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Google released the first teaser for the Pixel 11 series, confirming the name and showing a gold Pixel 11 Pro with a new circular notification light called Pixel Glow. The teaser also highlights Gemin…

Google's Magic Pointer app teardown reveals the tool uses Gemini prompts to generate up to three suggestion chips based on user screen selections, with sensitivity settings for cursor wiggle gestures.…

Alex Turner, a research scientist who worked on AI safety at Google DeepMind, resigned in June over Google's agreement to let the Pentagon use its AI for classified operations, saying he could not sta…

Security firm Mindgard publicly disclosed a binary planting vulnerability in Cursor, affecting 7 million users, after seven months without a patch from the vendor. The same attack class was separately…

A 26-billion-parameter Gemma 4 mixture-of-experts model can run at reading speed on a dual-socket 2013 Ivy Bridge Xeon server with no GPU, achieving ~5.2 tokens per second decode on a Q8_0 quant, acco…

A hacker accessed Suno's source code via a supply chain attack, revealing that the AI music generator scraped audio from YouTube Music, Deezer, Genius, stock music libraries, and podcast RSS feeds for…

Google's AI Mode displayed text ads on 29.45% of commercial queries in a new SE Ranking study, with higher-cost keywords far more likely to trigger ads. Advertisers buying AI Mode ads rarely appeared …

A developer tested ChatGPT and Perplexity for research tasks over a week, finding Perplexity superior for fact-finding with live web sources and ChatGPT better for brainstorming and organizing notes. …

A new Common Sense Media report rates Google Search's AI Overviews and AI Mode as "Unacceptable Risk" for children, finding that the AI completed homework, generated inaccurate information, offered de…

Google Search's AI features pose an 'unacceptable risk' to children, according to a report from the Youth AI Safety Institute at Common Sense Media. The study found that on test accounts configured fo…

The UK government announced plans to impose a midnight-to-6-a.m. curfew on social media access for 16- and 17-year-olds and to switch off addictive features like auto-playing videos by default for tha…

Apple's M2 Ultra chip delivers only 31.6 TOPS in machine learning performance, compared to Nvidia's RTX 4090 at 1,321 TOPS, a gap the company is addressing with a $30 billion Broadcom partnership and …

LMSYS Org launched a new leaderboard ranking AI models by a composite of human preference and factuality, with a default 25% weight on factuality. The system labeled over 2 million claims from 170,000…

Australia's new national AI framework, unveiled by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on July 14-15, requires large-scale data centres to generate at least as much energy as they consume, triggering call…

Only 5% of AI prototypes make it to production, with 95% falling into the validation abyss, according to data from MLQ.ai. Google engineers at YouTube solved this by building a prototyping stack that …

Moki, an AI Slack bot, helps users evaluate ideas by scoring them against live Google search demand and six weighted factors, surfacing the binding constraint and the cheapest experiment to test the b…

Anthropic is projected to reach a $1.25 trillion valuation by the end of 2026, according to prediction market pricing, amid a broader AI sector boom that has seen OpenAI's valuation quintuple since la…

A developer running Google's Gemma 4 26B mixture-of-experts model on a 13-year-old HP StoreVirtual server with dual Xeon E5-2690 v2 CPUs and no GPU achieved approximately 5 tokens per second inference…

OpenAI faces a second legal battle in months, this time against Apple, which accuses the AI company of stealing intellectual property by asking former Apple employees and recruits to bring information…

Google's AI Mode increased citations to google.com by 8.4x between April 15 and June 30, making it the No. 2 cited domain in Profound's tracking, driven almost entirely by Google Business Profiles and…