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Apple’s Ternus Era Begins as Nvidia Bets on the Whole AI Stack

Ternus era began at Apple on 1 September 2026, and it began in the same week that Nvidia agreed to spend $12.93 billion buying the world’s largest open model hub. Two of the most valuable companies on earth answered the same question — how do you win artificial intelligence? — and gave opposite answers within […]

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Google Pics Is Like Canva, but With Even More AI

Google launched Google Pics into general availability on 1 September 2026 — an AI-first design tool built around Gemini and the Nano Banana model that generates business imagery from prompts and edits it object by object, including rewriting and translating text inside an image. This article covers how it works, how it compares with Canva and Adobe Express, the seven Google AI and Workspace plans that include it, the 105-day sprint from Google I/O to launch, and what a design tool bundled into Workspace means for businesses that never hired a designer.

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Barret Zoph, the Thinking Machines Co-Founder Ousted Before Joining OpenAI, Is Now at Google

Barret Zoph announced on 26 August 2026 that he is joining Google DeepMind as vice president of research, working on reinforcement learning and post-training for Gemini. It closes a twenty-two month sequence that took him from OpenAI to co-founding Thinking Machines Lab with Mira Murati, to a disputed firing on 14 January 2026, to five months leading enterprise business back at OpenAI. This breakdown covers what the new role is and is not, both accounts of the Thinking Machines termination, his 2016-2022 Google Brain record, the 2026 departures that emptied the seat he is filling, where Thinking Machines stands now, and what any organisation buying AI should take from it.

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Google Brings Trip-Planning Features to Search’s AI Mode

Google has added flight price tracking, conversational hotel booking and miles-and-points pricing to AI Mode, the conversational surface inside Search. Announced on 27 August 2026, the three features complete a nine-month build that started with the Canvas itinerary panel in November 2025 and turns AI Mode from a place where you research a trip into a place where you arrange one. The rollout is far more uneven than the headline suggests: price tracking reaches more than 180 countries and the points display is global, but hotel booking is live in a single country, in English, with ten named partners including Booking.com, Expedia, Marriott and Hilton. This breakdown covers exactly what shipped, where each feature actually works, what Google’s own usage data says about why travel was the obvious target, and what the shift does to the travel websites that used to be the destination.

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AI Comparison: The Ultimate AI Test – ChatGPT vs. Gemini vs. Perplexity vs. Copilot vs. Claude – Who's the Smartest?

AI Comparison: The Ultimate AI Test – ChatGPT vs. Gemini vs. Perplexity vs. Copilot vs. Claude – Who’s the Smartest?

AI Comparison has become one of the most searched topics in artificial intelligence as organizations and individuals increasingly depend on AI assistants to write content, generate software, conduct research, automate workflows, solve technical problems, and improve daily productivity. With multiple frontier AI models now competing for leadership, selecting the right assistant is no longer a […]

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Gemini Desktop App to Add MCP Support and Media Generation Tabs

Google is testing custom MCP server connections and dedicated image and video generation tabs in the Gemini desktop app. Here is what each change does, why MCP support matters more than the media tabs, the security questions to settle first, and what businesses should do before the features reach general availability.

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AI Studio Artifacts Folder: Why Generated Files Finally Have a Permanent Home

Generated files have been the least-managed output in modern development. A model produces exactly the code, document, or export you asked for, it renders inside a conversation, and within a day nobody can find it again. The AI Studio Artifacts folder is the correction: one project-scoped location where generated output persists as files rather than […]

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