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Google's AI Overviews grew from 15% of searches to 43% in one year and AI Mode visits rose from 126 million in June 2025 to 279 million in May 2026, according to Similarweb data cited by Vincent Schma…
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Google's AI Overviews grew from 15% of searches to 43% in one year and AI Mode visits rose from 126 million in June 2025 to 279 million in May 2026, according to Similarweb data cited by Vincent Schma…
Forever Security researchers demonstrated that a single browser extension with two common permissions could hijack the built-in AI assistants in five Chromium-based products: Gemini Live in Chrome, Pe…
Google released GLM-5.2 on 2026-06-13 under the model identifier zai-org/glm-5.2-maas, offering a 1000k-token context window and 64k maximum output, with no retirement date announced. The model listin…
Google launched the Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Thinking AI models, adding real-time audio transcription, reasoning and translation plus multi-step task handling, the company said on 17 Septem…
Google launched early access to Home MCP on September 16, a Model Context Protocol server that lets MCP-capable AI agents monitor, query, and control devices in a user's Google Home ecosystem, with ac…
The U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 9340, the Ratepayer Protection Act, by a 417-3 vote on Wednesday, requiring state utility regulators to consider charging large-load electricity consumers…
Amazon Web Services launched a new sign-up flow that lets new customers register with a Google, GitHub, or Apple login, start with $100 in Free Tier credits, and build inside a "project" where AWS and…
Texas Governor Greg Abbott has reversed course on the AI data center tax subsidies and deregulation he championed, now demanding an end to the giveaways and calling for regulation of projects he previ…
A developer built Praxi Clew, an AI-assisted financial decision tool, for HackerRank's September 2026 Orchestrate hackathon and was then interviewed by HackerRank's AI judge, Chakra, about how the imp…
Independent evaluator Vals found that Google's Gemini 3.8 Flash scored 71.7% on BioMysteryBench's human-solvable tasks and 21.6% on its hard tasks in production runs, versus the 88.8% and 56.5% Google…
Cloudflare introduced a Disallow AI Training setting within its Bot Management and AI Crawl Control toolbox, letting site owners publish a no-training directive via robots.txt through Bot Preference S…
Google researchers and academic collaborators described Dream RSI, a method that lets an AI system improve its own strategy for guiding scientific discovery by simulating past research history rather …
A paper by Jochen Madler at marketing automation company Sitefire, titled "SlopShape: Identifying AI-Generated Commercial Web Content," argues that AI-generated web content retains a distinct architec…
Firebase AI Logic now runs developer-written Cloud Functions before and after every Gemini generateContent request, per Firebase's Sept. 10, 2026 release note. The beforeGenerateContent and afterGener…
Google published a new guide explaining how publishers and creators can add a Search Profile badge to their websites, a feature currently enabled only for United States-based publishers and creators. …
Google, Google DeepMind, the University of Maryland, and the University of Virginia published a 2026 technical report describing Dream-RSI, a method that optimizes AI agent search strategies offline b…
A developer's unattended YouTube Shorts upload pipeline failed after exactly seven days because the Google Cloud OAuth consent screen was left in Testing mode, which expires refresh tokens after seven…
A developer discovered that an AI-generated LinkedIn account, "GyaanSetu AI (Artificial Intelligence)," had published a first-person post impersonating them and their npm package @bananacool467/ui-too…
Zed IDE's Personal plan is free forever and includes 2,000 accepted edit predictions plus support for users' own API keys and external agents such as Claude Agent and Codex CLI, but hosted models requ…
Google launched Home MCP, a Model Context Protocol server that gives third-party AI agents access to connected devices and event history in Google Home, but early access is limited to U.S. Google Home…