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Adamya Sharma / Android Authority: Google rebrands Fitbit Premium as Google Health Premium, adding Gemini-powered coaching and other features, and raises its annual price from 79.99 to 99.99 — The reb

The agricultural and crop protection supply chain is one of the most intricate networks in the world. It takes up to two years to turn active ingredients into the final products farmers need, and a si

Release: llm-gemini 0.31 gemini-3.1-flash-lite is no longer a preview. Here's my write-up of the Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview model back in March. I don't believe this new non-preview model has chang

There weren't a lot of big new announcements from Anthropic at yesterday's Code w/ Claude event, but the biggest by far was the deal they've struck with SpaceX/xAI to use 'all of the capacity of their

Save to Spotify is a new command-line tool designed specifically for AI agents like OpenClaw, Claude Code, or OpenAI Codex. If you're the kind of person who collects research on a topic, then feeds it

This document likely describes OpenAI's implementation of trusted access controls and security features in GPT-5.5 and a specialized GPT-5.5-Cyber variant designed for cybersecurity applications. It p

Terrence O'Brien / The Verge: Spotify launches Save to Spotify, a command-line tool that allows AI agents to upload AI-generated audio summaries and personal podcasts to a user's account — A new comma

OpenAI announced a test of advertisements within ChatGPT, marking the company's exploration of ad-supported monetization models alongside its existing subscription offerings. The initiative aims to ba

Vibe Inc., the creator of a contextual artificial intelligence workspace platform that handles real-world meetings, introduced a wearable device today that brings an AI assistant to professionals wher

Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: While Anthropic will use the Colossus 1 data center, which has a really bad environmental record, xAI retains the larger Colossus 2 for its own AI training —

Anthropic has signed an agreement with SpaceX to use all of the compute capacity at SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, Tennessee, providing access to over 300 megawatts of capacity (220,000+

Anthropic PBC today announced that it will use SpaceX Corp.’s Colossus 1 supercomputer to power its Claude chatbot. The system was originally built in 2024 by xAI Holdings Corp., an artificial intelli

Anthropic: Following its SpaceX deal, Anthropic doubles Claude Code's five-hour rate limits for paid plans and removes peak hours limit reduction for Pro and Max plans — We've agreed to a partnership

True spatial intelligence for multimodal agents transcends low-level geometric perception, evolving from knowing where things are to understanding what they are for. While existing benchmarks, such as

Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: Google Chrome silently installs a ~4GB Gemini Nano model on desktop devices; Google says it has been offered since 2024 and users can remove it via settings — The ongoing marc

At Google, we see firsthand how cyber threats can outpace traditional defense mechanisms — and how agentic threat intelligence can help bridge the gap. We have a vision for agentic defense where auton

Ryan Whitwam / Ars Technica: Google releases Multi-Token Prediction drafters for its Gemma 4 models, which use a form of speculative decoding to guess future tokens for faster inference — Google launc

Simon Willison's live blog covers Anthropic's Code w/ Claude 2026 event, documenting the morning keynote sessions with real-time updates. The event featured announcements including updates to Claude m

OpenAI Group PBC is replacing the default model in ChatGPT with the launch of GPT-5.5 Instant, claiming users will notice fewer hallucinations when it’s discussing “sensitive topics” such as finance,

AI coding agents are rapidly becoming ubiquitous across the software industry, fundamentally changing how developers write, test, and debug daily code. While these tools excel at localized, self-conta

Singular Bank leverages OpenAI's ChatGPT and Codex to accelerate banking operations and developer productivity. The integration enables bankers and software engineers to streamline workflows, automate

Welcome to The Blueprint, a new feature where we highlight how Google Cloud customers are tackling unique and common challenges across industries using the latest AI and cloud technologies. We hope to

Uber has integrated OpenAI's technology to enhance its platform, helping drivers optimize earnings through intelligent features and enabling users to book rides more efficiently. This partnership like

