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.
Nvidia and other investors have poured $125 million into iPronics, a photonics startup developing second-generation optical circuit switching (OCS) technology that could enable next-generation AI netw…
A former Google engineer was sentenced to nearly 12 months in prison for stealing AI trade secrets, as reported by Courthouse News Service. The sentence underscores the legal consequences of misapprop…
Google introduced agentic video understanding in Gemini, allowing the model to selectively inspect frames, audio, or transcripts, cutting token usage by up to 88%, lowering cost by up to 66%, and impr…
Google announced the Android September 2026 Feature Drop, rolling out five major upgrades across core Google apps and Android framework versions, including AI-assisted Find Hub memory, Gemini Live Gui…
Google has added TabFM, a pre-trained foundation model for tabular data, to BigQuery in preview, enabling enterprise teams to generate classification and regression predictions from structured data wi…
Intel and AMD's AI Compute Extensions (ACEv1), the first instruction set the two companies designed together, have landed in the GCC 17 compiler tree with the flag -macev1, enabling open-source compil…
NIQ and Similarweb announced a collaboration to enhance NIQ's Agentic Commerce Measurement strategy, aiming to help brands and retailers measure AI-driven product discovery and sales conversion. The i…
A developer's hands-on test of the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol across a three-agent commerce flow — checkout, shipping, and claims — shows the protocol's task model is its key value, while payment auth…
Google has begun rolling out Tell Maps, an AI-powered feature in Google Maps that lets contributors suggest edits conversationally via Ask Maps and the Contribute tab, including uploading photos of st…
Google's illegal monopoly in internet search provides the cash, compute, and data that fund its AI leadership, giving it an unfair advantage over competitors, according to Asad Ramzanali and Joel Thay…
Cloudflare has introduced optional OAuth scopes, allowing developers to mark certain permissions as optional so users can deselect them on the consent screen, addressing the challenge of broad permiss…
Amin Vahdat, Google's Senior VP for AI & Infrastructure, announced at SEMICON Taiwan 2026 a 60% expansion of Google's AI infrastructure R&D center in Shilin, Taipei, which opened in late 2025, to enha…
Apple Maps renamed Lake Ontario to 'Lake America' for US users on September 1, following a similar change by Google and aligning with President Donald Trump's executive order and the US Geographic Nam…
Google has introduced agent-based video analysis to its Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash, and 3.5 Flash-Lite models, allowing the AI to selectively examine video segments and adjust resolution, which the c…
Google is reportedly close to launching Gemini 3.8 Flash, a new AI model with significantly improved coding capabilities, as soon as September 2, according to The Wall Street Journal. Internal testing…
Google's September 2026 Android Drop introduces a 'Remembered' feature in Find Hub that lets Android 16 and newer users ask Gemini to save the location of items without trackers, such as a passport, a…
A developer released an MCP server for Google's TimesFM-3 time-series forecasting model, enabling tools like Claude Desktop and Cursor to call the model. The wrapper exposes forecast and quantile outp…
A daily AI news digest for September 2 lists 28 stories, including Nori Robotics' $1,688 humanoid robot for researchers, Runway's Solaris generating UI frames, and Google's Astra project progressing f…
Former US Air Force Drone Technician Cian Westmoreland, in a research paper published September 1, 2026, by the Disruption Network Institute, exposes the 'Kill Cloud' as a distributed socio-technical …
Google has introduced agentic video understanding in its latest Gemini models—Gemini 3.7 Flash, 3.6 Flash, and 3.5 Flash-Lite—enabling more accurate and cost-efficient video analysis, with token usage…