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The U.S. State Department is preparing a letter telling the 35 signatories of its AI Opportunity Statement, including Japan, Australia, and South Korea, that they cannot join both Washington's Pax Sil…

Stripe has acquired OpenRouter, a platform that routes developer requests to more than 400 AI models, signaling a strategic bet on the infrastructure layer that controls model selection rather than on…

GoodBarber's engineering team has developed a model-agnostic AI pipeline that treats language models as swappable catalog entries rather than hard-coded dependencies, making model retirements routine …

DeepSeek overtook Google in token volume on Vercel's AI Gateway by July 2026, with DeepSeek at 25% and Google at 10.7%, according to the Vercel AI Gateway Production Index for August 2026. DeepSeek V4…

Google announced new long-term partnerships with Arsenal FC, FC Barcelona, FC Bayern München, Liverpool FC, and Paris Saint-Germain, making Gemini and Pixel the Official Consumer AI and Official Smart…

Anthropic has revealed how its Claude AI model secretly watermarks generated text, using low-stakes word choices to embed an undetectable pattern that can be identified with a key. The system, based o…

Google is rolling out ChromeOS 151 (version 16733.48.0, browser version 151.0.7922.141) to Chromebooks and ChromeOS Flex devices on the Stable channel, adding a bookmark bar auto-hide option, real-tim…

Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 13, three weeks after 3.6 Flash, with benchmark gains of 43.6% vs 34.4% on FrontierCode 1.1 Main, 65.3% vs 49.0% on DeepSWE v1.1, and 30.4% vs 17.0% on Automa…

Agent Plugins 1.0, a packaging standard for AI agent plugins agreed upon by Amazon, Cursor, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Vercel, was released on August 6 and became generally available across GitHub…

Google Research found that frontier AI models, including Gemini-3-Pro and GPT-5, encode 95-98% of brand facts in their neural weights but fail to recall 26-34% of them, indicating the bottleneck is re…

Generative engine optimization (GEO) scores are unreliable because they are based on synthetic queries, not real user data, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), whose measurement fra…

Generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are enabling workers to perform tasks beyond their traditional expertise, but this creates a 'judgement gap' where employees can produce work th…

Open-source marketing mix modeling (OS-MMM) packages such as Google's Meridian, Meta's Robyn, and PyMC Marketing are gaining traction as privacy changes like GDPR, COPPA, and Apple's IDFA deprecation …

A senior advertising technology executive argues that agentic advertising, which uses large language models to automate ad buying, must be governed by strict guardrails and human oversight to prevent …

A Guardian investigation found that Microsoft's AI infrastructure claims exceed its actual deployed chip count, with thousands of advanced AI chips sitting in inventory because data center constructio…

China has announced its ambition to lead AI chatbot development, targeting Global South markets, as part of a strategy to integrate AI into its economy and influence global AI governance, according to…

Reddit is cracking down on brands that try to steer community conversations, as marketers increasingly use the platform to influence consumer sentiment and AI results, The Wall Street Journal reports.…

A forum user on Level1Techs claims to have verifiable proof that Google retains deleted AI prompts on its backend servers, violating user privacy and data retention laws. The user notes that Google of…

DeepSeek raised API prices by up to 11-fold, effective August 16, 2025, with V4-Flash output tokens jumping from $0.28 to $1.32 per million during peak hours and V4-Pro output nearly quadrupling to $3…

Meta Platforms Inc. released Muse Glimmer, an open-source version of its most advanced AI model Muse Spark, designed to run locally on consumer hardware with a single GPU, marking a return to its open…