Google is rolling out a new opt-in feature in Android that aims to help security researchers investigate spyware attacks.The feature is called “Intrusion Logging” and is part of Android’s Advanced Protection Mode, which Google launched last year, an opt-in special security mode that enables certain features with the goal of making the device harder to hack. Advanced Protection Mode is designed to counter government spyware attacks and police forensic devices that try to extract data from a person’s phone. ...

Google announced Rambler, a new AI-powered voice dictation feature for Gboard — its widely used Android keyboard app — at its Android Show: I/O Edition 2026 event on Tuesday morning. The launch puts Google in direct competition with the likes of Wispr Flow and Typeless, a growing crop of AI-powered dictation apps that have built audiences on desktop and mobile in recent years—most of which have yet to establish a strong foothold on Android.Just like other dictation apps, Ramber removes filler words like “um ...

In February, a small release from Anthropic set the legal industry abuzz. Now, the AI lab is supersizing its lawyerly ambitions. Anthropic on Tuesday released a spate of new legal tools for Claude Cowork, which will let law firms plug their go-to software into the AI tool and more easily automate large chunks of work.Anthropic's earlier legal tool launch in February sparked a stock sell-off and wider fears of a "SaaSpocalypse," as investors worried about AI's impact on the software industry. Anthropic's ne ...

Anthropic announced Tuesday that it is launching a host of new chatbot features designed to provide automated assistance to law firms. The new features expand Claude for Legal — the law-focused offering that launched earlier this year — offering users a new set of legal plugins and MCP connectors designed for specific areas of law.The new tools come amid hot competition in the legal AI space. In March, the AI law startup Harvey, which uses agentic AI to automate legal workflows, raised $200 million at a val ...

Google announced a number of new Gemini Intelligence-branded AI features at its “Android Show: I/O Edition” event on Tuesday. These include the ability for AI to complete tasks across apps, browse the web, fill out forms, dictate speech, and even allow you to vibe-code your own Android widgets.Gemini gets more powerfulThe company had already introduced some agentic capabilities, such as ordering food or booking a ride, to Gemini at the Samsung Galaxy S26 launch earlier this year. There, Google announced tha ...

Chamath Warns Companies Must Prove ROI from AI Within '500 Days' - 24/7 Wall St. Stock Market Live May 12, 2026: S&P 500 (SPY) Sinks on Higher Inflation Chamath Warns Companies Must Prove ROI from AI Within '500 Days' By Thomas Richmond Published May 12, 12:28PM EDT Quick Read Chamath warned that roughly 500 days from now, the AI trade could reach a "fork in the road†where companies will need to prove that massive AI spending is actually translating into real AI-driven revenue. Microsoft and Alphabet are ...

Demis Hassabis is the co-founder and CEO of Google's DeepMind artificial-intelligence lab, which has spun out a startup called Isomorphic Labs to use AI to accelerate the creation of new drugs. ...

The trial centers around Musk's donations to the AI lab when it was a non-profit and its conversion to a for-profit company. ...

Alphabet's Google is in talks with Elon Musk's SpaceX for a rocket launch deal as the search giant expands its own efforts to put orbital data centers in space, the Wall Street Journal rep... ...

A deal between the two tech titans would give a boost to SpaceX's business ahead of a historic public listing. ...