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Pelica Health, a Y Combinator-backed startup building an operating system for value-based care, is hiring machine learning engineers to develop and deploy AI systems for healthcare data analysis. Foun…

A developer has created three free, ad-free Wikipedia-based search tools as alternatives to Google's AI-powered search results. The tools include MiniGladys for quick reference and official link searc…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai acknowledged viral memes mocking the company's redesigned app icons, responding with thinking emojis to user-submitted designs that reimagined Google Docs as Doc Martens and G…

The fully AI-generated feature film "Dreams of Violets" will premiere June 10 at the 2026 Tribeca Film Festival, dramatizing the January protests in Iran that resulted in at least 7,000 deaths and 50,…

Synopsys reported Q2 fiscal 2026 earnings that beat Wall Street expectations, posting revenue of $2.409 billion — a 65% year-over-year increase — and non-GAAP earnings per share of $3.77. The electron…

A developer has published an engineering-first SEO manual designed to take readers from beginner to all-rounded SEO engineer, covering ranking strategies for Google Search, AI Overviews, and LLM-power…

Meta is launching global subscription plans for Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp over the next few weeks, with Instagram Plus and Facebook Plus priced at $3.99 per month and WhatsApp Plus at $2.99 pe…

DuckDuckGo reported a surge in US app installs, averaging 20.8% weekly growth in the seven days after Google announced its largest Search overhaul at its I/O conference on May 19. The privacy-focused …

CNN host and Washington Post columnist Fareed Zakaria told Bard College graduates that humans still hold a competitive advantage over artificial intelligence, urging them to focus on what makes human …

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis shortened his timeline for achieving artificial general intelligence, now predicting AGI will arrive by 2029 or 2030. The Nobel Prize-winner previously estimated AGI…

On 13 May 2026, Meta launched Incognito Chat with Meta AI for WhatsApp, processing conversations inside a hardware-backed Trusted Execution Environment to prevent Meta from reading chat contents. The …

Google is scrambling to fix widespread bugs and user complaints after replacing the Fitbit app with its new AI-heavy Google Health app, which has been plagued by inaccurate data, mislabeled workouts, …

Google's AI-generated answers now dominate search results, leaving brands with little visibility into how the technology describes them to customers. On TechCrunch's Equity podcast, Scrunch VP of part…

Microsoft released MAI-Image-2.5, an update to its image generation model that now ranks third on Arena's text-to-image leaderboard, tying with Google's Nano Banana 2. The model delivers significant i…

At Google I/O 2026, Google announced the integration of AI agents across its product lineup, releasing Gemini 3.5 Flash and previewing Gemini 3.5 Pro and Gemini Omni. The company also introduced Gemin…

Anthropic's Boris Cherny, creator of the AI coding tool Claude Code, said the role of "software engineer" could begin to disappear by the end of this year as automation eliminates traditional coding j…

DuckDuckGo has experienced a surge in users and app installs following Google's AI-focused announcements at its 2026 I/O conference, with week-over-week installs jumping 30% in the US. The privacy-foc…

Researchers have developed FuzzingBrain V2, a multi-agent large language model system that automatically discovers and reproduces software vulnerabilities. The system achieved a 90% detection rate on …

YouTube will begin automatically labeling AI-generated videos with more prominent markers, moving beyond its previous system that relied entirely on uploaders to disclose AI use. The platform will use…

Pope Leo XIV, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang have each recently offered measured perspectives on artificial intelligence, pushing back against both utopian and doomsday narratives.…