Google’s GFiber internet business is merging with Astound Broadband

Google has announced that GFiber is merging with Astound Broadband, in an agreement that sees Astound’s parent company Stonepeak become the majority owner, with Alphabet retaining a minority stake.& [...]

Google built a flash-flood prediction tool using Gemini and old news reports

Flash floods are notoriously difficult to predict, but Google might have a novel solution. The company just revealed Groundsource, a prediction tool for flash floods that uses Gemini to source data fr [...]

SXSW puts AI onstage and business models under pressure

The AI mood at SXSW has shifted from novelty to economics, with sessions narrowing in on search, the creator economy, data centers, and the grid itself [...]

Y Combinator-backed Random Labs launches Slate V1, claiming the first 'swarm-native' coding agent

The software engineering world is currently wrestling with a fundamental paradox of the AI era: as models become more capable, the "systems problem" of managing them has become the primary b [...]

Midjourney engineer debuts new vibe coded, open source standard Pretext to revolutionize web design

For three decades, the web has existed in a state of architectural denial. It is a platform originally conceived to share static physics papers, yet it is now tasked with rendering the most complex, i [...]

Encyclopedia Britannica sues OpenAI for copyright and trademark infringement

OpenAI has been hit with another lawsuit. This time, Encyclopedia Britannica took legal action against OpenAI, accusing the company of copyright and trademark infringements, as first reported by Reute [...]

Nvidia introduces Vera Rubin, a seven-chip AI platform with OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta on board

Nvidia on Monday took the wraps off Vera Rubin, a sweeping new computing platform built from seven chips now in full production — and backed by an extraordinary lineup of customers that includes Ant [...]

Mistral AI launches Forge to help companies build proprietary AI models, challenging cloud giants

Mistral AI on Monday launched Forge, an enterprise model training platform that allows organizations to build, customize, and continuously improve AI models using their own proprietary data — a move [...]

Anthropic just shipped an OpenClaw killer called Claude Code Channels, letting you message it over Telegram and Discord

The hit open source autonomous AI agent OpenClaw may have just gotten mogged by Anthropic. Today, Anthropic announced Claude Code Channels, a way to hook up its own powerful Claude Code AI agentic har [...]