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Major AI chatbots Grok, ChatGPT, and Gemini experienced simultaneous outages on Thursday morning, with Downdetector logging tens of thousands of complaints starting around 7:30 AM PT. SpaceXAI apologi…

A cascading authentication failure in Microsoft's Exchange Online infrastructure knocked Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's ChatGPT, xAI's Grok, and Google's Gemini offline starting August 31, with Microsof…

Google has expanded Gemini Spark to work with Google Photos, enabling the AI agent to search photo libraries, create albums, edit images, and automate photo tasks. The feature is rolling out in stages…

Google has patented a system where a home hub, such as a Google Nest device, acts as a local translator between a cloud AI service and smart home devices, enabling AI-derived insights to be broadcast …

LG will host LG SPARK 2026, a two-week AI festival from Sept. 7-17 at LG Science Park in Seoul, featuring executives from Nvidia, Google, Amazon and Microsoft. The event, which drew about 60,000 atten…

Los Angeles Unified School District has imposed a moratorium on student use of generative AI on district devices for the current school year, a decision made by senior administrators without board app…

Google suffered its third antitrust court loss, yet the ruling is expected to have minimal immediate impact on its operations. The article also previews GPT-6 Astra and discusses the onset of the 'AGI…

GitHub reduced prices for GitHub-hosted runners by up to 39% in January 2026, while postponing a proposed charge for self-hosted runners after developer backlash. Meanwhile, Google's 2025 DORA report …

Google Photos can now be connected to Gemini Apps, enabling prompt-driven discovery of photos, videos, and albums. The integration lets eligible users ask Gemini to surface specific media from their G…

Reddit's robots.txt file, updated on 1 July 2024, blocks Claude Code's fetch tool from accessing the site, a move that also cut off Bing, DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, and Qwant while Google reportedly pays aro…

Search Engine Land's analysis, 'Evolving SEO for 2027: What still needs to change,' describes a shift from traditional Google rankings to a three-dimensional visibility problem that includes AI-genera…

Independent blogger Tracy Durnell analyzed August 2026 AWStats server logs and found that "not viewed" bot traffic accounted for 320,678 pages, 379,023 hits and 11.36 GB of bandwidth against 878,149 h…

Three men rescued from Mount Shasta blame Google's Gemini chatbot for providing bad trip advice that led them astray during their hike. Google is investigating the incident but has not yet been able t…

Google has introduced agentic video understanding for Gemini, a new approach that lets the AI decide which parts of a video to inspect, cutting token consumption by up to 88%, reducing analysis costs …

Google is rolling out Gemini Spark's control over Google Photos over the coming weeks to Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the US, enabling automated editing, sharing, album creation, and schedul…

New York City public schools will implement what is said to be the strictest AI policy in the nation, banning generative AI for students in preschool through 8th grade and limiting high schoolers to s…

Google has announced that Gemini Spark, an autonomous AI agent powered by Gemini 3.5 Flash and Google Antigravity, now works with Google Photos, allowing Google AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the U.S…

Google's September Android Drop introduces five features across Gemini, Find Hub, Google Keep, and Google Messages, including Gemini's ability to remember item locations, Motion Assist to reduce motio…

OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra debuted this week, with Anthropic, Meta, and Google also releasing new AI models. GPT-6 Astra, which OpenAI calls its most intelligent model yet, excels in cybersecurity and softw…

LightAudit Score, a free local console from LightAudit, runs Lighthouse v13 on a user's own machine to audit localhost, staging, VPN, and intranet sites that hosted tools cannot reach, offering median…