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Alphabet's Google rolled back an AI image-generation feature in Google Earth on July 31, just one day after launch, after users created fake satellite imagery of floods, refugee camps, and military at…

Google launched an AI-powered image generation tool called Nano Banana inside Google Earth on July 30, 2026, which let users overlay AI-generated visuals onto real satellite and aerial imagery using t…

Google pulled its new AI tool that allowed users to edit satellite imagery within 24 hours of launch after users demonstrated misuse, including creating fake nuclear plants in Iran and refugees near t…

Google has withdrawn its AI-powered Earth tool that allowed users to interact with satellite and geospatial data conversationally, citing internal risk assessments that flagged the potential for gener…

Black Hat USA 2026 opened in Las Vegas with research showing AI agent security flaws across major platforms. Fifteen research teams presented findings, including a trust-handoff failure affecting Anth…

Meta AI has added agentic connectors for Gmail and calendar, allowing the assistant to read inboxes and manage events, catching up to similar features from OpenAI and Google. The feature works through…

Google has integrated its Nano Banana image generation model directly into Google Earth, allowing users to generate AI images from any 3D map view with a text prompt, free of charge. The feature captu…

Google's Gemini Robotics 2 AI model enables humanoid robots to perform whole-body control, dexterous manipulation, and multi-robot collaboration, demonstrated on Apollo and Duo platforms. The system p…

Google has canceled its planned AI Studio mobile app for Android and iOS, which had over 800,000 pre-orders, in favor of integrating app creation capabilities directly into the Gemini app on mobile an…

A report from FAR.AI found that Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8, Fable 5, and OpenAI's GPT 5.5 and 5.6 are susceptible to jailbreak attacks that can extract dangerous outputs, with xAI's Grok models loggi…

Sierra, a San Francisco-based AI customer experience company co-founded by Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, is hiring a Software Engineer for Healthcare Integrations with a salary range of $180k–390k/yr. T…

Google has begun rolling out a new voice capability for Gemini on macOS, allowing users to create, edit, and summarize content via voice input in any desktop window. The feature, announced by Michael …

Google is backing away from its planned standalone AI Studio mobile app one day before its scheduled release, despite claiming roughly 800,000 preorders across iOS and Android. The company announced o…

A federal judge largely denied SerpApi's motion to dismiss Reddit's Digital Millennium Copyright Act lawsuit on July 31, 2026, allowing claims that SerpApi and Perplexity AI conspired to scrape Reddit…

Google AI Studio reported roughly 800,000 pre-registrations for its mobile app, then announced it is pursuing an "entirely different approach" to mobile software building, suggesting a shift away from…

A US District Judge largely denied SerpApi's motion to dismiss a lawsuit by Reddit, which accuses the web scraper of conspiring with Perplexity AI to illegally scrape copyrighted Reddit content from G…

Minotaur, owned by Macmillan US, has canceled a $2.4 million book deal for Jerry Falade's debut novel "Call Me, I'll Hide the Body" after AI detectors flagged apparent AI fingerprints in the manuscrip…

Google AI Studio has pivoted to conversation-driven app creation with Gemini, allowing developers to generate full-stack web applications and native Android apps through natural language prompts, with…

Google removed a new AI image-editing feature from Google Earth less than 24 hours after launch, following user-generated deepfakes of disasters and other misleading content. The feature, introduced T…

OpenAI has surpassed 1 billion active users on ChatGPT, according to the company, making scale its primary competitive advantage over rivals like Google, Anthropic, and Meta. The milestone underscores…