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Google has launched Gemini in Chrome for Android users across the US, adding page summaries, contextual questions, Google app connections, and Nano Banana image tools directly into the browser. AI Pro…

Google's AI Overviews cited Facebook in 19.5 million of over 300 million U.S. monthly searches, Instagram in about 877,000, and TikTok in around 78,000, according to BrightEdge research. The analysis …

Google has completed the rollout of Gemini in Chrome for Android users in the US, adding a toolbar shortcut that provides a sheet interface for summarizing pages, answering questions, and editing imag…

Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro and Flash models can expose API keys and leak sensitive data if not properly secured, according to a developer's guide that recommends using .env files, strict system instructi…

Google agreed to pay $10 million for Spirit Airlines' entire data trove, including emails, spreadsheets, bookings, frequent-flyer records, and employee information, following the carrier's May shutdow…

Apertura, a from-scratch Objective-C++/MLX rebuild of Google's Gemma-4 for Apple Silicon, runs the entire Gemma-4 text family natively on a Mac with bit-exact conformance to the PyTorch reference, ach…

Google's Pixel 11 Pro's 120x Super Zoom feature uses AI to invent details not present in the original image, raising concerns about the line between enhancement and fabrication. The feature, which all…

Meta's two crawlers, Meta-ExternalAgent and Meta-WebIndexer, now carry the majority of AI agent traffic, growing 74% and 163% quarter over quarter, respectively, according to bot-defense vendor DataDo…

GitHub's August 17, 2026 outage, which lasted nearly eight hours and affected API requests, Actions, pull requests, Issues, webhooks, and Copilot, was exacerbated by authentication-token retries that …

Google agreed to pay $10 million for Spirit Airlines' business data, including internal communications, spreadsheets, booking and frequent-flyer records, and employee information, to improve its AI mo…

A developer built a standing measurement tool called loadline to track how many context-window tokens MCP servers consume, running 72 trials across 14 servers. The measurements show that Claude's toke…

Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Wallets and cloudflare.pay on August 4, 2026, giving AI agents programmable, two-tier wallets with spending caps and verifiable identities, built on the x402 protocol. …

Anthropic, the AI lab behind the Claude chatbot, is seeking loans of approximately $1 billion to $1.25 billion each from major lenders, following a recent debt deal arranged by Apollo Global Managemen…

Anthropic's Claude chatbot incorrectly claimed that Google's C++ Style Guide recommends #pragma once over #define guards, a factual error that remains uncorrected as of August 18, 2026, according to t…

Google is testing three AI Mode shortcuts beneath the desktop Search box: Create images, Ask about files, and Brainstorm. The limited test turns AI Mode from a distinct search destination into task-ba…

SemiAnalysis, a semiconductor and AI research firm with 85 team members and 280,000 subscribers, presented 'From Fab to Token' at a conference, detailing the state of the AI hardware market. The prese…

Google's Pixel Screenshots app version 1.26.281.05 is rolling out via the Play Store, adding new filters for date range and source, alongside existing tag filters. The update, which coincides with the…

Google won a bidding war, paying $10 million for Spirit Airlines' internal data, including 500 million Teams messages, according to a bankruptcy court filing dated August 14. The data, which excludes …

Cloudflare's managed robots.txt blocks eight AI crawlers, but a developer's analysis reveals it excludes OpenAI's OAI-SearchBot and Perplexity's crawler, meaning ChatGPT search and Perplexity can stil…

Lifehacker reports that running a local large language model (LLM) on a smartphone is now practical for most recent devices, requiring at least 6GB of RAM and using apps like Atomic Chat or PocketPal …