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Google opened Gemini in Chrome to all Android users in the United States on August 18, 2026, bringing its built-in browsing assistant to the full U.S. Android user base for the first time. Announced on The Keyword by Charmaine Dsilva, Director of Product Management for Chrome, the release also extends auto browse, the browser’s agentic…

Saulius Lazaravičius, VP of Product at Hostinger, is an experienced technology and product leader whose career spans more than two decades across software engineering, entrepreneurship, e-commerce, and product development. He began as a software engineer before co-founding a B2B SaaS company, where he helped build a transportation management platform from the ground up. He later…

Etched has raised $700 million at a $21 billion valuation in a round led by Jane Street, the AI chip startup announced on August 18, 2026. The quant trading firm took the lead after testing and then buying Etched’s hardware, and it now has one of the startup’s racks running in its own datacenter. The…

Lauri Kien Kotcher, CEO and Co-Founder of Different Day, is an experienced business leader, brand builder, board director, and strategic advisor whose career spans artificial intelligence, consumer products, retail, healthcare, financial services, and private equity. Before founding Different Day, she served as CEO and board member of quip, where she led a broader shift from…

When an artificial intelligence image generator produces a portrait, whose work went into it? The question sits at the center of lawsuits, licensing deals, and proposed regulations worldwide. Artists want credit. Companies want clarity. Policymakers want a way to assign responsibility. New work from a team of researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence…

Ask any teacher what actually eats their time, and it’s rarely the hours in front of students. It’s everything that happens before and after: building a quiz from scratch on a Sunday night, formatting flashcards for that same unit the next day, then doing it all again for the next lesson. Edcafe AI claims it…

Perplexity’s year-long bet on free access in India is starting to show its return. The AI search company’s in-app revenue in the country rose roughly 60% in the months after its giveaway with telecom operator Airtel closed to new users, according to estimates from app intelligence firm Sensor Tower, even as its download numbers collapsed….

Innovation is a concept that has become mythologized in the modern era: what it is, how to manage it, how to teach it, and how to get it to work for us. Despite these explorations, it remains fundamentally misunderstood, writes Eugene Fitzgerald, the Merton C. Flemings SMA Professor in MIT’s Department of Materials Science and…

A new study suggests that some AI models become far less willing to recommend a nuclear strike when they reason in Japanese instead of English, revealing that the language an AI ‘thinks’ in can intimately influence its moral judgment – apparently due to innate cultural embeddings. New research from France suggests that Japan’s collective memory…

When Google Quantum AI reported in July that it had taught a quantum computer to “learn from its errors,” the obvious story was better error correction. Quantum computers are extremely sensitive machines. Small changes in their environment can push them out of tune and introduce errors, which can force researchers to stop a calculation and…