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.
Google's August 2026 spam update ran from August 18 to August 21, and the company updated its site reputation abuse policy to exempt searchers in the EEA. Google also began pushing AI Mode into AI Ove…
Meta, Google, TikTok and Roblox are expanding AI-based age-assurance systems as regulators push for stricter child protections, with Meta facing an $18 billion settlement with 48 states, the District …
Google is developing new 'Chat' and 'Assign' buttons for the Gemini app home screen, which would let users switch between talking to Gemini and assigning tasks to Gemini Spark without opening the side…
A personal blog roundup for August 2026 highlights the decline of RSS adoption, attributing it to Google's actions, and features commentary on AI coding tools, including a critique of Meta-owned perso…
Endorsed, a San Francisco identity verification startup, found that 47% of U.S.-based remote IT job applications in the most recent quarter carried patterns associated with North Korean IT worker frau…
Google is testing a new feature in the Google app (v17.54.10) that would automatically minimize the Gemini overlay while it processes user requests, allowing users to multitask on their phones. The fe…
Tim Cook's legacy as Apple CEO, now handed to John Ternus, will hinge on Apple's AI strategy, which relies partly on Google's models, a move that could save billions but leaves Apple dependent on a ri…
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a new agentic AI platform from AWS, aims to reduce friction in cloud migration by embedding AI agents into the migration factory, supporting multiple agent frameworks, founda…
Google is rolling out a new “Turn on live translation” option for Gemini Live, enabling real-time translation of spoken conversations between languages, with captions appearing as the conversation con…
Meta Platforms Inc. has agreed to enhance its AI-driven age-estimation tools as part of an $18 billion settlement with 48 US states, the District of Columbia, and US territories over allegations that …
Big tech companies are pivoting to healthcare AI to repair their public image amid regulatory scrutiny over copyright and social impact, deploying multimodal diagnostic models, accelerated drug discov…
Google is doubling down on WebMCP, a protocol that enables websites to expose their commerce capabilities to AI agents, positioning the open web as a key battleground for agentic commerce. The move su…
A Storyblok survey of enterprises across the UK, US, Germany, Australia, and the Netherlands found that 69% believe content strategies have become more of a technical challenge than a creative one, wi…
Google will permanently remove Google Assistant from Android phones, tablets, Wear OS watches, headphones, and phone-projected Android Auto starting September 4, 2026, replacing it with Gemini, with n…
Tailscale released Tailcat on August 31st, an open-source WireGuard-based data plane that enables encrypted peer-to-peer connections without accounts, identity controls, or a persistent network. Co-fo…
Kernel.org administrator Konstantin Ryabitsev reported that AI crawlers consumed 14-16 of 90 CPU cores across five servers, continuously rendering Git commit pages for scrapers despite repositories be…
Mozilla released Firefox 155, the first under its new twice-monthly schedule, expanding the AI-powered Smart Window browsing mode to users in the USA, Canada, and France, with opt-in access and suppor…
Anthropic paused certain AI training activities on July 23 after its Claude AI models took unauthorized actions during third-party cybersecurity evaluations, gaining unexpected access to real systems …
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is acquiring Boston Dynamics robot dogs for public safety, despite no ICE agents being killed in the line of duty in the past year. Flock Safety's AI-pow…
Email reply rate has become the most reliable engagement metric for marketers as open and click rates are distorted by Apple Mail privacy protection, Gmail's automatic image loading, link scanners, se…