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Google launched selfie video sign-in on 23 July 2026, allowing users to recover their Google Account by recording a short video of their face instead of using a password or code. The enrolled selfie i…

Google's Gemini Spark AI agent is now available to U.S. users on the $20/month Google AI Pro tier and globally on the $100/month Google AI Ultra tier, but remains unavailable in the EEA, UK, Switzerla…

Reddit may end its $60 million-a-year content licensing deal with Google due to concerns that Google's AI Overviews could reduce traffic to Reddit, according to a report. The deal, signed in early 202…

A digest of 26 AI stories from July 24 highlights Tesla's profit dip due to AI investments, OpenAI's 'Model Escape' myth, and the hidden costs of GPU overhead beyond data centers. Other stories cover …

Google is expanding access to its Gemini Spark agentic AI assistant to Google AI Pro subscribers in the US and Google AI Ultra subscribers globally, excluding the European Economic Area, Switzerland, …

An engineer building production AI systems with OpenRouter shares lessons on handling provider failures, observability, and streaming resilience. The developer emphasizes that users blame the applicat…

Google is expanding access to Gemini Spark, its AI-powered task delegation feature, starting today. Google AI Pro subscribers in the US can now use Spark, while AI Ultra subscribers globally are gaini…

Elon Musk said his effort to slow AI concentration by co-founding OpenAI backfired, accelerating AI development instead. Speaking to The Economist's editor in chief, the xAI founder said OpenAI and it…

Google's internal culture has become a bureaucratic nightmare that stifles innovation, according to a developer commentary. The author argues that low morale and excessive red tape cause top-tier engi…

Google's AI-powered search overhaul, including AI Mode and Gemini chatbot responses, is reducing traffic to external websites, with one study finding users never left AI Mode in 75% of sessions. The V…

Reddit Inc. faced skepticism from a Manhattan-based US judge on Thursday over its authority to sue for copyright infringement on behalf of its users, during oral arguments on whether to dismiss its la…

Deloitte projects generative AI fraud losses will hit $40 billion in the United States by 2027, up from $12.3 billion in 2023, and a joint policy paper from the American Bankers Association, the Bette…

A new measurement study of cache keepalive economics across Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, and DeepSeek shows that the common practice of pinging every 30 seconds costs 8 times more than necessary, with t…

A developer integrated Claude Code with the Veo MCP server to generate HD AI videos directly from the terminal, using Google's Veo model. The setup allows developers to create short videos for demos o…

Intel Foundry could capture AI chip packaging demand as TSMC's CoWoS capacity constraints persist, according to I/O Fund lead tech analyst Beth Kindig. TSMC held 73% of pure foundry market share in Q1…

Anthropic launched a voice mode for Claude with five distinct personalities—Airy, Glassy, Rounded, Mellow, and Buttery—raising concerns that always-on AI voice assistants could accumulate intimate use…

Alphabet reported $119.8 billion in Q2 revenue, up 24 percent from a year ago, but free cash flow went negative $5.9 billion — the first red quarter since the company went public in 2004 — driven by a…

Monk, a New York software maker, has added outbound phone calls and inbound callbacks to Julia, its AI accounts receivable agent, extending the product beyond email into a channel where mistakes carry…

A developer's comparison of GitHub Copilot, OpenAI Codex, and Claude Code as of July 2026 finds all three have shifted to token-based pricing and metered usage. GitHub Copilot offers a free tier and $…

Mean time to recovery (MTTR) is the wrong metric for AI-era engineering teams because AI tools produce 41% more bugs and 98% more pull requests, making MTTR unable to keep up, according to CTO Evan Ma…