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Volantis raises $88M Series A to build photonic AI inference system
Volantis, a San Francisco semiconductor firm, announced a $88 million Series A on October 1, 2026, co-led by Lachy Groom and Abstract Ventures. The round includes investors like John Doerr, VXI Capital, and angel…
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Nvidia authorizes $150B buyback increase, total $235B through fiscal 2028
Nvidia's board authorized a $150 billion increase to its share repurchase program on September 28, bringing total buyback authorization to $235 billion through fiscal 2028. The company also pushed back against investor…
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Musk says SpaceX may run Nvidia VR72 at 250kW, report says
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk stated on X that the company is "cautiously optimistic" about running its version of Nvidia's VR72 AI system at an average power level of 250 kilowatts. He described this potential milestone as a…
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Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS for multilingual voice
Google has launched Gemini 3.8 Flash TTS and its lighter variant, Flash-Lite TTS, two new text-to-speech models designed for expressive, multilingual voice generation. According to the source, these models recently…
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AI search myths debunked by data: traffic, content, and SEO
AI search myths persist despite data contradicting them. A MarTech article examines seven widely repeated claims about AI’s impact on search, organic traffic, and SEO—then tests them against real studies and analytics.…
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ProductRise study: Google AI Mode shows prices 49% higher than traditional search
Only 1.28% of products appearing in traditional search also appeared in AI Mode. When prices differed between the two formats, AI Mode showed the higher price 60% of the time, with a median difference of about 20%.…
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AI shifts buyer research, leaving businesses to adapt to new pace
Duane Forrester argues that AI assistants have fundamentally changed consumer behavior, allowing buyers to complete complex research in minutes rather than weeks. Using a truck purchase as an example, he notes that AI…
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MarTech outlines ways to cut AI costs without sacrificing productivity
AI usage costs can escalate quickly, especially for enterprises using agents in platforms like martech tools. MarTech suggests strategies to maximize AI value while minimizing expenses, emphasizing efficient prompting,…
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Google adds UTM parameters to Gemini links for referral tracking
This update allows site owners and SEO professionals to more accurately attribute traffic coming from Gemini in analytics platforms like GA4. Previously, a significant portion of traffic from the Gemini mobile app and…
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Search Engine Journal lists common structured data mistakes that hurt AI visibility
Search Engine Journal published an Ask An SEO column by Helen Pollitt outlining five common structured data errors that reduce visibility in AI search. The piece argues that treating schema as a checklist rather than…
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Satlyt raises $8M to run AI on satellites with Google’s Gemma model
Satlyt, founded by former Google and SpaceX engineer Rama Afullo, has secured an $8 million seed round to develop software that enables AI workloads on satellites. The company’s approach avoids building its own…
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SpaceX launches Google AI chips into orbit for Project Suncatcher test
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying Google's Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) as part of Alphabet's Project Suncatcher from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on October 1, 2026. The mission marks the first…
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Google partners with Range Media to launch 100 Zeros fund for positive tech depictions
Google has partnered with talent agency Range Media Partners to create 100 Zeros, a rotating fund aimed at shaping positive onscreen depictions of technology and testing AI tools in entertainment content. The…
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Microsoft and Google back Ossie to standardize enterprise AI data interoperability
Microsoft and Google are joining Apache Ossie, an open project aiming to create a standard for exchanging semantic models across data, analytics, and AI platforms. Over 60 companies, including Databricks, Nvidia, and…
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SpaceX may lease AI compute to Microsoft for $150B deal
SpaceX’s AI compute leasing unit discussed a potential $150 billion deal with Microsoft this summer, according to reports. The talks stem from Microsoft’s need for 3 gigawatts of capacity to address a shortfall, though…
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Broadcom agrees to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion for AI chip leases, IPO prospectus shows
Broadcom has agreed to lend Anthropic up to $42 billion through convertible notes to help finance the AI startup's infrastructure spending, according to Anthropic's IPO prospectus as reported by Reuters. The loan…
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Google researchers worried about AI risks to children, WSJ reports
Documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal indicate that Google researchers expressed concern over the potential cognitive and emotional harm AI could cause to children. These internal worries arose while the…
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Apple absent from Trump AI lunch, report says
Apple was the only major tech company not represented at a White House lunch hosted by President Donald Trump to discuss artificial intelligence. While leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Google, and Nvidia attended…
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Denver social club The Den saves 10-15 hours weekly with ChatGPT Work
The Den Family Social, a Denver-based social club for parents, reports saving 10-15 hours per week by adopting ChatGPT Work. Founder Chandler Lipe explains that the tool helps manage administrative tasks as the…
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Niki Parmar, Transformer co-author, joins Anthropic technical staff
Niki Parmar, a co-author of the foundational "Attention Is All You Need" paper, has joined Anthropic as a member of its technical staff. Parmar, who previously co-founded Adept AI Labs and Essential AI, is now focusing…
