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Adobe, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and six other tech companies signed a voluntary anti-fraud accord at the UNODC Global Fraud Summit in Vienna on March 17, 2026.

Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite delivers frontier-class benchmarks at a fraction of the cost of Pro - but a sluggish first-token response and preview-only status mean it's not for every workload.

AI training crawlers from Anthropic, Google, and OVHcloud knocked a French national research institute's GitLab server offline for hours - nobody at CNRS's Institute of Complex Systems could work.

Google invested $1 million in Animaj, an AI animation studio making YouTube kids content, just seven weeks after YouTube CEO Neal Mohan declared war on AI slop - with early access to Veo, Gemini, and Imagen.

Google Antigravity Pro subscribers report 5-7 day lockouts on premium models after quota changes replaced five-hour refreshes with weekly caps and AI credit overages, sparking backlash across developer forums.

Google's first natively multimodal embedding model maps text, images, video, audio, and PDFs into a single vector space - now in public preview via Gemini API and Vertex AI.

The Pentagon launched Agent Designer on its GenAI.mil platform, letting 3 million Defense Department employees build custom Gemini-powered AI assistants without code.

A Google DevRel engineer shipped a Rust-powered CLI that exposes all of Google Workspace to AI agents over MCP - with built-in prompt injection defense.

Alphabet's new three-year compensation plan could pay Sundar Pichai up to $692 million - more than seven times Satya Nadella's pay - with a third of the upside tied to Waymo and Wing performance.

Nearly 900 employees across Google and OpenAI sign an open letter titled We Will Not Be Divided, calling on leadership to reject Pentagon demands for unfettered AI access.

Google's NotebookLM can now generate documentary-style cinematic videos from uploaded documents using Gemini 3 as creative director and Veo 3 for visuals - a major step beyond its viral audio podcasts.

GPT-5.4 leads on computer use and enterprise productivity. Gemini 3.1 Pro leads on science reasoning and math at 20% lower cost. A benchmark-by-benchmark comparison.