I recently talked with Joseph Ruscio about AI coding tools for Heavybit's High Leverage podcast: Ep. #9, The AI Coding Paradigm Shift with Simon Willison. Here are some of my highlights, including my

The AI era demands a fundamental shift in security, and that includes identity and access management (IAM). Traditional controls simply aren’t built for autonomous AI agents that interact with sensiti

In this episode of The Agent Factory, Vlad Kolesnikov and I sat down with Omar Sanseviero from the Developer Experience team at Google DeepMind. We explored the groundbreaking release of Gemma 4: a ne

Eight months after closing a 350 million funding round, Sierra Technologies Inc. today announced that it has raised an additional 950 million at a 15 billion valuation. Alphabet Inc.’s GV venture capi

Seattle-based artificial intelligence research institute Ai2, the Allen Institute for AI, today announced its next-generation open-source foundation artificial intelligence models, aimed at enabling r

Meta is facing a class action lawsuit filed by five major book publishers and one author over claims the company 'engaged in one of the most massive infringements of copyrighted materials in history'

The world of AI is rapidly shifting from experimental Large Language Models to an era of Agentic AI. In the agentic era, autonomous software agents act on behalf of employees and consumers—driving a f

Release: datasette-referrer-policy 0.1 The OpenStreetMap tiles on the Datasette global-power-plants demo weren't displaying correctly. This turned out to be caused by two bugs. The first is that the C

Hugh Langley / Business Insider: Doc and sources: Google is testing an agent in the Gemini app, internally named Remy, that can integrate with Google services to take actions on a user's behalf — - Go

Dyna Software Inc., a company that provides platform governance and health provider for ServiceNow Inc., today announced the launch of Platform Copilot, an agentic artificial intelligence tool the com

Building AI agents that work well in a demo is one thing, but running them in production requires serious infrastructure. At Google Cloud Next '26, we introduced Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform to he

Google Home's May 2026 update brings a faster camera experience, Gemini 3.1 for complex voice commands, and new web-based controls. The refreshed camera UI features faster navigation and zoomed-in pre

Google Home users can now ask Gemini to complete more complex, multi-step tasks and combine multiple tasks in a single command. Google has updated Gemini for Home to Gemini 3.1, which it says will imp

Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and Elon Musk's xAI have agreed to allow the US government to review new AI models before they're released to the public. In an announcement on Tuesday, the Commerce Depart

As artificial intelligence moves from experimentation into production, government agencies are becoming an unexpected proving ground for large-scale workforce transformation. Faced with mounting opera

GPT-5.5 Instant is OpenAI's faster, more efficient variant of their GPT-5.5 model, designed to deliver improved reasoning and clarity while maintaining lower latency for real-time applications. The mo

GPT-5.5 Instant is a faster, more efficient variant of OpenAI's GPT-5.5 model designed for real-time applications and lower-latency tasks. The system card documents the model's capabilities, limitatio

Managing agents and their actions can quickly grow in complexity and introduce security risks unique to AI. To address these challenges, at Google Cloud Next we announced Agent Gateway to provide simp

This newsletter episode covers recent AI industry developments including a legal dispute between OpenAI and Elon Musk, Microsoft's involvement in AI developments, the release of DeepSeek's v4 model, a

OpenAI introduced new advertising purchasing options for ChatGPT, expanding how businesses can buy ad placements within the platform. These new methods likely provide advertisers with additional flexi

OpenAI's newest default model for ChatGPT might not make stuff up as much. Hallucinations have been an ongoing problem for AI models, but OpenAI says its new GPT-5.5 Instant model has 'significant imp

The agentic era is here, and the public sector is at the forefront of leading this transformation.At Google Cloud Next ’26, it was clear that academia and public sector organizations are no longer jus

Subquadratic, a company developing a novel generative artificial intelligence model, launched today with 29 million in seed funding. The new large language model, dubbed SubQ, uses what the company ca