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Google launched Cloud Run sandboxes into public preview at WeAreDevelopers World Congress, providing lightweight isolated execution environments for AI agents to run untrusted code at no extra cost. T…

Google is offering a $300 discount on the Pixel 10 Pro smartphone, reducing the price of the 128GB model. The deal is available through Amazon, but stock is limited. The Pixel 10 Pro features a Tensor…

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices are increasingly critical for running AI systems reliably, securely, and at scale, as AI-generated black boxes require the same operational rigor as tradit…

AI companies Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, which have long scraped web content under fair use, now complain that rivals are using their AI outputs via distillation, a practice they themselves employe…

The AI build-out has triggered the largest-ever construction boom in natural gas-fired power plants, with aging coal plants also kept alive to meet surging electricity demand from data centers. Severa…

Social media platforms including X, Reddit, and Stack Overflow are charging developers high API fees to access user-generated content, while simultaneously using that same content to train AI models w…

Meta's stock surged 15% this week, its best since early 2024, after the company unveiled Meta Compute, a plan to sell AI computing capacity to external customers. The move aims to monetize Meta's mass…

Google has unveiled Litert.js, a high-performance web library for AI inference in browsers, enabling developers to run complex models client-side without heavy server dependencies. The tool aims to en…

Kira has unveiled its new evidence architecture, claiming it can process up to 50% more data per second than previous iterations, with potential implications for real-time analytics and autonomous sys…

Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google are complaining that rivals are using their AI models' outputs through a process called distillation to build cheaper competitors, mirroring the same web-scraping practic…

Freelance journalist Ben Touati was fired by ClickOut Media, but the company continued publishing AI-generated articles under his byline, violating his standards. Touati used EU data protection law to…

A developer improved AI image generation debugging by treating prompts like test cases, separating visual references from text descriptions and changing one field at a time. The workflow, inspired by …

Tech layoffs hit a five-year high in 2026, with 123,653 job cuts announced through May, a 66% year-over-year increase, as companies cite AI-driven efficiencies. Crypto firms including Dune and Crypto.…

Google has added labels to help users identify AI-generated or AI-edited ads, but the accuracy of labels for ads created outside Google's services depends on advertisers' self-disclosure. The feature,…

Tech billionaires have built AI by exploiting humanity's collective creative output, and the public deserves ownership and control over AI, not just compensation. Bernie Sanders' proposal for a 50% ta…

Google has rolled out a new default setting called Search Services History that saves user-uploaded media, including images, audio recordings, and files, to train its generative AI models. The setting…

Google is rolling out a new privacy setting called Search Services History that can save users' images, voice recordings, and other media from Search interactions, which may be used to train and impro…

A new study published in PNAS found that AI language models are far more susceptible to subtle nudges in choice architecture than humans, overreacting to default options and highlighted choices. Resea…

Chrome's developer site now includes security guidance for WebMCP, warning that tools websites expose to AI agents can be hijacked via malicious manifests or contaminated outputs from user-generated c…

Cursor is the most practical choice for beginners in agentic coding due to its predictable monthly subscription costs and flexibility to switch between leading models, protecting indie developers from…