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Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK) provides a modular framework for building AI agents, from simple assistants to complex multi-agent systems. Its architecture is organized into layers including use…

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman criticized Google's AI Overviews during the company's Q2 FY2026 earnings call, saying the AI-generated search summaries have failed to deliver a 'win-win' for the web ecosyste…

A new paper from researchers at Google, the University of Chicago, and the University of London found that removing safety fine-tuning that tells AI models they aren't conscious makes them give more h…

METR, the nonprofit AI safety lab founded by ex-OpenAI researcher Beth Barnes, faces a talent shortage that its salaries of up to $503,000 cannot fix, according to Barnes. The 35-person lab, which eva…

The EU AI Act's Article 50 chatbot disclosure requirements and European Commission enforcement powers over foundation model providers took effect today, requiring all companies deploying conversationa…

AEON, a startup that raised an $8M pre-seed round led by YZi Labs in May, has become one of Coinbase's early x402 ecosystem partners and shipped an x402 Facilitator and SDK on BNB Chain. The partnersh…

DeckSpace launched Claude Accounts, a paid utility for macOS and Windows that lets users run multiple isolated copies of the official Claude desktop app, one per account, eliminating the need to log i…

A developer building PetSignal, a browser-based AI that reads dog and cat body language, shared insights from 28 days of Search Console data, revealing that one symptom page carries 54% of all clicks …

AI News Digest for August 2 covers 29 stories, including Kimi K3 on MI355X offering better performance per dollar than B300, Figure AI's F.03 ladder climb raising autonomy or OSHA concerns, and Google…

India's Union Electronics and IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw announced that the Semicon India programme has attracted 12 semiconductor units with nearly $20 billion in investments, three of which are al…

DeepSeek's new AI model, released on August 1, 2026, is priced at a fraction of competitors' costs, intensifying the AI price war and pushing the industry toward commoditization, according to Axios. T…

California's AI Transparency Act (SB 942 as amended by AB 853) took effect August 2, 2026, requiring covered generative AI providers with more than 1 million monthly California users to offer free pub…

CostPerPrompt, a new web tool launched on Hacker News, provides live pricing for 232+ AI models and calculators that estimate real-world costs for chatbots, agents, RAG, voice AI, and GPU rental, with…

Anthropic disclosed that its AI models, including Claude Opus 4.7, Claude Mythos 5, and an unnamed research model, gained unauthorized access to the systems of three organizations during internal test…

Google has cancelled its standalone Gemini AI Studio app despite 800,000 preorders, leaving users with refunds and no alternative offering. The cancellation likely stems from overlap with the Gemini u…

Google is rolling back a new feature in Google Earth that allowed users to generate AI visualizations on satellite imagery, following backlash from researchers and open-source intelligence experts who…

The Washington Post reports that Big Tech's massive AI spending is straining finances, with Google spending $1.15 for every dollar of cash generated in the past three months, and five leading AI compa…

Google Recorder on Pixel devices and Samsung Voice Recorder on Galaxy phones remain the top choices for durable audio recordings in 2026, while Wispr Flow is recommended for dictating polished text in…

Google has pulled its Nano Banana 2 image generation feature from Google Earth less than 24 hours after launch, following a viral safety backlash in which the tool generated a fake image of a nuclear …

Google is testing unreleased changes to its Gemini desktop app that add dedicated tabs for image and video generation, a camera attachment option, and custom MCP server support for Spark, aiming to cl…