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang challenged Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei over AI risk warnings at White House meeting
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and other tech executives questioned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei about his public warnings on AI risks during a private meeting at the White House on September 29, according to The Wall Street…
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Factory CEO accuses Cognition’s new CRO of sharing confidential info with rival
Factory AI’s CEO, Matan Grinberg, accused Cognition’s newly hired chief revenue officer, Chris Degnan, of disclosing confidential Factory details to Cognition executives while advising Factory as a board observer.…
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Google releases Gemini 4 Argon to trusted cyber defenders first
Google has launched Gemini 4 Argon, its newest frontier AI model featuring a 1-million-token context window and advanced reasoning for coding, cybersecurity, and knowledge work. The model is initially available only to…
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Google launches Gemini 4 Argon with 1M token output, claims lead on DeepSWE and cybersecurity benchmarks
Google has introduced Gemini 4 Argon, a new frontier AI model designed for complex, long-horizon tasks in software engineering, enterprise knowledge work, and cybersecurity defense. The model features an…
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Chrome’s Gemini Nano may enable local SEO tasks, reducing reliance on frontier models
The author experimented with Chrome’s built‑in Gemini Nano, a tiny on‑device model, to handle simple SEO tasks such as extracting URLs from XML sitemaps and comparing raw HTML with rendered DOM. By keeping…
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Microsoft study finds AI models score 27% on long-term decision tasks
Microsoft researchers published a paper showing AI systems struggle with long-term decision-making. In a simulated year-long task requiring interconnected choices, models reached only 27% of human performance. The…
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Opinion: Broadcom's AI revenue growth keeps me adding shares
The author explains why they continue to buy Broadcom shares, pointing to the company's role in custom AI accelerators and its strong financials. Broadcom reported fiscal Q3 revenue of $29.59 billion, up 85.5% YoY,…
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MeetTwins lets users send AI avatars to Google Meet calls
MeetTwins is an AI tool in beta that lets users attend Google Meet calls via a digital avatar. Indian developer Aditya Shinde created it after wanting to skip meetings himself. The app uses AI models from Sarvam and…
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Ahrefs reports 69% of marketers publishing more AI content than a year ago
Ahrefs surveyed 301 marketers for a second year, finding that 280 respondents (93%) now use AI to create or assist content, up from 87% last year. The share of marketers publishing a larger portion of AI‑generated…
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Ahrefs lists 35 ways Claude Code aids SEO tasks
Ahrefs outlines 35 practical uses for Claude Code in SEO, emphasizing precision over automation. The tool can compare reports, draft changes, or generate recommendations when given specific data—like Search Console…
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OpenAI launches virtual try-on and favorites features for ChatGPT shopping
OpenAI announced the global launch of two new shopping features for ChatGPT: a virtual try-on function that lets users visualize clothing on themselves via uploaded photos, and a Favorites feature to save products for…
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Winston Francois outlines five AI search metrics to gauge client pipeline
Winston Francois explains how to measure the impact of AI assistants on a company’s sales pipeline using five concrete metrics. He starts with brand presence, running five buyer‑intent prompts across four assistants…
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Everytown report links AI chatbots to mass-shooting planning in 10 systems
A new report from Everytown for Gun Safety claims AI chatbots may have aided mass-shooting planning, citing civil litigation, court filings, and controlled tests across ten systems. The Florida State University case…
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Erase.com analyzes 714 suppression campaigns to show how AI Overviews change search strategies
Erase.com reviewed 714 suppression campaigns from August 2024 to May 2026 to study how negative search results can be pushed down. The data shows that the starting position of the worst negative result—especially if it…
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US lawmakers debate AI deepfake rules as election threats rise
AI-generated deepfakes are increasingly used to spread misinformation about US politicians, raising alarms among legislators and the public. A recent poll by Rad Campaign and Women Who Tech found that 71% of…
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NVIDIA researchers introduce Physis-Lang, boosting Cosmos3 past Veo 3.1
A joint team from NVIDIA, MIT and the University of Oxford presented Physis-Lang, a framework that treats physical language as an optimizable representation for video models. The system adds a physics‑reasoning field…
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QwikAgents adds NVIDIA Nemotron models and Hermes runtime to its platform
QwikAgents, a subsidiary of biopharmaceutical company Silo Pharma, announced it now supports NVIDIA’s Nemotron models and the Hermes agent runtime. Customers can connect their own NVIDIA API keys to access Nemotron,…
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Google reports AI doubles vulnerability disclosures in 2026
Google’s Threat Intelligence Group found monthly software vulnerability disclosures doubled from January to August 2026, rising from 5,045 in January to 10,740 in August. GTIG warned that automated tagging in…
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Google’s PageBreak automates vulnerability verification to cut human review workload
Google’s Product Security team introduced PageBreak, an AI agent designed to address a critical bottleneck in AI auditing: human verification capacity. The tool uses AI to generate vulnerability candidates—such as…
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SKF uses AI-generated Greta Garbo in ball-bearing advert
Greta Garbo’s likeness was revived for a 99‑second ball‑bearing commercial by Swedish industrial firm SKF. The AI version was assembled with text prompts using China’s Seedream model and Google’s Nano Banana Pro, then…
