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Google is allowing Android users to switch back from Gemini to Google Assistant due to widespread complaints about the AI assistant's performance, especially with smart home controls and basic tasks. …

Google has been secretly downloading its Gemini Nano AI model to eligible Chrome browsers since April 2026 without user consent, raising privacy concerns. The 4GB model powers on-device AI features an…

Companies are manufacturing Reddit threads to manipulate AI citations, exploiting the platform's heavy use by AI models for answers. This tactic, known as answer engine optimization, involves aged acc…

Google's Chrome 149 introduces a 'Select from screen' tool for Gemini, allowing users to drag a box around content on a tab and feed it directly to the AI side panel without copying or describing. The…

A ZDNET editor tested the AI features in Chrome, Edge, and Firefox to determine which browser offers the best AI experience. The editor found that each browser brings different AI capabilities, but ul…

A developer built ClassifierAI, a Chrome extension that uses TensorFlow.js to detect AI-generated articles and images on Dev.to. The model was trained on 866 images using Google's Teachable Machine. T…

SpaceX has secured contracts with Anthropic, Google, and Reflection AI to rent GPUs, generating an annualized revenue run rate of approximately $28 billion. The deals, including a $6.3 billion commitm…

At DX Annual, a panel of engineering leaders from Etsy, Twilio, GitHub, Google, and Microsoft debated AI's impact on software engineering, concluding that AI will not eliminate the need for engineers …

Technical SEO ROI is inherently difficult to prove because it prevents losses rather than driving measurable gains, lacks a control group, and is affected by uncontrollable external factors like Googl…

Millennium Management, a $70 billion hedge fund, is launching its own AI lab within weeks, led by veteran researcher Vaibhava Goel from IBM Watson. The lab aims to accelerate access to cutting-edge AI…

The AI IDE landscape has undergone major changes in the first half of 2026, with acquisitions, rebrands, and pricing shifts. Windsurf retired its credit system and rebranded to Devin Desktop, AWS Kiro…

Elon Musk is reassigning dozens of SpaceX's top engineers, including those from recently acquired Cursor, to overhaul the Grok AI model, aiming to challenge what he calls the 'woke monopoly' of OpenAI…

JPMorgan analyst Harlan Sur reaffirmed that Broadcom's TPU v9 chip for Google remains on schedule for 2028 production, raising Broadcom's price target to $580 amid recent delay fears. The 2nm ASIC pro…

Big Tech is pouring trillions into AI infrastructure, with JPMorgan raising its global AI capex estimate through 2030 to $5.5 trillion. Qualcomm and Micron are expanding into data centers and memory c…

Google's Earthquake Alerts system warned 11.4 million people in Venezuela before two major quakes struck on Wednesday, providing up to two minutes of warning. The system uses accelerometers in Android…

Google's Gemini AI can help users create custom browser extensions in minutes, enabling them to modify web interfaces and improve productivity without coding expertise. The process involves describing…

Google capped Meta's use of its Gemini AI model after Meta exceeded its computing capacity, according to sources. The incident highlights that even major tech companies face computing power shortages …

Former Google engineering leader Hugh Williams used Anthropic's Claude Code to build a search engine called Zettair that indexes 1.5 million Wikipedia articles, writing no code himself. The project in…

Google warned that EU competition rules requiring it to share search data with rivals could compromise user privacy, as a senior scientist demonstrated that users can be re-identified from anonymized …

Former Google engineering leader Hugh Williams used Anthropic's Claude Code to build a working search engine called Zettair that indexes 1.5 million Wikipedia articles, without writing any code himsel…