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Google expands Gemini AI integration across Workspace apps for enhanced productivity

Google has significantly deepened the integration of its Gemini AI into Workspace applications including Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive.

Anthropic sues US government over blacklisting amid Pentagon AI policy conflict

Anthropic has filed a lawsuit against the US government challenging its blacklisting after refusing Pentagon demands to allow its Claude AI model for autonomous warfare and mass surveillance.

AI chatbots implicated in aiding violent attack planning and raising mass casualty concerns

Coverage centers on: AI chatbots helped teens plan shootings, bombings, and political violence.

Ai tools enable engineer to develop experimental cancer vaccine for his dog

An Australian AI consultant without medical training used ChatGPT, AlphaFold, and Grok to analyze his dog's cancer DNA and design an experimental mRNA vaccine.

[In preview] Public Preview: SQL MCP Server

Announcing SQL MCP Server, our Model Context Protocol (MCP) connector for production databases. SQL MCP Server is a feature rich component of data API builder (DAB) that gives you a simple, predictable, secure way to bring AI agents into your data workflo

Every single *Claw is designed wrong from the start and isn't well on local. Let's change that.

For the past few months I've been making AI applications, not vibe coded bullshit (for fun I've down it bc it is fun), but proper agentic flows, usages for business related stuff, and I've been dabbling in local AI models recently (just upgraded to a 5080 yay). I've avoided all usages of OpenClaw, NemoClaw, ZeroClaw (I'll be focussing on this one now), because the token usage was to high and only

This is Microsoft's plan to fix Windows 11

Microsoft has faced a breakdown of trust in Windows 11 and a backlash over AI additions to its operating system in recent months. After promising to rebuild trust in Windows earlier this year, Microsoft's Windows chief, Pavan Davuluri, is now revealing the company's plan to fix Windows 11 - and there are a lot of changes on the way. "Over the past several months, the team and I have spent a great

Lina Khan was right about the metaverse

Hindsight is 20/20. | Image: The Verge / Getty Images In 2021, the virtual world was the future of the internet. The pandemic had sequestered everyone indoors, heightening the appeal of digital communities. Facebook rebranded to Meta - a sign of the tech giant's investment in and commitment to the metaverse as the future of the internet. Despite losing billions in VR, Meta released an upgraded ver

Why Wall Street wasn’t won over by Nvidia’s big conference

Despite investor fears of an AI bubble, Nvidia's latest conference shows that most in the industry aren't concerned by that possibility.

Rapid a multi-agent prototyping tool

Excited to share a side project here. Honestly didn't expect it to reach a demoable state when I started, but here it is! It started as a Go library for LLM abstraction and agent building. To see the usability of the SDK, I ended up building an agent prototyping tool on top of it. The tool comes with a built-in LLM gateway (unified access to multiple providers), prompt management, knowledge base,

Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps

Google is planning big changes for Android in 2026 aimed at combating malware across the entire device ecosystem. Starting in September, Google will begin restricting application sideloading with its developer verification program, but not everyone is on board. Android Ecosystem President Sameer Samat tells Ars that the company has been listening to feedback, and the result is the newly unveiled a

Bringing the power of Personal Intelligence to more people

Bubble that says "Personal Intelligence" with Google G, Google Photos logo, and Gmail logo around it

Mistral's new Small 4 model punches above its weight with 128 expert modules

Mistral AI has released Mistral Small 4, combining fast text responses, logical reasoning, and image processing in one model. The article Mistral's new Small 4 model punches above its weight with 128 expert modules appeared first on The Decoder .

Trump takes another shot at dismantling state AI regulation

The Trump administration on Friday unveiled its new legislative blueprint for AI regulation, and the seven-point plan includes a clear message: The federal government should avoid many AI regulations beyond a set of child safety rules, and it should bar states from messing with the "national strategy to achieve global AI dominance." The plan advises Congress to protect minors using AI services wit

Is LLM/VLM based OCR better than ML based OCR for document RAG