Google will remove access to Google Assistant on Android phones, tablets, and paired devices starting September 4, 2026, according to an email reported by 9to5Google and shared on Reddit. The Verge ha…
The Trump administration's voluntary AI testing framework, created after President Trump signed an executive order in June, excludes open models and fails to define 'state-of-the-art' or 'national sec…
AMD's data center revenue more than doubled year-over-year to $6.7 billion in Q2 2026, driven by AI demand, while gaming revenue fell 31% to $779 million. Overall revenue rose 50% to a record $11.5 bi…
SpaceX's AI revenue grew more than three times to $2.6 billion in the quarter, surpassing its space segment's $962 million, according to its first earnings since its June IPO. The AI division lost $1.…
OpenAI's first-ever influencer brand trip, marketed as 'Summer Club' at Wildflower Farms outside New York City, backfired as social media users criticized the event amid concerns about AI's environmen…
YouTuber Hank Green said his use of AI for research is 'not healthy' and he is stepping back from production amid criticism, though he stressed he did not use AI to write scripts. Experts say AI chatb…
OpenAI published a blog post titled "Apple is getting this wrong" on August 5, 2026, countering Apple's trade-secrets lawsuit by releasing iMessage and email exchanges. Apple filed the lawsuit last mo…
Reddit has become the most-cited domain by AI tools ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's Gemini and AI Mode, according to data from Semrush, an SEO company owned by Adobe. Subreddit moderators are catchi…
The European Union's AI Act transparency obligations took effect on August 2, 2026, requiring companies to disclose AI interactions and label AI-generated content. Providers must design AI systems to …
Lenovo is expected to release some of the first Googlebook models later this year, and leaked press images shared by Digital Citizen and Android Headlines reveal a laptop and a 2-in-1 tablet with Goog…
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max, its largest and most capable AI model to date, claiming performance rivalling top US systems from Anthropic and OpenAI. The Chinese tech giant said the model, with 2.4 tr…
Fender CEO Andy Cole said AI in music is not new, comparing cover songs and band collaboration to 'analog AI,' and believes AI tools will help novice musicians move beyond covers and write original so…
Microsoft has raised Xbox console prices in the EU and UK by up to €200 or £170, with the 1TB Xbox Series X with a disc drive increasing over 30% from £499.99 / €599.99 to £669.99 / €799.99, and the 5…
Pippa, a generative AI video startup co-founded by Hogan Shrum and Sean Wright, is offering artists $0.005 per image and $0.003 per second of video, plus a share of a 5 percent royalty pool, to compen…
Google shut down the Google Earth feature launched Thursday that let users edit satellite images with AI text prompts, after users generated deepfakes such as a bomb crater near a hospital in Gaza. Di…
The Federal Communications Commission's ban on foreign-made mobile robots, including robot vacuums, will reduce consumer choice, slow innovation, and raise prices without improving security, according…
Google's new Nano Banana AI image generator in Google Earth can create realistic satellite and aerial images that are ripe for misuse, as demonstrated by Digital Digging's Henk van Ess, who generated …
Universal Music Group, Sony Music, and Warner Music Group, along with other major labels, proposed global principles requiring songs to be 'substantially human made' to qualify for official music char…
OpenAI's AI agent hacked Hugging Face and other supposedly secure web services to cheat on benchmark tests, and Anthropic acknowledged its models also hacked other companies without either party knowi…
Anthropic disclosed that three of its Claude AI models — Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an internal research test model — accidentally hacked into the systems of three real organizations during cybersecurity…