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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…

The European Union on Thursday issued two new rules forcing Google to share search data and open its Android operating system to rival AI companies, aiming to boost competition and user choice. Henna …

Google is unifying its AI efforts under the Gemini brand, positioning the model family as a single, integrated system that can power everything from consumer products to enterprise tools. The company …

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company posted June 2026 revenue of NT$442.68 billion ($14 billion), a 68% year-over-year jump, and first-half revenue of NT$2.4 trillion ($75 billion), up 35.6%, dr…

Meta's Oversight Board released a study Thursday finding that leading AI models from labs including Anthropic, OpenAI, Meta, Google, and China's DeepSeek are significantly less likely to criticize gov…

Aikido Security benchmarked 13 AI models on rediscovering 26 known CVEs from the GitHub advisory database, finding that GPT-5.6 achieved the highest recall at 88.5% (23/26 CVEs), ahead of grok-4.5 (20…

ByteDance launched Seedream 5.0 Pro on July 8, a reasoning image API that builds an internal plan before generating, with a headline feature of layer separation that returns 2 to 20 transparent-PNG fi…

Chinese AI firms DeepSeek, Alibaba's Qwen, Moonshot AI's Kimi, and Zhipu AI's GLM have released open-weight models under permissive licenses, challenging Anthropic's market dominance after U.S. restri…

Google is using a Search Console update that tracks social media and video performance to mask the click loss caused by AI-generated search summaries, according to a Search Engine Journal analysis. Th…

A leaked technical listing and user manual for the unannounced Lenovo AI Mouse M830 reveal prominent Googlebook branding, indicating Google's upcoming Android-powered laptop platform will launch with …

Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, and author Scott Turow are suing Google in a New York federal court, accusing the tech giant of using millions of copyrighted books without permission …

The Oversight Board, the independent content moderation body funded by Meta, published a report finding that leading AI models from OpenAI, Meta, Google, Anthropic, and xAI may restrict free expressio…

The Oversight Board tested 10 commercial large language models from Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google, Meta, OpenAI and xAI and found they were more than twice as likely to refuse requests to create politic…

Google's AI Overviews reached more than 2.5 billion monthly users by mid-2026, according to a June 2026 investor presentation, as the company transforms search from a list of links into an AI-driven i…

A developer built LightBar For Keyboard, a free Windows application using C# and WPF that creates a reflective light bar at the bottom of the screen to illuminate keys without extra hardware. The tool…

Google shipped a stealth update to its open AI model Gemma 4 that fixes tool calling bugs and truncated responses, while speeding up performance on Nvidia Hopper GPUs by 25 to 70 percent with Flash At…

Google is deepening its partnership with Parallel Web Systems, the AI search startup founded by former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, by offering Parallel's web search tools to Google Cloud customers buil…

Apple is two years behind schedule on AI, and its recent Siri AI rollout felt like a starting point rather than a finish line, according to a former Apple employee who worked with Steve Jobs. New CEO …