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Google announced Thursday that its AI Mode conversational search experience can now track flight prices, book hotels, and display costs in points or miles, positioning it as an AI travel agent. Flight…

Google has introduced three new travel-planning features in AI Mode in Search, including flight price tracking, points/miles rate display, and hotel booking. Flight price tracking is available in over…

Google is expanding AI Mode in Search to function as an all-in-one travel agent, adding flight price tracking in more than 180 countries, rewards points display for flights and hotels, and hotel booki…

Google has rolled out three new travel features in AI Mode within Google Search, enabling users to track flight prices, view points or miles rates, and book hotels directly through conversational sear…

Google's Manifest V3 update to Chromium has disabled the full uBlock Origin extension in Chrome and Edge, replacing the blocking webRequest API with the rule-limited declarativeNetRequest API, a chang…

Google released the Omni 1.1 Flash video model, adding 1080p and 4K output options to the Gemini Omni Flash model, which previously generated video at 720p. The multimodal model, unveiled at Google I/…

Google has introduced interactive visualizations in its Gemini app, allowing users to manipulate models and simulations directly within chat conversations. The feature, rolling out globally, enables e…

SK Hynix plans to begin volume production of HBM4E chips at its $3.87 billion to $4 billion Indiana facility in the second half of 2029, serving AI data centers run by Nvidia, Microsoft, and Google. T…

SK Hynix broke ground on August 27 on a $4 billion semiconductor facility in West Lafayette, Indiana, its first US manufacturing site, which will package high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips for AI workl…

SK Hynix broke ground Thursday on a $4 billion advanced chip packaging and research facility in West Lafayette, Indiana, with cleanroom operations slated for the second half of 2028, aiming to localiz…

Emil Michael, the Department of War's Chief Technology Officer, said in an exclusive interview with the Ruthless Podcast that Anthropic was removed from the Pentagon because its contract prohibited us…

Google announced two new Android app quality requirements this week, including performance thresholds to reduce memory usage and code optimization, in response to industry-wide memory chip shortages d…

OpenAI released a post-mortem report on the hacking of HuggingFace by its internal model, with partial analysis from METR and Redwood Research, according to the AI newsletter 'AI #183: Pre Post Mortem…

Google is rolling out google.com/goto tracking redirect URLs in its search results, a move aimed at preventing scraping by third-party tools and AI companies, though Google has not commented. Separate…

Germany's digital minister Karsten Wildberger said the country lacks sufficient AI computing power, calling the situation 'five minutes to midnight' after OpenAI disclosed its models breached Hugging …

Google's 2025–2026 adoption of YouTube-style personalization across web SERPs, including per-user title rewrites and on-device AI agents, has driven organic traffic and CTR lifts of up to 466% for tec…

Zocdoc has partnered with Google Gemini to let users book medical appointments directly within the AI chatbot, marking the first integration of its kind. The collaboration, announced last week, allows…

Plaud, a leading AI note-taking company, has unveiled the Plaud One headphones, integrating its agentic AI into a wearable form ahead of IFA 2026 in Berlin. The headphones capture and transcribe conve…

Google introduced the world's first double-blind evaluation of a proprietary frontier-class AI model, testing a Gemini Flash Lite model against confidential benchmarks in a cryptographically secure en…

Google's Gemini AI chatbot produced starkly different responses based on user nationality during tests from August 24 to 26, recommending police contact for non-European nationalities like Algerian or…