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Google launched Gemini 3.5 Transcribe on August 26, replacing Chirp 3 as its speech-to-text model and making it the first STT model sold natively through the Gemini API, with two variants in public pr…

Google has released Gemini-3.5-Transcribe, a dedicated speech-to-text model for production voice agents, according to a blog post on Google's official blog. The model is positioned as a swappable depe…

Meta has detailed MTIA 300, its first in-house accelerator optimized for training ranking and recommendation models, integrating networking and collective communication directly into the chip to addre…

Nvidia has agreed in principle to acquire Hugging Face for $13 billion, nearly double the $7 billion valuation at which Hugging Face rejected a $500 million Nvidia investment six months ago. Separatel…

GitHub's global model policy for Copilot Business and Enterprise began enforcement on August 26, enabling all generally available AI models by default unless explicitly disabled, with full enforcement…

OpenAI and more than 100 major technology companies, including Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic, issued an open letter on Thursday warning that the window for defending against AI-driven cyberattacks …

Google has launched Expert Intelligence in Gemini Notebook, allowing users to import select owned titles from Google Play Books into the AI research tool, with more than 100,000 ebooks available from …

A federal judge ruled on August 27 that the Pentagon's actions against Anthropic, including a supply-chain risk designation and an order to sever ties, were unlawful retaliation violating the First Am…

A practical guide proposes an AI coding agent task router that assigns software tasks to the appropriate tool—such as OpenAI's Codex, Anthropic's Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or Google's Gemini—based …

A federal judge ruled on Thursday that the Pentagon's blacklisting of Anthropic was unconstitutional, calling it "unlawful retaliation in violation of the First Amendment." The ruling, by Judge Rita F…

More than 100 tech companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Okta, and Fortinet, published a joint open letter warning that AI cyberattacks are escalating, following a Ju…

116 technology, finance, and infrastructure companies, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, Amazon Web Services, Oracle, and Advanced Micro Devices, signed a joint letter on Thursday, Augus…

A group of 100 firms, including Google, Microsoft, Anthropic, and OpenAI, signed an open letter urging countries and organizations to strengthen cyber defenses before AI-powered attacks become more wi…

Google shipped Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 13, introducing breaking API changes including the replacement of the integer `thinking_budget` with a string enum `thinking_level`, removal of sampling param…

Google Search I/O 2026 marked a shift from returning links to executing tasks via integrated AI agents, transforming the web into an action platform. The new paradigm requires sites to expose machine-…

A developer built a free checker that tests whether backlinks are visible to AI search engines, not just indexed by Google. The tool extends an existing Google Sheets script to check for AI Overview c…

Google has begun a global rollout of Scene Extension in the Gemini app for Google AI Plus, Pro, and Ultra subscribers, enabling users to extend existing videos with newly generated footage. The featur…

OpenAI announced on August 28, 2026, that it will wind down the contract supplying models to the AI coding tool Cursor, highlighting that most AI products are resellers licensing models from labs like…

ZAI's GLM-5.3-Flash, reportedly code-named Ox Alpha, drew significant online hype before release, but an independent SimpleBench score fell short of Google's Gemini models, undercutting claims it was …

GreyNoise reported that automated scanners forged the web crawler identities of OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepSeek, Google and Perplexity to request credentials and secrets, with six forged AI crawler names …