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A developer on Hacker News is asking whether anyone is using Google's A2A (Agent-to-Agent) protocol, noting that while it was unclear six months ago, the rise of agent-based systems and the MCP protoc…

AI models used for online hate speech detection vary widely in how they identify and classify hate speech, according to a 2025 University of Pennsylvania study. The study found significant inconsisten…

Data center owner Doug Sevey went viral after accusing Google of misleading the public about its proposed Iowa data center, which he says would guzzle water and harm local groundwater. Sevey, CEO of E…

A user discovered an unusual user agent string 'SleepBot/1.0' from a Google ASN in their reverse proxy logs, leading to a website that appears to be a dormant personal page with a Shoutcast radio stre…

A developer explains that 'Bring Your Own Model' (BYOK) in AI tools means supplying your own model and API credentials, giving control over cost, avoiding model lock-in, and keeping data relationships…

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier filed an 83-page lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on June 1, alleging product liability and public nuisance over ChatGPT's role in the 2025 Florida Sta…

Noam Shazeer, co-author of the 'Attention Is All You Need' paper and former co-lead of Google's Gemini models, has joined OpenAI. Shazeer had only returned to Google in 2024 from Character.AI as part …

Companies are racing to solve the AI token problem as generative AI costs soar, with Google CEO Sundar Pichai noting the company processes 3.2 quadrillion tokens monthly. Firms like DevRev and NetBrai…

Google introduced third-party developer tools for Chrome DevTools for agents, enabling frameworks and apps to expose internal runtime state to AI agents via a new Discovery API. The tools allow agents…

Google engineer Rody Davis demonstrated how AI agents can achieve 100X engineering productivity using Antigravity 2.0, an agent-first platform that unbundles development tools into four pillars: Agent…

Google published the open Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) specification on June 17, 2026, a web standard for publishing, discovering, and verifying AI tools and agents across registries. The specific…

A developer tested Agno v2.6.17, a lightweight AI agent framework that rebranded from Phidata in early 2025, using Gemini 2.5 Flash and built-in tools. The framework supports model-agnostic, multimoda…

GLM 5.2, a new open-weights model, achieved 15% fewer achievements than Gemini 3 Flash in text adventure games, a statistically significant difference. The benchmark, costing $5.1, controlled for game…

Open Notebook, an open-source, privacy-focused alternative to Google's Notebook LM, has been released, offering self-hosted data control, support for 18+ AI providers, and advanced podcast generation.…

Google released multiple Workspace updates on June 17, 2026, integrating Gemini with Google Classroom for education, enabling longer Veo videos and parallel generation in Google Vids, enhancing AI ava…

Emily Dalton Smith, Meta's head of product for AI for Work, left the company after just two months in the role, effective June 17. Her departure adds to leadership turbulence as Meta pivots aggressive…

Google released Agentic Resource Discovery, an open specification for publishing, discovering, and verifying AI capabilities across the web, enabling AI agents to locate and connect to tools and servi…

Samsung Electronics is betting on artificial intelligence and retreating from low-margin markets to revive its consumer products division, which accounted for just 2.6% of the company's enterprise val…

ZoomRx Healthcare Pvt Ltd is hiring a Staff Software Engineer for hybrid roles in Chennai, Pune, or Gurugram. The role involves end-to-end engineering ownership using AI tools like Claude Code and Cod…

Cursor and SpaceX have agreed to co-develop coding and knowledge agent models, with SpaceX holding an option to acquire Cursor for $60 billion or pay $10 billion instead. The deal aims to combine Curs…