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A developer built the GitHub Dev Card Generator, which uses an AI agent powered by Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite to create personalized profile cards from any public GitHub username. The agent analyzes repos,…

Google has re-hired Jacob Bank, founder and CEO of agentic AI app Relay, as VP of Product for Google Chrome, along with several team members, to enhance Chrome's AI features. Relay, which launched in …

Proton CEO Andy Yen, founder of the encryption-focused tech company, argues that AI and privacy can coexist, citing the release of Proton's AI chatbot Lumo in late June as an example of integrating AI…

Google killed three Imagen 4 API endpoints on August 17, 2026, breaking production apps that call generate_images() with model IDs imagen-4.0-generate-001, imagen-4.0-fast-generate-001, or imagen-4.0-…

Google's Pixel 11 series launch focused heavily on Gemini Intelligence AI features, but the hardware lags behind competitors, prompting concerns that the Pixel 12 must address these gaps. The Pixel 11…

Nvidia has agreed to invest in OpenAI's data center project, marking another strategic partnership for the chipmaker. Separately, Anthropic's revenue growth continues to impress, and Google has acquir…

Google has confirmed that Gboard's Rambler feature, part of the Gemini Intelligence suite, switches to offline mode after users reach its usage limit, according to a Google representative speaking to …

Google has introduced a feature in Gemini Notebook that lets users copy entire shared notebooks, including sources and Studio content, provided the owner allows it. The copied notebook is independent …

The UK Department for Transport is investing £2.6 million in a 30-month trial with Google to use AI and Met Office weather forecasts to predict persistent contrails over the North Atlantic and suggest…

Singapore's universities are racing to integrate AI into education as employers increasingly prize AI literacy, with the National University of Singapore (NUS) granting students and faculty access to …

A new investigation by Responsible Statecraft reveals that Israel created a fake think tank, the 'Institute for Research on Middle East Policy,' to manipulate AI chatbots into spreading propaganda. Th…

Boards are now pressing startups on AI vendor concentration risk, asking founders to prove their business isn't dependent on a single model provider. OpenAI's August 2025 GPT-5 rollout briefly cut off…

Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have shifted from being pure API providers to building full-featured consumer and enterprise products that compete directly with the developers who use their APIs. This t…

A developer argues that comparing AWS, Azure, and GCP by feature lists is useless because all three offer similar capabilities. Instead, the decision should be based on team expertise, existing infras…

Alibaba launched HappyShrimp 1.0, an AI music model that converts emotions, stories, or memories into complete music tracks via natural-language prompts, moving the project from an earlier report to a…

Google has acquired the deidentified data of failed US airline Spirit for $10 million at a bankruptcy auction, including 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, and operational records fr…

Mozilla is rolling out an optional ad blocker in Firefox for iOS, disabled by default and using an EasyList-based filter to block third-party ad networks, ad-related trackers, and pop-ups, but it does…

A daily AI news digest published on Aug 18 lists 30 stories, including Microsoft facing a hardware wall, Google paying $10 million for Spirit Airlines data, Stripe acquiring OpenRouter for $7 billion,…

Google released HEIR, an open-source compiler toolchain for homomorphic encryption that converts pre-trained AI models to process encrypted data without decrypting it. The platform, developed by Googl…

On May 25, 2026, AI consultant Ashutosh Shrivastava posted a Gemini Omni Flash clip demonstrating a synthetic version of himself, highlighting Google's personal avatar workflow within Gemini Apps. Goo…