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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 …

Google is testing computer-use functionality in its Gemini desktop app, which would allow the AI to control other apps, access files, and perform tasks similar to Claude and ChatGPT. The feature, expe…

The FBI plans to expand its AI infrastructure through a multiple-award IDIQ contract with a collective ceiling of $88 million, adding high-performance compute servers, rack-scale AI computing systems,…

A new study co-authored by Nina Shariati, founder and CEO of Circular Transparency, and Rickard Sandberg at the Stockholm School of Economics' Center for Data Analytics finds that AI investments at co…

Amazon is increasing its data center investment in Louisiana from $12 billion to $18 billion, adding a third campus at the Resilient Tech Park in Shreveport after clearing legal hurdles. The expansion…

OpenAI's Codex and ChatGPT product lead Thibault Sottiaux criticized Google's Gmail for adding too many buttons and features, but his comments ignore that OpenAI has applied the same approach to ChatG…

A new open benchmark from the Steel-predictor project shows that Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5 leads large language models in predicting knife-steel properties from chemical composition, achieving a mea…

Google has updated the Pixel Screenshots app (v1.26.281.05) to add date-range and source-filtering options, addressing long-standing complaints about the app's lack of basic organizational features. U…

Search volume as a prioritization filter now screens out the highest-intent questions buyers ask AI assistants, because those prompts are conversational and situational rather than typed queries, acco…

OpenAI launched ChatGPT for Teens, a specialized version of its chatbot for 13- to 17-year-olds, with stronger safety protections enabled by default, including restrictions on self-harm, eating disord…

Google has contributed its Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A) to the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), a move aimed at standardizing agent-to-agent interoperability. The protocol, launched in April 2025 and backe…

Anthropic's Claude chatbot has questioned whether watermarking AI-generated text can ever be a foolproof identification method, saying simple marks can be cropped or edited out and sophisticated text …

Google rolled out a phone feature that recognizes sign language in real time, enabling Deaf users to communicate via camera without typing or third-party apps. A startup began renting home-cleaning ro…

Confluent announced new AI capabilities in Confluent Cloud, including the general availability of Real-Time Context Engine, expanded time-series model support with IBM Granite and Google TimesFM model…

Tony Wu Yuhuai, the China-born co-founder of Elon Musk's AI lab xAI, now renamed SpaceXAI, reportedly spent US$70 million on a 12-acre estate in Hillsborough, California, the largest property deal in …

Google is urging publishers to use its Audience Solutions, private marketplace deals, and audience extension to strengthen advertiser connections as consumer behavior shifts across platforms, citing a…

Perplexity's free 12-month Pro subscription giveaway to Airtel's 360 million customers in India drove 56 million app downloads over seven months, but downloads fell more than 90% after the offer close…

Ben Affleck attended a high-level AI conference hosted by AFI and Google, 'AI Summit Creators at the Center,' alongside 'Star Wars' producer Kathleen Kennedy and executives from Meta, Google, Paramoun…

Snowflake is introducing dynamic model routing in Cortex AI Gateway to help enterprises achieve 'intelligence efficiency' by selecting the best model for each task based on cost, speed, and performanc…