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Ryanair signs five-year Google Cloud deal to expand AI in airline operations
Europe's largest low-cost carrier is deepening its bet on cloud AI to run scheduling, ops, and customer-facing systems.

Nvidia, Google, and Microsoft push 800 VDC power standard for AI factories
An OCP-backed direct-current architecture aims to unblock rack density as Wood Mackenzie projects $9 trillion in AI infrastructure spend through 2040.

Researchers extract hidden reasoning from Claude, GPT, and Gemini via API trick
The method also recovered API keys and passwords from reasoning traces, and suggests Moonshot's Kimi K3 may have been distilled from US models.

AI slop backlash forces Meta, Google to pull generative features
Meta killed its Instagram deepfake tool after three days of public outcry, as nearly half of young Americans say generative AI does more harm than good.

Google is force-shipping a Gemini toolbar into Docs. Here's how to turn it off.
The opt-out lives inside a Gmail setting that also kills spellcheck, smart compose, and autocorrect. A Chrome extension does it cleaner.

Google AI leadership reshuffles as Jeff Dean exits amid model race pressure
Senior departures at Google DeepMind land as rival models from Anthropic and OpenAI keep setting the pace.

Google Maps turns Ask Maps into an agent that orders food and books hotels
Ask Maps now handles restaurant orders through Square, Toast, and Uber Eats, and pulls from Gmail and Calendar to personalize trip planning.

Google's $15B India data center project faces water and wildlife pushback
The Visakhapatnam build is Google's largest AI infrastructure bet in India, and local objections are mounting before construction begins.

Jeff Dean exits Google to launch Discovery Loop, an AI-for-science startup
The 30th Google employee is leaving after 27 years, taking three top researchers with him to automate the experimental loop.

Google promotes Hassabis to Alphabet chief scientist in DeepMind reshuffle
Koray Kavukcuoglu takes over day-to-day AI leadership as Jeff Dean departs to launch a new AI research company backed by Google.

Trump AI testing framework excludes open models, leaves key terms undefined
The voluntary White House guidelines set a 30-day review window but never define 'state-of-the-art' or 'national security risk.'

Google Assistant shuts down on Android phones starting September 4
Gemini becomes the only option on Android phones, tablets, and paired devices as Google finally executes the long-delayed Assistant sunset.

Reddit moderators fight AI-driven spam as chatbots make the site search's top citation
Reddit was the most-cited domain by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Mode in May, drawing a wave of covert brand promotion.

Reddit CEO questions Google AI Overviews as shares fall 20%
Steve Huffman told investors the search giant's AI summaries haven't delivered value comparable to traditional links, as Reddit weighs ending a $60M Google deal.

Google pulls Nano Banana 2 image generation from Google Earth one day after launch
The feature let users superimpose AI-generated images onto satellite maps; Google cited policy violations and promised stronger guardrails.

Reddit revenue jumps 61% to $805M, but AI search rattles investors
Q2 beat Wall Street on the top and bottom line, yet the stock fell 10% after CEO Steve Huffman flagged 'choppy' search referrals.

Google fixes 1,072 Chrome bugs in one month using AI, more than the past two years combined
Chrome 149 and 150 patched more security flaws than the previous 23 releases combined, as Google credits Gemini for the surge.

Google's SynthID watermark survives 300 edits but fragmentation undermines it
Testing shows SynthID holds up through compression cycles, but a 20% crop breaks it — and rival detectors can't read each other's marks.

Artists press courts on AI training data, and start winning
Anthropic's $1.5B settlement is the largest copyright payout ever; suits against Google, Meta, Stability, and Suno keep multiplying.

Google's own data shows Gemini isn't automating white-collar work away
A study of 15 million Gemini interactions finds AI use is shallow, collaborative, and concentrated on low-expertise tasks.

Google lifts AI capex to $205B, rattling Wall Street on data-center returns
A $15B jump from last quarter's projection lands as Nvidia, Oracle, and OpenAI deals stretch the AI build-out's financing further.

Google loses DMCA suit against SerpApi, vows amended complaint in 21 days
A federal court dismissed Google's scraping suit, ruling it lacks standing over content it doesn't own. Reddit's parallel case now looks shaky.

Claude shared chats and Artifacts surfaced in Google search results
Anthropic's share-link feature exposed conversations containing medical records, children's contact details, and internal company documents.

Google AI Overviews now appear in 43% of searches, up from 15% a year ago
Similarweb data shows Google is turning search from a gateway into a destination, with AI Mode visits more than doubling to 279 million.
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