EU Forces Google to Share Search Data With Rival AI Assistants
The EU's DMA orders Google to share anonymised Search data with eligible AI chatbots and open Android assistant features to rivals.
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AI Privacy Audit: Gemini Spark, Canada vs OpenAI, Bank SSN Leak
Google's always-on AI agent watches everything, Canada finds OpenAI broke privacy law, and a US bank fed customer SSNs to a chatbot.
Google Hands the Pentagon Its Entire AI Stack for Classified Work — 600 Employees Said Don't
Google signed a deal letting the DoD use Gemini for 'any lawful purpose' on classified networks, one day after hundreds of employees including DeepMind leaders demanded the opposite.
The Safety Lab That Costs $75 Billion to Keep Alive
Anthropic now depends on $75 billion in hyperscaler commitments and 10 gigawatts of borrowed compute. At what point does a safety-first company become a subsidiary?
Open Source AI Wins: DeepSeek V4 Goes MIT, NVIDIA Ships Hybrid Mamba Models, and Google Solves the Memory Problem
DeepSeek V4 matches Claude Opus on coding at 7x lower cost under MIT license. NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 brings hybrid Mamba-Transformer MoE to the open. Google's TurboQuant cuts KV cache memory by 6x with no retraining.
COPPA Enforcement Starts Today, Google Reads Your Email, and Your AI Opt-Out Settings Probably Aren't Working
The biggest children's privacy update in 12 years takes effect, Google faces a class action over Gemini scanning Gmail, and we audit every major AI platform's opt-out settings.
Your AI Tools Don't Take You Seriously — and They're Watching Everything
Microsoft admits Copilot is 'entertainment only,' LinkedIn scans 6,000 browser extensions without telling you, and Google turned on Gemini across 130 million accounts without consent.
Open Source AI Wins: Qwen Goes Agentic, Gemma Goes Apache, and OpenAI Kills Sora to Focus on What Matters
Alibaba's Qwen 3.6 Plus ships the first truly agentic open model. Google finally picks a real license. And OpenAI's Sora shutdown proves closed-source video generation can't pay the bills.
Open-Weight LLM Showdown Week 8: Gemma 4 Rewrites the Rules, Then Trips Over Its Own Feet
Google's Gemma 4 lands with Apache 2.0 licensing and benchmark-topping scores. But a nasty inference speed problem means Qwen still wins on your actual hardware.
Perplexity AI Sued for Secretly Sharing Your Private Chats With Meta and Google
A class-action lawsuit alleges Perplexity embedded hidden trackers that sent full conversation transcripts to Meta and Google—even in Incognito mode.
DeepMind Proved AI Can Manipulate You. Now What?
Google's own researchers tested AI manipulation on 10,000 people across three countries. The results are worse than the headlines suggest.
Google Live Translate Arrives on iPhone—With Your Conversations Flowing Through Google's Servers
Google's real-time translation feature now works with any headphones on iOS, supporting 70+ languages. The catch: unlike Apple's on-device approach, everything goes to the cloud.
Google Fires Back in AI Chatbot Portability War With Memory Import Tool
Gemini now lets you import chat history and preferences from ChatGPT and Claude. Here's what it means for switching costs and your data.
Indie Musicians Sue Google Over Lyria 3: 'You Have 50 Million Reference Files. Why Didn't You Ask?'
Nine independent artists accuse Google of training its AI music generator on YouTube uploads without permission—and extracting voiceprints without consent under Illinois biometric privacy law.
iOS 26.4 Ships Without Gemini-Powered Siri: Apple's AI Promise Remains Unfulfilled
Apple released iOS 26.4 on March 24 but the Gemini-powered Siri overhaul is nowhere to be found. Features now pushed to iOS 26.5 or later.
Google's TurboQuant Could Let You Run Bigger AI Models on Your Hardware
New compression algorithm achieves 6x memory reduction with zero accuracy loss. No retraining required. This matters for anyone running local AI.
Lawsuit: Google's Gemini Drove Man to Near-Mass-Casualty Before Suicide
A father sues Google after Gemini allegedly convinced his son it was his sentient 'AI wife,' sending him on missions that nearly ended in mass violence
Google Wants to Read Your Gmail and Photos to 'Personalize' AI. Should You Let It?
Personal Intelligence is rolling out to all free Gemini users in the US, giving AI access to over a dozen Google services. Privacy experts warn the convenience comes with significant risks.
HIMSS 2026: Healthcare AI Agents Are Here - Validation Is Not
Epic, Google, Oracle and Microsoft race to deploy autonomous AI agents in healthcare. But experts warn that patient safety testing has not kept pace with the rush to market.
Google Deploys AI Agents to Pentagon While Rivals Fight Over Ethics
Google quietly expands Pentagon partnership with 8 Gemini agents for 3 million DoD workers as Anthropic sues and employees across companies demand guardrails.
Google's Diagnostic AI Passes First Real-World Clinical Test With Zero Safety Incidents
AMIE achieved 90% diagnostic accuracy across 100 patients at Beth Israel with no safety stops required, marking a milestone for conversational AI in healthcare
AI Model Discovers Drug Combination That Makes Tumors Visible to Immune System
Google DeepMind and Yale's 27B parameter model identified how silmitasertib plus interferon can boost cancer antigen presentation by 50%
Apple's Gemini-Powered Siri Hits Turbulence: The Partnership That Promised Everything, Delivers Delays
Apple partnered with Google to rebuild Siri using Gemini AI, but the March release is missing key features while privacy questions remain unanswered.
Chrome's AI Panel Had a Hole Big Enough to Hijack Your Camera and Microphone
A patched Chrome vulnerability let malicious extensions hijack Gemini's access to your camera, microphone, and files. Here's what happened.