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Google released an AI feature in Google Earth on Thursday that let users generate fake images, leading to viral fakes such as a nuclear plant in Iran and a plane crashing into One World Trade Center. …

Google's AI-driven vulnerability detection system, built on its Gemini model, identified a critical sandbox escape flaw in Chrome's Navigation component, designated CVE-2026-3545, which had been prese…

Google's Gemini Apps now support personal avatars that can be referenced in prompts for generating images and videos, enabling creators to reuse a consistent identity across outputs. The feature, whic…

Google pulled its Google Earth AI image generator within 24 hours of its July 30, 2026 launch after researchers demonstrated it could fabricate photorealistic images of bomb craters near the Kremlin, …

Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and a government-gated 3.5 Flash Cyber on July 21, followed by DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 on July 30, signaling a strategy to commoditize the…

Google removed its AI-powered satellite image generator from Google Earth after less than one day online, citing policy-level concerns over potential misuse for misinformation and legal risks. The too…

ByteDance released Seedance 2.5, an AI video model that generates video and audio together, producing clips up to 30 seconds long—three times longer than Google's Gemini Omni Flash. The model accepts …

Google's April 2026 Gemini Drop expands the Gemini app with native macOS support, NotebookLM integration, and new chat organization features, positioning Gemini as a cross-platform connective layer. T…

Google has rolled back its AI image generation feature in Google Earth after one day, citing policy violations and the need for stronger guardrails. The company stated that generated images were water…

DeepSeek released V4 Flash, a coding model that performs near Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 but costs about 28 cents per output unit versus $25 on Opus 4.8, a 99% discount, accelerating the commoditizat…

Google's Gemini grew from 5.4% to 18.2% of generative-AI web traffic in twelve months, reaching roughly 28% by mid-2026, while ChatGPT fell from 87.2% to 68%, according to Similarweb. In the same peri…

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman criticized Google's AI Overviews feature during the company's Q2 2026 earnings call on July 30, arguing that AI-generated search summaries have not delivered referral traffic …

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman criticized Google's AI Overviews during the company's Q2 2026 earnings call, stating that the feature has not yet delivered the positive impact of traditional search results a…

Google has expanded its Gemini family with the release of Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, alongside the new Gemini Robotics 2 family for embodied control. The Flas…

Google is rolling out a Search Console setting that lets website owners opt out of AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Discover's AI features without leaving Search, a choice that became available after the UK…

Google has pulled its new AI-powered Google Earth image generation feature just 24 hours after launch, following tests by researchers and media outlets that showed it could fabricate convincing fake s…

Google is piloting twice-weekly Chrome updates after AI-powered security tools found a 13-year-old sandbox bypass vulnerability in the Chrome codebase, which could have allowed attackers to read local…

A new roundup highlights five free AI courses with certificates, ordered from beginner to advanced, including offerings from Anthropic, Coursera, Hugging Face, and Google. The list aims to solve the f…

Reddit Inc.'s stock fell 23% as daily active uniques flatten in key markets, with the company blaming Google algorithm changes and the rise of large language model agents that answer queries directly …

Google launched a new feature in Google Earth on Thursday that lets users generate AI-powered visualizations layered over satellite imagery using its Nano Banana 2 image-generation technology, sparkin…