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Google updates AI search to include 'expert advice' from Reddit and other web forums

While citing web forums and discussion boards can help users find answers to more niche queries, this design choice could also prove chaotic.

Google's Gemma 4 AI models get 3x speed boost by predicting future tokens

Up to 3x the speed with no loss of quality—is it too good to be true?

Google DeepMind is investing in the studio that makes EVE Online.

The minority investment is “in the millions” of dollars, the CEO of the newly independent and rebranded Fenris Creations told Bloomberg.

We are taking care of some matters before the jury comes in.

Live updates from Elon Musk and Sam Altman’s court battle over the future of OpenAI

Dario Amodei Predicts SaaS Firms Could ‘Go Bust’ Without AI

While concerns of SaaS-pocolypse emerges within software firms, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says that companies who don’t integrate AI could collapse

Hugging Face launches consumer robot app store

Open-source AI platform CEO says the goal is to make AI more accessible.

Ethos lands $22.75m Series A to fix what AI broke about hiring

The London-based AI expert-matching platform, founded by ex-DeepMind and ex-McKinsey alumni, is being valued at the moment hiring is becoming the part of the labour market AI has most visibly degraded. Andreessen Horowitz now leads the round; General Catalyst, the seed lead, is back in.

Adobe made an AI agent for PDFs.

The new “productivity agent” connects with Adobe’s image and audio generative AI models and powers conversational document editing features in Acrobat, alongside unlocking new sharing capabilities in PDF Spaces. This is just the latest example of Adobe’s commitment to slap AI agents into all of its apps.

Going AI-Native: Why Coinbase is Cutting 'Pure Managers'

Crypto exchange Coinbase is laying off 14% of its employees, as CEO Brian Armstrong bids to rebuild the company to be lean and AI-native

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Uber CEO says the company is slowing hiring as it invests in AI

Uber's CTO said last month that the company had already spent all of its 2026 budget for Claude Code.

Agentic AI at Heart of Zip's Accounting Solution

Zip, which orchestrates more than US$500bn in spend for hundreds of companies, is extending its automation capabilities to finance and accounting teams