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Kids are replacing the phrase 'Google it' with 'search it up' as AI chatbots and voice assistants reshape how they find information, according to linguists and researchers. A team led by Stanford's Ca…

A developer has built a stateful image generation workflow using Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image model (NB2Lite) wrapped in an MCP server, enabling iterative edits without losing visual context. …

Meta has withdrawn from RE100, the global corporate clean energy initiative it joined a decade ago, after the Climate Group confirmed the company can no longer meet the program's technical criteria du…

Aniruddha Adak, a full stack developer from Kolkata, fixed a critical bug in the NousResearch/hermes-agent open agent framework where a null response from the ACP protocol's request_permission functio…

OpenAI president Greg Brockman said the AI industry will remain in a compute shortage no matter what, forcing hard decisions on which models to train and products to scale. Brockman spoke during a rou…

Google and Meta both launched facial recognition features this week, with Google introducing selfie video sign-in for account recovery and Meta launching Facebook Verified to confirm users are human, …

More than half of UK firms (54%) are now actively using AI in their operations, up from 23% three years ago, according to the British Chambers of Commerce. Two-thirds of UK businesses have invested in…

Google announced on July 30 its intent to join the European Union's General Purpose AI Code of Practice, a voluntary framework under the AI Act, alongside OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon, Anthropic, Mistral…

Google is expanding access to its Gemini Spark 24/7 personal agent, previously exclusive to the $99.99/month AI Ultra plan, to all US subscribers of the $19.99/month AI Pro tier. The feature, which al…

Google launched Gemini 3.6 Flash, Flash-Lite, and restricted Flash Cyber models, and moved Spark to the $19.99 AI Pro tier, signaling a push on price, reach, and security AI, according to Forbes contr…

Blacksmith, a company running continuous integration on its own fleet of machines, faces a storage problem under the hood as it creates and destroys about 2.5 million per-job volumes daily, with peaks…

Google may soon allow users to generate images with Gemini's Nano Banana without a visible watermark, according to a code teardown of version 17.43.11 of the Google app. The feature, hinted at by stri…

A developer argues that legacy code will not disappear despite AI coding tools, citing a 74% drop in legacy refactoring since 2023 per GitClear research and a DORA report finding that every 25% increa…

Anthropic has unlocked its Claude voice mode for its Opus and Sonnet models, moving beyond the lightweight Haiku model, allowing users to conduct complex conversations and execute tasks in connected a…

Anthropic has extended Claude's Voice Mode to its most advanced models, Opus and Sonnet, and added integrations with apps like Gmail and Slack, allowing users to perform multi-step tasks through voice…

President Donald Trump on July 23 expanded the Ratepayer Protection Pledge, a voluntary scheme asking AI data centre builders such as Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI to fund t…

Freezing SEO investment amid AI search uncertainty risks losing visibility, authority, and momentum that become increasingly expensive to recover, warns a Search Engine Land analysis. The article advi…

Google released Magenta RealTime 2 (MRT2), an open live music model and real-time neural synthesis engine, and in the month since, community projects have flourished, with 20 projects completing at th…

Verizon has reportedly signed a $1 billion agreement with Google to build a data center, marking a strategic reversal for the telecom giant that sold its data center portfolio to Equinix for $3.6 bill…

Alphabet reported a quarterly profit of $112 billion, four times higher than the same period last year, but $99 billion of that came from investments in other AI-focused companies like SpaceX and Anth…