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Google released ADK for Kotlin 1.0 on September 9, 2026, the first general availability version of its agent framework for Kotlin and Android, headlined by compile-time function calling via Kotlin Sym…

Google agreed to pay $10 million for the internal business data of bankrupt Spirit Airlines, including emails, Teams messages, spreadsheets, and operating records, which it plans to use for product de…

Google, Google DeepMind, and MIT FutureTech released new research drawing on Google's AI & Economy ATLAS showing that nearly half of surveyed scientists use some form of AI every day and report saving…

Cloudflare announced a new Disallow AI Training setting that lets website owners stay indexed for search while refusing to let mixed-use crawlers train on their content, with Apple, Google, and Micros…

GreyNoise reported that a threat actor used hundreds of AI agents built on OpenAI's Codex and DeepSeek models to develop and launch exploits against two known PaperCut NG/MF vulnerabilities, compromis…

OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are discussing creating an industry-wide AI safety body to set common standards for frontier AI systems, according to a report by The Information. The talks follow Anthro…

Google researchers found that removing safety guardrails that stop AI models from claiming consciousness also increased those models' reported belief in supernatural creatures including vampires, witc…

Birkly, an open AI-native content management platform, connects AI assistants to sites through three methods: a personal connector that inherits the logged-in user's role, a service agent with a fixed…

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are proposing a slowdown of frontier AI development citing safety concerns, drawing pushback from critics including Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez, who called the initiative a "c…

Local LLMs have improved sharply, with Simon P. Couch, senior software engineer at Posit, reporting that the April Qwen 3.5 and Gemma 4 releases each scored 90% on his agentic coding eval, up from 0% …

Microsoft agreed last week to adopt binding AI privacy and safety standards for its education products, negotiated with the American Federation of Teachers, under which Microsoft will not use student …

Bilal Chughtai, an AI safety and alignment researcher who recently resigned from Google DeepMind, wrote on X and LinkedIn on Monday, Sep 14, that "I earnestly believe that AI has the potential to kill…

Google confirmed that Gemini Live now supports Deep Research, letting users request and discuss in-depth research reports through voice conversations. The integration, announced as part of Google's Ba…

In a recent Agent Factory podcast episode, host and guests discussed "harness engineering" for coding agents, with engineer Ryan Lopopolo, who coined the term "agentic harness," explaining how to scul…

An interactive site, One Million Tokens, visualizes what a 1 million-token context window represents, converting it to roughly 750,000 words, 3,000 printed pages, 83 hours of conversation, or 75,000 l…

A website owner implemented x402 payments that charge AI agents one cent in testnet USDC per page, with five payments settling on 15 September, including one made through a Claude Code hook. The exper…

Google's Firebase launched spend caps in Public Preview on Sept. 14, 2026, pausing Firebase AI Logic, Cloud Functions for Firebase and Firebase App Hosting at 100% of a project's budget, according to …

Google Antigravity's /boost slash command turns a single coding request into a coordinated multi-agent workflow while the user stays on Gemini 3.8 Flash, which landed in Antigravity in early September…

Google's Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking models are now available on Vercel's AI Gateway, supporting real-time spoken interactions for voice assistants and audio-based applicatio…

OpenAI's Codex and Cursor are the two leading AI coding tools developers must choose between in 2026, according to a comparison guide that distinguishes Codex as an agent-first product for delegating …