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Google's Scalable Cluster Termination System terminated 50,000 coordinated channel clusters comprising 130,000 channels of synthetic spam generators over a six-month period.

Google confirmed in July 2026 that Local Services Ads will cease to exist as a standalone product, with all campaigns automatically converted into a specialised Performance Max campaign type configured for pay-per-lead goals.

Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5, positioning the model as a strategic midpoint between its cost-efficient Sonnet 5 tier and the frontier Fable 5 flagship.

Google's Nano Banana model now generates custom images directly inside AI Overviews on the search results page. The move puts visual creation inside the same surface that already delivers text-based answers, tightening Google's grip on the full query loop.

Alphabet reported consolidated Q2 2026 revenues of $119.8 billion, a 24% year-on-year increase, in its official earnings release. The topline figure was strong by any conventional measure. Underneath it, two numbers told a more complicated story.

Only 18% of enterprises say AI is delivering significant revenue impact, according to HCLTech's global research report.

Microsoft is pouring billions into Mistral's European data centres, betting that banks, hospitals and governments will pay for frontier AI they can keep on their own soil.

Moonshot AI is calling its new Kimi K3 the world's first open 3T-class model.