Google LLC is a multinational technology company and subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. In AI, Google developed the Transformer architecture, the Gemini series of LLMs, and DeepMind's AlphaFold protein structure predictor.
A new study warns that AI-generated 'blips' of knowledge create an illusion of understanding, tricking the brain into thinking it has mastered a topic and shutting down curiosity. This false confidenc…
Meta launched cheaper smart glasses under its own brand on June 23, reigniting privacy debates about camera-equipped eyewear. Critics focus on the glasses themselves, but the real privacy concern lies…
South Korean memory chipmaker SK Hynix plans to sell nearly 17.8 million shares in a U.S. IPO, potentially raising around $28 billion. The company is capitalizing on an AI-fueled memory chip shortage …
Nvidia's GPU debt backstop is enabling a multi-trillion-dollar AI credit market, with over $7 trillion in debt projected by 2029 to finance AI compute buildouts. The AI Project Trinity—capital, offtak…
Elon Musk's AI company xAI has officially rebranded to SpaceXAI following its acquisition by SpaceX in February, debuting a new logo and updated social media handle. The rebrand comes after SpaceX's r…
A former niche blogger describes how AI-generated content and SEO optimization ruined their creativity, but after Google's algorithm changes made niche blogging unviable, they are rediscovering the jo…
Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed the Artificial Intelligence Safety Measures Act into law, requiring large AI developers like OpenAI and Anthropic to disclose safety practices, report incidents, a…
Drug companies are codifying the reasoning of their top scientists into AI systems to preserve expertise lost when those scientists leave, but face challenges because drug discovery lacks the closed f…
Google Chrome has been silently downloading a 4GB AI model, Gemini Nano, to eligible desktop machines without user consent, sparking privacy concerns. The deployment, discovered by researcher Alexande…
Munich Regional Court I ruled on May 28, 2026, that Google's AI Overviews can be treated as Google's own statements, issuing a temporary injunction in case 26 O 869/26 over false claims about two Muni…
Google has updated its Spanner distributed database to support global-scale agentic AI workloads, enabling unified multi-modal data handling with strict consistency. The move positions Spanner as a fo…
A new study from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology found that AI agents consume up to 136.5 times more energy per query than standard generative AI models, with an average of 348.…
Google updated its privacy policy to allow using media uploaded to its search tools—including images, audio, and video—for AI training, automatically opting in all users. Users can opt out by adjustin…
Security firm Sysdig documented the first fully agentic ransomware attack, dubbed JadePuffer, in which an AI agent planned and executed an entire database-extortion operation with no human at the keyb…
Microsoft eliminated 4,800 roles, citing AI automation, joining a wave of tech layoffs that have cut 120,000 jobs in 2026. Oracle cut 21,000 employees, GitLab laid off 350 workers, and Google reduced …
Entropy, cross-entropy, and KL divergence are fundamental to training large language models, directly influencing learning, overfitting, and model behavior. The article explains these concepts from fi…
Allen Pike praised ChatGPT for Mac's native app design and live document attachment feature, contrasting it with Google's Gemini and Anthropic's Claude. He noted Anthropic's CPO Mike Krieger shifted t…
Over 150,000 people applied to Joi AI's paid study testing AI-guided masturbation, forcing the company to create a public selection process. The AI companion platform aims to explore the relationship …
Google updated its privacy settings to automatically opt users into AI training using their uploaded media, including images, audio, and video from Search, Maps, and other services. Users can opt out …
9to5Google launched a subscription service called 9to5Google Pro, offering ad-free podcasts, a Discord community, and expanded content for $5 per month or $50 annually. The move aims to adapt to chang…