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A new ledger documenting model aliases and retirements in 2026 lists 19 floating aliases and 89 retirement rows across ten vendor groups, with notice periods ranging from 39 to 184 days. The dataset, …

Linear announced last week that it is building coding agents, joining OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Meta, Lovable, and Retool in converging on software agents that can take a goal, use tools, …

Anthropic has hired Amir Salek, the engineer who founded and led Google's custom silicon division from 2013 to 2022, including its Tensor Processing Unit line, as part of its move to design its own AI…

Google has rolled out new Publisher Center controls and expanded the Google-Extended user agent, allowing publishers to block their content from AI Overview citations via robots.txt while remaining in…

Google's Gemini app, a personal assistant powered by the company's large language models, is now available on Android and iOS, offering features like voice conversations, image recognition, and integr…

One year after Amazon and Google replaced their legacy voice assistants with generative AI versions, independent tests from Consumer Reports and The Vergecast's Jennifer Pattison Tuohy and Nilay Patel…

Apple Inc. is cutting jobs across teams working on Siri, the Vision Pro headset, and its Intelligent Systems Experience group as part of an AI-focused restructuring, according to a report. The layoffs…

A customer service team lead at Amazon built an escalation root-cause analysis agent using Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK) and Gemini, deployed on Cloud Run. The agent automatically classifies es…

Forbes reports that the Pixel 11 Pro will feature a significant AI performance boost, with Google's Tensor chip focusing on on-device AI capabilities. Honor projects 2026 growth driven by AI integrati…

Google has renamed NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook, integrating it with Gemini Apps and AI Mode in Google Search to enable cross-app notebook syncing. The update also introduces a secure cloud computer …

Anthropic announced on August 5, 2026, the formation of an in-house custom silicon team to design proprietary AI chips, aiming to cut inference costs and reduce dependence on Nvidia, AMD, and Google. …

AT&T reduced its AI coding costs by 56% with only a 2% decline in performance by routing routine employee queries to cheaper open-source models via LiteLLM, processing 45 billion tokens daily on its i…

Anthropic confirmed on August 5, 2026 that it is assembling an in-house custom silicon team to design AI chips tailored to its Claude models, hiring a veteran from Google's chip organization to lead t…

Amir Salek, former head of Google's custom silicon organization, is joining Anthropic's compute team, according to a report from Crypto Briefing. Salek led Google's TPU development from 2013 to 2022 b…

Anthropic announced it is rolling out watermarking for all Claude outputs, including text, to comply with the EU Code of Practice, with no additional cost to users. The move has sparked significant ba…

Google has won a $10 million bid for Spirit Airlines' corporate data, including internal wikis, emails, source code, and spreadsheets, to train AI models, according to court documents. Rival AI traini…

Google won a bankruptcy auction to buy Spirit Airlines' internal data for $10 million, beating AI data company Mercor's $7.5 million bid. The dataset includes 100 million emails, 500 million Microsoft…

Google AI Mode has surpassed 1 billion monthly active users globally, with average query length triple that of traditional searches and more than one in six queries including non-text inputs, accordin…

Google announced on Friday that its Google app will soon let users customize their Discovery feed using natural language prompts, powered by Gemini, such as "show me kitchen renovation tips and ideas,…

Google's AI Overviews returned racist and inconsistent advice for queries about being alone with people of different nationalities, such as warning a user to call emergency services when alone with a …