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Anthropic will begin watermarking text and image outputs from its Claude models to comply with the European Union's AI Act, which took effect Aug. 2. The company will embed an imperceptible watermark …

DeepSeek launched DeepSeek Harness, an MIT-licensed open-source agent harness for building coding agents, and upgraded its V4-Pro model with enhanced agent capabilities, while raising V4-Pro API price…

The EU AI Act, adopted in 2024, introduces risk-tiered regulation with fines up to €35 million or 7% of global turnover for non-compliance, while NIST's AI RMF provides a voluntary but influential fra…

Google introduced Sheets canvas, a Gemini-powered feature in Google Sheets that lets users turn spreadsheet data into interactive mini-apps using natural language prompts, available globally in Englis…

A new analysis by The Next Platform's Timothy Prickett Morgan argues that for critical applications like medical imaging, fully open source AI models such as Nvidia's Nemotron 3 are preferable to clos…

Members of Congress are using AI chatbots to write speeches, draft amendments, and manage constituent mail with little oversight, according to a Washington Post report. The Senate and House have clear…

Google announced the Pixel 11 lineup, Pixel Watch 5, Pixel Buds Pro 2, and Pixel Tag at the Made by Google 2026 event, with preorders opening August 12 and most devices shipping August 20. The Pixel 1…

Google is updating Google Sheets to convert Microsoft Excel tables directly into native Sheets tables and linked pivot tables into interactive pivot tables, with Excel table imports available now and …

Google has released Credentio, an open-source C++ library for validating C2PA Content Credentials, supporting specification versions 2.2 and 2.4, and already powering nearly 40 conformant Google produ…

The High Bandwidth Flash consortium, led by Sandisk and SK Hynix with members including Google and Tenstorrent, released its first technical specification for a new NAND-based memory standard targetin…

SanDisk and SK hynix introduced High Bandwidth Flash (HBF), a new memory standard combining NAND flash with wafer bonding to deliver HBM-level read bandwidth at 8 to 16 times the capacity, targeting A…

Microsoft is merging its consumer-facing Copilot app with the business-oriented Microsoft 365 Copilot app and retiring unsuccessful AI features, including Group Chats, AI-generated podcasts, Copilot L…

Microsoft is merging its Microsoft 365 Copilot and consumer Copilot apps into a single 'Microsoft Copilot' app for Windows 11, with web and mobile versions rolling out in the coming weeks and Windows/…

Google's Pixel 11 Pro HiLight notification LED, which replaces the temperature sensor, currently only supports calls and Gemini interactions, missing opportunities for app-specific colors and spam ale…

Google is expanding its 'Ask YouTube' conversational search experiment to the YouTube mobile app, adding an 'Ask' button to the search bar for signed-in users aged 13 and older. The feature, which deb…

Vals AI has raised $40 million in a Series A round led by Andreessen Horowitz to build independent evaluation benchmarks for AI models, targeting the gap between standardized test performance and real…

Google raised prices on its Pixel 11 family of smartphones by $100 per device, citing the memory shortage driven by AI demand. The Pixel 11 and 11 Pro now start with 256GB of storage, double the Pixel…

Google announced that its Gemini AI assistant will integrate with over a dozen new connected apps over the next few weeks, including Ticketmaster, Angi, Zocdoc, and others. The new integrations span p…

A developer who was laid off from a large company built an automatic llms.txt generator and later created Schrödinger's Website, a project that lets AI generate a story and HTML page with complete cre…

Google Search briefly listed August 12 as the date of death for OpenAI CEO Sam Altman after vandalized public info sources, including his Wikipedia page, falsely claimed he had been assassinated or ha…