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.
Marketers are shifting content budgets toward creators, agency services, and tools to influence AI-generated search results, rather than spending heavily on AI search ads. Brands like Butterball and P…
A Pew Research survey of 5,119 US adults found that 49% have used an AI chatbot, up from 33% in 2024, with ChatGPT leading at 44% adoption. However, 71% believe AI threatens data privacy, and two-thir…
An engineer argues that local AI models have become production-capable for enterprise use, citing hardware advances like Apple's M5 chip and NVIDIA's DGX Spark, and open-weight models that now rival c…
The Atlantic's investigation reveals that tech companies have used at least 15 million videos and millions of songs to train AI models, often without permission. The report highlights the industry's r…
AI is driving a resurgence in augmented reality (AR) by enhancing utility, improving form factors, and reducing costs, with smart glasses sales surging 167% year-over-year in Q1 2026. Manufacturers li…
On May 31, 2026, DeepSeek made its V4-Pro API pricing permanent at a 75% discount, with output costs of $0.87 per million tokens—10x cheaper than GPT-4o and 5x cheaper than Claude Haiku 4.5. Meanwhile…
Google, Meta, PayPal, Chainalysis, and other tech and crypto firms announced a joint commitment on June 22 to combat illegal wildlife trafficking using AI detection tools and blockchain analytics. The…
Shopify's Spring '26 release introduced Agentic Storefronts and the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), an open standard backed by major companies that allows AI agents to search catalogs, build carts,…
The United States now accounts for more than half of the global credit impulse, adding roughly $800 billion in net new credit over the past year, driven primarily by artificial intelligence spending, …
Google is shutting down all Imagen models on Firebase AI Logic on June 24, 2026, and on Vertex AI on August 17, 2026, requiring developers to migrate to the Gemini Image model (gemini-2.5-flash-image)…
Microsoft and Chevron signed a 20-year, 2.67 GW natural gas deal for a West Texas data center, highlighting energy security as a key AI constraint. Samsung deployed ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex compan…
A controlled study from IIT Delhi and Princeton found that citing sources, adding statistics, and quoting experts boosts AI search visibility by up to 40%, while keyword stuffing reduces it by 10%. Pe…
Google promoted its Interactions API to general availability on June 22, 2026, making it the default interface for Gemini models and agents. The new API introduces typed steps, managed agents with Lin…
Google introduced the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol, an open standard for communication between independent AI agents, enabling interoperability across different frameworks and organizations. The protoco…
Spidra and Spider.cloud are two distinct web scraping products, not the same tool as often confused. Spidra is an AI-powered API that extracts structured data from web pages using natural language pro…
A new automated agent loop enables weekly SEO and generative engine optimization (GEO) audits, finding technical issues, ranking them by impact, fixing them automatically, and rerunning until no criti…
Anthropic, the maker of the Claude AI, has reportedly reached a valuation of $965 billion, up from $4.1 billion in 2023, following a financing round led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and…
Samsung Electronics is rolling out ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to employees worldwide, reversing its 2023 ban on generative AI after a data leak incident. The South Korean tech giant becomes one of O…
Google announced on May 19, 2026, that it is retiring its open-source Gemini CLI and replacing it with Antigravity CLI, a Go-based, agent-first platform. The migration, effective June 18, 2026, introd…
Google acquired AI IDE Windsurf for $2.4 billion, while Elon Musk paid $60 billion for Cursor, a 25x price gap driven by architectural differences that make the underlying model less relevant.…