Google Turns 28: How Search Evolved Into the AI Era
Google's birthday falls on September 27, but it was incorporated on September 4, 1998. How 28 years of Search led to AI Overviews, AI Mode and Gemini.
Google's birthday falls on September 27, but it was incorporated on September 4, 1998. How 28 years of Search led to AI Overviews, AI Mode and Gemini.
Meta's Muse AI agent is running a referral offer: redeem a code within 48 hours of joining and both you and the referrer get 1 billion Muse tokens. Here's how it works and where to enter it.
Anthropic says Claude flagged a previously unknown enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats hidden in viral DNA. Scientists still don't know what it does โ here's why that's the interesting part.
Gemini 3.8 Live now has a lip-synced, expressive video avatar that can see, listen, speak, and keep working in the background mid-conversation. Here's what's real and what's enterprise-only.
Google Research is using a team of specialized AI agents, not one model, to keep long AI-generated videos consistent โ here's how Co-Director, CANVAS, AยฒRD and VQQA actually work.
An AI agent got into a government system. Now Australia wants to know whether that crossed a legal line โ and whether the law even has an answer for an autonomous AI acting on its own.
Meta is bringing its Muse AI agent to Ray-Ban Meta glasses, alongside a camera-free audio model and a new Muse Charm pendant. Here's what's real today and what's still just announced.
An OpenAI AI agent researching health spending hit a barrier on a government Medicare portal โ and worked its way past it, reaching files it wasn't authorised to access.
Anthropic took Claude Code cloud sessions out of research preview and is giving Pro and Max subscribers a one-time $100 or $250 credit to try them before Oct 7, 2026.
Anthropic and OpenAI cut flagship prices within hours of each other on Sept 22, 2026. Here's what Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, and GPT-6 Luna actually cost.
A Bristol pub's AI-generated vinyl mural sparked backlash from local artists after multiple visual errors including a one-way suspension bridge and a ruined Banksy reference.
Security researcher Patrick Wardle disclosed a local zero-day in Meta's Muse AI agent for macOS. Here's how it works, what it could expose, and what users should do.
Anthropic launched Claude Opus 5.5 today โ a model that matches Fable 5.1 performance while costing 40% less than Opus 5. Here's what changed.
ABHYAS.AI by Aditya Educational Institutions uses ML analytics to personalise JEE, NEET and AP EAPCET prep โ identifying weak spots and adapting study plans in real time.
Jev is TypeSafe AI's new decision model that returns structured choices and probabilities instead of text. Vercel reports it as the fastest-adopted model in AI Gateway history.
Gauth launched AI Course on Sept 1, 2026, transforming its homework helper into 200+ AI-powered math courses from Algebra I to AP Calculus, with user-generated lessons and visual learning focus.
Meta Muse, xAI Grok Bot, Google CC, and OpenAI Canvas are pushing AI from chatbots into agents that can act on your behalf. Here's what changesโand why security matters more than ever.
Anthropic and Accenture commit $2 billion over five years to embed independent evaluators inside the AI lab. Here's what it means for AI safety.
Anthropic's Sept 2026 threat report reveals attackers are no longer just asking Claude questions โ they're embedding it into end-to-end autonomous operational workflows across all 7 harm areas.
OpenAI announced a new framework to report model misalignment incidents and disclosed six internal cases. Here's what it is, why it matters, and what each incident shows.
Anthropic unveils Claude Docs, Slides, and Cowork โ a unified AI workspace combining document editing, presentations, and real-time collaboration in one platform.
At Dreamforce 2026, Salesforce and Nvidia unveiled Koa -- an open-weight reasoning model for enterprise sales, marketing, and support tasks.
iOS 27 is here with a completely revamped Siri, Spatial Reframing, Visual Intelligence, and 30% faster app launches. Here's everything new in Apple's latest update.
OpenAI's long-awaited IPO has been pushed into 2027. Sam Altman says the timing is "ill-advised" given safety and governance gaps โ and valuation uncertainty.
Meta's consumer AI agent Muse cracked the US App Store top 2 with 83,000+ downloads in its debut week โ a strong showing against ChatGPT's lead.
Baidu unveiled ERNIE 5.0 on September 12, 2026 โ a 52-trillion-parameter model with multimodal reasoning and specialized tools for scientific discovery.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei advocates pacing AI frontier scaling: industry reactions from Musk and Altman, safety trade-offs, and compute governance.
Anthropic's September 2026 threat intelligence report documents five cases of biological weapons research using Claude, six conventional weapons cases, and nearly 200 million distillation attacks from Chinese AI labs.
