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Google Finance exited beta with a dedicated Android app, portfolio tracking, and AI-powered scheduled briefings, marking the platform's broadest expansion since its AI rebuild began in August 2025. Th…

Salahodeen Abdul-Kafi left his $450,000 tech job at companies including Microsoft and Google to open Kafi BBQ, a halal barbecue restaurant in Irving, Texas. The restaurant generated over $2 million in…

Agentic traffic on the web has surpassed human traffic for the first time in history, according to Union Square Ventures (USV). The venture firm argues that the AI opportunity will be owned by a broad…

Apple raised Mac and iPad prices by 15–25% on June 25, citing a global memory chip shortage driven by AI datacenters consuming 70% of output. The MacBook Air now starts at $1,299, up $200, with simila…

A Washington Post investigation found that major AI chatbots, including OpenAI's GPT-5.5 and Elon Musk's Grok, predominantly present left-leaning political arguments, with Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro bein…

The Linux Foundation and 20 industry partners, including Amazon Web Services, Google, and Microsoft, launched Akrites on June 25, 2026, to defend critical open source software against AI-enabled cyber…

Google's Gemini AI integration now allows users to create, populate, and manage Google Sheets using natural language prompts, enabling automatic generation of tables, formulas, and data analysis. The …

Google has launched a dedicated Android app for Google Finance, bringing AI-powered features like portfolio management, real-time data, and conversational research tools out of beta. The app, which re…

UC Berkeley AI professor Emma Pierson argues in The Atlantic that AI development should be slowed to mitigate societal risks like mass unemployment and surveillance, even if it delays potential cancer…

Google released Ads API v24.2 with multi-party approvals for security, AI-generated content disclosure fields to comply with the EU AI Act, and new Performance Max reporting features including ad netw…

Apple shares fell 5% on Tuesday, wiping out $215 billion in market capitalization, after CEO Tim Cook acknowledged that rising memory chip costs driven by AI demand will force price increases across A…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai told Stanford graduates to stop obsessing over their first jobs, sharing a lesson he learned on a road trip to Las Vegas where skipping a class taught him that few moments are…

A bipartisan bill introduced by Rep. Gabe Evans and Rep. Kathy Castor would require utilities to treat AI data centers as a separate customer class, forcing tech companies like Amazon, Google, and Mic…

Desktop click-through rates on Google increased across 22 industries in Q1 2026, while mobile CTR declined at the top position, according to Advanced Web Ranking data. The desktop gains, especially fo…

Blueshoe, an AI-native law firm founded by Casey O'Grady and Kai Yee Wan, launched as a full-stack consumer and plaintiff-side firm, not a legal AI tool. The Y Combinator-backed startup aims to rebuil…

Two former xAI employees estimate that over half of Grok AI's traffic is for pornographic content, including images, videos, and roleplay chats. xAI is expanding Grok's image and video generation capa…

Google's GKE Inference Gateway introduces prefix-aware load balancing for LLMs, routing requests to replicas that already hold cached context to avoid reprocessing shared prompt prefixes. This approac…

A tech leader's tour of China's leading AI labs reveals that Chinese researchers excel as fast-followers in large language model development due to a culture emphasizing collective optimization over i…

Armorer Labs, the team behind Armorer and Armorer Guard, argues that AI agents should run with their own session identity rather than inheriting the human user's credentials. The company identifies th…

Google is offering record-low discounts on Pixel 10 phones and Nest Wi-Fi Pro routers during Amazon Prime Day, days after revelations that its Gemini AI monitors Chrome activity. The discounts, includ…