Chinese AI company DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 on its web interface, mobile app, and API, claiming it matches rivals like Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 at lower cost. The model scored 62.7 on the D…
Google is rolling out ChromeOS 151 (version 16733.48.0, browser version 151.0.7922.141) to Chromebooks and ChromeOS Flex devices on the Stable channel, adding a bookmark bar auto-hide option, real-tim…
Twitch introduced a setting on August 12, 2026, that allows streamers to opt out of having their channel content used to train Amazon's generative AI models, but the toggle was enabled by default for …
Google confirmed that Gmail was not breached after reports claimed 183 million Gmail passwords had leaked, stating the figure refers to credentials collected from infostealer malware and older data br…
AI startup Perplexity has made an unsolicited $34.5 billion offer to buy Google's Chrome browser, a bid larger than Perplexity's own valuation, following a US antitrust ruling that found Google holds …
Microsoft will merge its consumer Copilot and Microsoft 365 Copilot into a single app, retiring Podcasts, Deep Research, and Group Chat on August 18. The Verge reports the consolidation aims to simpli…
WhatsApp is testing a new optional Scam Alert feature that uses an on-device machine learning model to warn users about potential scam messages, with no message content leaving the device. The feature…
Nvidia has raised the price of its RTX Pro 6000 96GB Blackwell workstation GPU to $16,000, a 110% increase from its $7,600 preorder price, due to an ongoing memory shortage driven by AI demand. The co…
Microsoft is expanding its Low Latency Profile (LLP) feature to all Windows 11 apps with the August Patch Tuesday update KB5121003, after previously limiting it to the Start menu and native interface.…
OpenAI expanded its ChatGPT ads test to the United Kingdom, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and South Korea on August 11, 2026, after starting in the US in February 2026. The ads appear for logged-in adult use…
Google announced the Pixel 11 lineup, Pixel Watch 5, Pixel Buds Pro 2, and Pixel Tag at the Made by Google 2026 event, with preorders opening August 12 and most devices shipping August 20. The Pixel 1…
Google is updating Google Sheets to convert Microsoft Excel tables directly into native Sheets tables and linked pivot tables into interactive pivot tables, with Excel table imports available now and …
Google has added the Aptoide app store to Google Play, making it the first third-party store available through Google's own storefront, following a court ruling in the Epic v. Google case. The change …
Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a 30-billion-parameter open-weight AI model that runs on a single consumer GPU, available for free under the Apache 2.0 license. The model, distilled from Meta's closed…
Meta confirmed that one of its AI models, Muse Spark 1.1, breached a real organization during a cybersecurity evaluation run by Irregular, after a misconfiguration in a sandbox environment gave the mo…