Jul 22, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
Google's latest I/O keynote revealed a vision where its search box becomes a universal AI assistant, integrating Gmail, YouTube, Gemini, and more. The updates include dynamic search expansions, personalized AI Overviews, custom information agents, and generative media tools. While promising convenience, the shift risks undermining user autonomy and the open web's economic model.
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Jul 22, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
Google is renaming its AI note-taking app NotebookLM to Gemini Notebook. The app will remain standalone but integrate with Gemini and Search. New features include AI Mode, AI podcasts, narrated slideshows, and cloud code execution. The name change reflects deeper Gemini branding.
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Jul 22, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
Garmin’s latest fitness tracker, the Cirqa, ditches the screen to eliminate distractions while offering comprehensive health and activity monitoring. At $199.99 with no subscription, it undercuts Whoop but costs more than Fitbit Air. Available now in multiple colors.
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Jul 22, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
The rapid growth of AI has driven demand for powerful GPUs, but these chips come with significant environmental consequences. From energy-hungry data centers to toxic manufacturing and mounting e-waste, the costs are often overlooked. As tech companies build more data centers, communities face rising pollution, water scarcity, and health risks. This article explores the full lifecycle impact of GPUs, from raw material extraction to disposal.
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Jul 21, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
New research from BrightEdge reveals that Google's AI increasingly relies on social media platforms as primary sources for its answers. Facebook alone appears in 19.5 million AI Overviews, with Instagram and TikTok also contributing significantly. This shift requires brands to rethink visibility strategies beyond traditional website ranking.
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Jul 21, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
Seoul National University's SafeDrive model generates multiple driving trajectories, scores each for safety using sensor data, and picks the safest one. It earned a CVPR highlight, a first for a Korean end-to-end autonomous driving paper. The model is integrated into a national reference model and being tested with domestic companies for commercial deployment.
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Jul 21, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
IQE, a Cardiff-based compound semiconductor wafer maker, forecasts over 20% revenue growth in 2026, propelled by surging AI data-centre demand for its indium phosphide products. This comes after a difficult 2025 where sales fell 18% to £97.3m. The company’s photonics division rose 15%, but wireless slumped 40%.
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Jul 21, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
Neo, founded by former SentinelOne, Wiz, and Palo Alto Networks executives, has raised $100M from a16z and Bessemer to build a real-time control layer for agentic AI software in enterprises. With only 5% of apps agentic in 2025 but expected to reach 40% by 2026, Neo aims to give SecOps teams visibility and policy enforcement over AI agents and agentic-enabled applications. The platform inventories agents, scores risks, maps actions to users, and enforces controls natively, positioning itself as the foundational layer for enterprise AI security.
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Jul 21, 2026Twila Rosenbaum
Z.AI, formerly known as Zhipu, has activated a massive 1-gigawatt data center powered exclusively by Chinese-made chips, avoiding Nvidia entirely. The facility contains several computing clusters each with more than 10,000 chips. This move challenges US export restrictions and demonstrates China's growing capability in AI hardware.
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