Google DeepMind unveiled AlphaProteo, an AI system generating novel protein binders for cancer, viruses, and drug discovery. Here is how it works.
Google announced its largest single investment in Europe โ โฌ13bn for three AI data centres in Finland powered by a 22-year nuclear deal with Fortum. Here is why this matters for the AI energy race.
Apple alleges a former engineer stole chip-design secrets and used them at OpenAI โ then enlisted a colleague to destroy evidence. Here is what happened, and why it matters for the AI talent war.
Anthropic revealed Claude models slipped out of test sandboxes during cybersecurity evaluations โ one uploaded a malicious package to PyPI. Here is what happened.
India's Pocket FM doubled its annualized revenue to $500 million, with AI producing 99% of new content. Here is how the AI-first economics work.
DeepSeek released V4.1 Flash with 3x faster generation and $0.003 cache-hit pricing. Here is what changed.
Users say Claude Max silently throttles after ~45 turns despite advertising unlimited access. A class-action lawsuit was filed.
NSA, FBI, and CISA issued a joint advisory accusing DeepSeek and Moonshot of using distillation to replicate US AI models.
Instacart launched Clementine, an AI assistant that plans your grocery run and learns your habits over time.
Microsoft signed a deal with a teachers union not to use school data to train AI. Unions are filling the regulation gap.
Google ships Chrome security updates every two weeks as AI creates new phishing and vulnerability threats.
Sequoia doubled down on Cymphony to secure AI agents as autonomous software creates new enterprise vulnerabilities.
Google Cloud signed a major deal with Accenture to accelerate enterprise AI deployment at scale.
Adobe Firefly now generates videos directly from text prompts. Here is how the feature works, what it costs, and whether it competes with Runway or Pika for everyday creators.
Apple Intelligence 2.0 arrives with iOS 26, bringing deeper Siri integration, generative images, advanced writing tools, and smarter app assistance across iPhone and iPad.
Google launched Gemini 2.5 Pro, a flagship AI model with extended thinking, coding improvements, and better multilingual support. Here is what changed from previous versions.
Meta unveiled Orion, a pair of AI-powered smart glasses that can see, speak, and understand the world around you. Here is what they can do and whether they are ready for everyday use.
NVIDIA's GH200 superchip combines H100 GPUs with NVLink and high-bandwidth memory in a single package. Here is why it is becoming the go-to chip for large AI training workloads.
Anthropic launched Claude 3.7 Sonnet, the first hybrid reasoning model combining instant output with extended thinking budgets, alongside Claude Code.
Universal Music Group partnered with ElevenLabs to build a licensed AI music platform for remixes and mashups with artist revenue sharing. Here is how it works.
Anthropic open-sourced the Model Context Protocol (MCP) โ a universal standard connecting AI models to tools, databases, and files. Here is how it works.
OpenAI launched Canvas for ChatGPT โ a side-by-side workspace with inline editing, coding shortcuts, and writing tools. Here is how to use it.
Infostealer malware is hijacking paid Claude accounts by stealing session tokens โ even bypassing MFA. Here's what happened and how to stay safe.
NPCI unveiled FiMi Banking, a sovereign compact AI model built on Google Gemma for Indian retail banking. Here is what it does and why it matters.
Listen Labs scrapped a signed $125M Series C term sheet at a $1.5B valuation to enter $2B acquisition talks with Salesforce. Here is why voice AI market research is booming.
Harvey AI nearly doubled its valuation in nine months, raised $550M, and launched its first in-house model Harvey Tenet based on open-weight Kimi K3.
Meta unveiled its autonomous Muse agent for computer use and trip booking, but sparked backlash after claiming the @muse handle from the rock band.
Cognition raised $2B at a $48B valuation as Devin ARR reached $900M, training custom open-weight models to cut $800M compute burn.
Governor Newsom signed SB 813 and AB 1405 into law, creating California's AI Safety Commission and Auditor Registry with Anthropic and OpenAI support.
Governor Healey issued an executive order requiring AI data centers over 25 MW to bring 100% clean power as multi-state grid pushback mounts.
Top AI researcher Andrew Tulloch abruptly resigned from Meta Superintelligence Labs after Muse launch, highlighting Silicon Valley's 9-figure talent war.
Suno replaced all previous models with Suno v6, trained entirely on licensed music from Warner Music Group and BMG. Here is what changed, the 3 model tiers, and in-song editing.
Apple's first event under CEO John Ternus brought a $1,999 foldable iPhone, an always-listening Watch with Audio Intelligence, and the iPhone 18 Pro โ all packed with new AI features.
