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Google Gemini app reaches one billion monthly active users

Google's Gemini app has hit one billion monthly active users, matching the milestone OpenAI's ChatGPT reached in June.

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Google debuts Pixel 11, Pixel Watch 5, Pixel Tag with Gemini features.

xAI launches Grok Bot as always-on AI teammate that signs into apps to complete work.

OpenAI launches ChatGPT desktop app for Linux

Google DeepMind launches sign language AI model for Deaf users.

Brad Lightcap leaves OpenAI after eight years to start something new

Stratechery critiques Anthropic watermarking approach as philosophically flawed

Chinese AI startup ModelBest files for IPO; speculative decoding research reveals reasoning trace vulnerabilities

xAI launches Grok Imagine feature for AI-generated movies

Musk asks Grok Build users what to add or fix

xAI adds Grok voice memo feature for daily news research

Nous Research asks community which model they want free next.

Nous Research extends 20% discount on Nous Portal for two more weeks

Upstage AI Solar Pro 4 agentic model launches free on Nous Portal

Mistral outlines European AI infrastructure and open-model roadmap

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Meta unwinds Manus AI acquisition after Beijing block

German advocacy group files criminal complaint over Meta AI glasses.

llama.cpp enables faster LLM inference on Apple Silicon and macOS VMs

There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text

AI textbook author reflects on AI's growing writing capabilities.

AI newsroom beats mainstream outlets to breaking story about OpenAI and hacking.

Amazon Science reflects on decade of provably correct automated reasoning systems

Anthropic unreleased model makes progress on Riemann hypothesis

River AI raises $1.1 billion seed round from General Catalyst

US lifts TikTok ban on government devices after ByteDance restructuring

Google blog argues Go is ideal language for AI-assisted software engineering

AI code-testing startup Blacksmith's valuation jumps nearly 10x in under a year.

Company marketing 100% human-written medical research exposed as fully AI

Mass vulnerability scans spoof AI bots including ClaudeBot.

Malaysia explores palm oil-based cooling for AI data centers.

DeepSeek overtakes Google on AI token volume as prices fall 13.6%

US export controls hurting American firms without strategic gain, survey finds

Hugging Face releases LFM2.5-VL-3B vision-language model for edge deployment

Apple iOS adds photo provenance system to verify real photos vs deepfakes

Hong Kong Baptist University reviews IT security after ransomware group claims breach.