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Google's Gemini Notebook now supports importing Google Play books as source material for AI analysis, enabling users to generate reports, quizzes, and podcasts from book content, as reported by ZDNET.…

Roboflow has introduced Playground, a free tool that lets developers experiment with and compare 134 vision models from providers including Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Qwen. The platform supp…

An engineer at kral.ai detailed the pitfalls of billing LLM usage per token in production, covering issues such as multiple pricing components per request, scattered streaming usage data, silent clien…

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) issued a memo stating that agencies can use artificial intelligence without creating federal records that must be retained in some cases, clarif…

President Donald Trump warned on Truth Social that American communities refusing to host data centres will become 'backwards and poor', claiming such resistance hands an advantage to China, while a Un…

Google has rolled out its generative AI performance reports in Search Console to all websites worldwide as of August 31, 2026, following a phased rollout that began in June. The reports show impressio…

Google is now showing fully expanded AI Overview summaries with an 'Ask anything' text box by default for some desktop Search queries, a change that directs users into AI Mode without requiring them t…

At least 48 US data center projects worth approximately $156 billion have been blocked or stalled due to local opposition, according to tracking by Data Center Watch and Carbon Direct, with cancellati…

A credible Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) provider should understand traditional SEO, search intent, entity clarity, AI retrieval, content strategy, and measurement, according to an SEO and AEO cons…

Google's Gemini Notebook now supports analyzing books purchased from Google Play, with 100,000 titles from publishers including Bloomsbury, De Gruyter Brill, Johns Hopkins University Press, Macmillan …

The US Department of War launched Starshield AI's Grok for Government on August 31, making xAI's generative AI platform available to over 3 million military and civilian personnel on the GenAI.mil inf…

Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey, chair of the G20's Financial Stability Board, warned in a letter to the G20 that frontier AI poses a significant threat to the global economy, particularly thro…

Google is expanding AI Overviews in Search to fully expand on some queries, turning the entire page into an AI response, a change confirmed by Google and first spotted by Chris Long. The company says …

Google Cloud's director of gaming, Jack Buser, is pitching the company's AI models, including Genie, Veo, and Gemini, to a skeptical gaming industry, arguing that AI can address the industry's challen…

Anthropic merged Claude chat and Claude Cowork memory on August 25, 2026, into one shared store, lowering the switching cost between its own products. The move addresses the downside of AI memory lock…

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro has signed an executive order imposing what he calls the nation's strictest guardrails on data centers, reversing his earlier fast-track approvals amid a backlash over t…

John Ternus became Apple's CEO on September 1, succeeding Tim Cook, who stepped down after fifteen years and moved to the newly created role of executive chairman. Ternus, 50, a 25-year Apple veteran …

Google's Agent Development Kit (ADK) for TypeScript enables developers to test AI agents deterministically by focusing on tool contracts and runtime behavior rather than model-generated sentences. The…

Apple's smart home strategy faces two major hardware flaws that Siri AI improvements cannot fix, according to a PCMag analysis. The article argues that the company's reliance on Wi-Fi and Bluetooth fo…

Google announced Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash on Aug. 27, giving developers new controls for AI video generation, including extending footage in 10-second increments up to 40 seconds and generating motion be…