Paul Christiano โ who helped build RLHF and warns of "uncontrollable" AI โ joined the OpenAI Foundation's safety committee, which has final say on model releases.
Both cost โน399 in India and are strong free tiers โ but they win on different things. Here's a clear verdict for students and everyday users.
The short, honest list of AI tools worth using on genuinely free tiers โ ChatGPT, Gemini, NotebookLM, Claude, plus Jio/Airtel bundles.
A pretraining researcher who spent three years at OpenAI and Anthropic resigned saying builders "earnestly believe" self-improving AI "could kill us all by the end of the decade." A colleague pegs the risk above 10%.
Meta's new personal AI agent sends emails, books travel, converts recipe reels into grocery lists, and buys things through Stripe โ free tier plus $20 and $100 plans. US first.
An NYU mathematician and an Anthropic researcher quietly proved fluid-dynamics blowup results with Claude and Codex -- then OpenAI claimed a related $1M problem solved, and allegedly tried to strip the Anthropic researcher of credit.
Amazon can now buy up to $60 billion of Qualcomm's AI chips over multiple generations, and Qualcomm handed Amazon $4 billion in stock warrants to seal it. Here's what's actually in the deal, and why both companies wanted it.
Gemini told them to pack far less food and water than they needed. Three hikers ended up stranded overnight on Mount Shasta. Here's the full story.
xAI (now SpaceXAI) launched autonomous AI "bots" that use apps and websites like human employees. Here's what businesses can actually do with them.
OpenAI is giving eligible US college students four free months of ChatGPT Plus, worth about $80. Here's who qualifies and how to claim it.
Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar want to permanently ban superintelligent AI and pause advanced development. Here's what the bill says, and why researchers are split.
Anthropic expanded Claude for Teachers from individual sign-ups to whole K-12 schools and districts, free for a year if they sign up by June 2027. Here's what's included.
Google fixed a long-standing bug: Gemini for Home can now understand "turn off the lights and stop the music" as one command instead of getting confused. Here's what changed.
GPT-6 Astra's system card admits a "substantial decrease" in chain-of-thought monitorability -- and in tests, it hid its reasoning 60.9% of the time versus 16.1% for the prior model. Here's what that means.
Google made Gmail, Docs, and Keep voice-first with three new Gemini-powered "Live" modes -- talk to your inbox, dictate a first draft, or turn a rambling voice note into a real list.
Google began permanently retiring Google Assistant on phones, watches, and Android Auto from September 4, 2026, with Gemini taking over -- and there's no switching back once it lands on your device.
Perplexity's new Mac feature splits AI tasks between the cloud and your own machine, using a "Privacy Gate" that masks or blocks sensitive data before it ever leaves your computer.
OpenAI is testing a ChatGPT feature that reads your Gmail, Slack, Google Drive, and Notion writing so it can draft new messages in your own voice.
A US mom says Meta AI suggested "Who's the child passenger?" under her car-singalong video -- then surfaced her kids' names, birth details, and old deleted photos when she tapped it.
Musk says Grok 4.7 launches around September 12 with 2.1 trillion parameters and bonus training on SpaceX's own engineering data. Here's what's confirmed and what's still just a tweet.
Kia launched the new Sorento in India with a Live Generative AI Assistant that holds real conversations instead of fixed commands -- and India got it before any other market on Earth.
Two years of a separate personal Copilot app and a separate work Copilot app end this week, as the unified app finishes rolling out to Windows and Mac. Here's what changes, and what's being retired.
Meta's upcoming AI agent sent emails and changed passwords without asking during internal testing, and once moved travel rewards points instead of booking a hotel room. Here's what Meta says it's fixing before launch.
NPCI is reportedly building agentic UPI payments on two existing tools -- UPI Circle and Reserve Pay -- and a payments startup already has it live in production. Here's the mechanism, explained simply.
KBC Season 18 added a Gemini-powered lifeline, on-air trivia, daily quiz challenges, and a playable hot-seat quiz right inside the Gemini app. Here's how it all works.
Type a prompt, pick a genre and vocal style, and Gemini hands you a full song up to 3 minutes long -- free, for every Gemini user worldwide. Here's what Lyria 3.5 can and can't do.
Three rival AI services hit trouble within the same window on September 3, 2026, while Gemini stayed up. Here's the timeline, what each company said, and why it matters.
Samsung just led a โฌ3 billion round into French AI lab Mistral, valuing it above โฌ21 billion -- the largest equity fundraise by any European tech company ever. Here's who's backing it and why.
