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An unnamed Hacker News user asked for recommendations for a personal email provider that supports custom domains, offers good deliverability, allows easy data export, and has a good API for AI agents …

Google's Pixel Buds 2a wireless earbuds are discounted to $99 (from $129) at Amazon, Best Buy, and Google's online store, offering active noise cancellation, transparency mode, and Gemini integration …

Google's Gemini AI app has reached 950 million monthly active users as of Alphabet's Q2 2026 earnings report, up from 650 million in October 2025 and 750 million in February 2026, positioning it to su…

Google's medical AI system AMIE (Articulate Medical Intelligence Explorer) matched physician-level diagnostic accuracy in a 100-patient feasibility study at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, achie…

NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Lightning, a 30-billion-parameter hybrid Mixture-of-Experts model that activates only 3 billion parameters per forward pass, is now available on Amazon SageMaker JumpStart, deliv…

Argus Research upgraded SpaceX (NASDAQ: SPCX) to a Buy from Hold with a $160 price target, citing the company's heavy AI infrastructure investments as a key driver. SpaceX spent nearly $16 billion in …

Google researchers advanced AMIE, its research medical AI system, to conduct real-time video consultations, demonstrating expert-level performance in a randomized controlled study with simulated consu…

Google has replaced the classic "Search" button on its homepage with three AI feature buttons — "Create images," "Ask about files," and "Brainstorm" — in a small desktop test confirmed by Google Searc…

Google's Go programming language, created by Rob Pike, Robert Griesemer, and Ken Thompson, is positioned as ideal for AI-assisted software engineering because it prioritizes code review, verification,…

Anthropic's distributional text watermark is carried by word choice, not invisible characters, so tools that strip zero-width Unicode characters cannot remove it, according to Claude Watermark Researc…

On August 11, 2026, Anthropic announced it will watermark all text and files generated by its Claude AI, with plain-text watermarks designed to survive copy and paste, but the company has not disclose…

Pangram's research shows OpenAI models have held at least 50% of submitted text share every month since the company's inception, while Google's share collapsed from 12% to 1.9% by July 2026 and Anthro…

Anthropic will embed invisible watermarks in text produced by its Claude models and include signed C2PA metadata in generated files, implementing the marking worldwide to comply with the EU AI Act's A…

The New York Post Media Group launched Hamilton, a free AI-powered news tool integrated into its apps, using Google's Gemini to offer conversational search, personalized digests, and tailored recommen…

Researchers have demonstrated a method to extract hidden chain-of-thought reasoning traces from proprietary large language model APIs, potentially exposing sensitive internal decision-making processes…

Perplexity and OpenAI's SearchGPT are undermining the traditional click-through economy by delivering direct answers that reduce traffic to original publishers, according to an analysis of AI-driven s…

NVIDIA, Google, and Microsoft, through the Open Compute Project, have published specifications for an 800 VDC power architecture to address the power distribution bottleneck in AI data centers, with m…

A compatibility layer for Apple's Virtualization.framework released by Cua under a permissive license accelerates LLM inference in macOS virtual machines by 11.08× for prompt processing and 16.36× for…

Jeff Dean, Google's former chief scientist and 30th employee, left the company last week to cofound AI startup Discovery Loop, and he detailed his final two days at Google at the KDD Conference in Jej…

Google's forthcoming Googlebooks laptops, including the Acer Googlebook 14, may feature up to 16GB of RAM, 512GB SSD, and Intel's latest Panther Lake processors (Core Ultra 5 325 or Core Ultra 7 355),…