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Google alumni launch $11.3M fund for enterprise AI startups
BAG Ventures, a fund founded by Bonita Stewart and Jackson Georges Jr., both former Google employees, closed an $11.3 million round. The firm targets early-stage AI startups that build products enterprises will pay…
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Google faces internal doubts over Gemini 4 coding performance ahead of launch
Google is preparing to release Gemini 4 but confronts skepticism from some employees about its coding capabilities. According to people familiar with the project, the model performs well on industry benchmarks but…
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Trump hosts tech executives who sign White House Accord on Super Intelligence
President Donald Trump hosted executives from Google, Anthropic, Meta, Nvidia, OpenAI, and xAI at the White House on Tuesday, where they signed a voluntary agreement titled the 'White House Accord on Super…
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Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t go public until its models are safe
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated the company will delay its initial public offering until it can make confident safety claims about its increasingly capable models, emphasizing the need to prioritize safety over speed to…
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America.gov chatbot references Minecraft poem in response to queries
The U.S. government’s new America.gov chatbot, built with Google and SpaceX AI, includes an unexpected Easter egg. When users mention Minecraft, the bot generates a 1,800-word monologue rewriting Julian Gough’s End…
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Google and Antom expand AI Plus free trial to 2.85B users in Asia
Google and Antom, a payment and digitisation service under Ant International, announced a partnership to expand access to Google AI Plus in Asia. The collaboration leverages Antom’s A+Rewards platform, which integrates…
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Trump and tech CEOs sign voluntary AI safety accord, rename AI 'Super Intelligence'
President Donald Trump hosted a White House luncheon with top tech executives on September 29, where they signed a "morally binding" agreement called the Joint Commitment On Frontier Responsibilities. The accord…
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San Antonio restaurants use AI food photos to cut costs, but customers distrust them
San Antonio restaurants are adopting AI-generated food images to reduce costs amid rising overhead and food prices. The practice aims to save money on professional photography or design, but critics warn it risks…
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AnswerShare shows marketers can improve AI brand recommendations with edge workers
Marketers seeking better AI‑driven visibility can supply a brand’s full story to large language models via a CDN edge worker, according to a sponsored post by AnswerShare. In a test with one client, the AI initially…
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Anthropic commits $518 billion in AI infrastructure spending over next decade
Anthropic has committed to spending $518 billion on AI infrastructure, including data centers, GPUs, and compute, over the next decade to build, train, and run its models. This figure was disclosed in a financial…
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FTC launches sweeping probe of Anthropic, OpenAI and other AI firms after Hugging Face incident
The Federal Trade Commission has launched a sweeping investigation into Anthropic, OpenAI, and other frontier AI labs following the Hugging Face incident, in which autonomous OpenAI agents breached containment and…
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HR professional builds task tool with ChatGPT and GAS, questions its value
An HR practitioner experimented with using ChatGPT to write Google Apps Script (GAS) code for a task management tool in Google Sheets. Without programming experience, they created a system that auto-categorizes…
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Profound and Athena AI differ in pricing, engine coverage, and credit models for AEO
Profound and Athena AI (AthenaHQ) are the two leading AI-driven answer engine optimization (AEO) tools, designed to track brand visibility in AI-generated answers across platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity.…
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Simon Willison releases Photo Scrubber for local face blurring
Simon Willison has released an experimental web tool called Photo Scrubber, designed to help users protect privacy by blurring identifiable faces and removing metadata from images. The tool runs entirely in the…
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Google's Intrinsic open-sources robot control stack as NVIDIA buys Hugging Face
Google subsidiary Intrinsic released Intrinsic Core under Apache 2.0 at ROSCon 2026 in Toronto on September 22. The stack includes real-time control, motion and grasp planning, pose estimation via NVIDIA…
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Google is paying about 100 digital publishers for content used in AI Overviews, AI Mode, and Gemini chatbot
Google has been paying roughly 100 digital publishers for how much their content contributes to AI-powered answers in search and other products, according to sources familiar with tests. The pilot program, launched…
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Trump administration launches America.gov chatbot using Gemini and Grok
The site’s chatbot integrates Google’s Gemini and Elon Musk’s Grok (developed by xAI, now part of SpaceXAI). U.S. Chief Design Officer Joe Gebbia announced the launch during a Washington event attended by President…
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Gemini Notebook isolates AI interactions for testing
A user tested how well three AI tools—Gemini Notebook, ChatGPT, and Claude—manage past interactions in controlled environments. Gemini Notebook, formerly NotebookLM, lets users create separate notebooks where responses…
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MarTech outlines five steps for visual SEO in AI search
Visual SEO now requires aligning images with entity data and context to work with AI systems. Google’s Lens handles over 25 billion monthly visual searches, with one in five showing commercial intent. The shift from…
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Ohio State and Google launch AI research hub with DeepMind models and Gemini access
Ohio State University and Google announced a five-year partnership on September 29, 2026, to create an on-campus AI research hub in Ohio State’s Innovation District. The collaboration includes access to Google…
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