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Verizon is leasing dark fiber routes to Google for over $1 billion under a new initiative called 'AI Connect,' converting its central offices into edge AI data centers, while laying off 13,000 workers…

Nvidia has poured over $40 billion into AI infrastructure commitments in 2026, including a $2 billion additional stake in GPU buyer CoreWeave, fueling debate over whether demand is organic or artifici…

Meta has switched on Meta AI inside Threads direct messages for all users globally as of July 27, 2026, completing its integration of the chatbot across all its platforms and putting it in direct comp…

Google is simplifying the Gemini app's thinking level picker by removing the explicit 'Standard' option and showing only 'Extended thinking' for a one-step process, with the change rolling out widely …

A user identified as Bitu79 on Google's AI Studio forum claims that the 'Delete' button in Google AI Studio does not remove chat data from Google's servers, only deleting the JSON file from Google Dri…

A user identified as bitu79 claims Google illegally retains customer data in Google AI Studio, alleging that pressing the delete button only moves a JSON file to Google Drive's trash rather than delet…

Google co-founder Sergey Brin revealed that Gemini, Google's own AI model, was on an internal list of coding tools that engineers were banned from using, and he had to enlist CEO Sundar Pichai to get …

PromptTrace, a free hands-on lab platform for learning LLM security through prompt injection, AI red teaming, RAG poisoning, and tool exploitation, has launched with 10 labs, 17 CTF levels, and 9 lear…

Google shipped four production-readiness upgrades to Gemini API Managed Agents on July 7, including background execution that allows agents to run asynchronously server-side without a persistent HTTP …

OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic are absent from the Open Secure AI Alliance, a new industry group led by Nvidia aimed at improving AI security. The alliance includes over 20 founding members such as AMD…

Anthropic advocates for safety testing of open-weight AI models rather than outright bans, diverging from OpenAI and Google which have backed restrictions on open-weight releases. The debate centers o…

Anthropic failed to prevent private Claude conversations from being indexed by Google and Bing for the second time in 10 months, exposing medical records, API keys, and other sensitive data due to mis…

Gmail's spam filter is failing to block AI-generated cold emails because the filter was designed to detect bad content, and AI emails now read like legitimate human correspondence, according to a tech…

Content Signals, a proposed extension to robots.txt backed by the IETF AI Preferences working group and the IAB Tech Lab, adds directives to declare whether AI crawlers may search, ingest, or train on…

A May 2026 Google whitepaper titled 'The New SDLC With Vibe Coding' argues that the software lifecycle retains its phases but shifts the bottleneck from writing code to specifying, verifying, and judg…

Microsoft introduced MAI-Cyber-1-Flash, a multi-agent tool for identifying and remediating vulnerabilities, claiming it offers powerful cyber capabilities at half the cost of leading models. The model…

Anthropic's shared conversation feature on Claude inadvertently allowed Google to index sensitive user data, including at least one cryptocurrency wallet key, over the weekend of July 26-27. Reddit us…

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said Monday he has never advocated for a ban on open-weight AI models, rejecting accusations that his lab seeks to shield its closed-model business from competition. In a bl…

Nvidia is in advanced talks to provide a $250 billion financing package for a $500 billion OpenAI data center project in Ohio, according to a Wall Street Journal report, days after CEO Jensen Huang vo…

Meta has quit the RE100 global renewable electricity initiative as it backs 10 new gas-fired power plants totaling about 7.5 GW to fuel its AI data centers in Louisiana, according to reports. The tech…