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Google is reportedly discussing a deal to license technology from AI coding startup Mechanize and hire some of its employees, according to Business Insider as summarized by gHacks. The talks have not produced a publicly announced agreement, and both companies declined to comment.
Monthly Mixing reports that Adobe has launched three Firefly audio-generation tools: Generate Music, Generate Speech and Generate Sound Effects, alongside new Firefly AI Assistant features and support for Google’s Gemini Omni Flash.
The Register reports that Cerebras, Google, Marvell and Waymo are pursuing specialized silicon to improve AI inference speed, power use or latency, although the underlying disclosures and commercial deployments are not independently confirmed here.
Cornell Chronicle reports that Cornell researchers developed a statistical method to distinguish company-specific AI-related stock bubbles from ordinary volatility, finding strong overvaluation signals for Alphabet and earlier bubble episodes in semiconductor stocks, Tesla and cryptocurrency.
Axios reports that Chicago Public Schools abandoned plans to provide Gemini chatbots to high school students this year, while leaving open school-specific deployments.
Reuters reports that Google introduced Gemini Enterprise for Legal, a platform expansion that connects AI agents with legal software and data platforms for law firms. Four firms are collaborating with Google, but pricing, general availability and independent performance evidence remain unclear.
Legal & General’s asset-management arm backed resolutions seeking information on whether the AI expansion plans of Meta, Alphabet and Amazon can align with their emissions-reduction goals, Bloomberg reports. The report does not independently establish the resolutions’ outcomes or the companies’ responses.
Forbes reports that Blitzy and XBOW are applying increasingly autonomous AI to software modernization and penetration testing, while Google and OpenAI are developing related security systems. The companies’ performance and deployment claims have not been independently confirmed.
Google Cloud presents CodeMender as an AI security agent that scans codebases, tests whether vulnerabilities can be exploited, and generates patches for developer review. The source does not describe it as a formal-verification framework or provide independent performance evidence.
Google Research introduced Mobility-Embedded POIs, a framework that combines place descriptions with aggregated, anonymized mobility patterns. The source says it improved several predictions about unseen places in tests covering Los Angeles and Houston.
Google Research says its Biomarker Discovery Framework uses multiple specialized AI agents, statistical testing and human review to prioritize candidate biomarkers from wearable and clinical data.
Google DeepMind says it is expanding its games research through a partnership with Fenris Creations, the studio behind the EVE universe. The program will test agents’ memory, continual learning, long-horizon planning and multi-agent behavior, beginning with an offline EVE Online environment.
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