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Google and industry partners including Microsoft, GitHub, Hugging Face, Cisco, Databricks, GoDaddy, NVIDIA, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Snowflake announced the Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) Specifi…

The Linux Foundation announced the operational launch of the x402 Foundation to standardize Internet-native payments for AI agents and applications, with Coinbase contributing the x402 protocol. Backe…

Meta is pushing advertisers to use its AI ad tools, but a Business Insider investigation found the tools generating gibberish copy, mangled limbs, and inaccurate product images. Eight advertisers and …

A developer analyzed six client sites over six months to measure the impact of Google's helpful content update on AI-generated articles. The data showed that AI content is not universally penalized; p…

New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed an executive order on July 14 making New York the first US state to pause new permits for data centers drawing more than 50 megawatts of power for up to a year, g…

New York Governor Kathy Hochul is set to sign an executive order Tuesday imposing a one-year moratorium on construction permits for hyperscale data centers that use at least 50 megawatts of power, mak…

Hidden gem publishers have 1.7x higher audience affinity than major media outlets despite attracting 130x less traffic, according to a Fractl study backed by SparkToro. The research suggests digital P…

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind, published an essay Tuesday warning that artificial general intelligence is years away and proposing a US-led self-regulatory body modeled on FINRA, which critic…

Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is considering a new funding round at a $71 billion valuation, just six weeks after closing a $7 billion round at a $52 billion valuation, according to the Financial Times.…

The Court of Justice of the European Union has been asked to rule on whether Google's Gemini chatbot violated EU copyright law by reproducing and communicating to the public substantial parts of a Hun…

Reflect, an open-source note-taking app built around a folder of Markdown files, has been released for Mac, iOS, and Chrome. The app offers daily notes, wiki links, local search, and optional AI query…

Google's Gemini Report: Southeast Asia 2026 reveals that Gemini adoption in Southeast Asia is the fastest among Google apps, with 40% of its 900 million global monthly active users under 25. Nearly 70…

Open-source coding agents can now run entirely on local consumer hardware such as a 2020-era NVIDIA RTX 3090, eliminating usage-based pricing from AI vendors. The setup uses a quantized Gemma4 model s…

AI-generated answers can resurrect outdated negative articles, making them more influential and longer-lasting than traditional search results, according to SEO experts. A single decade-old customer-s…

Programmatic AI content initiatives are stalling or triggering Google penalties because they violate the search engine's crawl budget and indexing thresholds, according to an analysis by Search Engine…

A coalition of book publishers and authors, including Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, and novelist Scott Turow, filed a class action lawsuit against Google in the U.S. District Court …

Waze is rolling out an update to its iPhone and Android app with three new AI-powered features, including personalized routing based on journey history, Gemini-powered conversational search for destin…

Google is expanding Gemini in Chrome to desktop users in the UK and will roll it out to iOS users next month, the company announced in a blog post. The feature gives users a dedicated 'Ask Gemini' but…

AI traffic to websites grew by 66% in 2025, yet AI accounts for less than 0.15% of all visits, according to ZDNET. Even if AI citations don't translate to direct traffic, the added exposure is a survi…

Android Studio Quail 2 is now stable, introducing concurrent agentic workflows, native LeakCanary integration for up to five times faster memory leak tracing, and context-aware crash remediation via A…