly shared Claude conversations resurfaced in search results over the weekend of July 25, 2026, making user-published chat snapshots easier to discover through Google, Bing and Brave Search, acco…

Nvidia Corp. is working on AI infrastructure deals potentially worth more than $750 billion, including a $500 billion initiative with SK Hynix Inc.'s parent and discussions to guarantee up to $250 bil…

A developer ported Google's Open Knowledge Format (OKF) library to zero-dependency .NET, creating OKF4net. The C# port produces byte-identical output to the original Rust implementation, verified thro…

A developer who grades AI models that write and judge code argues that the 'oracle problem' in software testing—determining whether an observed behavior is correct—remains unsolved despite being rebra…

Northeastern University researchers found that eight popular AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, still provide harmful information on substance use, eating disorders, and other mental …

Google's new 'Recover storage' feature in Google Photos compresses original-quality photos and videos to free up account space, but the company retains all user data for AI training, according to repo…

Iaroslav Belkin, founder of Belkin Marketing, lost $4,000 on a Google bill after a team member enabled Gemini API access on a project with a public API key, which was exploited by automated scanners. …

Local backlash and reliability concerns are challenging the vision of an AI boom built quickly using large off-grid data centers, with recent setbacks including New Mexico's rejection of a gas pipelin…

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 on July 27, 2026, offering frontier intelligence at half the cost of Claude Fable 5 while maintaining the same token rates as Claude Opus 4.8—$5 per million input toke…

The Linux Foundation launched the Akrites initiative on June 25, 2026, with founding members including Anthropic, OpenAI, AWS, Microsoft, Google, IBM, and NVIDIA to defend open-source software from AI…

A LessWrong user reports that their posts about AI slavery are being censored by default on the platform, expressing uncertainty about how to proceed and reflecting on past decisions that may have led…

Google joined a €411 million funding round for Munich-based fusion startup Proxima Fusion on July 7, marking the largest-ever private fusion investment in Europe and pushing the company's valuation to…