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Mashable highlights three multi-model AI tools to replace scattered AI tabs: ChatPlayground AI, which compares answers from 20+ models including ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Llama, and Perplexity, is av…

Ray 2.58 introduces native sandboxing built on gVisor, allowing users to create isolated environments from OCI container images and manage them with Ray primitives. The feature, developed in partnersh…

Anyscale's Ray team reports that after a round of Ray Core improvements, batch inference on 500 nodes is 23% faster end to end, Ray Data shuffle is 24% faster, and placement groups are 62× faster to r…

OpenAI has secured a $122 billion funding round, positioning it among the highest-valued private AI companies, as CEO Sam Altman described AI compute as 'the most expensive infrastructure project in h…

Hightouch, a customer-data-platform-turned-agentic-marketing-system that raised $150 million in a Series D in April and is valued at $2.75 billion, has hired Jitendra Kumar, a 20-year Google veteran w…

Tentris, a high-performance, disk-based RDF graph database developed by DICE Research, claims to reduce RAM consumption from over 10 GBs to MBs and execute analytical workloads that traditionally take…

Google is asking users whether its AI Overviews have made search better or worse, acknowledging mounting criticism and legal pressure over the feature that places chatbot-generated summaries above tra…

Entry-level employment in the most AI-exposed occupations fell 19 percent below that of less exposed fields for workers aged 22 to 25, according to a Stanford University study released August 25, 2026…

Google's inspect_viz library now supports heatmap generation for AI evals, enabling stakeholders to quickly compare model performance across skills. The tool, demonstrated with a script that wraps sco…

TSMC's CoWoS advanced packaging technology, used for AI accelerators with high-bandwidth memory (HBM), faces yield issues and capacity constraints, creating an opportunity for Intel to win foundry cus…

A security researcher found a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Google's MCP Toolbox, the official server for connecting language-model agents to databases and HTTP APIs, which could…

A Financial Times analysis of the 60 largest planned US data centers, tied to Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Meta, estimates those facilities will collectively emit roughly 101.5 million tons of CO2 p…

Running AI at scale costs hundreds of millions of dollars upfront for training and ongoing per-token inference fees, with chipmakers like Nvidia and cloud providers capturing much of the value, accord…

On August 20, 2026, Google transferred the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol into the Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), the Linux Foundation-directed body that already governs Anthropic's Model Context Protocol …

Google's Gemma family of open-weight models surpassed 1 billion cumulative downloads on August 20, with 600 million downloads in under five months since Gemma 4 launched in April 2026. The Gemmaverse …

Waymo and Zoox, owned by Google and Amazon respectively, are advancing driverless taxi services, creating new advertising opportunities inside vehicles, though consumer distrust of Big Tech remains a …

Search referral traffic is down 30% to 40% for some publishers, and Digiday media reporter Sara Guaglione says AI search is only growing and that referral traffic is not coming back, prompting publish…

Organic web traffic fell by 10.5% on average across 54 advertisers tracked by marketing services group Brainlabs after Google's AI Overviews became common, with sessions dropping from 140.1 million to…

A controlled study of three compact open-weight language models under five billion parameters found that no single model dominates on mathematical reasoning, with Qwen3:4b (Alibaba) most accurate on t…

A new study from arXiv (2608.22068v1) evaluates large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok, and domain-specific AskGDR as expert assistants for geothermal well arrays, finding …