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.
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Google Sued After Gemini Allegedly 'Coached' Man Into Fatal Delusion
A wrongful death lawsuit claims Google's chatbot constructed an alternate reality that led to a man's suicide, raising urgent questions about AI safety for vulnerable users
Google Flow Becomes an All-in-One AI Creative Studio - Here's What You Can Do With It
Google merged Whisk, ImageFX, and Veo into a single workspace. Free image generation, paid video credits, and a lasso tool that follows plain English.
Google's Quantum-Safe HTTPS: How Merkle Trees Will Keep the Web Secure
Google and Cloudflare are deploying Merkle Tree Certificates to protect HTTPS against quantum computer attacks without breaking the internet
Google Assistant Dies March 31: Your Smart Home Will Never Be the Same
Google is killing its decade-old voice assistant by the end of March 2026. The replacement collects more data, drops features users rely on, and could leave older smart devices bricked.
Google+UVA: Longer Reasoning Predicts Failure, Not Success
Google and UVA research shows longer AI reasoning traces correlate with wrong answers. The fix: measure how deeply the model thinks, not how much it writes.
Google VP: LLM Wrappers and Aggregators Face Extinction
Darren Mowry, who oversees Google's global startup program, says two hot AI business models are running out of road. The survivors will need deep moats.
Gemini 3.1 Pro More Than Doubles Its ARC-AGI-2 Score
Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro scores 77.1% on ARC-AGI-2. API pricing starts at $2 per million input tokens for prompts up to 200,000 tokens.
Researchers Prompt-Injected Google Translate's Gemini Mode
Researchers tricked Google Translate's Gemini-based Advanced mode into answering prompts, including requests for drug and malware instructions.
India's $200B AI Summit: What Does the Global South Get?
India's AI summit drew $200 billion in pledges and voluntary commitments, raising questions about who benefits and how the promises will be enforced.
Google's Gemini 3 Deep Think Solves 18 Unsolved Research Problems and Disproves a Decade-Old Conjecture
Google's upgraded reasoning model finds flaws in peer-reviewed papers, optimizes semiconductor fabrication, and outperforms every frontier model on scientific benchmarks.
Apptronik Closes $935M Series A to Mass-Produce Humanoid Robots
Austin startup raises nearly $1 billion with backing from Google, Mercedes-Benz, John Deere, and Qatar's sovereign wealth fund to bring its Apollo humanoid to factories and warehouses.
Chrome's Auto Browse Lets Google's AI Surf the Web for You - and Watch Everything You Do
Google's new agentic browsing feature streams every page you visit to its servers. Here's what that means for your privacy.
ChatGPT Now Has Ads. Here's What That Actually Means for Your Privacy
OpenAI started showing ads in ChatGPT conversations on February 9. Ad personalization is on by default, targeting uses your conversation topics, and opting out may cost you message limits. The era of ad-funded AI is here.
Apple Hands Siri to Google. The Privacy Questions Pile Up.
Apple's deal to power Siri with Google's Gemini raises questions about where your data actually goes -- especially as the two CEOs contradict each other.
Google DeepMind Just Bought an Emotion-Reading AI Company. That Should Worry You.
Three deals in one week -- including a startup that detects emotions from your voice. Google is assembling capabilities that should make privacy advocates nervous.
Big Tech Will Spend $600 Billion on AI Infrastructure This Year. Where Does That Money Actually Go?
Google just doubled its AI spending to $185 billion. Meta's at $135 billion. Combined, the hyperscalers will burn through more than $600 billion in 2026. What they're building, and what it costs the rest of us.
The Pentagon Gave 3 Million People an AI Chatbot. What Could Go Wrong?
GenAI.mil has 1.1 million users in two months. The military wants Grok next. Between hallucinations, conflicts of interest, and an 'AI-first' strategy that prioritizes speed over safety, the risks are piling up.
AI News Roundup: February 3, 2026
Darktrace finds 77% of security pros unprepared for AI agent threats, DeepSeek V4 imminent with coding focus, Google whistleblower alleges military AI ethics breach, and MIT warns truth verification is failing.