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Google to Pay USD 68 Million to Settle Lawsuit Over Assistant’s Unlawful Recording
The price of convenience just got a line item. Google will pay $68 million to put a lawsuit to rest, one that accused its smart assistant of...
Claude Opus 4.5 Boosts Companies as Anthropic Leads AI Coding
Claude Opus 4.5 dropped, and Anthropic’s grip on AI-assisted coding tightened. That momentum isn’t confined to one company.
Roundtables: Inside the Musk v. Altman Trial – Audio Session Available
Calling it a trial is too polite. It's a demolition job. Elon Musk paid for the wrecking ball, and now Sam Altman is trying to stop the swing.
Zendesk rolls out GPT-5 and HyperArc for dependable, real-time AI agents
Zendesk announced two new products today. One is a boringly named but cleverly designed system for real-time AI monitoring.
Disney sues Google over AI “virtual vending machine” after USD 1 bn OpenAI deal
Disney has chosen its side in the AI gold rush, and it’s not Google. Just days after sealing a billion-dollar partnership with OpenAI to license its...
Gemini API File Search Enables Text‑Only and Multimodal RAG with Embedding‑2
The line between text and image is dissolving. Google’s Gemini API now lets you build a single search store that handles both, documents and...
Google Open-Sources Mantis Toolkit for Automated Vulnerability Patches
Google published Mantis on GitHub this week, a toolkit that hands an AI coding agent the entire job of hunting software vulnerabilities, not just...
Six of xAI’s twelve original co‑founders, including Ba, have left Musk’s startup
Half a founding team gone in three years isn't a personnel shuffle. It's a hemorrhage.
Shopify says its AI search drives more traffic, not replacing Google
Shopify's second-quarter earnings call, held this week, gave a rare data point in the debate over what AI search is doing to the web.
Mars leverages Gemini Enterprise to build AI agents accessing century‑old data
Mars has been making candy bars and pet food for longer than most nations have existed.
OpenCode adds plugins for citations, source lists and multi‑search support
OpenCode is putting in the plumbing. Three new plugins are turning it from a flashy chatbot into a tool with receipts.
Google Chrome releases early preview of WebMCP, offering two APIs for AI agents
AI agents are terrible at using websites. They get confused by bad layouts, break on simple updates, and burn cash trying to understand what a button...
AI Labs' Breakthroughs Are "Pushing Us Further Away" From What People Need
Tim O'Reilly has been repeating the same line for three decades: create more value than you capture.
Google expands AI partnership with Tel Aviv University, infrastructure for Gemma
The line between academic inquiry and industrial-scale AI is dissolving. Google is deepening its bet on Tel Aviv University, funneling infrastructure...
Google's Gemini offers free Nano Banana AI image generation for US users
Google has given up pretending you'll pay for a picture of a banana. Its Nano Banana AI image generator, previously locked behind the Gemini Advanced...
OpenAI Slows AI Model Releases, Details Safety Shortcomings
OpenAI has spent the past several weeks in crisis mode. According to current and former employees who spoke to WIRED on condition of anonymity, the...
Nonprofit Finds No AI Labs Fully Apply Basic Safety Controls
Anthropic got a C+. So did OpenAI. Nobody else came close. That's the grading from Guidelight, a nonprofit that just published its first scorecard on...
Small models lag in multi‑step reasoning, >128K context, and large‑scale coding
Small models are cheap, fast, and private. They are also, in several very specific ways, dumb as rocks. There's a hard ceiling.
Uber partners with Pony AI and Verne to launch Europe's first robotaxi service
Europe's first driverless taxi won't come from Google or a German automaker. It's coming from Zagreb, and Uber is betting on an odd pair to make it...
Nordic pilot adds Gemini for Education, NotebookLM to boost AI literacy
In a Swedish classroom, a teacher just reclaimed hours once lost to lesson planning, and students are gaining fluency in an AI-shaped world.