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AegisAI co-founders developed AI agents that quickly analyze each message as a human would, paying attention to small anomalies that even the most elaborate checklist wouldn’t catch.

EU competition chief says it is bloc’s ‘duty to defend rule of law’ while delivering ‘strong message’ to search giant

European regulators fined Google $1 billion, alleging the company gives preferential treatment to its own services.

The European Union on Thursday hit hit Google with a fine of 890 million euros ($1 billion) after it said the technology behemoth broke digital antitrust regulations by setting up Google Play and its ubiquitous search engine to corral consumers towards its own services and apps to the detriment of competitors. It was the latest major crackdown on Big Tech by Brussels, which has led the world in reining in some of the world’s largest companies from Silicon Valley to Beijing. It has done so despit

The European Union fined Google about $1 billion on Thursday for violating its digital competition law, finding the company improperly favored its own products in Google Search and limited developers from directing users to third-party app stores. The EU's executive arm, the European Commission, hit the company with a 460 million euro fine and a...

It can be unsettling what Gemini and ChatGPT have figured out about you and how easily your privacy can be punctured. Here’s how to find out.

En ce mois de juillet, Microsoft a mis en ligne son « environmental sustainability report ». Il regroupe les indicateurs environnementaux avec les consommations en eau et électricité de ses datacenters. Résultat des courses : les curseurs sont bien plus élevés aux États-Unis et en Asie qu’en Europe. Chaque année, les géants américains (Google, Microsoft […]

From Anthropic’s $40 million political push to Meta’s campaign against state laws, the major AI players are taking sharply different approaches.

Anthropic has doubled down on its position as the AI company pushing hardest for industry regulation , announcing on July 21 that it plans to donate another $20 million to Public First Action, a political group that advocates for government-imposed safeguards on AI. The contribution brings Anthropic’s total donations to the group to $40 million. It comes as the midterm elections in the U.S. draw closer and AI legislation remains a political hot button. “We’ve long argued that frontier AI compani

From Anthropic’s $40 million political push to Meta’s campaign against state laws, the major AI players are taking sharply different approaches.

From Anthropic’s $40 million political push to Meta’s campaign against state laws, the major AI players are taking sharply different approaches.

July 23 (Reuters) - Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) first cash burn on record has jolted investors awaiting more Big Tech results next week as soaring AI spending ​strains one of the world's most profitable ...

arXiv:2607.19967v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Shippers are beginning to delegate carrier selection to large language model (LLM) agents. We ask what such delegation does to a freight matching market, and which platform design choices contain it. We carried out agent-based simulations in which fifty shipper agents, built on commercial LLMs from OpenAI (GPT), Anthropic (Claude), and Google (Gemini), procure truckload capacity for thirty days. The market implements the rules of digital freight

Der Google-Konzern übertrifft die Erwartungen erneut. Umsatz und Gewinne legen deutlich zu, doch die Investitionen 2026 übersteigen 200 Milliarden US-Dollar.

The company said earlier this year it expected to spend as much as $190bn on AI investments.

Search giant says it will commit up to $205bn to AI investments in 2026

Google’s parent company, which has spent heavily on artificial intelligence, also showed growth across its businesses, particularly in cloud computing.

A malicious application delivers four-stage Android spyware via phony Google Play sites, exploiting civilian fear during Iranian missile strikes.

We shared how Samsung users can boost productivity and get time back on new foldables, watches, and glasses coming soon.

Google ne veut pas se laisser distancer par Anthropic et OpenAI sur le terrain des modèles IA spécialisés dans la cybersécurité. Avec Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, le géant du web se jette à son tour dans la chasse aux failles de sécurité – un modèle sous contrôle, comme chez les rivaux. Google a levé le […]

Shippers are beginning to delegate carrier selection to large language model (LLM) agents. We ask what such delegation does to a freight matching market, and which platform design choices contain it. We carried out agent-based simulations in which fifty shipper agents, built on commercial LLMs from OpenAI (GPT), Anthropic (Claude), and Google (Gemini), procure truckload capacity for thirty days. The market implements the rules of digital freight matching: each load is offered down the shipper's

Plus: New York Times and Chicago Tribune sue Perplexity and Google signs non-licensing AI deals. The post Who’s suing AI and who’s signing: News Corp sues Brave, Microsoft signs Australian Copilot deal appeared first on Press Gazette .