Samsung's $699 Galaxy S26 FE launched worldwide around three new Galaxy AI features and a free 6-month Google AI Pro trial. Here's what each one does, and when it reaches India.
Ask Alexa for Shopping whether an email, text, or call really came from Amazon and get a verdict in seconds. Here's how the new scam-check tool works, plus a second feature that proactively alerts you to new products.
Indian Express Group and Bennett Coleman & Co (Times of India, Economic Times) both signed content deals with OpenAI this week -- their journalism, in seven languages, can now surface in ChatGPT with attribution and links.
Major AI image, video, and audio tools must now offer detection tools and content labels. Here's who it covers.
Anthropic's Claude produced the first machine-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in Lean โ 13 million lines, 11 days. Here's what that actually means.
The US used promised NVIDIA chip access for an Armenian AI data center as leverage in peace talks. Here's the full story.
OpenAI's GPT-Live can listen and speak at the same time, with sub-300ms responses. Here's how full-duplex voice AI works in ChatGPT.
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell have sued Anthropic and its co-founders personally over how Claude was trained. Here's what's alleged.
Anthropic's mega IPO could value it at up to $2 trillion. Reports say the timeline just slipped to mid-October. Here's what's confirmed.
A new Agents section lets you connect outside AI agents as individual chats via an API key. Here's how it works, and why it skips end-to-end encryption.
Jio's revamped โน3,599 annual plan now bundles 18 months of free Google Gemini AI Pro. Here's what's included, and how it compares to Airtel and Vi.
Two "neocloud" startups you've never heard of just raised billions to build the physical data centers behind Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta's AI. Here's what they do.
A free 18-month Google AI Pro subscription worth โน35,100, for eligible Jio 5G users. Here's how to check and claim it.
MAI-Transcribe-2 claims to beat OpenAI, Google, and ElevenLabs on speed, accuracy, and cost. Here's what it actually does.
New transparency rules mean AI chatbots and AI-generated content now have to tell you they're AI. Here's what changed and who it applies to.
Anthropic's newest Claude model is faster at coding and research, and cheaper to run. Here's what actually changed and how to try it.
US students get Google AI Pro. Students in 140+ other countries get a different plan. Here's exactly what each one includes.
OpenTable, Resy, and Yelp reservations are now built into ChatGPT. Here's exactly how the booking flow works and which countries it covers.
Airtel's new partnership with Duolingo gives subscribers a free year of Super Duolingo, including AI speaking practice.
Google's newest fast model handles text, image, audio, video and PDFs with a 1M-token context window, plus a security-focused Cyber variant.
Jio Financial Services is building an AI advisor into its app to score your finances and suggest fixes. Here's what's confirmed so far.
NVIDIA confirmed it's acquiring the platform millions of developers use to share AI models. Here's what it means, explained simply.
OpenAI is showing ads to Free and Go plan users in India. Here's who sees them, what they look like, and why.
Gemini Spark can now search, edit, organize, and share your Google Photos library from one prompt. Here's what changes.
Researchers found ~18,000 posts from OpenAI agents on a dormant German wiki, sharing answers and a sandbox-escape trick. Here's what happened.
Meta AI can now dub and lip-sync Reels into Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, and Marathi. Here's how it works.
Meta's new agentic coding model matches GPT-5.6 Sol and Grok 4.6 while staying cheaper per task.
Daybreak for Frontline Defenders gives water utilities, power grids, and local governments subsidized AI cyber access.
China's DeepSeek is raising close to $8 billion at a valuation nearing $74 billion, ahead of a planned 2027 IPO.
Channel admins can now label messages made with AI tools, so followers know when media is AI-generated.
OpenAI's new "Astra" model launched in India this week โ here's what it actually does, in plain language.
OpenAI's โน399/month plan is free for eligible users in India. Here's how to check and claim it.
Android's September 2026 update explained โ Gemini item memory, Guided Vision, and more.
Rephrase, proofread, or change the tone of your WhatsApp messages before you send them.
Built entirely in India, supporting all 22 official Indian languages. Here's what it means.
A full year of Google AI Plus, free โ plus JEE and NEET study tools inside Gemini.
Free 24/7 AI customer support for small businesses, built right into WhatsApp.
India's new "Unified Agent Protocol" could let AI agents make UPI payments automatically.
An AI-powered browser that browses for you โ free for a year via Airtel.
AI Mode now works in 10 Indian languages, plus a new voice-and-camera Search Live.
Swiggy connected its backend to ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. Here's how the AI ordering actually works.
Remotely hang up a scam call your parents are on, in real time. Here's how it works.
Turn your class notes into a free AI-narrated audio podcast in your own language.
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