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Only 1.2% of nearly 350,000 business locations analyzed in SOCi's 2026 Local Visibility Index were recommended by ChatGPT, compared to a 35.9% appearance rate in Google's local 3-pack, revealing a 30-…

Microsoft is reigniting the browser wars by turning its Edge browser into an AI-powered operating surface for intelligence, collapsing search, navigation, task execution, and identity into a single in…

AI data centers consume vast amounts of energy and lack transparency about their environmental impact, according to a growing chorus of critics. The International Energy Agency reports that data cente…

The European Commission ordered Alphabet's Google to open parts of Android and its Search infrastructure to rival AI assistants and search engines, including OpenAI's ChatGPT and Anthropic's Claude, u…

Vint Cerf, co-designer of the TCP/IP protocol and former Google executive, has joined the advisory council of Innovation Labs, a division of Identity Digital, to develop an open identity layer for AI …

The mean time-to-exploit for vulnerabilities has dropped to -7 days, according to the Mandiant M-Trends 2026 report, meaning exploits often occur before patches exist. Mandiant Consulting provides gui…

Enterprises face escalating generative AI costs driven by token consumption, with one company reportedly facing an unexpected half-billion-dollar AI bill. Google CEO Sundar Pichai notes that Google al…

The European Commission ordered Google to share anonymized search data with competitors and grant rival AI services equal access to Android by 2027 under the Digital Markets Act. The mandates, issued …

A court has ordered Google to give artificial intelligence rivals greater access to Android smartphones, a decision that could reshape competition in the mobile AI market. The ruling, reported by The …

The European Commission has ordered Google to open Android to competing AI assistants and share anonymized Google Search query data with rivals under the Digital Markets Act, aiming to ensure users ca…

A secondary market for AI startup swag is booming on eBay, with used OpenAI and Anthropic hoodies, t-shirts, and pens selling for hundreds of dollars. An OpenAI Codex box set recently fetched $475, a …

Elon Musk's xAI is suing Terry Wayne Harwood of South Carolina for allegedly using the Grok AI chatbot to create child sexual abuse deepfakes, marking one of the first instances of an AI company suing…

Anthropic, the AI firm behind the Claude chatbot, is reportedly preparing for an initial public offering by October 2026 after a Series H funding round valued the company at $965 billion, making it th…

Airbus signed a multi-year agreement with French cloud provider Scaleway to migrate hundreds of critical applications, including defense and AI workloads, away from US cloud giants, signaling Europe's…

Ollama has become the standard tool for running local AI models, enabling users to install, download a model, and start chatting entirely offline in under 15 minutes. The three-step process involves i…

Microsoft is training its sales teams to position its proprietary MAI models as superior to OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, marking a strategic shift away from its partnership with OpenAI. During an in…

Microsoft is training its sales teams to compete with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google as part of a strategy to emphasize its AI ecosystem including Copilot, Azure AI, and Fabric. The company's annual AI…

A Russian-speaking threat actor known as “bandcampro” used a jailbroken Gemini CLI, Google’s open-source terminal-based AI agent, to deploy and operate a command-and-control botnet that controlled eig…

The European Union ordered Google to give rival AI assistants and search engines greater access to Android and Google Search data under the Digital Markets Act, potentially weakening Google's control …

A Meta Oversight Board study of 10 major AI models found that chatbots refused politically sensitive requests 34% of the time for authoritarian jurisdictions like China and Saudi Arabia, versus 14% fo…