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Google now gives every Gmail user 10 free Veo 3.1 video generations per month via Google Vids, cutting into Runway and Kling at the $0 price point.

Anthropic's run-rate revenue has surpassed $30 billion in 2026, tripling from $9 billion at end of 2025, as the company secures 3.5 gigawatts of next-gen TPU compute from Broadcom starting in 2027.

Google's Gemma 4 family - four models, full Apache 2.0 licensing, and benchmark scores that challenge models 10x their size - is the most consequential open-weight release of 2026 so far.

A hands-on review of Google's Agent Development Kit - the open-source framework for building multi-agent AI systems, with a look at its strengths, limitations, and how it stacks up against LangGraph and CrewAI.

Google releases Gemma 4 with a 26B MoE, 31B Dense, and two edge variants under Apache 2.0 - claiming the highest intelligence-per-parameter of any open model.

Apollo-owned Yahoo has launched Scout, an AI answer engine powered by Anthropic Claude, deploying it to 250 million US users as a direct challenge to Google, Perplexity, and ChatGPT.

Google's Gemini 3.1 Flash Live beats GPT-4 Realtime 1.5 on Scale AI's Audio MultiChallenge and takes Search Live to 200+ countries - but it doesn't lead every benchmark.

Shopify activated Agentic Storefronts by default on March 24, making products from millions of merchants discoverable and purchasable inside ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Google's AI channels.

Google launched two new tools on March 26 that let users transfer memories and full chat logs from ChatGPT or Claude into Gemini - 24 days after Anthropic launched the same concept first.

New details reveal Apple has full data center access to Gemini and can create smaller on-device derivative models - far more control than the original deal disclosed.

Google Research's TurboQuant compresses LLM key-value cache by 6x and delivers 8x speedup on H100 GPUs with zero accuracy loss - no fine-tuning required.

Google confirmed it is testing AI-generated headline rewrites in search results - not pulling from existing page elements, but creating entirely new titles that can change the meaning of articles.