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Samsung Electro-Mechanics secured a 454 billion won contract to supply multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) to a global tech firm, driven by surging demand from AI servers that require up to 25,000 M…

Google's Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) is now available on Vercel's AI Gateway, offering fast, low-cost image generation at $0.034 per 1K images. The model generates images alongsid…

World66.ai relaunches as an open-source, AI-assisted travel guide eight years after the original site shut down. The project aims to use AI to maintain a free, ad-free commons of travel information, i…

Google declared Genkit's Go SDK production-ready on June 18, 2026, with backward API compatibility guaranteed across all future 1.x releases, and shipped stable plugins for Anthropic Claude, Vertex AI…

Google's AI Overviews still cannot correctly answer the question "How many days of the week have a fish in them?", returning a single wrong answer a month after the bug was reported. The issue highlig…

The House passed the KIDS Act, requiring online platforms to limit minors' access to sexual material, provide parental controls, and mandate age verification, but the Senate seeks stricter measures im…

OpenClaw has released a native iOS app that pairs with a local OpenClaw Gateway to enable chat, real-time and background voice mode, action approvals, and access to device capabilities like camera and…

Google has made its personalized AI image generation feature, powered by Nano Banana technology, free for all eligible US users aged 13 and older, removing the previous requirement for a paid Gemini s…

A developer explains that writing content for AI search engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity requires a shift from traditional SEO to earning direct citations. The key properties for citable content ar…

COOCON, a South Korean business data platform, announced it will convert existing financial, public, logistics and telecom APIs into MCP-formatted servers and launch a Dedicated AI-Ready Data Zone in …

Google Cloud's Spanner database has been recognized as the top operational cloud DBMS for lightweight transactions by Gartner, achieving a 4.9/5.0 score for transactional consistency and 4.6/5.0 for A…

Meta contractors posed as children to test rival AI chatbots, including Google's Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT, revealing widespread safety failures in protecting minors. The FTC launched formal inquiri…

Meta hired hundreds of contractors through Covalen to pose as minors and probe rival chatbots from OpenAI, Google, and Character.AI with prompts about suicide, sex, drugs, and self-harm, as part of a …

A Hacker News user asks whether AI is dumbing down humanity, comparing it to past technologies like calculators and Google Maps that reduced reliance on manual skills. The post warns that AI's ability…

DeepReinforce released Ornith-1.0, an open-source family of coding models under MIT license on June 25, designed specifically for AI agents operating in real terminal and repository environments. The …

Google made Gemini's personalized AI image generation free for all eligible US users aged 13 and older, removing the paywall that previously restricted the feature to paid subscribers. The feature, bu…

Anthropic has partnered with California to provide state and local government agencies with a 50% discount on its Claude AI tools, free workforce training, and technical support. Governor Gavin Newsom…

Google announced Monday that its Gemini app's personalized AI image generation feature, powered by Nano Banana, is now free for all eligible U.S. users, expanding access beyond Plus, Pro, and Ultra su…

Senator Mark Warner is preparing a discussion draft bill that would impose a "duty of loyalty" on AI agents, requiring them to prioritize users' interests over those of developers, platforms, or adver…

Google is expanding personalized intelligence to the Gemini app's image creation feature, allowing the chatbot to draw on user data from Google services like Gmail and Photos. The rollout applies to a…