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On August 13, 2026, Google Meet began rolling out Gemini-powered Take notes for in-person meetings on Android, with web support next and iOS availability scheduled for late August, according to 9to5Google. The feature ca…
Texture's internal Slack logs show its fleet of AI agents—including Morgan, the Chief of Staff agent, and Lyra, an engineer-agent—triaging bugs, shipping work, investigating alerts, and co-piloting a production database …
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside, estimate that a single ChatGPT query consumes about 10 times more electricity than a standard Google search, and they propose four practical steps to cut AI chatbot…
Elon Musk shared an AI-generated video on X reviving the satirical 'bought the UK' joke, portraying himself as the owner of the United Kingdom in a one-minute clip titled 'Elon Musk: Man Who Bought the UK.' The video, wh…
Hearth, a collaborative AI coding platform built on the Playground library, lets families create custom apps within a shared workspace, featuring synchronized files, app code sandboxing, a policy layer, and LLM agent int…
The Korea Times field-tested a Google Gemini-generated one-day historical tour of Seoul, costing around 200,000 won ($150), to assess whether AI can capture the nuance of Korean history. The model showed impressive spati…
Microsoft is moving Mico, the animated character in Copilot Voice, to its Learn Live tutoring experience, with the change starting in August 2026 and rolling out in waves. Copilot Voice will remain available, but Mico wi…
Anthropic's Claude Code, an AI coding tool that operates inside a terminal, requires a loop of prompting, checking, and approving changes rather than a single prompt, according to a user guide. The guide warns that vague…
Google has launched Sheets canvas, a Gemini-powered feature in Google Sheets that lets users create interactive mini-apps from spreadsheet data using natural language, with real-time two-way syncing. The feature is avail…
Google launched Gemini 3.7 Flash, its most intelligent workhorse model for coding and agents, three weeks after Gemini 3.6 Flash. The model scored 43.6% on FrontierCode 1.1 Main (up from 34.4%), 65.3% on DeepSWE v1.1 (up…
Reachpad now includes free access to Gemma 4 31B and Gemini 3.6 Flash coding models on every pad, usable through OpenCode without an API key. The models are included with the pad, with a daily allowance resetting at midn…
Google released Gemini 3.7 Flash on August 13, 2026, a multimodal model for coding and agent workflows, reporting higher results than Gemini 3.6 Flash on software engineering, web development, document-processing, and wo…
Google announced Sheets canvas on August 13, a Gemini-powered feature that creates custom, interactive read-write mini-apps from spreadsheet data via natural-language prompts. The Rapid Release rollout began August 10, a…
Google is rolling out a new Gemini-powered feature called Sheets canvas that turns static Google Sheets spreadsheets into interactive mini-apps, requiring no coding or formula knowledge. The feature, available to Google …
OpenAI has opened a limited preview of Ultrafast, a new API service tier that runs GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14 times the speed of Standard processing, generating up to 750 output tokens per second. Powered by Cerebras, the t…
Broadcom's Symantec Threat Hunter Team has exposed Jewelbug, a China-based hacker-for-hire group, for running parallel state-linked espionage and large-scale cryptocurrency fraud campaigns, stealing more than 580,000 bro…
Republican New York gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman is using AI-generated satirical ads depicting Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul in false scenarios, defending them as humor amid complaints from Democrats, accord…
Figma is becoming a graveyard for small AI-driven teams, according to a developer's account, as reliance on AI-generated frontend code leads to a spike in minor UI bugs and visual inconsistencies. The developer notes tha…
Google's Gboard Rambler, the flagship Gemini Intelligence feature on the Pixel 11 series, is prompt-based rather than real-time, requiring users to tap a checkmark to transcribe after speaking. The feature captures inten…
The Arena Group, the media company that published AI-generated fake writers in Sports Illustrated in 2023, has rebranded as Paradium.AI and acquired InfoSentience to scale AI-driven content generation. The company also l…