Pasting a rental contract, electricity bill or lab report into a chatbot is tempting: it decodes the jargon in seconds. The catch is everything that travels with the document. Spain’s Agencia Española de Protección de Datos (AEPD) captured the risk in its January 2026 decalogue: “Be careful what you entrust to it.” Strip identifiers first: … Read more
A chatbot can confidently cite a 2021 The Lancet study, article 14 of a law, or a line from Einstein. The citation may be flawless in form and entirely invented. For users of ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, or Copilot, fabricated sources can slip into a court filing, journal submission, or business report. Courts and journals face … Read more
Google researchers have shown that AI-designed binding proteins can be aimed at large, complex targets for a fraction of the usual compute bill — provided you shrink the target first. Their trick, which they call epitope excision, keeps only the patch of the protein where binding will occur instead of folding the whole molecule. With … Read more
Google’s long-promised Universal Cart is now live for shoppers in the United States, appearing inside both Google Search and the Gemini app. Announced on October 15 in an official company blog post signed by Suresh Ganapathy, senior director of product for consumer shopping, the tool lets people collect items from competing merchants, monitor price movements … Read more
Since October 13, 2026, Google has moved against the prevailing narrative around AI-built software. Instead of tightening the screws, it has carved out a private lane inside Google Play for apps generated with artificial intelligence. Users in selected markets, including the United States, can now describe an Android app in Google AI Studio, generate it … Read more
On 29 September 2026, the United States government unveiled America.gov, a single AI-powered portal that lets citizens ask questions in plain language instead of digging through more than 29,000 federal websites. For now it only answers questions and links each answer to an official source. The far bigger promise is scheduled for 2027, when the … Read more
Google has shipped a significant revision of its Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform, adding support for Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol (MCP), a more capable Agent Development Kit (ADK), and Agent Identity — a system that issues every enterprise agent its own cryptographic credential. Announced in October 2026, the update lands roughly six months after the platform’s … Read more