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Google is testing new query expansion methods in AI Mode beyond standard follow-up questions, including multi-selection tools, a query refinement option, and paginated responses, according to Search E…

Fast Company named Conway's Arcade by Special Guest X for Google the winner of the artificial intelligence category in its 2026 Innovation by Design Awards. Conway's Arcade is an AI-powered arcade cab…

Conway's Arcade, a Gemini 3.0-powered arcade cabinet built by creative agency SpecialGuestX with production studio 1stAveMachine for Google, won the 2026 Innovation by Design Award in artificial intel…

AgentRouter, a non-profit unified LLM API gateway, is offering developers $200 in free credits upon registration via a referral link, with no credit card required. The platform provides a single endpo…

A developer ran the same 47 buying questions through ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode on the same day and classified every citation across the resulting 141 answers, finding Perplexity averaged …

Google updated its search spam policies on 15 May 2026 to explicitly classify attempts to manipulate generative AI responses in Search as spam, extending the same deindexing and ranking penalties that…

Capgemini Research Institute data shows 58% of citizens have replaced search engines with generative AI tools when looking for services, shifting the digital front door to government away from agency …

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is calling for pacing AI development while promising rapid progress will continue, according to The Decoder. OpenAI now runs safety checks before major training runs, and The Inf…

A writer demonstrated that Google's Gemini free tier can generate abstract artwork from scratch through a chat window using iterative prompting, without a paid model. The writer, a Muslim programmer, …

Google DeepMind announced Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, with Gemini 3.6 Flash claiming up to a 65% reduction in token costs on long-horizon engineering tasks. Th…

Google's Envisioning Studio partnered with designers Jane Wade and Sergio Hudson to beta-test two fashion-specific AI tools through its Flow AI creative studio ahead of New York Fashion Week. Wade use…

Google has lost two antitrust rulings to the U.S. Department of Justice in the past 12 months, with judges finding it a monopolist in both search and ad tech but declining to order divestiture of Chro…

Google has quietly scaled a pay-per-value AI licensing pilot that pays publishers when their content significantly contributes to AI-generated responses across Gemini, AI Overviews and AI mode, accord…

An analysis of AI assistant infrastructure argues that differences in training and serving infrastructure between OpenAI's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini matter more to small busines…

A comparison of frontier coding models as of August 2026 finds GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.8 effectively tied on SWE-bench Verified at roughly 88.7%, while Claude Opus 4.8 leads on the harder SWE-bench …

Google introduced Cloud Run instances as a fourth execution model alongside Services, Jobs, and Worker Pools, according to a first-person account of early access to the feature. The author tested an A…

Over the past nine months, low Earth orbit has become a contested layer of the AI infrastructure war, with SpaceX filing for a million-satellite AI constellation, signing roughly $26 billion in annual…

A developer published a PowerShell script that automates access to Google's Gemini AI features on Windows by installing OpenVPN Connect V3, connecting to a US VPN Gate node with split-tunneling, and l…

San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu ordered Meta to stop serving ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material, but Meta responded that the ads fall "outside the city attorney's jurisdict…

Google's Antigravity platform offers a $0 free plan with a desktop agent app and access to Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.6 alongside Gemini models, while Anthropic's Claude Code has no free tier and of…