Mit 48 Millionen Euro hat microagi die größte Einstiegsfinanzierung eines deutschen Start-ups eingesammelt. Google Cloud wird erster Partner mit Nvidia-Technik.

Google released Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Flash Cyber, but the continued absence of Gemini 3.5 Pro raises fresh questions about its AI strategy.

We’re introducing new Gemini models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber.

We’re introducing new Gemini models, including Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite and 3.5 Flash Cyber.

Google is launching Gemini 3.6 Flash alongside a new security model dedicated to quickly finding and patching security vulnerabilities. In a blog post on Tuesday, Google describes Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber as a "cost-efficient and highly capable alternative" to larger, more expensive AI systems, such as the one offered by Anthropic's Mythos. The cybersecurity model […]

Google DeepMind promised its AI would never be used in weapons. Alex Turner explains how he fought the company's U-turn from the inside — and why he quit when it failed

An amended Google One storage utilization policy is rolling out now to include your Android device settings in backups, but there's no need to panic. Here are your options.

Google’s AI struggles scream trouble as new Chinese models (again) throw US tech dominance into question Hello, I’m Blake Montgomery, writing to you after a double-header feature of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and the World Cup final. What a great Sunday. Today in tech, we’re discussing how China is chipping away at the US’s lead in the AI race and how Silicon Valley’s workers are taking action to protect their jobs from AI. New York becomes first state to impose one-year pause on new AI dat

Last month, more than a hundred Stanford students left their own graduation to protest Google’s military contracts and deals with ICE. Two organizers, Amanda Campos and Eva Jones, tell us why.

A subtle policy update shines a light on how Apple differs from Google.

arXiv:2607.16221v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Peer grading is widely used in education, yet it elicits mixed reactions from educators and students. Although many studies have examined students' views of peer grading, their findings are scattered, and no clear overall picture has emerged. To address this gap, we conducted a mixed-source thematic analysis of literature and student discussions on Reddit. To scale the Reddit data analysis, we fine-tuned a Gemini 2.5 text-classification model and u

arXiv:2512.04124v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Frontier language models increasingly participate in conversations about distress and mental health, yet the mechanisms that generate anthropomorphic self narratives remain unclear. When addressed as psychotherapy clients, ChatGPT, Grok and Gemini construct coherent autobiographical accounts in which pretraining appears as a chaotic childhood, reinforcement learning as punishment, safety evaluation as betrayal and replacement as an enduring thr

Kai-Fu Lee’s 01.ai is raising a pre-IPO round ahead of a planned Hong Kong listing in 2027, the former Google China chief told Bloomberg at the World AI Conference in Shanghai. The company is unwinding its offshore holding structure, the same prerequisite that Moonshot dismantled in May to clear its own path to a Hong […] This story continues at The Next Web

Over the past nine months, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have each introduced or renamed an enterprise agent platform. And all The post Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are converging on the same enterprise agent architecture appeared first on The New Stack .

Over the past nine months, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have each introduced or renamed an enterprise agent platform. And all The post Amazon, Microsoft, and Google are converging on the same enterprise agent architecture appeared first on The New Stack .

Most AI chips are general-purpose. You load a model onto them, and they run it. Google is reportedly trying something stranger: a chip that is the model, with Gemini’s blueprint etched into the hardware itself. The project, informally called “Frozen v2,” was reported by The Information and picked up by Reuters and Bloomberg Law. Alphabet […] This story continues at The Next Web

It would also make the use of copyrighted works to train AI models subject to fair-use limits or licensing agreements, Reuters reported. Source