AI & Robotics

Google is bringing ads in its AI-powered Search experiences to international markets, betting that generative AI can open up new revenue opportunities even as growth in its core search advertising business slows. The announcement came Wednesday during Alphabet’s third-quarter earnings call, as the company reported $127.6 billion in revenue, up 25% year over year. But Search advertising…

Browser maker Opera has introduced a new web standard that lets users run AI models directly in its browser, without relying on the cloud. The new standard, WebAI, is designed to work with a variety of AI models. Opera name drops Google’s Gemma – an open-weight model that Google introduced two years ago – as one example. On Macs, WebAI also supports Apple’s on-device…

Anthropic is building the same kind of cross-product ecosystem that helped make tech companies like Amazon and Uber enormously sticky, and its S-1 suggests the strategy is working. More than half of customers spending at least $100,000 annually now use both the Claude platform and a first-party app like Claude Code or Cowork, up from about 30% at the end of last year. “The speed and depth…

Relay, an AI-powered workflow automation tool built as an alternative to Zapier, shut down entirely in August. The product let users automate email and task workflows using AI agents, but as OpenAI, Google, and other larger platforms built similar automation directly into their own tools, five-year-old Relay struggled to hold on to a reason to exist as a stand-alone product. More recently, chatbot…