AIOct 28, 2026TechCrunch
As AI agents reshape the web, Google opens Gemini and Search to more apps
Google is inviting any developer to plug into Gemini and Search, and it looks a lot like the early days of SEO, rebuilt for agents.
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AIOct 28, 2026The Verge
Chrome’s enhanced autofill can now pull info from Gmail to help you fill out forms
Chrome will now pull order numbers, tracking codes, and bookings straight from Gmail into forms, a real time-saver that also widens how much of your inbox the browser touches.
AIOct 27, 2026TechCrunch
Genie 4 makes Google’s world model steerable in real time, and the pitch is storyboards, not reality
DeepMind’s Genie 4 adds photorealism, generated dialogue and music, mid-scene prompts and two minutes of consistency. It arrives as AMD, Amazon and Rivian race to buy world-model startups, and its known flaws are a reminder that convincing isn’t the same as correct.
AIOct 27, 2026TechCrunch
Rohit Patel leaves Meta to build Ndoc, an auditable AI-native rival to Office and Workspace
After eight years at Meta, most recently at Meta Superintelligence Labs, Rohit Patel is launching Ndoc with a three-person team. Its documents expose the citations and Python behind every number, and it plans an open browser-readable format.
AIOct 26, 2026Google AI Blog
Our newest AI Quest: Mapping the human brain
Google's new classroom game teaches middle schoolers to map neurons with AI, and its best lesson may be the unglamorous one: models need people checking the data.
AIOct 25, 2026The Verge
Google’s AI search changes upended online publishing
Google's AI answers broke the old deal where publishers fed the index and got traffic back, and the fixes on offer so far look more like patches than a new bargain.
AIOct 23, 2026The Verge
Now Google says it might use your Gmail and Google Photos data to target ads
Google's new privacy language ties better AI answers to ad targeting, turning the convenience of connecting Gmail and Photos into a quiet trade users may not realize they made.
AIOct 22, 2026MarkTechPost
Google Cloud Launches Agent Compute Engine: A MicroVM per AI Agent
Google is building agent infrastructure on the assumption that every agent will eventually be compromised, and we think that is exactly the right starting point.
AIOct 21, 2026TechCrunch
PHP Armageddon: OpenAI, Google’s Wiz find ancient holes, panicking the internet
AI found two critical PHP flaws hiding since 2004 before attackers did, and that same AI is why the patch race now matters so much.
AIOct 21, 2026The Verge
Conversational Gemini navigation comes to Apple CarPlay
Google's Gemini now talks drivers through Maps on iPhone dashboards in the US, a year after Android Auto, without the personal-data features Android just got.
AIOct 21, 2026OpenAI
OpenAI on Google Cloud lets companies spend Google commitments on GPT-6, and that changes procurement
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are coming to Google Cloud’s Model Garden in private preview, billed on Google invoices against existing commitments. Customers gain choice; key privacy controls are still listed as coming soon.
AIOct 21, 2026NVIDIA Blog
Google Cloud and NVIDIA Announce General Availability of NVIDIA Vera Rubin Infrastructure
Google Cloud's A5X instances put Vera Rubin racks in reach of rented customers next month, and the first tenant is telling: a lab betting everything on reinforcement learning from experience.