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Chrome is about to update twice a week, thanks to AI finding more bugs than ever
Google's AI security tools spotted more flaws in two recent Chrome releases than in the previous 23 combined. That is a lot of patches, and they may soon land silently in the background.
Chrome is now patching security holes twice a week, and AI found most of them
Google's browser shipped more security fixes in two releases last month than in the previous 23 combined. AI tools scanning its own code are the reason, and the pace may get faster before it slows down.
AI reads your website but sends people to your front door. Most sites are not ready for that.
Traffic from Google Search has collapsed for many publishers. But a new kind of visitor is arriving through AI chatbots, and they land somewhere completely different from where the AI found the information.
Google says its tools helped create 100 billion AI images. A watermark can label them, but can it stop the harm?
The sheer volume of AI-generated content is staggering. Google's SynthID watermarking tool can tag that content, but researchers and journalists are still debating whether a label is enough.
Google studied 15 million real AI interactions and found workers aren't automating themselves out of a job
A new Google Research paper looked at how people actually use Gemini at work. The headline finding: AI helps with pieces of tasks, but end-to-end job replacement is rare.
AI's Money Problem: Google's Ballooning Costs Spook Investors Across the Whole Industry
Google just admitted it will spend up to $205 billion this year, more than it previously said it would spend at the high end. That miscalculation is rattling investors, and the pressure is spreading to every major AI company.
Google's AI Mode wants to help you touch grass
Search's new AI features pitch themselves as tools for getting offline: booking tickets, finding classes, and planning dinner parties.
Your Private Claude Chats Could Show Up in a Google Search
A technical gap between Anthropic's privacy instructions and how search engines actually work left shared Claude conversations visible to anyone who knew where to look.
Google Keeps Fighting AI Web Scrapers After Court Loss. Here's Why It Matters.
Google sued a company called SerpApi for selling search results it had scraped from Google. A judge dealt Google a setback last week. Google says it is pressing on anyway, and Reddit has quietly joined the fight.
Verizon Signs a $1 Billion Deal With Google and Is Turning Old Phone Offices Into Mini Data Centres
The phone company wants a slice of the AI spending boom, and it's starting with dark fibre cables and gutted copper wires.
Google's AI search answers now appear in nearly half of all searches
A year ago, Google's AI-generated summaries showed up in one in seven searches. New data shows they now appear in almost one in two. Here is what that means for you and the websites you used to visit.
Google and Tesla Are Burning Cash on AI. Wall Street Is Starting to Ask Why.
Both tech giants reported better revenue than expected, then watched their share prices fall. The culprit: eye-watering AI spending with returns that investors can't yet see.
The Google traffic deal is dead. What does that mean for the web?
Websites built their businesses on Google sending them readers. Now AI summaries are keeping people on Google's page, and publishers are starting to fight back.
Meta's Feel-Good AI Ad Chose a Song About the End of the World
The company wanted uplift and optimism. David Bowie wrote about Earth dying in five years. The gap between the two tells you something.
Ex-Google security engineers raise $36 million to fight AI-crafted phishing emails
AegisAI, founded by two former Google executives who helped build Gmail's defences, says AI is now writing scam emails so convincing that existing filters miss them more than half the time.