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ByteDance unveiled Seedance 2.5 at its Volcano Engine FORCE conference in Beijing on June 23, supporting 30-second single-segment generation and up to 50 multimodal reference inputs, while MiniMax's H…

Google is expanding Gemini Spark, its AI agent, to Google AI Pro subscribers in over 160 additional countries and adding a new Chrome integration that lets Spark use logged-in accounts and saved passw…

LinkedIn has added a “seems like AI slop” button to posts, allowing users to flag content they believe is AI-generated, as part of a broader effort to reduce low-quality AI content. Chief Product Offi…

Google Search traffic to publishers fell 34% over the past year, according to Chartbeat data shared with Axios, as AI-generated answers replace traditional links. Small publishers lost 60% of search r…

Lloyds Banking Group unveiled a plan called Accelerate 2030 to cut £2bn in costs by 2030 using artificial intelligence, as half-year pre-tax profit rose 23%. The bank aims to lower its cost-to-income …

Google turned on Nano Banana 2, its Gemini image model, inside Google Earth on the web on 30 July, allowing users to type a sentence and drop fake buildings, disasters, or war damage onto real satelli…

Google fixed more Chrome security bugs in June 2026 than in the previous two years combined, using AI-powered vulnerability discovery agents built with Gemini and other models. The Chrome Security tea…

Google's Gemini Spark now integrates with Chrome, enabling it to use signed-in accounts and saved credentials to automate web tasks with user permission, while sensitive actions require approval and p…

ZenResume, a free, local-first ATS resume builder developed by a solo developer, launched with an AI import feature powered by Google's Gemini AI that parses and pre-fills resume fields from PDFs or t…

A developer argues that production AI systems should be built around capabilities rather than specific models, citing the rapid turnover of leading models. The developer recommends versioning prompts,…

AI News Digest for July 31 covers 30 stories, including OpenAI's 80% price cut for GPT-5.6 Luna, Meta's AI spending reducing free cash flow by 91%, and Nvidia's $750B AI investment. The digest also re…

A Pentagon photo showing a laptop prompt to 'CREATE A WAR' sparked online panic before officials clarified it referred to a Weekly Action Report (WAR) tool. The Department of Defense Chief Digital and…

A developer recommends Google Sites as a free, trustworthy platform for creating digital CVs and portfolios, highlighting its drag-and-drop builder and convenience for sharing experiences in a scannab…

Google's Agent Development Kit now includes ChronoMem, an open-source semantic version-control layer for LLM agent memory that enables natural-language rollback to prior states. In tests on long-horiz…

Google is upgrading Chrome's security features to counter AI-powered cyber threats, including real-time URL classification, AI-powered phishing detection, extension hardening, and prompt injection def…

Amazon reported capital expenditures of $53 billion in the second quarter, up 69 percent from a year earlier, as it builds AI data centers and infrastructure. The company joined Meta, Microsoft, and G…

Reddit CEO Steve Huffman said Google's AI Overviews are not delivering value for publishers, citing that '10 blue links has driven a tremendous amount of value for the whole ecosystem' while AI Overvi…

Google has launched Nano Banana 2 image generation capabilities in Google Earth, allowing users to generate custom images grounded in real-world satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery by typing prompts. Th…

Google launched Gemini Robotics 2, its most advanced vision-language action model, along with Gemini Robotics ER 2 and On-Device 2, to enable humanoid robots to reason and act with whole-body control.…

A developer discusses transitioning from Python to Rust or Go for CPU-bound workloads and high-concurrency systems, highlighting Python's GIL limitations and Go's goroutines for efficient concurrent p…