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Google Pixel Buds 2a are available on Amazon for $99, their lowest price ever on the platform. The earbuds feature Active Noise Cancellation powered by Google's Tensor A1 chip and Silent Seal 1.5 tech…

Corma, an AI security startup founded by CEO Alon Pluda, announced $60 million in seed funding led by Sequoia Capital, alongside Khosla Ventures and Coatue, to close the 'defense gap' in cybersecurity…

Two AI labeling laws—Article 50 of the EU AI Act and California's AI Transparency Act—took effect on August 2, 2026, imposing transparency duties on AI-generated content. The EU law splits obligations…

A developer who logged AI crawler traffic on a small business site for 34 days found that ChatGPT's live retrieval bot (ChatGPT-User) outpaces Googlebot, fetching pages 40.3 times per day versus 35.8.…

State legislators across the U.S. are enacting or considering laws to force data center operators to share the financial burden of their energy consumption, with Virginia's Data Center Electricity Con…

Alibaba Group Holding's open-weight Qwen AI models have surpassed 3 billion global downloads in the past six months, making them the world's most-downloaded AI models, according to a Hugging Face repo…

Anthropic's plan to add hidden watermarks to Claude model outputs will not degrade text quality, increase detectability, or violate privacy, according to an analysis by an unnamed author. The piece ar…

A new web tool lets Linux users inspect their machine's TPM event log entirely in the browser, using WebAssembly compiled from Google's go-eventlog library and built with Anthropic's Claude Code. The …

Google confirmed that Gmail was not breached after reports claimed 183 million Gmail passwords had leaked, stating the figure refers to credentials collected from infostealer malware and older data br…

AI startup Perplexity has made an unsolicited $34.5 billion offer to buy Google's Chrome browser, a bid larger than Perplexity's own valuation, following a US antitrust ruling that found Google holds …

Malaysia has approved roughly RM184.7 billion ($42 billion) in data center investments since 2021, making it a key AI infrastructure hub, with Johor leading Southeast Asia in data center growth. Googl…

Google's AI identified Super Mario World, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and Elden Ring as the top three perfect video games, and outlined four essential qualities: great control, clear rule…

Duolingo co-founder and CEO Luis von Ahn said on the company's August 5th earnings call that the cost of an AI-powered video call dropped from roughly $0.30 to less than $0.01, driven by a shift to op…

EmpowerAgro, an AI-assisted agronomic platform built by developers using Google's AI ecosystem, brings real-time crop disease detection to smallholder farmers in India. The platform combines on-device…

The Web Scraping Club newsletter marked its fourth anniversary with more than 7,000 subscribers, founder Pierluigi Vinciguerra wrote, noting the publication has run with no marketing efforts and 0 ads…

Agent Plugins 1.0, a shared packaging format for AI agent skills and MCP servers, launched on August 6, 2026, backed by Amazon, Cursor, Microsoft, OpenAI, Vercel, and Google, with support from ChatGPT…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said artificial intelligence could cure most diseases within the next decade, a vision outlined in his 2024 essay 'Machines of Loving Grace.' Anthropic has launched an AI dr…

OpenAI's roughly $3 billion deal to buy Windsurf collapsed in July 2025, Google paid $2.4 billion to license its technology and hire its founders, and Cognition bought what remained, leaving windsurf.…

An audit of 42 benchmark rows published by nine vendors — DeepSeek, Google, xAI, Z.ai, Anthropic, OpenAI, Moonshot AI, NVIDIA, and Mistral AI — on pages dated on or before August 14, 2026, found that …

AI inference costs are becoming a major problem for many companies, with AI spend per employee per month rising sharply, according to the Ramp AI Index via a16z. To reduce costs, companies should audi…