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Google is updating the Pixel Weather app with a new icon, renaming its AI weather summary to Weather Brief, and adding a label to notify users when the phone is charging in Extreme Charging Mode, a fe…

Google announced the Pixel 11 series at Made by Google 2026 on August 13, 2026, introducing AI features including Rambler, a transcription engine that strips filler words, and Magic Capture, a camera …

More than 120,000 tech jobs have been cut globally in 2026, according to Layoffs.fyi, and a survey by Lenny's Newsletter of 8,200 workers found burnout rose from 44.4% to 55.7% and career optimism fel…

India's Ministry of Power now projects AI data centers will add 26.3 gigawatts of power demand by fiscal year 2032, nearly double its March estimate of 13.56 GW, raising concerns about grid reliabilit…

Google's Gemini app has surpassed 1 billion monthly active users, making it the fastest-growing product in the company's history, and is adding integrations with Ticketmaster, Otter.ai, Wix, OpenTable…

François Chollet, an AI researcher at Google, published a paper on arXiv on November 5, 2019, arguing that measuring AI skill at specific tasks falls short of measuring intelligence, and proposed a ne…

AI News Digest for Aug 13 reports 30 AI stories, including Anthropic's potential $6 billion acquisition of Decart, Lovable's $13.3 billion valuation after a $400M raise, and Gemini reaching 1 billion …

Jeff Dean, a prominent figure in AI research, is reportedly seeking a $10 billion valuation for his new startup, a figure that has sparked debate about whether it is justified in the current market. S…

Tech bubbles have recurred for nearly two centuries, from railway mania to the dot-com era, and the current AI boom shows similar traits. A handful of companies like Nvidia, Microsoft, Google, Amazon,…

Google has made its new Breathing Emergency Detection feature, part of the Health Guardian suite, available on both the Pixel Watch 4 and Pixel Watch 5, using AI to analyze heart rate, motion, altitud…

A recent survey found that 73% of marketers have invested in tools to monitor AI visibility, yet CMOs struggle to link that visibility to sales, according to John Barham, managing partner at performan…

Nvidia is the only entity in the AI supply chain making guaranteed massive profits, while AI labs face a profitability gap due to exponential compute costs, data exhaustion, and monetization lag, acco…

Google's Gemini app has surpassed 1 billion monthly active users, according to Sundar Pichai's August 11 post on X, making it Google's fastest-growing consumer product and its 14th to reach the milest…

Anthropic will embed invisible watermarks in all Claude output worldwide starting August 2, 2026, under EU AI Act Article 50 transparency obligations, with non-compliance risking fines up to €15 milli…

Google unveiled the Pixel 11 series at its Made by Google event in New York, featuring AI-powered tools such as the Rambler voice keyboard, Magic Capture photos, and multi-step task automation, while …

An open letter signed by 1,376 engineers and experts at leading AI companies, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, urges a slowdown in frontier AI development until models can be controlled, citin…

Google is consolidating its DeepMind and Research teams into a single unit to streamline AI development and accelerate product integration. The move aims to reduce silos, improve coordination on large…

Anthropic is in talks to acquire Israeli AI infrastructure company Decart for $6 billion, according to a report from social media source @WhaleInsider. The acquisition aims to enhance inference effici…

A survey of 1,500 enterprise architects and cloud infrastructure leads by Cloudera and Wakefield Research found that 95% delayed or cancelled AI projects in the past year due to data governance, compl…

EZY Research's 12-week study of 83 websites found OpenAI's GPTBot fetched llms.txt only 7 times versus 3,990 robots.txt fetches, while Meta's crawler fetched llms.txt 193 times, more than its 172 robo…