Follows Google's AI moves beyond its flagship models, from search and cloud security to open-weight releases and agent payment standards.
MCP Protocol Pivoting Exposed: One Fooled Agent Can Carry Instructions Into Internal Networks
MCP protocol pivoting is the name independent researcher Syed Anas Mohiuddin gives to a class of attacks. Ars Technica reported his proof-of-concept r...
Google Pauses Its Open Source Bug Bounty: A Flood of Invalid AI Reports Buried the Maintainers
Google's open source bug bounty is the first to buckle: as of October 1, 2026, Google has paused new product vulnerability reports for its Open Source...
Gemini Free Users Get Flash-Lite Only From October 9, and Plus Loses Pro Too
Gemini free users are about to get a smaller choice of models. In a Gemini Apps help page titled "Changes to Gemini model access and limits," updated ...
Project Suncatcher's First Satellite Is in Orbit: Google Starts Testing Whether TPUs Survive Space
Project Suncatcher is Google's long-term research program exploring whether machine learning infrastructure could one day be hosted in space. On Octob...
Federated Learning Without Blind Trust: Google Rebuilds It on Trusted Execution Environments, Live on Gboard
The privacy guarantees behind federated learning training data have long rested largely on users trusting the server operator. On October 2, 2026, Goo...
Gemini 4 Argon Arrives: 77.9% on DeepSWE, Google's New Flagship Goes to Security Partners First
Gemini 4 Argon is Google's new flagship model, announced on September 30, 2026, and the first release in the all-new Gemini 4 family. In its official ...
SynthID Bio: DeepMind watermarks AI-designed proteins without harming function
SynthID Bio is the synthetic-biology watermarking technology Google DeepMind introduced on its official blog on September 30, 2026: it writes an invis...
Trump executive order: federal government retires "AI" in favor of "Super Intelligence"
On September 29, 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order during a White House meeting with tech leaders, directing federal executi...