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Texas faces an unprecedented data center boom, with ERCOT receiving 519 requests to connect large electricity users in the last two years—compared to 24 the year before—totaling an estimated 438,595 m…

Google released LiteRT.js on July 9, 2026, a JavaScript binding of LiteRT that runs .tflite models in browsers via WebAssembly, XNNPACK on CPU, ML Drift over WebGPU, and experimental WebNN for NPUs. G…

Zoho has launched Classes 2.0, an AI-powered learning management system update targeting India's education gaps, embedding artificial intelligence across lesson planning, grading, and a subject-locked…

Germany's media regulator, the State Media Authority of North Rhine-Westphalia, ruled that Google's AI Overviews feature falls under German media law, requiring the company to comply with the Intersta…

Google is falling behind in the AI coding race due to internal bureaucracy and power struggles, according to a report. The search giant, which caught up with OpenAI and Anthropic last year with its Ge…

LG Energy Solution will supply batteries for Google's largest solar and energy storage project, the Steel River Energy Center in Arkansas, which will initially pair 1.6 GW of solar with about 2 GWh of…

Google's new AI-generated search summaries, which provide direct answers instead of links to explore, are undermining users' curiosity and depth of understanding, according to writer Alan Noble. The s…

Publisher ad supply fell by up to 40% in Q2 2026 as AI-driven zero-click search reduced traffic to news sites, according to benchmarking data from Ozone shared exclusively with Digiday. The data, trac…

Reddit's evp ads monetization Roelof van Zwol admitted at Cannes that the company is "intensely debating" whether selling its community data to train OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini undercuts the…

The US Commerce Department eased export controls for the United Arab Emirates around July 10-11, 2026, granting license-free access to advanced AI chips and military tech in a deal no other Middle Eas…

A new open-source tool called GWZ (Git Workspace Zone) aims to simplify multi-repo management by making multiple Git repositories behave like a single repository when desired, while keeping them as or…

PasteSheet, a new tool, lets users turn any public Google Sheet into a cached REST API and MCP server by pasting its URL, with no login, code, or Google Cloud project required. The free tier offers fi…

Google's Gemini AI chatbot collects prompts, files, recordings, and more to personalize responses, and now uses search uploads for AI training by default. Users can protect privacy by disabling search…

Companies including Anthropic are buying thousands of used books, scanning them to train AI models, and then destroying or recycling the physical copies, according to reports from Anadolu Agency and T…

OpenAI is developing its first consumer device, a smart speaker that will house an AI companion capable of controlling home appliances and communicating with its owners, according to Bloomberg. The de…

An analysis of 17 ad-campaign MCP servers found that 82% (14 of 17) support only a single ad platform, creating fragmented setups with multiple installs and credential stores. Only three servers cover…

Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, and author Scott Turow filed a class action lawsuit against Google in the Southern District of New York, alleging willful copyright infringement to tra…

Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, and Elsevier, joined by author Scott Turow, have filed a lawsuit in federal court in New York accusing Google of illegally using millions of copyrighted books to…

Google launched Cloud Run sandboxes into public preview at WeAreDevelopers World Congress, enabling Cloud Run services to execute untrusted AI-generated code inside isolated gVisor-based environments …

Google developed the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, released in 2025 and later transferred to the Linux Foundation as a vendor-neutral open standard, to solve coordination problems among autonomous AI ag…