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.
Anthropic restored its Fable 5 AI model with enhanced safeguards after a two-week federal export-control freeze triggered by a jailbreak that identified software vulnerabilities. The Commerce Departme…
Meta will reportedly launch a cloud computing business to sell excess AI computing capacity to third-party customers, diversifying revenue beyond advertising. The news sent Meta stock up over 7% as in…
A developer testing self-hosted AI agents for credential leaks found that while the final answer leaked a planted API key only 0.5% of the time, the model's hidden reasoning leaked the same key about …
Google Labs launched Dreambeans, an AI-generated media feed that pulls data from users' Google apps to create personalized stories, reminders, and inspiration. The app aims to make AI useful and fun b…
Cloudflare will block mixed-use AI crawlers from accessing ad-supported websites by default starting September 15, 2026, aiming to give publishers more control over AI data usage. The company also reb…
Apple confirmed a $1 billion/year deal to use Google Gemini as the foundation of Siri across 2 billion devices, replacing OpenAI's ChatGPT. The partnership ended due to OpenAI's latency issues, poor s…
Cloudflare announced new bot controls and a research program to help website owners manage AI crawlers and be compensated for content used by AI search engines, citing a 2025 Pew study showing AI summ…
Cloudflare announced it will block mixed-use web crawlers from accessing ad-supported customer websites by default starting September 15, 2026, to give publishers more control over AI content harvesti…
Cloudflare announced it will default to blocking mixed-use crawlers from accessing ad-supported customer websites, citing broken crawl-for-traffic bargains with AI companies. The move affects roughly …
TikTok is expanding its search features with Local Feed, AI summaries, and shopping tools, making it a key platform for business discovery. Nearly half of U.S. consumers used TikTok as a search engine…
Cloudflare announced new AI traffic controls for all customers, allowing website owners to manage bot access based on use cases: search, agent, and training. The company introduced a taxonomy to class…
Goldman Sachs analysts report that 19.5% of U.S. companies are integrating AI into their operations, but the impact on the job market remains limited. The analysis finds no significant correlation bet…
A developer at a fashion-discovery startup reduced image generation costs by 90x by switching from Google's Gemini API to running Alibaba's open-source Qwen-Image-Edit model on an RTX 4090 GPU, levera…
AI capabilities are accelerating at a better-than-exponential rate, with frontier models from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google now able to autonomously complete software projects that would take human te…
Opera Software released Opera browser CLI - compact, a new accessibility snapshot format for AI browser agents that reduces snapshot size by 36% and cuts input token usage by up to 80% on a 7-task ben…
Google released its first smart speaker in six years, the Google Home Speaker, powered by the Gemini assistant, but early impressions suggest the product feels unfinished and fails to deliver a smart …
Big Tech's first half saw hardware stocks surge while software stocks struggled, with Micron rising 308%, Intel 280%, and AMD 173%, as Meta fell 15% and Microsoft 23%. Wall Street remains bullish on A…
Google released its first new smart speaker in six years, the $99.99 Google Home Speaker, designed for its Gemini AI assistant. While the hardware is praised for its design and sound quality, the Gemi…
Google UK released its latest Economic Impact Report, highlighting AI's significant contributions to GDP and business efficiency while warning of a growing digital divide. The report calls for policie…
Apptronik opened a 90,000-square-foot 'Robot Park' in Austin to train its Apollo humanoid robots, backed by $1 billion from investors including Google and Mercedes. The robots are already working in M…