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A June preprint by Wenbin Wu and co-authors found that leading language models ranked Bitcoin around fifth among eight forms of money in ordinary contexts but moved it toward the top when prompts intr…

Programmatic SEO has evolved for 2026, requiring brands to build Role x Market page matrices enriched with proprietary data to succeed in AI search and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO). The strategy i…

DuckDuckGo No-AI is the best free alternative to Google, scoring 55 out of 60 in a 12-query desktop test, compared to Google's 58, according to Search Engine Watch's testing. Other recommended alterna…

Andrew Feldman, cofounder and CEO of AI chip company Cerebras, which is valued at $49.5 billion, said on the 20VC podcast that it is 'mind-boggling' to think people can achieve greatness by working 38…

Moody's warned that banks and insurers have become dependent on a small cluster of tech giants—OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon—for AI foundation models and cloud systems, creating a vendor depen…

Google's rebranding of NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook has introduced features like Collections, but a regular user lists five desired improvements, including multi-notebook merging, source downloads, a…

Google will discontinue Earth Pro on desktop by 2027, part of a broader shift toward web-based and AI-integrated tools, according to a user commentary on the news. The move has drawn criticism from po…

Google is joining the Agent Plugins project as a Core Maintainer, represented by Kevin Hou, and will integrate the open, vendor-neutral specification into its products. The Agent Plugins 1.0.0 specifi…

Google's replacement of the Fitbit app with Google Health, launched alongside the $99 Fitbit Air, has improved after two months of updates, with AI-generated summaries and customizable home screens wi…

Google is dismantling its DeepMind AI lab, with founder Demis Hassabis expected to leave in the coming months and researcher Koray Kavukcuoglu taking over day-to-day operations without the CEO title. …

Google has open-sourced TPU Raiden, an inference optimization library for KV-cache transfer in large language model serving, under the Apache-2.0 license on GitHub, positioning it as a direct counterp…

AI-generated proof of concepts (PoCs) make it easier, faster, and cheaper to turn ideas into demos, but they also introduce negative effects such as lack of followthrough, decision overwhelm, sunk cos…

OpenAI on August 6 shipped a factual accuracy retune of GPT-5.6 Sol for ChatGPT Plus and Pro users, claiming 68% fewer factual errors than GPT-5.5 Instant in internal evaluations, while free users get…

Public Knowledge, a nonprofit advocacy group, argued in a friend-of-the-court brief filed Tuesday in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that Google should be required to divest the Chrome browser and b…

A new guide from AI consulting firm [company name not provided] outlines how businesses can build custom AI agents powered by large language models (LLMs) such as Claude, GPT-4, and Gemini to improve …

A Heimwall security team analysis of 27,075 real developer AI prompts from the Microsoft Research MSR 2024 Mining Challenge dataset found two valid OpenAI API keys, one Google API key, and 49 personal…

Google is rolling out an update to Gemini Notebooks that adds an 'Add a source to Gemini Notebook' step, automating the process of adding text, Drive file links, and YouTube or web URLs as sources. Th…

Google began a gradual rollout on August 6, 2026, of an "Add a source to Gemini Notebook" step in Workspace Studio, enabling users to automate adding text, Drive file links, and YouTube or web URLs to…

In a recent episode of Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, Emad Mostaque and the panel discussed OpenAI's unreleased Astra model, which solved 10 decade-old math problems for $2,000 in compute, and Google…

The Government of Anguilla announced on January 20, 2026, that .ai domain registrations have surpassed one million worldwide, generating an estimated $70 million in annual revenue for the island natio…